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Investors - Emerging Manager Showcase D
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William Connors
Battleground Capital Management
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| William J. Connors is Co-founder & Portfolio Manager of Battleground Capital Management, which was launched in 2009 and focuses on smaller capitalization stressed/distressed issuers. He has 18 years of investment experience across numerous credit and equity markets. Most recently he was a partner at Ore Hill Partners, a $2 billion multi-strategy hedge fund based in New York City. Mr. Connors was Portfolio Manager of the Ore Hill Concentrated Credit Fund, which grew from $40 million in seed capital to $830 million of equity capital in one year. Prior to Ore Hill Partners, Mr. Connors spent 14 years at W.R. Huff Asset Management, with responsibilities that included high yield portfolio management, Chief Investment Officer of the WRH Global Fund and Co-Head of the Structured Product Group. While CIO of the WRH Global Fund, Mr. Connors led several high-profile Latin American activist investments. As Co-Head of the Structured Product Group at Huff, Mr. Connors grew the business from inception in 2005 to approximately $1 billion of assets under management at the end of 2006. Mr. Connors has been a member of the Board of Directors of Virgin Media, formerly known as NTL Inc., lewest plc, Impsat Fiber Networks, and ICG Communications. Mr. Connors has a B.A. in Mathematics from Drew University and an MBA from Columbia University, as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. |
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Daniel Gunsberg
Modern Asset Group
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| Daniel Gunsberg is co-founder and Managing Principal of Modern Asset Group, LLC (“MAG”) a Chicago-based alternative investment fund manager formed in 2009 that specializes in CTA/managed futures strategies. He oversees all manager and strategy selection, due diligence, and investment management of the flagship MAG MA2 Fund. The MA2 Fund is a multi-manager CTA fund that seeks low volatility returns through liquid, short-term futures trading. Mr. Gunsberg began his career in the financial markets in 1997 trading U.S. Treasury yield curve futures and options at the Chicago Board of Trade. In 1999, Mr. Gunsberg formed Oakleaf Trading, LLC, which specialized in trading NASDAQ listed securities. From 1999 until 2003, he was a major market participant in the technology sector, at times accounting for up to 5% of the daily trading volume for both Cisco Systems, Inc. and JDS Uniphase. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Gunsberg returned to the futures markets to trade both U.S. and European short-term interest rate futures. In 2008 he co-founded Quantos LLC, a firm specialized in custom-tailored managed futures portfolios. He formed MAG in May 2009. |
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Brad Lawson
Point Defiance Capital Management
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| Brad Lawson is the portfolio manager for the Point Defiance Microcap Fund, LP, a long/short fund investing in U.S.-traded stocks with market capitalizations below $500 million. Prior to Point Defiance, Mr. Lawson was a co-founder and Principal of Kettle Creek Partners, LLC from 2004 to 2008. He co-managed the Kettle Creek Small Cap Fund, LP, a small and microcap U.S. long/short equity fund, and a separate account with a similar mandate. Mr. Lawson held various positions with Russell Investments in Tacoma, WA from 1996 to 2004, most recently as the Co-Head of Hedge Fund Manager Research. Assets grew from $15 million to more than $3 billion at the time of his departure in July 2004. He had direct responsibility for the investment of more than $500 million with U.S. long-short equity hedge fund managers and oversight of the research on another $600 million of market neutral and non-U.S. equity. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Lawson was a Financial Analyst for Texaco, Inc. in Harrison, N.Y., where he managed the Texaco Pension plan’s $200 million S&P 500 Index fund. He worked in Texaco’s Houston-based domestic oil and gas operation from 1991 to 1993, responsible for crude and natural gas hedging and pipeline financing. He began his career as an Actuarial Analyst at the Wyatt Company in Dallas from 1986 to 1989. Mr. Lawson holds a B.B.A. degree in Finance with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma (1986) and an MBA degree from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (1991). |
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Roderick Wong
RTW Investments
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| Dr. Roderick Wong founded RTW Investments, LLC, in 2010 and serves as its Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner. RTW specializes in a long-short equity strategy focused on the health care industry. From March 2005 to January 2009, Dr. Wong worked for Davidson Kempner Capital Management LLC where he served as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for the Davidson Kempner Healthcare Funds from inception. Under his leadership, healthcare assets under management at Davidson Kempner grew to approximately $750 million. Previously, Dr. Wong worked at Sigma Capital Management, an SAC Capital company, as a Healthcare Analyst and also on the Biotechnology equity research team at Cowen & Company. Dr. Wong graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, received his MBA from Harvard Business School, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in Economics from Duke University. Dr. Wong also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York University Stern Business School and as a board member of Penwest Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded specialty pharmaceuticals company. |
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