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Luis Aguilar

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Luis A. Aguilar was appointed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by President George W. Bush and was sworn in as a Commissioner on July 31, 2008. Prior to his appointment as an SEC Commissioner, Mr. Aguilar was a partner with the international law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP, specializing in federal and state securities law and regulations. Commissioner Aguilar previously served as the general counsel, executive vice president, and corporate secretary of INVESCO, with responsibility for all legal and compliance matters regarding INVESCO Institutional. He also was INVESCO's managing director for Latin America in the late 1990's. His career also includes tenure as a partner at several prominent national law firms and as an attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Commissioner Aguilar was named by Hispanic Business Magazine in 2006 as one of the "100 Influential" Hispanics in the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, and also received a master of laws degree in taxation from Emory University. He has successfully completed Series 7, 24, 63, and 65 examinations in connection with serving as president and a director of a registered broker-dealer.

Jordan Allen

HFR Asset Management

Jordan Allen is Partner, Business Development, for the Americas and Asia for HFR Asset Management LLC, where he is responsible for Client Service and Product Development. Mr. Allen joined HFR in 2003, and initially oversaw the administrative functions of the firm, including risk management, trading operations, fund and corporate accounting, legal and compliance. Beginning in late 2006, Mr. Allen assumed responsibility for Client Service and Product Development. Prior to joining the firm in January 2003, he was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for American Classic Voyages Co., a NASDAQ-traded company. He worked for 12 years in various capacities within the Equity Group Financial organization, controlled by Sam Zell. Mr. Allen received his BS in accounting from the University of Illinois and his JD from Northwestern University School of Law. He is also a certified public accountant.

Howard Altman

Rothstein Kass

Howard Altman, CPA. Howard Altman is a co-managing principal and the principal-in-charge of financial services at Rothstein Kass. He has extensive experience in the financial services arena, with particular emphasis on investment partnerships, offshore funds and broker-dealers. Howard’s experience includes advice on initial hedge fund and broker-dealer organizational structure, supervision of audits, ongoing consultation with management regarding many diverse operational and tax matters and involvement in investigative matters, including expert witness testimony. He is frequently called upon to provide input on current issues affecting the financial services community. Howard has an M.S. in taxation and has lectured before professional, industry and other groups on various accounting and tax related matters. He is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the Securities Industry Association Financial Management Services Division. He also served as a member of the AICPA Investment Company Committee where he chaired the Investment Partnership Subcommittee and was a member of the NYSSCPA Stockbrokerage Accounting Committee. Howard is the editor of the Wall Street Argus, the financial services publication of Rothstein Kass for which he has written numerous articles pertaining to investment partnerships and broker-dealers. In addition, he is a member of the Firm’s board of directors.

Andrew Aziz

Algorithmics

Andrew Aziz is Executive Vice President, Risk Solutions, at Algorithmics, which provides enterprise risk solutions to financial institutions. He is responsible for business development and product direction, including ASP and Managed Services initiatives for market risk and the buy-side markets. Prior to his current role, he was Vice President of Products and, prior to that, Executive Director of Financial Engineering at Algorithmics. Before joining Algorithmics in 1994, he was an instructor at York University and Wilfrid Laurier University in their MBA and BBA programs, respectively. Previous to that, he was in the Corporate Banking group at the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Corporate and Government Banking Division at the Bank of Montreal. Dr. Aziz holds several degrees, including a Ph.D. in Finance from York University, an MBA in Finance from Queens University and a B.S. (Honors) in Chemistry from McMaster University.

Tanya Beder

SBCC Group

Tanya Beder Tanya Beder founded and served as President of SBCC from 1987 to 1994, returning as Chairman in 2006. During the interim, Ms. Beder was CEO of Tribeca Global Management LLC, a $3 billion dollar multi-strategy fund with offices in New York, London and Singapore and Managing Director of Caxton Associates LLC, a $10 billion asset management firm in New York. At SBCC, Ms. Beder heads the global strategy, risk management, derivatives, workout and fund launch practices. Clients include banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies and corporations from around the world. Currently she assists numerous institutional investors, boards of directors, senior managers, legislators and regulators regarding the liquidity crisis, valuations and losses in the credit space (default swaps, CDOs, CLOs, CBOs, CDSs, ABCP and derivatives). She also served as President of Capital Market Risk Advisors and was a Vice President of The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse) where she focused on mergers and acquisitions in London and New York and then on mortgage-backed securities, derivatives trading and fixed income research.

Kelsey Biggers

K2 Advisors

R. Kelsey Biggers is Managing Director of Risk Management for K2 Advisors, a fund of hedge funds headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with $6.2 billion under management. He joined the firm in 2002 and is responsible for risk management and sits on the management committee. Previously, he served as CEO and President of Measurisk, a web-based service company that he founded in 1998 to provide provides risk analysis to institutional investors. Before that, Mr. Biggers served as executive vice president for sales and marketing for Wall Street-based information technology company, Plural, a firm he joined in 1996. Mr. Biggers worked for Bankers Trust; in 1993 as a managing director, he developed the Bank.s RAROC 2020 risk measurement service that commercialized mark-to-market, Value at Risk and stress testing methodologies. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia University Business School in 1980.

Chris Clair

Thomson Reuters

Chris Clair is the Managing Editor of HedgeWorld. He has spent the past eight years covering the hedge fund industry, first as a reporter for Crain's Pensions & Investments and for the past five years at HedgeWorld. Mr. Clair has been a journalist for the past 15 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.

John Cunningham

WR Capital Management

John Cunningham, CPA, is President and Chief Financial Officer of WR Capital Management. He has over 15 years of experience in the securities industry. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Cunningham served as Senior Vice President and the Financial and Operations Principal of Knight Securities, L.P. and Knight Capital Markets. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Cunningham was an officer at Greenwich Capital Markets and was responsible for issuer risk and counterparty risk management on fixed income, asset backed, derivative, and foreign currency products. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Cunningham practiced at the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP where he earned his CPA while specializing in the capital markets group. Mr. Cunningham earned his MBA from Cornell University and his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany. Back to top

Bruce Frumerman

Frumerman & Nemeth Inc.

Bruce Frumerman is president of Frumerman & Nemeth Inc., a communications and sales marketing consultancy that helps financial services firms create brand identities for their organizations and develop and implement effective new marketing strategies and programs. His firm’s work has helped money management clients attract over $7 billion in new assets.

Bruce is a frequent speaker on the topic of marketing money management services and has been published addressing the subject in Hedgeworld’s Accredited Investor magazine and in Emerging Manager Focus.

Jacob Gottlieb

Visium Asset Management, LP

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.

Bob Guilbert

Eze Castle Integration

Bob Guilbert Bob Guilbert is Managing Director of Marketing and Products at Eze Castle Integration. With more than 20 years of IT experience, he is responsible for leading all of Eze Castle Integration’s marketing, partnership, and product development functions. Prior to joining Eze Castle, he was vice president of business development at Virtual Iron Software – a venture-backed start-up offering enterprise –class data center virtualization software. At Virtual Iron, he developed and oversaw all facets of business development and channel management. He has also held senior marketing and business development positions at Double-Take Software (formerly NSI), EMC Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. He is fluent in German and graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a bachelor of science degree in computer science.

Richard Horwitz

Risk Fundamentals

Richard Horwitz is President of Risk Fundamentals LLC and a principal with Capital Markets Risk Advisors. He is the creator and architect of the Risk Fundamentals System. Mr. Horwitz was previously Managing Director of Risk Management and Due Diligence for Merrill Lynch's Hedge Fund Development and Management Group, where he implemented the Risk Fundamentals System. Before that, he was Senior Vice President and Director of Risk Management and Investment Analytics at Kenmar, a $3 billion fund of funds. He has worked as a buy-side Senior Equity Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein and a consultant in financial services at Booz Allen and Hamilton. He earned a M.S. in Management (Sloan School) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Horwitz authored Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals, Solving the Risk Management and Transparency Challenge, a book published by Bloomberg Press.

Jerry Levine

AQR Capital Management

Jerry Levine is vice president and Head of Information Technology at AQR Capital Management, LLC, a hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn. Prior to joining AQR in 2003, Jerry worked at Soros Fund Management for 10 years as the Information Technology Manager. As the first IT employee at Soros, he helped build the IT staff and implement technology infrastructure and software solutions in New York, as well as London and Tokyo. He was previously a software developer and systems engineer for commodities trading firms such as Phibro Energy Corp. and Louis-Dreyfus Energy Corp. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Mercy College. He currently is on the Board of Advisors of Cresting Wave, LLC and serves as an industry expert and panelist in the Persuasive Communications course at NYU Stern School of Business.

James F. Lubin

Hyman Beck &Co.

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.

Barbara Lucas

Capital Market Risk Advisors

Barbara Lucas is a Principal at Capital Market Risk Advisors in New York City, a financial advisory firm specializing in risk management, risk diagnosis, financial forensics and risk governance. She is a pioneer in the derivatives business and has more than 25 years of experience in law, business and government. A former partner and chairperson of the banking department at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Ms. Lucas has represented major U.S. and foreign banks, broker-dealers, primary dealers, derivatives companies and hedge funds on a wide range of banking, securities, corporate, compliance and governance issues. Prior to joining Cadwalader, she was General Counsel to what was then known as Citicorp's Investment Bank. She also served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement and Director of its Office of Policy Review, as well as Special Counsel to the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, in charge of its Corporate Governance Task Force and various regulatory initiatives, including actions culminating in passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ms. Lucas received her undergraduate degree in English from Cornell University and her J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University.

Kevin McPartland

TABB Group

Kevin McPartland is a Senior Analyst with TABB Group, a research and strategic advisory firm focused on capital markets. He has authored the following TABB Group reports and studies: “Equity Options 2008: Rising Out of Obscurity”; “Credit Default Swaps: The Risk of Inefficient Markets”; “OTC Derivatives Processing: Blazing a Trail to Automation”; “Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The New Low-Latency Messaging”; “Low-Latency Options Trading: Unraveling the True Meaning of Speed”; and Financial Services Data Centers: Power, Proximity and Profit.” From 2003 to 2007, he was a senior manager with Detica in their global financial markets division, where he was responsible for strategic and implementation projects across equities, derivatives and fixed-income asset classes for the international management consulting firm’s top-tier investment banking clients. He previously held business analyst and project management positions at JPMorgan Chase in New York from 1998 to 2003 in their equities and futures & options divisions, where he was involved in support, development and planning of electronic trading solutions. He earned his B.S. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Rachel Minard

Rachel Minard was most recently President and Partner of Cogo Wolf Asset Management, LLC. She has 17 years experience building and raising assets globally for asset management companies. Rachel has spent the past 8 years building fund of hedge fund firms including her roles as Partner and Director of Global Marketing for Corbin Capital Partners and Director of Marketing at Cadogan Management. Before Cadogan, Rachel was Vice President and Consultant Advisor for J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management and served as Director of Business Development for Dakin Partners, opening and managing their New York office.

Earlier, Ms. Minard served as Assistant to the Director of Marketing and Client Service for Pareto Partners. Named "Non-Profit Marketer of the Year" (FEMM), Honored Member, Cambridge's Who's Who Among Executives (2005-2009), Cambridge's Professional of the Year (2007-2009) and a frequent speaker at industry conferences, Ms. Minard started her marketing career in 1991 after her marketing company was hired to build the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Ms. Minard holds a B.A. degree in Journalism with honors from Northeastern University with notable distinction as a Wesley W. Marple Distinguished Lecturer (2009) and Profiles in Leadership: Business Luminaries (2006-2009) by the university. A graduate of the AIMSE/Wharton Institute, Ms. Minard serves on the Advisory Board of the Professional Association of Investment Communication Resources (PAICR), the Executive Board of the Association of Women in Alternative Investing (AWAI) for which she is also a Founding Member, Chairman of the ProTrak International Advisory Board and serves on the Investment Committee of the Westover School Endowment.

Oleg Movchan

Vara Capital Management

Oleg Movchan, CFA, is President and Chief Risk Officer at Vara Capital Management LLC, a global macro hedge fund manager, where he plays a key role in formulating and executing Vara’s business strategy and oversees the firm-wide risk management program covering market, counterparty and operational risks of the firm and its funds. Prior to Vara, Mr. Movchan served as a Chief Risk Officer at Alexandra Investment Management LLC, a 15 year-old multi-strategy hedge fund manager and was responsible for integrating risk management into the investment decision-making process. He also led the development and implementation of the enterprise-wide risk measurement and portfolio management platform. He joined Alexandra from Ritchie Capital Management LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager, where he played a similar role. He has also served as Head of Risk Management (Americas) at UBS Global Asset Management and as a Structuring Analyst at an investment banking unit of a large reinsurance broker involved in insurance securitization. He holds an MS in Financial Mathematics and an MBA in Analytic Finance, both from the University of Chicago, as well as an MS in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Kharkov State University, Ukraine. He is a CFA charter holder and a member of Professional Risk Managers' International Association.

Samer Nsouli

Lyford Group International

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.

Steve Oyer

Family Office Exchange

Steve Oyer is Managing Director-Business Development for Family Office Exchange, a membership-based advisory firm that provides research, education, and advice to more than 500 members in 22 countries. He has over 30 years of business and investment experience and most recently served as the CEO of Saflink Corporation, a biometric software company until its sale to IdentiPHI. He was also a board member of Salton, Inc., a designer, marketer, manufacturer and distributor of a broad range of branded small appliances like the George Foreman Grill until its sale to Harbinger Capital. Previously, he was managing director of Global Business Development for Standard and Poor’s, where he led initiatives to expand S&P’s advisory services, the derivatives licensing of S&P strategies with investment banks and the distribution of the S&P Hedge Fund Index. Prior to that he worked for Murray Johnstone International Ltd. a Scottish money manager, where he was responsible for the sales of international investment management services and private equity to families and institutions in North America. He has also developed family office relationships for Harris Bank; served as treasurer and managing director of Bank of Montreal Trust Co. Channel Islands Ltd; and worked as an investment executive at Paine Webber.

Boryana Racheva-Iotova

FinAnalytica

Ms. Boryana Racheva-Iotova is President of FinAnalytica. She leads FinAnalytica's Research & Development team and product development of the Cognity platform that offers risk and portfolio construction analytics for funds of funds, hedge funds and asset managers. She was co-founder and CEO of the Bravo Risk Management Group - the originator of the Cognity product suite, which was later acquired by FinAnalytica. She holds M. Sci. in Probability and Statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University. Her many articles have recently appeared in premier scientific journals and her forthcoming book will appear in Wiley-Finance. She has nearly 10 years of experience in building risk management solutions and utilizing the latest analytical advancements to meet the needs of financial industry practitioners.

Andrew Saunders

Hedge Connection

Andrew Saunders is a Managing Director of Hedge Connection and manages the company’s New York office. His responsibilities include business development, client relations, investor liaison, media relations and strategic partnerships. Hedge Connection is an internet-based platform that offers hedge funds direct access to a membership of "opt-in" qualified active hedge fund allocators. Investor members join for free and gain access to detailed information on hedge fund members. Saunders is a graduate of Haverford College in 1993 with a B.A. in economics. He holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) and is a member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE).

Anthony Scaramucci

Skybridge Capital LLC

Anthony Scaramucci Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital, New York Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, which is focused on partnering with emerging managers. The fund now has 9 managers and $1.4 billion in assets. Mr. Scaramucci was a Partner and Founder of Oscar Capital Management LLC, responsible for overseeing compliance and research for four hedge funds and separately managed accounts with assets totaling over $1 billion. In November of 2001, Oscar Capital was sold to Neuberger Berman. Mr. Scaramucci, a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman/Lehman Brothers, served from 2003 – 2005 on the Investment Committee of Neuberger’s Premier Portfolio, which his group originated, and worked on the Neuberger Berman/Lehman integration team. He was also responsible for distributing Private Asset Management products into Lehman’s private client service division. Prior to that, Mr. Scaramucci was a Vice President in Goldman Sach’s Equities Division. Mr. Scaramucci earned a BA in Economics, summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1986. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. He graduated with a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989. He is a Board Member of The Lymphoma Foundation, and The Brain Tumor Foundation. He is also on the Board of Overseers for the school of arts and sciences at Tufts University.

Mark Seaman

Gravitas Technology

Mark Seaman is Managing Director, Software Development, at Gravitas Technology, where he leads the expansion of its custom software development services, and is responsible for providing high-end business consulting services for software platform integration and best business practices for front, middle and back office operations. Prior to joining Gravitas, he was a Partner and CIO for Spectrum Global Fund Administration. He also served as a Vice President for SS & C Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions to the hedge fund community. Additionally, Mr. Seaman is a former Principal of Shepro Braun where he oversaw the product development of industry-recognized applications such as Total Return and Antares.

Sa'ad Shah

DGAM (Diversified Global Asset management)

Sa’ad Shah is a Managing Director at Diversified Global Asset Management, and leads the firms customized mandates and client services initiatives. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Shah worked at RBC Capital Markets where he led the Financial Engineering Deal Team that specifically sought to identify, structure and execute the FX risks inherent in cross border Mergers & Acquisitions. Mr. Shah’s responsibilities also included the structuring of sophisticated financial products and solutions to corporations and financial institutions. In eight years with RBC he also has experience in syndicated finance and real estate markets. Mr. Shah holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University.

Neil Sherman

JP Morgan Chase

Neil Sherman is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in the Prime Brokerage / Equity Finance area and is responsible for managing the global sales organization. This role involves the management of the firm’s client-facing activities in equity prime brokerage, equity finance, fixed income prime brokerage, futures and options, and correspondent clearing. Prior to this role, he served as Managing Director in the Financial Institutions and Governments group of J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking coverage business, where he specialized in covering hedge funds and other alternative asset management companies. Mr. Sherman joined J.P. Morgan in 2006 after 23 years with Lehman Brothers. While at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Sherman held positions as Global Head of Prime Brokerage Sales and Marketing, Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets (with responsibility for Financial Services and Health Care), Managing Director in Debt Capital Markets (with responsibility for Hybrid Capital and Preferred Securities), and Associate General Counsel (with a specialization in commodities, derivatives, securities lending and equities and fixed income trading). Mr. Sherman holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and a JD from Emory University. He is married and lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Laurence Siegel

Ford Foundation

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

Heather Slavkin

AFL-CIO

Heather Slavkin is the Senior Legal and Policy Advisor for the AFL-CIO Office of Investment. Ms. Slavkin.s work focuses on legal, regulatory, tax and corporate governance issues that impact union- and other worker-based pension, health and savings funds. She has also been active in the AFL-CIO.s efforts to improve transparency and accountability of private equity and hedge funds. Ms. Slavkin works with legislators, political organizations, pension funds and union affiliates to build support for policies that improve investor protections, regulatory oversight and tax fairness. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, Ms. Slavkin was Assistant Counsel at BISYS Fund Services where she provided legal services related to establishing and maintaining mutual funds, money market funds and registered hedge funds of funds. Ms. Slavkin received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida.

Irwin Speizer

HedgeWorld

Irwin Speizer is conference manager for the HedgeWorld Fund Services Conference, responsible for creating the agenda and selecting speakers and panelists. He is a professional journalist with experience covering hedge funds and the financial sector, including a stint as a staff writer at Absolute Return magazine. He has written for Alpha magazine, Institutional Investor, Fast Company, Business.com, On Wall Street, Crain’s Chicago Business, Workforce Management, the Los Angeles Times and the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer. In addition to covering hedge funds and Wall Street, he has written about the banking industry, energy, retail, real estate (both residential and commercial) and human resources. He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Kenneth Springer

Corporate Resolutions Inc.

Kenneth Springer, a certified fraud examiner, is president and founder of Corporate Resolutions Inc. A former special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Springer has conducted business-related investigations and intelligence gathering for more than 30 years. He is a recognized expert on state-of-the-art data retrieval technology. Prior to founding CRI in 1991, he was president of Bishops Services, an investigative firm in New York City.

Springer is an active member of the society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, The Securities Industry Association-Compliance & Legal Division, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Association for Independent Private Sector Inspectors General, Turnaround Management Association, The American Society for Industrial Security, the Managed Funds Association and numerous international investigative associations. He is also a frequent speaker and lecturer on due diligence and corporate investigations topics pertaining to the private equity community, underwriters, lenders and others.

Springer received a BS in finance from Siena College in 1975.

Ron Suber

Merlin Securities, LLC

Ron Suber is the Senior Partner, Head of Global Sales and Marketing at Merlin Securities. Mr. Suber has more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development across the hedge fund, broker dealer and registered investment advisor industries. Prior to joining Merlin Securities, Mr. Suber was President of Spectrum Global Fund Administration. He worked at Bear Stearns from 1992 to 2006 where he was a Senior Managing Director and the Manager of Global Clearing Sales for the Prime Brokerage, Correspondent Clearing & Registered Investment Advisor businesses. Mr. Suber began his career in 1982 at Pershing LLC. Mr. Suber is a founding member of the West Coast executive committee of Hedge Funds Care and now serves on the National Board of Directors. Mr. Suber holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jim Suglia

KPMG LLP

Jim is a principal in KPMG’s Advisory Services Practice serving on the Firm’s Alternative Investments Leadership Team and Executive Committee and is chairman of our Global Alternative Investments Advisory Committee. He joined KPMG in September of 2000. Prior to joining KPMG, Mr. Suglia was the Chief Financial Officer of EFC, a privately held specialty finance company. Mr. Suglia focuses on working closely with world class financial services institutions managing multi-disciplined engagements to enhance operational processes. He has extensive asset management operational experience, particularly within alternative investments and structured products. Jim’s clients included Apollo Management, Credit Suisse Asset Management/Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Asset Management, Dover Management, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, JPMorgan, State Street Corporation and UBS. Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree in from New Hampshire College where he majored in economics and finance and minored in accounting. He is a speaker at industry events and most recently spoke at the 2007 FEI and NICSA Conferences.

Denise Valentine

Aite Group

Denise Valentine is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC, focusing on institutional asset management, hedge funds, and the intermediary market, evaluating systems in the front, middle, and back office, as well as general industry trends. She has supported clients in the selection of technology systems, the identification of product gaps, new market entry initiatives, and vendor firm acquisitions. Prior to joining Aite Group, Ms. Valentine was a senior analyst with research advisory firm Celent for four years. Before that she was a business risk manager in the asset management, insurance and consumer credit divisions of GE Capital Services and was previously vice president and director of marketing services at Oppenheimer Capital. For six years prior to this, she was with Kidder Peabody Asset Management serving a captive brokerage sales force, product wholesalers and institutional sales reps in the product areas of separately management accounts, mutual funds and institutional account management. Ms. Valentine earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

RIva Waller

Man Investments

Based in New York, Riva M. Waller was named Head of the Investment Structures Group (ISG) for Man Investments in January 2007. ISG, with members in London, New York and Switzerland, primarily focuses on the structuring and implementation of Man’s managed account platform for more than 100 managed accounts. Additionally, ISG performs legal due diligence on investments and allocations to third party managers. Riva joined Man Group plc in 1993 in the Controllers group of Mint Investment Management Company, the former CTA division of Man. In 2000, she began working with the Man Investment Products New Managers’ Initiative Team where her responsibilities included helping to build the implementation procedures for the managed account platform as well as operational trouble shooting, including valuation and operational due diligence. In 2004, following Man’s purchase of RMF, Riva was part of the team responsible for successfully integrating the various processes related to underlying managers and managed accounts into one combined business unit. Prior to joining Man Investments, Riva was a senior accountant from 1989 to 1993 with J.H. Cohn LLP, an accounting and consulting fi rm based in Roseland, New Jersey. Ms. Waller earned her BS degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Marita Wein

Alternative Investment Group

Marita K. Wein is a partner responsible for risk management at Alternative Investment Group, an independent investment management firm headquartered in Southport, Conn. that she joined in 2003. Prior to that, she served as Senior Vice President of Operations, Technology and Risk Management at Commonfund, a $35-billion investment management organization serving endowments, foundations and other non-profit institutions. She was with Commonfund for 17 years. Prior to that, she was a senior financial analyst with Van Eck Associates starting in 1987, where she provided financial analysis and portfolio recommendations for a global equity fund. From 1983 to 1985, she was operations manager with Shearson Lehman Brothers. She graduated from Connecticut College with a B.A. in economics, summa cum laude.

Tom Whelan

Instinet, LLC

Tom Whelan is head of Instinet’s Institutional Sales group in the United States. In this capacity he is responsible for the sales of the firm's full suite of electronic trading products in the U.S., including its EMS platforms, dark pools, algorithms and TCA offering. Prior to this role, Mr. Whelan has held numerous sales, trading and product management positions at Instinet during his 15 year tenure, including co-head of the firm’s Global Portfolio Trading (GPT) desk in the U.S. Mr. Whelan holds a B.S. from Michigan State University.

Todd Whitenack

BBR Partners

Todd C. Whitenack is a principal and Director of Investment Management at BBR Partners, which provides financial management services to wealthy families. He has been with BBR since its inception. His primary responsibilities include manager selection and review, investment research and asset allocation. Prior to BBR Partners, he worked as an Associate Portfolio Manager in the Private Client Group at Global Asset Management (GAM). Previously he worked for Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette as a currency trader making markets in commodity-linked currencies. Todd was also responsible for negotiating interbank credit lines with over 50 European banks. Before that, he worked as an assistant trader in several at UBS. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in International Relations with a minor in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Wei Wu

Parker Global Strategies

Wei Wu is vice president of Parker Global Strategies, where he leads the Risk Management team. Prior to joining PGS, he was Risk Manager at Sailfish Capital Partners from 2005 until 2008. While there he constructed internal daily risk reporting systems, produced and analyzed various risk reports, and developed risk models. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Wu was the Manager of New York Network Operations at Antigenics Inc. He was System Administrator at Shelby Cullom Davis & Co from 1997 through 2000 and a senior systems consultant at Paragon Consultant Inc from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Wu graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics from Adelphi University. He received his MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University in 2003 with an emphasis in Finance and Information Systems.

Victor L. Zimmermann

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

Victor L. Zimmermann Jr. is Managing Partner of the Stamford, Connecticut office of law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. Mr. Zimmermann began his legal career as an associate in the litigation department of the firm in 1977. Prior to rejoining the firm in 1999, Mr. Zimmermann was with the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and in private practice in Connecticut. Mr. Zimmermann has represented broker-dealers, banks and investment advisers, as well as managers, sponsors, investors and consultants involved with domestic and offshore hedge funds and other private investment partnerships. Mr. Zimmermann has been particularly active in structuring and negotiating compensation arrangements on behalf of in-house managers with their institutional employers. Mr. Zimmermann received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1974 and his juris doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 1977.

Greg van Inwegen

Ivy Asset Management

Greg van Inwegen is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Risk Officer at Ivy Asset Management, where he has worked since 2004. He chairs the Investment Risk Management Committee and leads the Risk Management and Quantitative Research team at this Hedge Fund of Funds. His professional career started at Syracuse University, where he taught Finance as an Assistant Professor before moving to Wall St. joining PaineWebber as Vice President, Director of Quantitative Analysis in the Managed Account group. He then moved to Bankers Trust/Deutsche Asset Management where he was involved with a number of elements of the business, including quant stock selection models, asset allocation, enhanced index models and the development of a high frequency statistical arbitrage hedge fund, before moving on to a statistical arbitrage hedge fund start up, Vanco Research & Trading. He worked as Director of Research at Rydex Investments in product development before joining Ivy. He is on the board at the SQA and a member of the CQA, the IAFE and is a committee member at the Q group. Dr. van Inwegen holds several degrees, including a BS (’83) from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley; an SM in Management from the Sloan School at MIT; and a MS and Ph.D. in Finance from Wharton.

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