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Managers - Third Party Administration
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Gregory Nowak
Pepper Hamilton LLP
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| Gregory J. Nowak is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP, where he concentrates his practice in securities law. He also represents many hedge funds and other alternative investment funds in fund formation, investment and compliance matters, including compliance audits and preparation work. Mr. Nowak is the author of Hedge Fund Agreements Line by Line – A User’s Guide to LLC Operating Contracts, 1st and 2nd Editions; and Hedge Fund Disclosure Documents Line by Line – A User’s Guide to Confidential Private Placement Memoranda for Funds Formed as Limited Liability Companies. Mr. Nowak joined Pepper from Gartmore Global Investments, Inc., an asset management subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Nowak was Gartmore’s executive vice president for mergers and acquisitions. He also was instrumental in developing and managing Gartmore’s hedge fund business, and in developing a compliance module. Before joining Gartmore, Mr. Nowak was in private practice as a partner in another large, center city Philadelphia law firm. Mr. Nowak is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York and before the U.S. Tax Court. He holds a B.A., Maxima Cum Laude, from LaSalle College, a J.D. from Cornell Law School and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law. |
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David Bullock
Arque Advisors
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| David Bullock is President and Chief Investment Officer of Arque Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser, is the Senior Managing Director of Milton Associates LLC (its consulting affiliate), and Managing Director of Arque Certificate Management LLC (its tax lien investment management company). Mr. Bullock has been active in the investment and consulting business for over 30 years. Mr. Bullock was formerly partner of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange consulting at Greenwich Associates. He also was Managing Director of Rogers Casey’s Strategy Consulting Group, Managing Director of Mercer Manager Advisory, and Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, including Head of Strategic Planning, co-head of the Lehman International Retail Branch system, and head of Central Bank Relationships. Mr. Bullock has consulted with money managers- both traditional and absolute return-on organizational structure, marketing and sales strategy. He has helped investment managers develop hedge funds in tax liens, foreign exchange trading, long/short global equity and advised on the selection of services providers including: lawyers, administrators, prime brokers and capital raising firms. Mr. Bullock graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a B.A. in economics, and from the University of Chicago in 1974 with an MBA in international finance and statistics. |
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Jeffrey Clark
UMB/JD Clark
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| Jeffrey D. Clark is Chief Executive Officer of UMB Fund Services, a Milwaukee-based provider of services to the fund industry, including administration, fund accounting, investor services and marketing. Mr. Clark is a Certified Public Accountant who started J D Clark & Company in 1991. From 1986 to 1990 he was the CFO of the Genesee Funds, a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund of funds. From 1984 to 1986 he served as vice president of finance for the Cascade Funds and Rainier Partners, investment funds specializing in risk arbitrage. He previously worked for KPMG in Seattle, where he was in the audit and small business advisory practice. He graduated from Utah State University with a B.A. in accounting. Mr. Clark is a board member of the Weber Foundation, where he chairs its business development committee. |
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Jason Ganz
Prime Fund Solutions
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| Jason Ganz is a Vice President within the Sales and Relationship Management team of Prime Fund Solutions, based in New York. Mr. Ganz started with Prime Fund Solutions in New York in 2009 focusing on hedge fund sales. Prime Fund Solutions is a leader in third party administration in the hedge fund and fund of hedge fund space. Prior to PFS, Mr. Ganz worked for SunGard in Securities Finance, focusing on the US securities lending market. He also spent four years with Banc of America Securities Prime Brokerage concentrating on sales and relationship management. Mr. Ganz is involved with Hedge Funds Care and numerous hedge fund associations. He holds a B.B.A. from University of Georgia. |
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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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