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Investors: Separately Managed Accounts
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Denise Valentine
Aite Group
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| 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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Walter Raquet
WR Capital Holdings, LP
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| Walter Raquet is Chairman of WR Group Holdings, LP, a managed account service provider with over 40 professional staff members. Prior to launching WR Group, Mr. Raquet co-founded Knight Trading Group in 1995 where he held various positions including Chairman, Executive Vice President, and Director until his departure in 2002. From 1992 to 1994, he was Senior Vice President with Spear, Leeds & Kellogg/Troster Singer, managing their technology and marketing branches. From 1982 to 1992, Mr. Raquet was employed by Herzog Heine & Geduld, Inc., a trading firm, where he directed the firm’s technology and marketing efforts. Mr. Raquet was also Corporate Controller for Paine Webber, Inc. between 1980 and 1982. Prior to joining Paine Webber, Mr. Raquet served as Executive Vice President of Cantor Fitzgerald from 1977 to 1980, and Controller for Weeden & Co. from 1968 to 1976. He is a CPA and practiced at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Raquet received a BS in Accounting from New York University in 1966. |
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Scott Schweighauser
Aurora Investment Management
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| Scott C. Schweighauser is a Partner of and the Chief Investment Officer for Aurora Investment Management, L.L.C. (formerly known as Harris Alternative Investments L.L.C.), a Chicago-based investment firm with $9.5 billion in assets under management that runs a number of alternative investment vehicles, including both multi-strategy and single strategy formats. He is involved in every aspect of Aurora’s investing activities, including portfolio management and the evaluation and analysis of existing and prospective managers. He has been with Aurora since June 1994. Scott was formerly a Vice President for interest rate derivatives trading with ABN AMRO Bank, and a Vice President and Managing Director with Continental Bank's Risk Management Trading Group, where he was responsible for trading interest rate derivatives, commodity derivatives, proprietary trading, and the development of trading and risk analysis systems and theoretical pricing models. Prior to this, he was an associate in Corporate Finance at Bankers Trust Co. He received his BA in Mathematics from Williams College and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago. Scott is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago and sits on the Board of Directors of NorthShore University HealthSystem Foundation. |
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Marilyn Selby Okoshi
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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| Marilyn Selby Okoshi is a member of the Financial Services Practice and Chair of the Structured Products Practice of law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP. She focuses her practice on investment funds and managers, finance, structured finance, derivatives and financial products. She concentrates on, and has significant experience in, the organization and representation of on-shore and offshore hedge funds, formation of managed account platforms and private equity funds. She has extensive experience guiding fund managers through securities and futures regulatory compliance as well as understanding and handling their counterparty risk. She also advises funds of funds and institutional investors. In particular, she advises funds and fund investors with respect to derivatives, loan transactions, loan trading, financial products and investments in Japan and other Asian countries. She also has experience as lender and borrower counsel in traditional bank loans, private placements of securities and structured transactions, and has advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities offerings, and general corporate matters. Ms. Okoshi is fluent in English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Okoshi is a member of the Managed Funds Association, the Futures Industry Association Law & Compliance Division and the American Bar Association. She also serves as chair of the Governance Committee and co-chair of the Legal Peer Advisory Council of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. She earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1989. She is admitted to practice in New York (1990). |
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Philip Sivin
MD Sass
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| Philip M. Sivin is a Managing Director and a Director of M.D. Sass Investors Services, Inc. and its affiliated companies, and Managing Director of M.D. Sass-Macquarie Financial Strategies Management Company, L.L.C. (“FinStrat”). He was an Equity Analyst for M.D. Sass from 2002 to 2004 and a Vice President of Resurgence Asset Management, L.L.C. (an affiliate of MD Sass focused on distressed investments) from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining the M.D. Sass organization in 2000, he was an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, focusing on domestic and international Securities, Corporate, Real Estate and Investment Management transactions. Mr. Sivin is a member of the Board of Directors of Sterling Chemicals, Inc., Furniture.com, Inc., and HighTower Advisors LLC. He also serves as a member of the Board of Managers of various hedge fund and private equity investee companies of FinStrat. Mr. Sivin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Mr. Sivin also received his M.B.A., with honors, from Columbia Business School with a focus in Finance and Accounting. |
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