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Keith Bliss

Cuttone & Company

Mr. Bliss was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President, Director of Sales and Marketing for Cuttone & Company in July of 2007. He is responsible for the development and execution of the sales and marketing strategy to the firm’s institutional and prime brokerage clients and prospects. Mr. Bliss began his career at Citibank, N.A. working in a variety of roles with his last position as a Relationship Manager and Commercial Lending Officer in The Private Bank. From there, he held sales and marketing positions at Loan Pricing Corporation, a bank consulting concern, and trade order management software firms Merrin Financial and Decalog, Inc. In 1999, Mr. Bliss became Senior Vice President at Knight Securities managing the firm’s institutional electronic trading, soft dollar, and correspondent brokerage businesses. He then joined LaBranche Financial Services (a division of LaBranche & Co.) in 2002 to head up sales for the newly formed Institutional Execution Group. He holds a B.A. in Economics, with a concentration in Finance, from Rutgers College, Rutgers University. He lives in Bridgewater, NJ with his wife and two sons.

Richard Bookstaber

A Devil of Our Design

RICHARD BOOKSTABER is a Wall Street insider and outspoken critic of many of today's financial practices who predicted the current economic meltdown. He is the author of “A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation,” a book that pinpointed the market weaknesses that spun out of control to create today's financial crisis. “A Demon of Our Own Design” ranked number one on Amazon in finance and was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Loeb Award. Bookstaber was named to this year's Conde Nast Portfolio list of top 25 technical innovators, joining the ranks of Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Eric Schmidt. He has testified before the House and Senate, calling for greater transparency and improved regulation for Wall Street long before it was fashionable. BOOKSTABER recently worked at Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, and before that ran the Quantitative Equity Fund at FrontPoint Partners. He was in charge of risk management at Moore Capital Management, another hedge fund with over $10 billion in assets. He served as the managing director in charge of firm-wide risk management at Salomon Brothers and was a member of Salomon's powerful Risk Management Committee. Bookstaber also spent ten years at Morgan Stanley, first designing and marketing derivative instruments, then as a proprietary trader, and concluding his tenure there as Morgan Stanley's first market risk manager. In addition to A Demon of Our Own Design (Wiley, 2007), he is the author of three other books and scores of articles on finance topics ranging from option theory to risk management. He has won the Graham and Dodd Scroll from the Financial Analysts Federation and the Roger F. Murray Award from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance for his research. Bookstaber has a Ph.D in Economics from M.I.T.

Philip J. Callahan

Singer Partners LLC

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.

Tom Capasse

Waterfall Asset Management

Tom Capasse is a Principal and Co-Founder of Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, a leading specialist manager of High-Yield Asset Backed Securities with $1 billion in assets under management. Mr. Capasse was a pioneer in the development of the securitization market as a founding member of Merrill Lynch’s industry leading ABS Group (1983-1994) with experience in 40 of 60 ABS sectors including the first Subprime Mortgage & Manufactured Housing ABS transactions. Subsequently, he managed principal finance groups at Greenwich Capital (1995-97), Nomura Securities (1997-2001) and Macquarie Securities (2001-2004) before co-founding Waterfall in 2005. He has experience in private equity investing in ABS-related companies including Fairbanks Capital which became the largest U.S. residential mortgage special servicer. He began his career as a fixed income analyst at Dean Witter and Bank of Boston and has a B.A. from Bowdoin College (1979).

Daniel Chait

LAB49

Daniel Chait is a founder and Managing Director at Lab49, a technology consulting firm started in 2002 with offices in New York and London that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry, including investment banks and hedge funds. Mr. Chait has directed engagements with many of Lab49's premier clients, specializing in low-latency and distributed systems within capital markets. He also oversees Lab49's strategic partnerships, recruitment, and staff development programs, and has often spoken and presented at industry events. Previously Mr. Chait was Director of Professional Services at Simile Software, where he successfully led web-services integration projects for the media industry, and co-founded Business Velocity, Inc., servicing Fortune 500 firms including Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Lehman Brothers, AXA/Equitable, and Prudential Securities. Mr. Chait has also worked as a consultant in the corporate banking practice at American Management Systems. Mr. Chait holds a Bachelor’s in Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Pasquale J. D'Amuro

Giuliani Security and Safety

Pasquale “Pat” D'Amuro is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, a division of Giuliani Partners LLC dedicated to security consulting. Before joining Giuliani Security & Safety, Mr. D'Amuro served as the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York FBI Office, where he had begun his FBI career in 1979. Mr. D'Amuro has worked on a wide array of criminal investigations, including white collar crimes, major property crimes, violent crime, and organized crime. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Mr. D'Amuro was appointed Inspector in Charge of the FBI's investigation of those attacks. Subsequently, Mr. D'Amuro served as Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters and, later, Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence. In these capacities, he was instrumental in the creation and management of the FBI's Terrorism Threat Integration Center and Terrorism Watch List. During his distinguished career at the FBI, Mr. D'Amuro contributed to or led several high-profile investigations, including the investigations of the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in East Africa and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, as well as the latter stages of the investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Manila Air plot, and the crash of TWA Flight 800. Mr. D'Amuro has provided advice and briefings to the President of the United States, the U.S. Attorney General, the Director of the FBI, and the National Security Council, among others. Mr. D'Amuro graduated in 1978 from Niagara University with a bachelor's degree in business administration. In 1983, Mr. D'Amuro attended the FBI National Academy, Quantico, Virginia. Mr. D'Amuro was the 2004 recipient of the Presidential Rank Award of "Distinguished Executive" for the FBI.

Matthew Fitzmaurice

AWJ Capital Partners, LLC

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.

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.

E. Ann Gill

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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).

Michael Graves

Tesseract Capital LLC

Michael Graves is the President and CEO of Tesseract Capital LLC. Prior to founding Tesseract, he was Managing Director of the Swiss Re Global Arbitrage Team from January 2006. His team ran a global portfolio of automated strategies that traded in 45 countries across multiple asset classes based upon quantitative models. Mr. Graves began his career in 1995 with the options trading firm, CooperNeff, in Philadelphia, where he worked for Program Trading pioneer Dr. Andrew Sterge. After two years with CooperNeff, Credit-Suisse(CS) hired Mr. Graves to start its Quantitative Trading Group(QTG). The QTG regularly traded over 5% of US equity volume in the late 90’s. After leaving CS in 2000, he started the Fountainhead Capital hedge fund which he ran for 5 years. Fountainhead was later absorbed by Fortress Investment Group (FIG), where the team built out the FIG infrastructure and quantitative trading portfolio. Mr. Graves is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Wharton School and the College of the University of Pennsylvania, holding a BS in Finance and Minors in Genetics and International Relations.

Judith Gross

JG Advisory Services LLC

Judith Gross, is the founder and principal of JG Advisory Services LLC, which provides consulting services to hedge funds, investment advisers and related industry service providers on compliance and regulatory matters. JG Advisory Services was founded in 2005 and has worked with a variety of clients, ranging from small hedge fund start-ups to large established institutional investment advisers. Ms. Gross has over 20 year’s experience on Wall Street. Prior to founding her company, she held a senior management role in a large asset management division of a broker-dealer; was securities and investment counsel to the buy-side in one of Wall Street’s largest financial services firms; and was an associate at a major law firm. Ms. Gross is a FINRA arbitrator and has presided over multiple cases since 1993. She has also served as an expert witness on several litigation cases related to the hedge fund industry. Ms. Gross is the author of several desktop accessible training modules for hedge fund employees, as well as the PWG TechCheck ©, a best practices self-assessment tool for hedge funds based on the President’s Working Group Report. Ms. Gross holds a B.S. from Cornell University, a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University and a J.D. from Hofstra University.

William J. Heins

BrookView Capital LLC

As Senior Managing Director with BrookView Capital, LLC (BVC), Mr. Heins heads the Interest Rate Derivatives Group. A true pioneer throughout his 25 years on Wall Street, he is credited with executing one of the first interest rate derivative swaps. Mr. Heins has led several institutional interest rate desks within the industry with insight and vision; his teams have increased liquidity and improved execution services for their clients across the board. In addition to his responsibilities in interest rate swaps trading, Mr. Heins actively manages equity derivatives and institutional options sales at BVC. He has a BS from St. Johns University.

Duncan Hennes

Atrevida Partners

Duncan P. Hennes is Co-Founder and Partner of Atrevida Partners, LLC, an alternative asset management firm in Rye, N.Y. Prior to Atrevida, Duncan was a Co-Founder and Partner of Promontory Financial Group, an investment and advisory firm focused on the financial services sector. Duncan is currently a Senior Advisor of Promontory. Prior to Promontory, Duncan was the Chief Executive Officer of Soros Fund Management, one of the largest hedge fund management companies, managing over $20 billion in capital. Duncan’s responsibilities at Soros included management of the firm’s investing and operational infrastructure, expansion of the firm’s business platform, management of specific trading areas, including arbitrage activities, and selection of third party managers. Prior to Soros, Duncan was at Bankers Trust Company for 12 years, holding a number of positions, including Executive Vice President in charge of the Trading, Sales and Derivatives division and Treasurer. While at Bankers Trust, Duncan was the Chairman of the Board of Oversight Partners I, the consortium that took over control of Long Term Capital Management. Prior to Bankers Trust, Duncan was a Certified Public Accountant and an Audit Manager with Arthur Andersen and Co. He was employed at Arthur Andersen & Co for eight years.Duncan received his Bachelor of Science degree, Summa cum Laude, from the Wharton undergraduate division of the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. In 1979, he received an MBA degree, with distinction, in Finance from the Wharton Graduate Division.

Ryan Highland

Trading Technologies

Ryan Highland is a Sales Manager in the NY office of Trading Technologies, Inc (TT). TT develops high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, including the world's premier investment banks, brokers, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and other trading institutions. In addition to providing exchange connectivity to the world’s leading futures exchanges, TT also provides connectivity to the Intercontinental Exchange OTC markets, BrokerTec Treasuries, and most recently the EBS Cash FX marketplace. Mr. Highland has been with TT in a sales role since 2004 and previously traded futures and equities with several proprietary trading firms in Chicago. While actively trading, Ryan implemented several automated execution strategies and he has used this expertise to consult with trading desks on enhancing returns with automation. Also, Mr. Highland has worked closely with the buy side community to provide execution solutions that tie seamlessly into a firm’s overall trading flow. Ryan earned his B.S. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.

Richard Horwitz

Risk Fundamentals

Richard Horwitz is both President of Risk Fundamentals LLC and a principal with Capital Markets Risk Advisors. He is the creator and architect of the Risk Fundamentals System. Before leaving Merrill to focus on the commercialization of Risk Fundamentals, Mr. Horwitz was Managing Director of Risk Management and Due Diligence for Merrill Lynch's Hedge Fund Development and Management Group. In this capacity he implemented the Risk Fundamentals System as the risk and transparency engine for the business worldwide. Previously, Mr. Horwitz was Senior Vice President and Director of Risk Management and Investment Analytics at Kenmar, a $3 billion fund of funds. Mr. Horwitz was previously a buy-side Senior Equity Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein and a consultant in financial services at Booz Allen and Hamilton. He earned his M.S. in Management (Sloan School) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to numerous articles on hedge funds, Mr. Horwitz authored Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals, Solving the Risk Management and Transparency Challenge, a book published by Bloomberg Press.

Arzhang Kamarei

Thesys Technologies

Arzhang Kamarei is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Thesys Technologies, LLC, an incubator company for high frequency trading strategists. He is in charge of business affairs at Thesys, including development and sourcing of new managers in the high frequency space. His experience also includes serving as the Chief Operating Officer for Tradeworx, Inc., a quantitative hedge fund with expertise in medium frequency and high frequency trading. Arzhang began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the International Equities Division, where he served as a market-maker and proprietary trader in European, Asian, and Canadian shares. Arzhang is a Chartered Financial Analyst and received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his masters from New York University.

Mark Kleinman

Marathon Asset Management

Mark Kleinman is Senior Managing Director of Marathon Asset Management, a global alternative investment and asset management company. Marathon was selected as one nine fund managers for the U.S. Treasury’s legacy securities investment program, the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP). Mr. Kleinman joined Marathon from J.P. Morgan Chase, where he served as Treasurer with global responsibility for areas including funding, liquidity, capital, new product development, infrastructure, clearing, settlement, and regulatory and rating agency relationships. He was also on the board of directors of Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. Prior to J.P. Morgan Chase, Mr. Kleinman was Managing Director and Treasurer of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank at Citigroup. Kleinman also held the position of Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Salomon Smith Barney, a unit of Travelers Group, and he was formerly with Goldman Sachs & Co. for 16 years, where he held a number of senior positions in a variety of divisions. Mr. Kleinman received his MBA from Columbia University. He also holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude from the City University of New York.

Jeffrey Kollin

Rothstein Kass

Jeff Kollin is the Director of Financial Service Advisory Group at Rothstein Kass in the New York. He advises clients in tactical service areas including strategy, operations, technology, compliance and risk. Clients include hedge fund and private equity fund managers, institutional investors, mutual funds, broker/dealers and insurance companies. Prior to joining Rothstein Kass, Mr. Kollin was senior vice president, head of business development at R3 Capital, a multi-billion dollar global credit-focused hedge fund spun-off from Lehman Brothers Inc. in 2008, where he was responsible for implementing and managing operational and technological infrastructure. Previously, Mr. Kollin spent over 10 years at Lehman Brothers as U.S. head of hedge fund consulting, a practice that he launched. During his tenure at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Kollin focused on providing advisory services and new product development for hedge fund and investment managers. Previously, Mr. Kollin held COO / CAO positions in Lehman Brothers U.S. Equity Sales & Trading and Global Equity Capital Markets businesses. He earned his MBA in Finance/International Business from the New York University Stern School of Business and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University.

Thomas Kreitler

C.P. Eaton Partners

Thomas S. Kreitler leads the hedge fund fundraising team at C.P. Eaton Partners. He has over twenty-six years of institutional marketing and financial markets experience. Before joining Eaton in 2004, Mr. Kreitler spent two years at Fairview Partners, raising institutional assets for alternative investment funds. Prior to that, he spent twenty-four years in institutional fixed income sales, most recently at J.P. Morgan where he was a Managing Director and Institutional Sales Manager for liquid debt and derivative products. At Morgan, his responsibilities included managing a group of fourteen sales professionals and maintaining an institutional client base consisting of insurance companies, banks and asset managers. Mr. Kreitler holds a B.A. in economics from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from Boston College with a finance concentration.

Peter Lupoff

Tiburon Capital Management

Peter M. Lupoff is the founder, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Tiburon Capital Management, and advisor offering an onshore and offshore fund and managed accounts to accredited investors. The strategy employs Mr. Lupoff’s Five Pronged Methodology and seeks absolute returns from liquid event-oriented credit strategies. Mr. Lupoff formerly was a Managing Director at Millennium Management, the New York-based multi-strategy hedge fund, where he managed a portfolio of investments in distressed and special situations. Previously he was Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Robeco WPG Distressed Special Situations Fund. In the late 1980s, Mr. Lupoff became one of the first traders of bank loans, and in the mid-1990s, he conceived of "bankruptcy and default-triggered puts" for suppliers to troubled companies. His experience in distressed investing began in 1990 working with Marty Whitman of Third Avenue Funds. Since then, funds managed or co-managed by Mr. Lupoff have received GAIM's Top Performing Emerging Distressed Manager, MARHedge's Event-Driven Manager and an Institutional Investor nomination as Hedge Fund House of the Year.

Jim Marrone

Capital Z Asset Management

Jim Marrone is the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Z Asset Management (CZAM), one of the largest dedicated sponsors of hedge funds, having sponsored 17 funds totaling $7 billion since 1998. Prior to joining CZAM in 2008, Mr. Marrone had a 10 year career at Bear Stearns Asset Management where, most recently he held the title of Senior Managing Director, Channel Head - Institutional Corporate Business Development. As part of this role, Mr. Marrone focused on corporate plan sponsors and other select segments of the institutional market place to which he sold asset management products inclusive of equities, fixed income, risk management, private equity and hedge funds. At Bear Stearns, Mr. Marrone was also a managing director focused on institutional sales and client service. Prior to joining Bear Stearns in 1998, Mr. Marrone was a Senior Vice President, Partner and Director of Marketing at Capital Management Associates, where he was responsible for doubling the asset base during his four year tenure. From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Marrone worked with Westpac Banking where he was Senior Vice President and head of US Asset Securitization. From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Marrone worked for Chase Manhattan Bank as a second vice president and credit officer. Mr. Marrone has a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, and in 1993, completed executive education at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Marrone holds Series 6, 7, 66 and 24 licenses.

Anne Mathias

Concept Capital Washington Research Group

Anne N. Mathias is the Director of Research for Concept Capital’s Washington Research Group, which provides political, economic and industry research for institutional and corporate investors. In addition to her responsibilities as Director of Research, she covers tax policy issues. Prior to joining Washington Research Group, Ms. Mathias was a General Partner in healthcare and biotech private equity funds investing in the United States and internationally. Earlier, she spent five years as a senior consultant with Deloitte & Touche in an international management consulting group that specialized in restructuring and privatization in the emerging markets, particularly Eastern Europe. Ms. Mathias earned a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Spanish from the University of Maryland in 1987, and a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Georgetown University in 1991. She became a CFA Charterholder in 1999. She is a member of the Washington Society of Investment Analysts and the CFA Institute and is a founder of Women in Bio, a professional organization dedicated to entrepreneurs in the life sciences. She speaks Spanish and French.

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.

George Michaels

G2 Systems

George Michaels is a Principal and Co-Founder of G2 Systems, LLC, a boutique consulting firm serving the financial services industry that provides programming, integration and customization services for hedge funds, brokerage firms and fund administrators. Prior to founding G2, Mr. Michaels was Chief Technology Officer at Carlson Capital, L.P. from 1999 to 2006. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Michaels was Vice President at Goldman Sachs and responsible for energy risk management. From 1995 to 1996, he was responsible for Fixed Income Risk Management at Tudor Investments. From 1991 to 1995, he worked at Morgan Stanley as an analyst in equity derivatives and managed the equity decision support group. Mr. Michaels received a Bachelors degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988, and a Masters degree from Columbia University in 1990. At Columbia, he was awarded a research fellowship at the Center for Telecommunications Research.

Rachel Minard

Optima Fund Management

Rachel Minard is Partner and Executive Managing Director at Optima Fund Management. She 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.

Neil Morris

Kinetic Partners LLP

Neil Morris is a Partner in the New York offices of Kinetic Partners LLP, a global professional services firm focused exclusively on the asset management industry. Along with providing SEC compliance consulting services, Mr. Morris is a member of the firm’s liquidation and forensic accounting group and has been actively involved in providing clients with operational risk, valuation, and due diligence reviews. He is a CPA with over 17 years of experience, which includes acting as the Head of Due Diligence and Interim Chief Operating Officer of Societe General Asset Management. Prior to SGAM, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Framework Investment Group. He began his career with Ernst & Young in the audit and mergers and acquisitions due diligence practice, working in the Houston, Geneva, and New York offices. Neil is a graduate of Texas A&M University, with a BBA in Accounting, and he is a member of the AICPA.

Janaya Moscony

SEC Compliance Consultants

Janaya P. Moscony is the President and Founder of SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. As a former Securities and Exchange Commission regulator, Ms Moscony has extensive experience in the examination, implementation and enforcement of securities regulations. As a consultant, she advises financial institutions how best to effectively manage the regulatory environment with a focus on balancing business needs with regulatory requirements. Prior to joining Bank of Hawaii, Ms Moscony was employed as a regulatory consultant by BISYS Professional Services, a nationally recognized consulting firm. While at BISYS, she managed numerous engagements with banks, mutual funds, investment advisers and broker-dealers. Prior to BISYS, she worked as a staff accountant for the Philadelphia District Office of the SEC where she worked on routine and cause examinations as well as enforcement cases on behalf of a broad-range of financial entities. Ms Moscony joined the SEC as a Compliance Examiner through the Outstanding Scholar Program. She received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1999. She graduated with a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Rutgers University in 1995.

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.

Mitchell Nichter

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

Mitchell Nichter practices corporate and securities law with the international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, concentrating on hedge funds, offshore funds, mutual funds, closed-end funds, fund governance, and on the structuring, financing, formation and regulation (federal and state) of hedge funds and other financial services businesses. During his more than 20 years of practice in the hedge fund and investment management industry, Mr. Nichter’s clients have included U.S. and offshore investment and hedge funds, registered investment companies, independent mutual fund board members, investment advisers, broker-dealers, banks, trust companies and other types of financial institutions. Mr. Nichter is listed in the Chambers USA Guide to Leading Investment Funds Lawyers, the Chambers Global Guide to Leading Investment Funds Lawyers, and in The Legal 500 (United States) as a leading hedge fund and mutual fund lawyer.

John M. Pagli, Jr.

WR Group Holdings, LP

Mr. Pagli has over 15 years experience in the alternative investments industry as both an investor and as a senior business development professional, where he has lead marketing, investor relationship management, new product development and strategic development. He has worked with the full spectrum of active investors globally and a with wide range of alternative investment strategies and products. Prior to his career in alternative investments, he was an investment banker, capital markets professional and private equity investor for 10 years. Before joining WR Group Holdings, Mr. Pagli was the Director of Strategic Business Development at Pursuit Partners LLC, a structured credit hedge fund manager; Managing Director for Alternative Investments Proctor Investment Managers LLC, where he sourced equity investments in, created strategic partnerships with, and lead business development for emerging and undiscovered hedge fund managers; Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Para Advisors, Inc., an event driven hedge fund manager; and Managing Partner, President & Director at Forest Investment Management LLC, a convertible arbitrage hedge fund manager, as well as Chief Executive Officer of Founders Financial LLC, an affiliate of Forest that developed insurance dedicated fund products. He earned his MBA degree with distinction from New York University Stern School of Business Administration with concentrations in Corporate Finance and Corporate Strategy and graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Management with a BSBA degree with concentrations in Finance and International Economics. Mr. Pagli is a recognized speaker on the international conference circuit and has been a contributing author to leading publications in the alternative investment industry. He is a candidate for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.

Stuart J. Rabin

Nine Thirty Capital

Stuart J. Rabin is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Nine Thirty Capital and of Jacobson Family Investments, Inc. (JFI). Both businesses are headquartered in New York.

Nine Thirty Capital, a registered investment advisor, designs and manages customized investment portfolios for prominent families of substantial wealth from around the world. JFI oversees a significant individual family’s portfolio that includes an internal public equities fund, a series of hedge funds, direct/private equity 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 Internet REIT, Inc. and of Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc., and is an advisor to several hedge funds. He is involved in various charitable causes and serves as a member of the Columbia Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council and as co-chair of the Council’s Neurosciences Committee. Mr. Rabin is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and is a co-chair of the Chairman’s Council of the New-York Historical Society. He 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.

Stephen Raneri

LionEye Capital

Stephen V. Raneri is a Founder and Managing Member of LionEye Capital Management LLC, an investment management firm which was established in 2008. Mr. Raneri has been a risk arbitrage and event-driven investor for the past 13 years. He leads LionEye’s portfolio management and research functions. Prior to co-founding LionEye, Mr. Raneri was a Managing Director of Ramius LLC where he led the research effort for the North American merger arbitrage fund. Prior to Ramius, Mr. Raneri was at Soros Fund Management, where he covered North American event-driven situations as well as served as the firm’s energy industry equity analyst. Before Soros, Mr. Raneri was a risk arbitrage research analyst at Loeb Partners. Mr. Raneri started his career at Bankers Trust where as a Vice President he served as a research analyst in the firm’s proprietary equity arbitrage business. Earlier at BT, Mr. Raneri was an Associate in the firm’s Global Investment Bank where he executed M&A and corporate finance transactions. Mr. Raneri graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania in 1993 with a BS in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Decision Sciences.

Jeffrey Rathgeber

Pelorus Advisors

Jeffrey K. Rathgeber is a founding Partner of Pelorus Advisors, a Hartford, Conn.-based advisory firm that provides due diligence, consulting and analytical services. Mr. Rathgeber has extensive operational due diligence experience. Prior to joining Pelorus, Mr. Rathgeber was the Chief Financial Officer of the hedge fund manager Topos LLC in Stamford, CT. As Director of Finance at Sailfish Capital Partners, where he served from its inception in 2005, Jeff was responsible for all portfolio and investor performance reporting. Prior to Sailfish, he was the CFO of DTAP Capital Advisors, a global macro hedge fund. From 2001 to 2004, Jeff managed the Controllers group at SAC Capital where he was responsible for hedging the foreign currency exposure in the firm's trading portfolios. Jeff is a member of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) and the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA). He is a 1992 graduate of New York University with a Bachelors degree in Accounting.

Tassos Recachinas

Sophis Investments LLC

Tassos D. Recachinas is the Founder and Managing Member of Sophis Investments LLC, an investment management firm specializing in research-driven value investing. Prior to forming Sophis, Mr. Recachinas was a Senior Investment Analyst at Pirate Capital LLC, an activist/event-driven hedge fund. Mr. Recachinas was, during part of his tenure, the sole investment professional alongside the Portfolio Manager at Pirate Capital, overseeing all equity, debt, and derivative investments in four fund portfolios with assets under management of $250-$650million. Mr. Recachinas is on the Board of Directors of The Allied Defense Group (“Allied”) (NYSE-Alt: ADG), a multinational defense and security company, and is also a member of its Compensation Committee and Strategic Review Committee. Mr. Recachinas was initially elected to the Allied Board in January 2008 to represent Pirate Capital, the company’s then-largest shareholder. While Mr. Recachinas ceased to represent Pirate Capital in March 2008, Mr. Recachinas was nominated for reelection to the Allied Board at the November 2008 shareholder meeting and again for upcoming the November 2009 meeting. Prior to joining Pirate Capital, Mr. Recachinas served as an Equity Research Associate at Raymond James & Associates, where he provided equity research coverage on defense and technology equity securities. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and first in his class in the Aerospace Engineering Program from the George Washington University, and is also a Pembroke Scholar, having studied engineering and economics at Oxford University in England. He is a level three candidate of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.

John Rogers

Casedy Consulting LLC

John A. Rogers is the founding partner of Casedy Consulting, LLC, a provider of chief operating officer/chief financial officer outsourcing and operational due diligence consulting to the alternative investment industry. His experience includes more than 18 years in the asset management industry, including 8 years in leadership positions with two $750-million hedge funds. Previously, Mr. Rogers was the COO/CFO at Obrem Capital Management LLC from April 2007 to February 2008. Prior to Obrem, Mr. Rogers was CFO and CCO at Stadia Capital from June 2002 to April 2007. Prior to joining Stadia, Mr. Rogers was Senior Vice President at Weiss, Peck & Greer LLC, where he worked from May 2000 through May 2002. Previously, Mr. Rogers was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young’s Asset Management Practice, where he worked from April 1997 through April 2000. Prior to Ernst & Young, Mr. Rogers was an Assistant Vice President at Alliance Capital Management, L.P., where he worked from May 1991 through March 1997. Mr. Rogers earned his B.S. in Business Economics and Accounting from the State University of New York at Oneonta. Mr. Rogers is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPA’s.

Michael Ryan

JAI Capital Management

Michael Ryan is co-founder and co-CEO with Michael Takata of JAI Capital Management, a global opportunistic long-short fund in New York. In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Ryan was head of Global Securities for Credit Suisse, where he oversaw Equities and Fixed Income and was a member of the Investment Bank’s Management, Capital and Risk Committees and the Extended Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group. Prior to that, Mr. Ryan spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs and was a partner from 1998-2007. He was a member of the Fixed Income and Equities Division Operating Committee, the Asia Management Committee and the Partnership Committee, holding senior positions in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. From 1995-2001, he was in Equity Capital Markets, first running the Convertible and Derivatives business and then Asian Capital Markets. From 2001 to 2003, he co-headed Global Equity Derivatives. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Ryan was co-head of the Global Equity Products Group, which effectively combined equity sales and trading activity across all products. Mr. Ryan graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, with a B.A. in economics. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of Yale’s varsity basketball team, where he was selected as an Academic All-American.

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).

Randy Shain

First Advantage Corp.

Randy Shain is Vice President of First Advantage Investigative Services, LLC, and co-founded New York City-based BackTrack Reports in October 1993. BackTrack Reports, which was purchased by First Advantage in September 2004, provides insightful and comprehensive background information on fund managers. Mr. Shain and BackTrack have reviewed more than 4,000 funds and approximately 5,500 fund managers for fund advisors and funds of funds. Five of the top ten and nearly half of the top fifty funds of funds by asset size, worldwide, regularly receive a BackTrack Report prior to investing in a hedge fund. Prior to founding BackTrack, Mr. Shain was the Regional Director and Vice President at Bishops Services, a nearly 100-year old investigative firm. Mr. Shain has published several articles on management team due diligence and has spoken at various conferences, including GAIM, Eurohedge and many others. He is the author of the book, Hedge Fund Due Diligence, Professional Tools to Investigate Hedge Fund Managers. Mr. Shain holds a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from Rutgers University in 1987.

John Shay

International Derivatives Clearing Group

John C. Shay is a Founder and has served as Chief Marketing Officer of IDCG since its inception. Before founding IDCG, Mr. Shay was a Founder and Managing Partner of Capital Market Services Inc, a wholly owned clearing and execution services business designed to improve market access for algorithmic strategy hedge funds in the over-the-counter and exchange traded space. Previously, Mr. Shay spent almost 25 years managing various businesses for ICAP. From 2003 to 2007, he was Executive Vice President and Global Head of Sales for ICAP Electronic Broking (IEB) for Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange. Mr. Shay was critical in creating strategic partnerships in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South America and the EU. He worked to integrate the Brokertec business (which IEB acquired in May 2003) and to drive market share in U.S. Treasuries, Mortgage Backed Products, and Repo. Mr. Shay was critical in integrating global sales efforts with the EBS (which IEB acquired in June 2006), concentrating in Spot Fx, Fwd FX, Emerging Market FX and Precious Metals. Mr. Shay earned an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, Columbia University and a B.B.A. from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business graduating Magna Cum Laude.

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.

Edward Tedeschi

HC Associates LLC

Edward R. Tedeschi is the Founder and Chairman of HC Associates, LLC, a financial services consulting firm. His professional experience encompasses more than 30 years in asset management, alternative investments, finance, trading, operations and administration. Prior to establishing HC Associates, he was Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, Inc., in San Francisco, where he headed the western region for Prime Brokerage and Equity Finance Division. Before that, he was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Genesis Merchant Group, responsible for daily oversight of the registered investment advisor Seneca Capital Management, FINRA broker-dealer Genesis Merchant Group Securities and a family of proprietary alternative investment funds with aggregate assets under management exceeding $20 billion. Mr. Tedeschi was strategic adviser to Phoenix Investment Partners and their acquisition of Seneca Capital Management, Roger Engemann and Associates and Zweig Securities. He held a similar advisory role on behalf of Bel Air Investment Advisors (a lift out of former Goldman Sachs partners). Prior to joining Genesis and relocating to San Francisco, he was Vice President at Morgan Stanley & Co., New York. He was one of the founding principals of Morgan’s Correspondent Clearing Services, assisted in the formation of its market leading Prime Brokerage group and traveled globally during the expansion of the firm’s international business. Mr. Tedeschi’s professional career started in 1979 with Goldman Sachs & Co. He holds FINRA registrations in the Series 4, 7, 8, 24, and 63.

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.

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