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Chris Clair
Managing Editor
HedgeWorld
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Chris Clair is the Managing Editor of HedgeWorld. He has spent the past eleven years covering the hedge fund industry, first as a reporter for Crain's Pensions & Investments and for the past eight years at HedgeWorld. Mr. Clair has been a journalist for the past 18 years, working at weekly and daily newspapers in his home state of Oregon and in Illinois.
Mr. Clair holds a BA degree in journalism from the University of Portland in Oregon. |
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Charles Gradante
Managing Principal
Hennessee Group
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| Charles Gradante is a managing principal with the Hennessee Group LLC, an advisory that provides research and guidance on hedge funds. He focuses on research, market analysis, risk management and portfolio design. Mr. Gradante joined the Hennessee Hedge Fund Advisory Group in 1995 as co-director while it was a division of Weiss, Peck & Greer. He co-founded the Hennessee Group LLC in 1997 with E. Lee Hennessee. Mr. Gradante was previously President and CEO of Union Chelsea National Bank. At Drexel Burnham Lambert, he was responsible for Trading Administration and chaired the Risk Management Committee. Previously, he held the position of Group Marketing Manager at Citibank. Mr. Gradante entered the financial industry in 1971 through John Diebold Venture Capital Corp. Early in his career, Mr. Gradante worked on the lunar module and space shuttle programs as an engineer. Mr. Gradante has co-hosted and made guest appearances on Bloomberg, CNN and CNBC and appears monthly on Bloomberg. Additionally, Mr. Gradante sits on the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) Credit Risk Management Committee. Subsequent to the Long-Term Capital hedge fund crisis in August of 1998, Mr. Gradante was requested by Congress to provide expert testimony at the Congressional hearings on hedge funds. He participated in an SEC Roundtable on hedge fund regulation and a CFTC Roundtable on CPO and Commodity Pool Industry Issues. |
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Ross Margolies
Founder
Stelliam Investment Management
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| Ross Margolies is the founder and portfolio manager of Stelliam Investment Management, where he manages both a long-short equity hedge fund and long equity fund. In 2009, Stelliam was named Absolute Return’s U.S. Equity Fund of the Year. Previous to founding Stelliam, Mr. Margolies had also been a Barron's Top 100 manager for 6 consecutive years, Lipper 5 Year Award winner for 2 years and Morningstar 5 star manager. Prior to founding Stelliam, Mr. Margolies served as Chief Investment Officer and CEO of Saranac Capital Management, LP which was spun-out of the Citigroup Alternative Investments (“CAI”) unit of Citigroup. At Citigroup he was Group Managing Director and the Head of the Salomon Brothers Hedge Fund Team for CAI as well as a Managing Director of Salomon Brothers Asset Management. Mr. Margolies managed the Saranac/CAI/Salomon team since 1998 and was also the manager of several long funds including the Salomon Brothers Capital Fund. Mr. Margolies joined Salomon Brothers in 1992. Prior to joining Salomon Brothers he worked for Lehman Brothers as a Senior Vice President and high yield bond analyst, and for Prudential Capital Corp. as a senior credit analyst. Mr. Margolies received a B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. |
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Dennis Shibiko
Executive Director
J.P. Morgan
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| Dennis Shibiko is an Executive Director of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and a senior member of the J.P. Morgan Private Bank’s Alternative Investments Group, which oversees nearly $45 billion in assets across hedge funds, private equity, and real estate. He is responsible for quantitative, macro and multi-strategy hedge fund due diligence and manager selection. Mr. Shibiko joined J.P. Morgan Private Bank in 1999 as a member of the strategy team. He was responsible for advising clients on equity portfolios and recommending tactical allocation changes for multi-asset class portfolios. In 2002, he joined a newly formed Portfolio Construction team to develop a comprehensive global portfolio construction framework which incorporated strategic and tactical asset allocation, manager selection, use of derivatives and alternative investments. Mr. Shibiko has an MBA from Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Science in Management and Information Systems from Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia. |
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Inna White
Chief Investment Officer
Althea Group
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| Inna R. White is the founder and chief investment officer of Althea Group, a fund of hedge funds dedicated to fixed income strategies. Althea invests in mid-size hedge fund managers within corporate and sovereign credit, fixed income arbitrage and global macro strategies (mainly non-equity based). Prior to founding Althea Group, Ms. White was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in the Alternative Portfolio Solutions (“APS”) Group focusing on structured hedge funds and fund of funds linked products. She started and built the APS Group for Lehman Brothers North America. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Ms. White spent 9 years at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust in a variety of structured derivatives roles. She is a member of the CFA Institute, NYSSA, the NASP-NY Legislative Committee, the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Philanthropy Committee, and the Board of Directors of Wingspan Arts. Ms. White received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance from the Stern School of Business. |
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