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Chris Clair
HedgeWorld
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Chris Clair is the Managing Editor of HedgeWorld. He has spent the past eleven years covering the hedge fund industry, first as a reporter for Crain's Pensions & Investments and for the past eight years at HedgeWorld. Mr. Clair has been a journalist for the past 18 years, working at weekly and daily newspapers in his home state of Oregon and in Illinois.
Mr. Clair holds a BA degree in journalism from the University of Portland in Oregon. |
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Jacob Gottlieb
Visium Asset Management, LP
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| Dr. Jacob Gottlieb is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Visium Asset Management, LP, an alternative investment advisor. The firm has a staff of 25 investment professionals and manages over $900 million in the Visium Balanced Fund, a long/short equity fund focused on the health care industry. Dr. Gottlieb founded Visium in November of 2005 with a team of investment professionals from Balyasny Asset Management (BAM). During his six years at BAM, Dr. Gottlieb built a team of more than 20 investment professionals investing in all subsectors within healthcare. Previous to BAM, Dr. Gottlieb was a portfolio manager at Merlin Biomed and a buy-side global healthcare analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. Dr. Gottlieb graduated from NYU Medical School and also graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a BA in Economics. |
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James F. Lubin
Hyman Beck &Co.
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| James F. Lubin is principal at Hyman Beck & Co., an alternative investment manager, where he is responsible for the executive management of the organization. His key focus is on product development, strategic planning, investment strategy and business development. Prior to joining Hyman Beck & Co. in July 2003, Mr. Lubin was a Senior Vice President within the Fixed Income Division of Lehman Brothers from 1999, where he was responsible for establishing the foreign exchange business with alternative investment managers. He was with Merrill Lynch from 1980 to 1999, where he served in the futures, foreign exchange and alternative investment divisions. At the time of his departure, Mr. Lubin was managing the foreign exchange business with alternative investment managers and was a member of the Investment Committee of MLFIP, the sponsor of Merrill Lynch’s alternative investment funds. The Investment Committee was responsible for the selection of alternative investment managers. |
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Samer Nsouli
Lyford Group International
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| Samer Nsouli, Director and Chief Investment Officer
Samer has been the Chief Investment Officer of the Lyford Fund since its inception in June 2002. He has more than fifteen years of trading experience in equities, fixed-income and currencies, having worked as a trader at various bulge bracket investment banks including Drexel Burnham Lambert, Lehman Brothers, Union Bank of Switzerland, Fuji Bank, and most recently J.P. Morgan Chase. He has also managed money for private clients under a
managed account structure for a three year period at Scorpio Fund Advisors Inc., a private investment company in New York City. Samer holds a B.S. in finance from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. |
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Laurence Siegel
Ford Foundation
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| Laurence B. Siegel is director of research in the Investment Division of the Ford Foundation in New York, where he has worked since 1994. Before that, he was a managing director of Ibbotson Associates, an investment consulting firm that he helped to establish in 1979.
In 2005 Larry was named Research Director of the CFA Institute’s Research Foundation. He holds this position concurrently with his responsibilities at the Ford Foundation.
Mr. Siegel currently chairs the investment committee of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and serves on the investment committee of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Larry is a member of the editorial boards of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management, and the Journal of Investing, and is a board member and program committee member of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (the Q Group). His first book, Benchmarks and Investment Management, was published in 2003, and a book he co-edited with Zvi Bodie and Dennis McLeavey, The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing, was published in 2007. Both books are published by the CFA Institute.
Larry received his BA in urban studies from the University of Chicago in 1975, and his MBA in finance from the same institution in 1977 |
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