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Stuart Feldman
Head of Capital Introduction
Fidelity Prime Services
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Stuart Feldman recently joined Fidelity Investments to lead their Capital Introduction efforts. Prior to that he was Head of East Coast Capital Introductions for Jefferies & Company.
Mr. Feldman co-founded two healthcare hedge funds where he was Chief Operating Officer. His duties included Trading, Risk Management and Marketing. Over the past ten years, Mr. Feldman has successfully raised over assets from HNW individuals, Family Offices, Fund of Funds, Pensions and Endowments.
His career started on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with a specialist firm and later moved upstairs to trade proprietarily at U.S. Clearing. Mr. Feldman holds a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University where he majored in Economics. He completed a Certificate in Risk Management at NYU and holds his Series 7, 63 & 55. |
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Peter Cary
Managing Director
SkyBridge Capital
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| Peter Cary is Managing Director of SkyBridge Direct, the institutional investor business for New York-based SkyBridge Capital. He joined SkyBridge last year after leading the successful restructuring of the New York State Common Retirement Fund’s $4 billion hedge fund portfolio. Under his direction, the portfolio was rebuilt amidst the market crisis of 2008. The pension fund was recognized by Institutional Investor as Large Public Pension Plan Investor of the Year in 2010 for its ability to build and manage a hedge fund portfolio and for long-term performance. Prior to joining the New York State Common Retirement Fund, Mr. Cary served in the institutional fixed income department at Bear Stearns. Mr. Cary is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. He holds an MBA in finance from the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for the U.S. Military Academy endowment. |
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Jeff Peskind
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Phoenix Investment Advisors
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| Prior to joining Lyxor in 2010, Robert Picard was Senior Advisor to Navigant Consulting’s Financial Institutions Restructuring Solutions Team (FIRST) and active in advising emerging hedge fund managers. Earlier, he was Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research at Optima Fund Management overseeing 6.5 Billion of hedge fund investments. Prior to joining Optima, Mr. Picard was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group. At Carlyle, Mr. Picard built and managed the process and portfolio of an innovative hedge fund business that provided an institutional platform for Institutions investing in alternative investments. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Picard was Managing Director at RBC Capital Risk Advisors, working with the Global Equity Derivatives Group of Royal Bank of Canada. The Group actively managed more than US $10 billion of Royal Bank's proprietary assets through arbitrage trading, hedge fund investments and structured private equity investments. Previously Mr. Picard was European Manager, Structured Equity Products for RBC Dominion Securities Inc. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Picard worked as European Product Manager, Global Equity Derivatives for Kidder, Peabody in Europe and earlier worked for Bank Nomura (Suisse) S.A. trading and selling multicurrency, Japanese and South-East Asian convertible and warrant products. Mr. Picard graduated from College de Geneve and attended the University of Geneva School of Law. Mr. Picard speaks English, French and German. Mr. Picard was recently Chairman of the 2007 GAIM Fund of Funds conference in New York. |
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Sondra Vitols
Alternative Investment Analyst
Clark University
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| Sondra Vitals is an alternative investment analyst for the endowment of Clark University in Worcester, Mass. She also teaches a graduate course on hedge funds, alternative investments and fixed income derivatives at the business school. Previously, Dr. Vitols has held various roles as a derivatives structurer, marketer, consultant and faculty member. She was a founding partner for Tachyon, an Asian-based hedge fund. She has also held senior positions at D.E. Shaw & Co., Credit Suisse, and McKinsey & Co. Her business work experience has spanned New York, Hong Kong and London. Dr. Vitols held faculty and staff positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Los Alamos National Laboratories. As an academic physicist, she received numerous grants and awards and published over 15 papers. She is actively involved with 100 Women in Hedge Funds and the Asian University for Women. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Princeton University and a B.A. in Chemistry & Philosophy (Honors) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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