About the Manager

Professional

  • Money Management, 1994-present
    • President, Hedge IQ. Consultant to investment managers at hedge funds and sovereign wealth fund for investment themes and risk assessment, 2004 –
    • Founder and CIO, Navigator Capital Partners, a fund of funds with strong risk management, 1998 –
    • Advisor to Omega Point, an investment research firm for “Big Data” on the world’s fastest platform; start-up
    • Created factor portfolio risk model used by a number of hedge funds
    • Senior director at hedge funds, 1995 – 2006 (Director Research, Risk Management)
  • Hedge Fund strategies – direct experience: long short, market neutral, statistical arbitrage, global macro; covered all functions over the period – director of research, risk manager, portfolio manager and analyst
  • Ten years at three hedge funds (two were well known in their day – Director Equity Research, Willowbridge, a global macro/CTA spin-out from Caxton; Director of Research and Risk Management, the old Circle T, which ranked #2 in the long short fund industry for five year performance; co-founder of Brightwater, a long short fund)
  • Senior Portfolio Manager, Sanford Bernstein.
  • Investment bank research and management, 1973 – 93; was analyst, portfolio strategist, director of research and head of equities. Executive Vice President, Moseley Securities; Managing Director, Credit Lyonnais Securities; Chief Investment Strategist, Shearson, American Express; Senior Investment Strategist, Merrill Lynch; joint venture with Townsend Greenspan, Fed chairman Greenspan’s former firm

Education/Other

  • MIT Sloan School SM ’73
  • Chairman and Founder of MIT Sloan Club of New York; run annual hedge fund dinner since 1998
  • Professor of finance – investments, Baruch College CUNY (formerly)
  • Board member of MIT Enterprise Forum (formerly)