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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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