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Investors: Rethinking the Rules
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Philip J. Callahan
Singer Partners LLC
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| Philip J. Callahan is Head of Client Relations for Singer Partners, LLC, where he oversees all new business development and client service for the firm. Singer Partners market focus is ultra high net worth individuals, family offices and institutions. Phil is the former Managing Director and National Sales Director of Neuberger Berman & Lehman Brothers Investment Management. There he led a 23-person institutional sales and marketing team responsible for the distribution of Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers asset management products through third-party financial intermediaries. The business had over $32 Billion of assets under management consisting of mutual funds, separate accounts, sub-advised, insurance variable trusts, closed-end funds, structured products and alternative investments.
Phil has over 20 years of investment management sales and marketing experience with leading firms such as Dreyfus Retirement Services, General American Pensions & Investments and MassMutual Pension Management. He received his B.S. from the Boston College School of Management. |
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Matthew Fitzmaurice
AWJ Capital Partners, LLC
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| Matthew O. Fitzmaurice is a Founder and Co-Managing Member of AWJ Capital Partners, LLC, which manages a fund of hedge funds with offices in Minneapolis and Melbourne, Australia. The fund of funds invests in long/short equity hedge funds, which are geographically focused in the U.S. and Asia. Previously, Mr. Fitzmaurice co-managed Talaria Partners LLC, which managed a long/short equity hedge fund. Prior to founding Talaria, Mr. Fitzmaurice was with Amerindo Investment Advisors Inc., an investment adviser focused on private and public market emerging-growth companies, where he was responsible for designing hedged products and managed a venture capital fund. From 1989 through 1998, Mr. Fitzmaurice was with the Minneapolis investment bank Wessels, Arnold & Henderson, where he became a partner and was responsible for servicing many of the industry’s best performing long/short equity hedge funds and dedicated short sellers. Mr. Fitzmaurice’s combined hedge fund and venture capital experience is further enhanced by his legal training. Mr. Fitzmaurice received his BA from Georgetown University in 1982 and his JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 1986. Mr. Fitzmaurice resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
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E. Ann Gill
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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| E. Ann Gill is a partner in the corporate practice group in the New York office of law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Ms. Gill has a broad background in corporate investment and finance and recently co-authored an article entitled "New Hedge Fund Transparency and Investors' Rights - 'The Times They Are A Changing'" which appeared in the Hedge Fund Law Report on August 19, 2009. Her field of practice includes hedge fund, private equity fund and venture fund investments, debt and equity private placements, private acquisitions and acquisition financing, public tax-exempt financing, off balance sheet leases and debt, equity and lease workouts, restructurings and recapitalizations. Her clients include private equity funds, pension funds and foundations and other taxable and tax-exempt investors and investment vehicles. She has worked on transactions involving entities in many different industries including renewable energy, waste to energy, hospitality, technology, radio, medical devices and broadband. Ms. Gill is a graduate of Barnard College (1973)and Columbia University School of Law (1976). |
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Stuart J. Rabin
Nine Thirty Capital
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Stuart J. Rabin is the President and CEO, as well as Chief Investment Officer, of Nine Thirty Capital, a New York-based registered investment advisor that designs and actively manages customized portfolios for prominent families and institutional clients. From 1997 through 2008, Mr. Rabin was the President and CEO of Jacobson Family Investments, Inc. (JFI), a diversified family investment company which he co-founded. At JFI he constructed and managed portfolios for two New York based families that included numerous public market managers and hedge funds, an internal equity trading fund, direct private company investments and real estate partnerships. Previously Mr. Rabin was employed by a New York based hedge fund, by Morgan Stanley Asset Management and by Bear Stearns & Co. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rabin practiced law with the New York firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and with the Washington, D.C. firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernard, McPherson & Hand.
Mr. Rabin is a director of Decision Sciences International Corporation
and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and of the New-York Historical Society, where he is also a member of its Investment Committee. He is a member of the Columbia Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council and the Co-Chair of the Council’s Neurosciences Committee. Mr. Rabin is also a member of the Wharton Global Family Alliance Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Rabin graduated with honors from Georgetown University and from the Georgetown University Law Center. He received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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