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Keynote Panel: Emerging Managers
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Chris Clair
HedgeWorld
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Chris Clair is the Managing Editor of HedgeWorld. He has spent the past eleven years covering the hedge fund industry, first as a reporter for Crain's Pensions & Investments and for the past eight years at HedgeWorld. Mr. Clair has been a journalist for the past 18 years, working at weekly and daily newspapers in his home state of Oregon and in Illinois.
Mr. Clair holds a BA degree in journalism from the University of Portland in Oregon. |
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Alan Andreini
Armored Wolf LLC
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| Mr. Andreini acts as Armored Wolf’s CEO and is a member of the Management Committee. He is responsible for all noninvestment management of the firm. Mr. Andreini is a 35 year industry veteran with over 20 years in the hedge fund
space. He comes to Armored Wolf from Money Management Group, LP where he transitioned a small friends and family hedge fund into a global institutional asset management firm with $1 billion under management.
From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Andreini was Managing Director and General Partner at Money Management Group. There, he raised $1.7 billion in two years for Money Management Group’s two funds; and grew the staff from 4 employees to 32 in 3-years. Prior to Money Management Group, he was President and CEO at Interworld. He took the company public in 1999 and contributed to making Interworld one of the leading providers of enterprise software in the business-to-business space. He also generated a market capitalization of $2.9 billion and grew organization from 30 to 150 professionals in two years. From 1978 to 1998, he was Executive Vice President, Member of the Office of the President and Board of Directors at Comdisco where he raised $25 billion in financing and completed the first asset backed bond deal secured by leases. He also oversaw all private placement debts including venture leasing, worldwide budgets, debt financing of all leveraged leases, and hedge fund investments. Prior to Comdisco, he was an M & A Associate at Salomon Brothers from 1973 to 1978 where he generated new business and specialized in technology issuers such as ATT, MCI and Comdisco. Mr. Andreini was also a part of global team of 15 that opened London Office in 1976.
Mr. Andreini received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Rutgers University Law School. |
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Ben Axler
Spruce Point Capital Management
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| Ben Axler is Managing Partner and co-founder of Spruce Point Capital Management, a New York-based hedge fund. Prior to founding the company, Mr. Axler spent eight years as an investment banker advising, structuring and executing billions of dollars of financing, risk management and M&A transactions for leading Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Axler started his career with Credit Suisse in 2000 where he held appointments in their capital markets and M&A groups, and from 2006 to 2008, was an Associate Director at Barclays Capital covering the the diversified industrial sector. Mr. Axler graduated from Yale University with a master's degree in statistics and received both a B.A. degree in statistics and a B.S. in marketing and business administration from Rutgers College, where he graduated with summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. Mr. Axler is also a contributing writer to TheStreet.com and SeekingAlpha.com |
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Miguel Paredones
Clifftop Capital Management
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| Miguel A. Paredones founded Clifftop Capital Management LLC in 2008 after achieving a prolific career as principal investor. Clifftop Capital has emerged as an alternative investments management and advisory firm for global institutional investors that seek opportunistic investments across the Latin America region. Mr. Paredones has successfully acted as direct principal investor, originating, structuring and executing investments, including senior debt, subordinated debt, special situations, mezzanine and private equity, in excess of US$ 1 billion in Latin America and the Caribbean by following an asset-based investing approach.
Mr. Paredones started his career at Philadelphia-based economic research center Wharton Econometrics, where he elaborated economic analysis for the Latin America region. Following this, he has spent most of his career identifying distinctive business opportunities for leading financial institutions as J.P. Morgan, Julius Baer and Quantek Asset Management, participating in major capital markets, advisory and principal investing transactions. His most recent experience as Chief Investment Officer with Clifftop Capital Management has evidenced his ability to aggregate value for emerging companies and entrepreneurs throughout the Americas.
Mr. Paredones is a Mexican citizen (1974), fluent in Spanish and English. He graduated in 1998 from Monterrey Institute of Technology, where he also taught the entrepreneurial course, with a B.S. degree in Economics. He also obtained an M.P.A., International Finance & Policy, from Columbia University. Mr. Paredones was awarded with the “Native Leadership Scholarship” by Channel Foundation. |
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Jeffrey S. Pavlik
Pavlik Capital Management LLC
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Over the last twenty-two years, Jeffrey S. Pavlik has held financial management positions at both large and small business organizations. Mr. Pavlik’s broad experience includes equity and interest rate trading, portfolio and risk management, accounting, finance and the development of sophisticated financial systems and strategies to maximize returns and minimize risk.
Prior to founding Pavlik Capital Management LLC, Mr. Pavlik held positions as CFO at Elysian Worldwide, Portfolio Manager/Trader at Peak6 Investments, Specialist/Lead Market Maker for Knight Financial, Senior Trader – Refco Securities, Vice President – Interest Rate Trading at Bank of America and Trader at Swiss Bank/O’Connor & Associates.
Mr. Pavlik has been featured by The Wall Street Journal and HedgeWorld and has been quoted by multiple worldwide publications. Mr. Pavlik was also selected as a member of the MFA Forum 2008 Emerging Manager Star Search.
Mr. Pavlik has an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2003) and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University (1990). |
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Bobby Richardson
Raven Rock Capital
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| Bobby Richardson is founder and Managing Director of Raven Rock Capital in Chapel Hill, N.C., a corporate credit hedge fund launched in September, 2009. Previously he was the Director of Research and Portfolio Manager of the Classic products for the Argent Funds Group, responsible for fundamental credit and equity analysis. He also managed the operations, accounting, and information technology departments of the firm. Prior to joining Argent in 1998, Bobby was a Director of the Convertible Securities Portfolio Team at Northwestern Investment Management Company where he was responsible for investment analysis, trading and management of a $1 billion portfolio. He joined Northwestern Mutual in 1991, and worked as an investment analyst on the Public High Yield Bond and Private Placement portfolios in addition to his work with convertibles. From 1986 to 1989, Bobby worked for Travelers as a Financial Analyst. He received his Masters of Management with Distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University in 1991. He received a Bachelor of Science in Finance with Distinction from the University of Virginia in 1986. |
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