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Managers: Pitching Investors
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Rachel Minard
Optima Fund Management
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| Rachel S.L. Minard is Partner and Executive Managing Director with Optima Fund Management, opening and running the firm's San Francisco office. She is responsible for building and managing the global institutional business for Optima and raising assets for the firm across all channels globally.
Ms. Minard has 19 years of institutional investment experience including the past 9 years building fund of hedge fund firms, notably her roles as President and Partner of Cogo Wolf Asset Management, Partner and Director of Global Marketing for Corbin Capital Partners (a firm she renamed) and Director of Marketing at Cadogan Management. Before Cadogan, Rachel was Vice President and Consultant Advisor for J.P. Morgan Investment 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 (2005-2010) and a featured speaker on CNBC and global 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 (2006-2010) 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 World Pension Forum and the Investment Management Institute (IMI). Ms. Minard also serves on the Executive Board of the Association of Women in Alternative Investing (AWAI) for which she is also a Founding Member, serves as Chairman of the ProTrak International Advisory Board and the Investment Sub-Committee of the Westover School Endowment. Ms. Minard is quoted in Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice published July, 2010 by Wiley Press and is finishing her first book through XENIA Media Publishing. |
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John Boles
Attalus Capital
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| In his role as Partner and Managing director of Attalus Capital, John Pl Boles is responsible for overseeing client service, business development and consultant relations. Prior to joining Attalus in 2002, he spent two years as a director of sales for Measurisk, an independent provider of advanced analytics for capital market entrants in alternatives. There, he was directly responsible for institutional business development and hedge fund of funds. Prior to this, from 1988 to 1998, John was a vice president with Bankers Trust Global Institutional Services and Asset Consulting. He began his career with Price Waterhouse in 1984.
John has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Pace University with a major in Accounting. He is an accomplished marathon runner with seventeen races to date. |
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Andrea Bollyky
Aetos Capital
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| Andrea M. Bollyky is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and leads the business development and client relations activities for Aetos Capital’s absolute return strategies. Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2004, Ms. Bollyky was a principal with Clay Finlay Inc., a specialist global equity management firm with $8 billion under management and offices in New York, Tokyo and London where she was responsible for managing the firm's global business development and marketing activities. Prior to joining Clay Finlay in 1995, Ms. Bollyky was an account executive with Gartmore Capital Management, a global asset manager headquartered in London, where she was responsible for managing the firm’s North American consultant relations and client service activities. Earlier, she was a manager with SEI Corporation and a member of the International Investment Group, which created multi-manager investment products offered to the pension, endowment and foundation markets. She began her career as a research analyst affiliated with the Hungarian Ministry of Finance in Budapest Hungary. Ms. Bollyky was educated at Lehigh University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in International Business with a concentration in Economics and Eastern European Studies, and the Economic University of Budapest. |
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Spencer Potts
Silver Creek Capital Management LLC
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| R. Spencer Potts is managing director of Silver Creek Asset Management, a Seattle-based firm. He works out of the firm’s New York office. His responsibilities include business development and investor relations, as well as manager of due diligence for Silver Creek’s fund-of-funds offerings. Prior to joining Silver Creek, Mr. Potts was a director within Merrill Lynch’s Hedge Fund Origination Group; this group focused on institutional hedge-fund transactions. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Potts was a portfolio manager with Pinnacle Asset Management, a New York-based fund-of-hedge-funds group. Mr. Potts holds a B.A. in history from the University of New Hampshire. |
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Tassos Recachinas
Sophis Investments LLC
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| 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. |
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