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OCTOBER 21, THE METROPOLITAN CLUB, NEW YORK CITY

Nathaniel August

Mangrove Partners

Nathaniel August is the founder and President of Mangrove Partners and the Portfolio Manager of The Mangrove Partners Fund, L.P. Prior to founding Mangrove, he was a Director at White Eagle Partners, a start-up hedge fund backed by Investcorp. Previously, he was a Senior Analyst at Brahman Capital, where he managed the firm’s European investment efforts and an Investment Analyst at K Capital. Mr. August began his career in private equity in the Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University with a degree in Economics and International Relations in 2001.

Rick Banister

Sesame Software

Rick Banister is president of Sesame Software, a company that developed and distributes a set of enterprise-class data integration and warehousing tools called the Relational Junction Suite that helps reduce business risk, eliminate data loss, protect valuable corporate information and ensure regulatory compliance. Mr. Banister developed application systems for over thirty years in his roles as a product architect, project manager, software developer, systems integrator and database analyst. He formed Sesame Software in 1988 as a professional services organization. Over the course of the following fifteen years, he authored many custom-built Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) systems for major corporations. Although these projects could have been attempted with an off-the-shelf ETL tool, the client companies were unwilling to use any of the products in the marketplace. As a result of this market opportunity, in 2004 he led Sesame Software to develop the Relational Junction Suite in order to meet the market demand for enterprise integration, information warehousing, and Customer Relationship Management compliance.

William Bassin

UBP Asset Management

William Bassin is Managing Director of UBP Asset Management (UBPAM), a manager of funds of funds and customized alternative investment solutions for institutional and high net worth investors. UBPAM is a part of Union Bancaire Privée, the Swiss private bank. Prior to joining UBPAM in 2010, Mr. Bassin was Director of Investments for the Museum of Modern Art’s Endowment, and before that held various senior roles in the hedge fund space at Lehman Brothers, Auda Hedge, LLC, and UBS. Mr. Bassin also teaches a hedge fund class at New York University, which he has done for six years, and was also an attorney for several years in New York, focusing on bankruptcy and contract law. He holds an economics degree from Dartmouth College, a law degree from Emory University School of Law, and an MBA from Columbia University Business School, all with honors.

Troy Buckner

NuWave Investment Management

Troy Buckner is managing principal at NuWave Investment Management, which specializes in the development of quantitative trading strategies and their systematic application to managed futures and equity markets. Mr. Buckner is an industry veteran who began his career at Salomon Brothers, Inc. as a derivatives and portfolio sales specialist in 1986. In 1989 Mr. Buckner left Salomon Brothers to trade energy derivatives proprietarily at George E. Warren Corporation and in 1991 started his own business to focus on the design and implementation of sophisticated trading models that would eventually support NuWave Investment Corp. Mr. Buckner joined Classic Capital in 1994 as a principal with responsibility for the design and execution of both futures and U.S. equity investment models. In 1995 Mr. Buckner joined Hyman Beck & Company as a principal to develop systematic investment strategies capable of trading the world’s liquid futures and currency markets. Mr. Buckner graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Delaware in 1984 with a double major (finance/accounting) and a minor (economics) before earning his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1986.

David Bullock

Arque Advisors

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.

George Canellos

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

George S. Canellos is Director of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the largest of the SEC’s regional offices. In that position, to which he was appointed in July 2009, Mr. Canellos oversees nearly 400 professional staff of enforcement attorneys, accountants, investigators and compliance examiners engaged in the investigation and prosecution of enforcement actions and the performance of compliance inspections in the region. The New York Office has responsibility for the largest concentration of SEC-registered financial institutions, including more than 4,000 investment banks, investment advisers, broker-dealers, mutual funds and hedge funds. Mr. Canellos began his career as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. In 1994, he became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York. During his nine years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Canellos served in a num-ber of positions, including Chief of the Major Crimes Unit, Senior Trial Counsel of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, and Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney. Following his service at the U.S. Attorney’s Office and immediately prior to assuming his position at the SEC, Mr. Canellos served for more than six years as a litigation partner at the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.

Jeffrey Clark

UMB/JD Clark

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.

William Connors

Battleground Capital Management

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.

Dean Curnutt

Macro Risk Advisors

Dean Curnutt is the founder, CEO and president of Macro Risk Advisors, an equity derivatives strategy and execution firm catering to institutional investors. He oversees the firm's plan to help institutional clients achieve superior investment results by providing valuable market insight and efficient transaction execution. Prior to forming MRA, Mr. Curnutt was Managing Director and Head of Equity Sales-trading at Banc of America Securities where he was a member of the Global Equities Management Team that set direction for the division. During his tenure at Banc of America Securities, he also served as Head of Institutional Equity Derivatives and Convertible Sales. Under his leadership, the equity derivatives team was ranked first in overall listed option market share in 2007 and was named the 2005 US Equity Derivatives House of the Year by Derivatives Week for its innovative work to create options on realized variance. Mr. Curnutt holds an MBA in analytical finance with highest honors from the University of Chicago and he received a Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, from St. John's University.

Michael Felman

MSF Capital Advisors

Michael Felman is President and CEO of MSF Capital Advisors, a global financial advisory firm that helps its clients source, structure and evaluate investment opportunities. His firm represents family offices, funds of funds, hedge funds and a select group of high net worth individuals, and also is active in advising clients in venture capital and private equity. He has conducted extensive due diligence on new hedge fund managers using a top down approach. MSF analyzes the organizational structure as well as the trading strategy of each hedge fund, first to determine the level of transparency and then to determine the true risk-adjusted return. Previously, Mr. Felman was a practicing attorney for more than 20 years.

Richard Flom

Systematic Alpha Management, LLC

Richard Flom is Vice President of Trading and heads up trading and operations at Systematic Alpha Management, LLC, a New York-based alternative asset manager with expertise in market-neutral quantitative trading strategies. SAM’s trading programs, which are high frequency, are developed by a team of theoretical physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. Before joining Systematic Alpha, Mr. Flom worked on analysis and operations in a technology fund of CIBC Oppenheimer Asset Management. Previously he maintained accounts of The MDE Group Wealth Management division. Before that Mr. Flom headed an auditing team at PRG Schultz International Inc. Prior to that, he performed merger and acquisition analysis constructed financial models at HT Capital Advisors, LLC.

Mr. Flom holds a Masters in Economics from Columbia University’s Statistics program and has a degree in Economics and Finance from Rutgers University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies.

Bruce Frumerman

Frumerman & Nemeth Inc.

Bruce Frumerman is President of Frumerman & Nemeth Inc., a communications and sales marketing consultancy that helps financial services firms create brand identities for their organizations and develop and implement effective marketing strategies and programs. His firm’s work has helped money management clients attract over $7 billion in new assets, yet they are not third-party marketers. Mr. Frumerman has thirty years' experience in helping money management firm clients to educate and persuade people to understand and buy into how they invest. His clients include hedge funds, institutional money management firms, funds of funds, mutual funds, SMA money managers, private equity investment firms and financial planning firms serving the high net worth market. Mr. Frumerman is a frequent speaker at various events and also has been published addressing the subject for HedgeWorld, Canadian Hedgewatch, Emerging Manager Focus, Investor Relations Newsletter and Hedge Connection. Additionally, he wrote the chapter on marketing for the Thomson Reuters IFR Market Intelligence special report, "Which Way Next For Hedge Funds? A Guide For Managers, Banks and Investors".

Conrad Gann

Cerebellum Capital

Conrad Gann is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Cerebellum Capital, Inc. From 2005 to 2009 Mr. Gann was the President and Chief Operating Officer of TrimTabs Investment Research and Managing Partner of TrimTabs Asset Management, which provides institutional research on global equity market liquidity. In 2008, Mr. Gann managed the sale of an equity stake to Goldman Sachs and established distribution through Goldman’s global equities business. In 2002, Mr. Gann served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development at Citadel Investment Group. Beginning in 1993, Mr. Gann worked at Bank of America for nine years, starting in Corporate Strategy and Development. In 1998, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of the Asset Management Group, where he advised senior management on various large-scale acquisitions and joint ventures. In 2001, Mr. Gann became a Managing Director and founded the BACAP Alternative Investments Group, the bank’s first internally managed multi strategy funds of hedge funds group. Mr. Gann began his career as a Research Coordinator at the Macroeconomic Research Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, where he built econometric models to forecast GNP, inflation, and interest rates. Mr. Gann has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Jason Ganz

Prime Fund Solutions

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.

Steve Gerbel

Chicago Capital Management

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.

Philip Gocke

Options Industry Council

Philip H. Gocke has been a Managing Director of the Options Industry Council since 2005, responsible for research and education for institutional investors. The OIC is a non-profit industry association, sponsored by the seven U.S. options exchanges and the Options Clearing Corporation and is dedicated to educating the investing public, brokers and pension funds, hedge funds and money management firms, about the benefits and risks of exchange-traded options. Mr. Gocke is also the founder and President of the options trading firm, Brite Sky LLC. Previously Mr. Gocke was a Managing Director and CEO of Van Der Moolen Options U.S.A. LLC. In this position Mr. Gocke was responsible to the Dutch parent, Van der Moolen N.V., for all trading, marketing, compliance and financial disclosure for the options specialist & market making activities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange and Eurex/Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to those responsibilities Mr. Gocke was a Managing Director of Tague Van Der Moolen LLC and held a similar position for 15 years with Tague Securities Corporation /BancAmerica Options, Inc. Before moving to Philadelphia, Mr. Gocke was a Vice President and Chief Advisor for Bank of America’s Financial Market Advisory Group and a senior foreign exchange trader for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Gocke received an MBA degree from New York University and a B.A. in Economics from Lafayette College.

Spencer Greenberg

Rebellion Research

Spencer Greenberg is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Software Architect of Rebellion Research, the New York-based quantitative hedge fund that he co-founded in 2005 at the age of 22. It began managing client money in 2007. Rebellion uses principles of artificial intelligence and machine learning in its computer-driven long equity strategy. Mr. Greenberg graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University’s School of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and a minor in computer science. He is currently pursuing his PhD at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, specializing in the mathematical theory of machine learning.

Bob Guilbert

Eze Castle Integration

Bob Guilbert is Managing Director of Eze Castle Integration, which provides consulting and technology services to hedge funds. He is responsible for the company’s product development, marketing and strategic partnerships. He works closely with the company’s hedge fund clients to understand their business requirements and guide Eze Castle Integration’s product development, bringing to market new solutions for challenges, including regulatory compliance. Mr. Guilbert has more than 20 years of information technology and management experience. Prior to joining Eze Castle, Mr. Guilbert was vice president of business development at Virtual Iron Software, a venture-backed start-up offering enterprise-class data center virtualization software. He has also held senior marketing and business development positions at Double-Take Software (formerly NSI), EMC Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Guilbert is fluent in German and graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.

Daniel Gunsberg

Modern Asset Group

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.

Mayiz Habbal

Celent

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.

Damian Handzy

Investor Analytics

Damian Handzy is Chairman and CEO of Investor Analytics, a firm he cofounded in 1999 to provide risk management services to the investment management industry. He has over 15 years' experience in the risk management industry. While at Deloitte in the mid-1990's, he consulted to many of Wall Street's largest asset managers on risk management, Internet-based reporting and data management. Mr. Handzy has been a vocal advocate of improving risk management in the investment industry by incorporating advancements from other disciplines such as natural selection/evolution, cognitive science, complexity theory/emergence and behavioral science. His background is in experimental sciences and numerical techniques applicable to securities analysis, and he has experience in advanced technology applications, numerical simulations and mathematical modeling. He is extensively published in scientific peer-reviewed and financial journals. Mr. Handzy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his doctorate in nuclear physics while working on Correlation Functions at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in Michigan. He is a regular guest on London hedge-fund radio program The N@ked Short Club.

Anton Honikman

Ada Investments

Anton Honikman is Managing Director of Ada Investments. He is responsible for the general management of the U.S. business. This encompasses strategy, marketing, business development and product development. Prior to Ada, Mr. Honikman was Head of Barclays Global Investors’ (BGI)New Ventures Group. This encompassed both a corporate venture capital fund and the incubation of strategic initiatives. Before that, Mr. Honikman was a Senior Investment Strategist in BGI's Structured Solutions Group, with primary responsibility for designing and promoting defined contribution and retirement income products. This included the successful distribution of the LifePath series of lifecycle funds with institutional investors in the wake of the passing of the Pension Protection Act (2006). Mr. Honikman joined BGI in 2005 as a Senior Investment Strategist in the Index Equity group, with a focus on international index products. He joined BGI from Barra (now MSCI), where he spent ten years in a variety of product management and business strategy roles. Most recently, as Vice President of Product Strategy, Mr. Honikman was responsible for the conception and commercialization of BarraOne, Barra’s flagship web-based multi-asset class portfolio analytics platform. Mr. Honikman earned a Bachelor of Business Science with honors in financial economics and applied statistics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Stephen Ketchum

Sound Point Capital Management

Stephen Ketchum is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sound Point Capital Management, L.P., a New York-based credit-oriented alternative asset manager established in 2009. Sound Point is the investment advisor for the Sound Point Credit Opportunities Funds, the Sound Point Senior Floating Rate Fund and a number of managed accounts. Previously, Mr. Ketchum was Global Head of Media Investment and Corporate Banking for Banc of America Securities (“BofA”), where he was a member of the Global Investment Banking Leadership Team. As Global Head of Media Banking, Mr. Ketchum was responsible, together with a risk partner, for a multi-billion dollar portfolio of bank and bridge loans. Prior to joining BofA, he was a Managing Director at UBS in the TMT Investment Banking Group. From 1990 to 2000, he was employed in the Investment Banking Department of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, most recently as a Managing Director. Mr. Ketchum is a Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the East Side House Settlement, located in Mott Haven, the Bronx, the poorest congressional district in the United States. He earned his B.A. from New England College Magna Cum Laude and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Petter Kolm

New York University

Petter Kolm is the Deputy Director of the Mathematics in Finance Masters Program and Clinical Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. His interests include high frequency finance and algorithmic trading, quantitative trading strategies, financial econometrics, risk management, and optimal portfolio strategies. Previously, Petter worked in the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where his responsibilities included researching and developing new quantitative investment strategies for the group's hedge fund. Petter coauthored the books Financial Modeling of the Equity Market: From CAPM to Cointegration (Wiley, 2006), Trends in Quantitative Finance (CFA Research Institute, 2006), Robust Portfolio Management and Optimization (Wiley, 2007), and Quantitative Equity Investing: Techniques and Strategies (Wiley, March 2010). He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale, an M.Phil. in applied mathematics from Royal Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in mathematics from ETH Zurich. Petter is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Portfolio Management.

Brad Lawson

Point Defiance Capital Management

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).

Peter Lupoff

Tiburon Capital Management

Peter M. Lupoff is the founder, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Tiburon Capital Management, and advisor offering an onshore and offshore fund and managed accounts to accredited investors. The strategy employs Mr. Lupoff’s Five Pronged Methodology and seeks absolute returns from liquid event-oriented credit strategies. Mr. Lupoff formerly was a Managing Director at Millennium Management, the New York-based multi-strategy hedge fund, where he managed a portfolio of investments in distressed and special situations. Previously he was Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Robeco WPG Distressed Special Situations Fund. In the late 1980s, Mr. Lupoff became one of the first traders of bank loans, and in the mid-1990s, he conceived of "bankruptcy and default-triggered puts" for suppliers to troubled companies. His experience in distressed investing began in 1990 working with Marty Whitman of Third Avenue Funds. Since then, funds managed or co-managed by Mr. Lupoff have received GAIM's Top Performing Emerging Distressed Manager, MARHedge's Event-Driven Manager and an Institutional Investor nomination as Hedge Fund House of the Year.

Michael Marcus

Prelude Capital

Michael Marcus is Director of Manager Research for Prelude Capital, a New York-based multi-manager fund offering select managers capital allocations of $10-$50 million via a separately managed account. The compensation structure provides managers with an above average incentive fee in exchange for contributing a nominal portion of first loss risk capital. Mr. Marcus joined Prelude Capital in 2010. Previously, Mr. Marcus was a Vice President and Senior Analyst in Deutsche Bank Asset Management’s ARS Fund of Funds group. Prior to that, he was a Portfolio Manager for Pergament Advisors, a New York-based multi-family office. While at Pergament, Mr. Marcus managed both the fund of hedge funds portfolio as well as the firm’s fixed income separately managed accounts. Mr. Marcus began his career at Bear Stearns. He earned his B.S.B.A. from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Mark McGoldrick

Alaris Trading Partners, LLC

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.

Christine McGrath Kamrass

Jefferies & Co

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.

Kevin McPartland

TABB Group

Kevin McPartland is a Senior Analyst with TABB Group, a research and strategic advisory firm focused on capital markets. He has authored the following TABB Group reports and studies: “Equity Options 2008: Rising Out of Obscurity”; “Credit Default Swaps: The Risk of Inefficient Markets”; “OTC Derivatives Processing: Blazing a Trail to Automation”; “Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The New Low-Latency Messaging”; “Low-Latency Options Trading: Unraveling the True Meaning of Speed”; and Financial Services Data Centers: Power, Proximity and Profit.” From 2003 to 2007, he was a senior manager with Detica in their global financial markets division, where he was responsible for strategic and implementation projects across equities, derivatives and fixed-income asset classes for the international management consulting firm’s top-tier investment banking clients. He previously held business analyst and project management positions at JPMorgan Chase in New York from 1998 to 2003 in their equities and futures & options divisions, where he was involved in support, development and planning of electronic trading solutions. He earned his B.S. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Rachel Minard

Optima Fund Management

Ms. Rachel S.L. Minard was most recently Partner, Executive Managing Director with Optima Fund Management, opening and running the firm's San Francisco office. Her responsibilities included building and managing the global institutional business and raising assets for the firm across all channels globally. Ms. Minard was also a member of the Investment Policy Committee and Chairman's Committee.

Ms. Minard has 20 years of institutional investment experience including the past 10 years building fund of hedge fund firms, notably her roles as Partner and Director of Global Marketing for Corbin Capital Partners (a firm she renamed) and Director of Marketing at Cadogan Management. Before Cadogan, Rachel was Vice President and Consultant Advisor for J.P. Morgan Investment Management and served as Director of Business Development for Dakin Partners, opening and managing their New York office. Earlier, Ms. Minard served as Assistant to the Director of Marketing and Client Service for Pareto Partners. Named "Non-Profit Marketer of the Year" (FEMM), Honored Member, Cambridge's Who's Who Among Executives (2005-2010) and a featured speaker on CNBC and global industry conferences, Ms. Minard started her marketing career in 1991 after her marketing company was hired to build the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Ms. Minard holds a B.A. degree in Journalism with honors from Northeastern University with notable distinction as a Wesley W. Marple Distinguished Lecturer (2009) and Profiles in Leadership: Business Luminaries (2006-2011) by the university. A graduate of the AIMSE/Wharton Institute, Ms. Minard serves on the PAICR Advisory Board, The World Pension Forum and the Investment Management Institute (IMI). Ms. Minard also serves on the Executive Board and is a Founding Member of the Association of Women in Alternative Investing (AWAI) and sits on the Investment Sub-Committee of the Westover School Endowment. Ms. Minard is finishing her first book, Speaking in Thumbs: The Handbook of Empathy through XENIA MEDIA Publishing.

William G. Mulligan

HedgeOp Compliance, LLC

Bill Mulligan is the Managing Partner and CEO of HedgeOp Compliance, LLC, which has offices in New York and Boston. Founded in 2001, HedgeOp focuses exclusively on helping investment managers meet their compliance and operational challenges. HedgeOp provides pro-active support to firms cutting across all investment strategies and structures. Its clients have over $70 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding the firm in 2001, Mr. Mulligan was an associate in the Investment Management Group of Seward & Kissel LLP for almost six years. He received a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1995 and a B.A. from Boston University in 1991 and is certified as an Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional by National Regulatory Service's Center for Compliance Professionals. Mr. Mulligan currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Alternative Investment Compliance Association.

Michael Murphy

Rosecliff Capital

Michael P. Murphy is the founder and managing partner of Rosecliff Capital, a long/short equity fund based in New York City that launched in August, 2010. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Olympia Capital Markets Group, a wealth management, investment banking and research firm and a subsidiary of Olympia Asset Management, Ltd. In that capacity, Mr. Murphy oversees the day-to-day operations of the company. He also manages a diversified commercial real estate portfolio that includes several office buildings in the greater New York area. Mr. Murphy has more than 15 years experience in the securities industry and has been a broker-dealer working with institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Hofstra University.

Mitchell Nichter

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

Mitchell Nichter practices corporate and securities law with the international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, concentrating on hedge funds, offshore funds, mutual funds, closed-end funds, fund governance, and on the structuring, financing, formation and regulation (federal and state) of hedge funds and other financial services businesses. During his more than 20 years of practice in the hedge fund and investment management industry, Mr. Nichter’s clients have included U.S. and offshore investment and hedge funds, registered investment companies, independent mutual fund board members, investment advisers, broker-dealers, banks, trust companies and other types of financial institutions. Mr. Nichter is listed in the Chambers USA Guide to Leading Investment Funds Lawyers, the Chambers Global Guide to Leading Investment Funds Lawyers, and in The Legal 500 (United States) as a leading hedge fund and mutual fund lawyer.

Peter Niculescu

Capital Market Risk Advisors

Peter Niculescu is a partner and heads Fixed Income Advisory at Capital Market Risk Advisors, a risk management firm providing consulting and litigation support services to U.S. and international financial services companies and institutional investors. Mr. Niculescu specializes in portfolio strategy, return attribution, options-based strategies, risk analysis, asset valuation, and stress testing. His areas of expertise include options, structured and hedging products especially RMBS, CDOs, and CLOs and other derivatives including interest rate products and credit default swaps. Prior to joining CMRA, he was at Fannie Mae, where he ran the Capital Markets division, responsible for acquisition of securities and loans on balance sheet and for their hedging and funding. The balance sheet size ranged between $700 billion and $1 trillion during his time at the company. During the 1990s, Mr. Niculescu was at Goldman Sachs where he was a Managing Director responsible for running Mortgage Research and at various times the global fixed income strategy effort. Mr. Niculescu is a Director of Two Harbors Investment Corporation and is a member of the Advisory Board of Netezza Corporation. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1985.

Gregory Nowak

Pepper Hamilton LLP

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.

Robert Parauda

Lanx Management

Robert Parauda is Managing Director of Research & Risk Management at Lanx Management LLC. He oversees hedge fund manager research and risk management for the New York-based fund of funds. Prior to joining Lanx in 2009, Mr. Parauda spent 15 years at Deutsche Bank where he held several senior positions and was with the fund of hedge funds group since its launch in 1997. At Deutsche Bank, he was most recently the global head of long/short equity research and due diligence. He was also the portfolio manager for three long/short equity portfolios. Prior to joining the fund of hedge funds group, Mr. Parauda was a controller in the bank’s private banking division. Mr. Parauda earned his B.S. and MBA from Fordham University.

Jeffrey S. Pavlik

Pavlik Capital Management LLC

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).

Christian Picot

Odyssey Investment Management

Christian Mr. Picot has over 25 years of experience in the global investment fund industry and is the Chief Operating Officer of Odyssey Investment Management, a New York-based investment manager launched in 2010. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Picot was a Portfolio Manager at Alexandra Investment Management as well as Head of Research at the firm. Prior to joining Alexandra Investment Management, Mr. Picot was the Managing Director of Equity Brokerage and Derivatives for Credit Lyonnais Securities in New York, and subsequently Global Head of European Equity in London where he successfully initiated a hedge fund sales group to service arbitrage strategies. Prior to that, Mr. Picot worked at Paribas Corporation for over 11 years, where he managed all non-dollar equity products and covered large long/short equity, convertible and merger arbitrage hedge funds. At Baring Securities from 1986 to 1989, he was an analyst and worked in sales covering the European region. Mr. Picot began his career in 1983 as a global analyst in the consumer sector at Argus Research in New York.

Mark Alexander Price

Alprion Capital Management

Mark Alexander Price is Head of Business Controls for New York-based Alprion Capital Management, an investment management firm focused on the U.S. municipal bond market that launched a municipal-focused hedge fund in the second quarter of 2011. Mr. Price has nearly a decade of public finance experience. Prior to Alprion, he was a Vice President at Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., responsible for day]to]day banking coverage and providing financial product expertise for municipal clients. Before that, he structured and marketed municipal derivative products, leading the execution of over $3 billion of notional amount for issuers of municipal bonds at UBS. Mr. Price also served as Debt Manager of the city of Atlanta, overseeing the issuance of transactions ranging from general obligation, water and sewer, airport, and development authority credits. He is an alumnus of both the SEO Career Program and Toigo Foundation. Mr. Price received his undergraduate degree and MBA from Harvard University.

Tassos Recachinas

Sophis Investments LLC

Tassos D. Recachinas is the Founder and Managing Member of Sophis Investments LLC, an investment management firm specializing in multiple asset class, research-driven value investing. He also serves as the Portfolio Manager of the firm’s investment partnerships. As an activist investor, Mr. Recachinas has worked closely with numerous company boards and management teams and has helped plan, write and execute corporate strategy. Mr. Recachinas is a member of the Board of Directors of Hillwinds Ocean Energy, LLC, a private carbon capture and sequestration and algae-to-biofuels technology company in which Sophis is an investor. Mr. Recachinas recently served on the Board of Directors of The Allied Defense Group, a multinational defense and security company, as well as its Compensation Committee and Strategic Review Committee. Prior to forming Sophis, Mr. Recachinas was an Investment Analyst at Pirate Capital LLC, a $2 billion activist/event-driven hedge fund. Prior to joining Pirate Capital, Mr. Recachinas served as an Equity Research Associate at Raymond James & Associates, where he covered defense and technology equity securities. Mr. Recachinas graduated Summa Cum Laude and first in his class from the Aerospace Engineering program at George Washington University and is also a Pembroke Scholar, having studied engineering and economics at Oxford University in England.

Cathleen Rittereiser

Writer, Marketing Consultant

Cathleen M. Rittereiser informs and educates institutional investors as a writer, speaker and marketing consultant. Ms. Rittereiser is the co-author, with Larry Kochard, the Chief Investment Officer of Georgetown University, of the books "Foundation and Endowment Investing" (Wiley, 2008) and "Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice" (Wiley, 2010). An alternative investments marketing executive with over twenty years experience in financial services, Ms. Rittereiser has held positions with leading asset management, research and brokerage firms. Her hedge fund marketing experience includes stints in marketing and business development for Alternative Asset Managers and Symphony Asset Management. She began her career with Merrill Lynch. Ms. Rittereiser received a B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Michael Rothenberg

Moab Capital Partners

Michael M. Rothenberg is co-portfolio manager of Moab Partners, a New York-based event-driven fund formed in 2006. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Rothenberg was the senior investment professional at Xerion Capital Partners, LLC, a $500 million hedge fund where he was responsible for investing and trading a portfolio of distressed debt, bank debt and event driven equities. From 2002 to 2003, he was the distressed debt portfolio manager at Troy Capital Management, LLC, an $80 million hedge fund where he was responsible for investing and trading a $25 million portfolio of distressed debt and event driven equities. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Rothenberg was an investment analyst at Gracie Capital Partners, LLC an event driven and distressed debt hedge fund. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Rothenberg was an investment analyst at Perry Capital, LLC, an $11.5 billion hedge fund, where he focused on distressed debt, event driven equity, and private equity investments. Mr. Rothenberg met David Sackler during his tenure at Perry Capital in 1999, and together they now head Moab. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Rothenberg was an investment banking analyst at Peter J. Solomon Company, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rothenberg earned a B.S. in Economics in 1995 from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania majoring in finance.

John Saliba

Saliba Portfolio Management

John Saliba is Chief Executive Officer and Director of Trading Operations for Saliba Portfolio Management (SPM), a Chicago-based fund company that specializes in an equity options collar strategy. He also serves on the Board of SalibaCo, LLC, the manager of SPM. Mr. Saliba has over 20 years experience in the derivatives industry. He began his career in 1985 trading options as an independent market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). He also traded on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade for many years. In 1995, Mr. Saliba co-founded Saliba Partners, which is a Designated Primary Market Maker (DPM) on the CBOE. In 2001, Saliba Partners sold its DPM operation and Mr. Saliba went on to found and manage an off-floor trading operation in stocks, options and futures.

Marilyn Selby Okoshi

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

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).

Stephen Siderow

BlueMountain Capital Management

Stephen Siderow is president of BlueMountain Capital Management, a firm he co-founded in New York in 2003 with Andrew Feldstein. Today BlueMountain manages approximately $4 billion in assets, focusing on credit markets and equity derivatives through offices in New York and London. The firm’s comprehensive investment approach dynamically allocates capital to the best opportunities across the credit spectrum and pursues strategies that range from heavily fundamental to purely technical. BlueMountain takes both long and short positions in individual companies and instruments while maintaining low net directional exposure and low leverage. The firm’s portfolio construction is designed to limit credit market beta, correlation and downside risk while creating asymmetric payouts.

Before launching BlueMountain, Mr. Siderow was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Company. As an Associate Principal in McKinsey’s New York Office, he focused on the Financial Services industry, serving senior management executives and CEOs on a variety of issues in business strategy, organization and operations. He was also associated with McKinsey’s Professional Services and Marketing practices. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Siderow was a corporate attorney with Cleary Gottlieb in New York. He holds a J.D. Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School and was a Fulbright and Sheldon Scholar in Israel. He also holds a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Philosophy from Amherst College.

Daniel Solomon

Lyford Group International

Daniel Solomon is President and Chief Operating Officer of Lyford Group International Ltd. And oversees Lyford’s non-investment activities. He has 17 years of investment industry experience and joined Lyford Group International Ltd. in 2009. Mr. Solomon graduated Princeton University magna cum laude and joined Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income product specialist in 1992. After seven years on the Corporate bond and Municipal bond trading desks, he moved within Goldman Sachs to lead a Private Wealth Management team, advising ultra-high-net-worth families on strategic investment issues including asset allocation, portfolio construction and risk management. He also managed fixed-income and cash-management portfolios for a few key clients. Mr. Solomon left Goldman Sachs in 2003 to join Drake Management as a Director, holding senior roles in the Portfolio Management and Client Management Groups. Mr. Solomon earned his CFA charter in 1999 and has passed level 1 of the CAIA examination.

Janu Subramanian

Jai Guru Capital Management Inc.

Janu Subramanian is founder of Jai Guru Capital Management Inc., a financial services firm offering asset management services to institutions and high net worth individuals. He is currently the portfolio manager for their flagship global market neutral fund which aims to produce low double digit returns with very low volatility by trading the most liquid stocks from around the world. Previously he was the manager of the Quant team at Integral Development Corporation producing pricing models and risk management models to banks for their exotic interest rate and FX derivative products. Mr. Subramanian holds a doctorate in Operation Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi.

Roderick Wong

RTW Investments

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.

Michael Woodrow

Risk Talent Associates

Michael Woodrow is President and Founder of Risk Talent Associates, a risk talent recruiter. Prior to founding Risk Talent in 2001, Mr. Woodrow ran an IT search firm while completing his MBA at the University of Chicago. Under Mr. Woodrow’s direction, Risk Talent has completed over 150 retained searches in risk management and financial compliance for clients including Wells Fargo, Fidelity, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, The Federal Home Loan Banks, and others. In addition to his work with Risk Talent, Mr. Woodrow leads seminars on recruiting in the risk and compliance fields across the globe. Risk Talent has offices in Chicago, New York and London. Mr. Woodrow is a 1986 graduate of Georgetown University with ten years of corporate finance experience prior to beginning his career in executive search and recruiting.

Ezra Zask

Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC

Ezra Zask is Founder and President of Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC, which provides investment management services for hedge funds, funds of funds, family offices, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Functions include hedge fund risk management, including value-at-risk methodology; due diligence; and quantitative asset allocation; and portfolio construction. He is also Professor in the Practice of Finance in the Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Zask is frequently called upon as an expert witness in cases involving hedge funds, securities, and securities fraud. Mr. Zask has held a variety of positions in the banking, finance and hedge fund industry. From 1991-1998, he was Founder & President of Ezra Zask Associates, LLC, which managed all aspects of a CFTC-registered hedge fund/CTA with $200 million in assets under management using currency and interest rate arbitrage and trend following futures trading programs. He has also taught courses in finance at Yale University, Princeton University, Carnegie Melon University, Columbia University, Fordham University, Barnard College and Marymount University. Mr. Zask received his M.A. and M. Phil. in 1975 from Columbia University. He received a Columbia University President’s Fellowship; New York State Herbert Lehman Fellowship; and a National Science Foundation Thesis Grant.

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