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Managers - Prime Brokerage
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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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Steve Gerbel
Chicago Capital Management
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| Steven R. Gerbel is Founder and President of Chicago Capital Management, a specialty private investment firm focused on merger arbitrage and convertible bonds. Mr. Gerbel has over 15 years of experience running hedge funds focused on merger and convertible arbitrage markets. Prior to founding Chicago Capital Management, Mr. Gerbel was a General Partner at First Capital Alliance, a hedge fund located in Chicago, primarily focused on merger and convertible arbitrage transactions, value investing and distressed markets. Mr. Gerbel began his career trading commodities on the Mid-American Commodities Exchange at the Chicago Board of Trade and acting as a "local" engaged in trading U.S. Treasury Bond futures for his own account. Mr. Gerbel has also helped in founding two de novo banks in the Chicago area and six hedge funds and other businesses, in addition to Chicago Capital Management. Mr. Gerbel holds a FINRA Series 7 Securities License and is registered with the Chicago Stock Exchange and FINRA. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from DePaul University in Chicago. |
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Mayiz Habbal
Celent
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| Mayiz Habbal is Senior Vice President of the Securities & Investments Group at the financial research and consulting firm Celent and is based in the firm's New York office. He brings with him over 15 years of experience in the management and development of software and engineering of information technology, predominantly in the investment banking industry. Before joining Celent, Dr. Habbal worked at Oracle Siebel, where he was an executive charged with the development of engineering strategy for all of Siebel's product lines. He previously served as a senior vice president at Bank of America, where he was responsible for the implementation of the bank's new customer information systems. Before that, Dr. Habbal served as deputy CIO and CTO for Dresdner Kleinwort, the investment banking group of Dresdner Bank. Dr. Habbal came to Dresdner Kleinwort from the investment bank of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), where he was a member of the Global Reengineering Committee and Director of Business Process Reengineering in London. At SBC, he was also the Global Head of Exchange Listed Derivatives IT. He received his Ph.D. and Sc.M. degrees in operations research and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to his doctoral work, Dr. Habbal received his B.Eng. degree from the American University. |
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Mark McGoldrick
Alaris Trading Partners, LLC
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| Mark McGoldrick is a founding member of Alaris Trading Partners LLC and is the Managing Director of Prime Services. Alaris Trading Partners is a FINRA registered broker/dealer providing a specialized suite of services to hedge funds, traditional money managers, registered investment advisors and professional traders. Mr. McGoldrick has extensive trading and prime brokerage experience dealing in all facets of the alternative space from fund formation, managed accounts and electronic trading, to marketing and capital introductions for hedge funds. Prior to founding Alaris Mr. McGoldrick was employed by UBS as Associate Director in the Prime Brokerage division working with hedge funds in a sales, relationship and capital introductions capacity. Mr. McGoldrick started his career with State Street in the portfolio accounting division covering the Paine Webber funds. Mr. McGoldrick has been a member of industry organizations such as The Hedge Fund Association, TAAAPs and Hedge Fund Cares. |
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Christine McGrath Kamrass
Jefferies & Co
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| Christine McGrath Kamrass is a Senior Vice President at Jefferies & Company, Inc. charged with business development in the Midwest region for Jefferies Prime Brokerage Service. The division offers a full service prime broker platform to emerging and mid-size hedge fund clients and acts as a portal to Jefferies services. Mrs. McGrath Kamrass has 18 years experience in the alternative investment and prime brokerage community holding senior management roles in new business, client and fund marketing at UBS Securities LLC, ABN AMRO and ING Financial. During these years, Mrs. McGrath Kamrass lead teams of professional to work directly with hedge funds to indentify solutions and services to support business expansion and capital raising efforts. In addition, she took lead roles in creating the prime brokerage divisions’ business philosophy and service offering. Mrs. McGrath Kamrass started her career in hedge funds with Furman Selz Incorporated and was involved in the development of Furman Selz’ prime brokerage and fund of funds product. Mrs. McGrath Kamrass is a graduate of The Ohio State University with dual degrees in International Studies and Economics. |
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