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| OCTOBER 26, 2011, THE METROPOLITAN CLUB, NYC |
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Emerging Manager Showcase C
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Olga Chernova
Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Sancus Capital Management
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| Olga Chernova is a Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Sancus Capital Management, a long-short credit fund based in New York with $172 million under management. Sancus specializes in the liquid spectrum of the North American and European credit markets. The investment team is a lift-out from JP Morgan Proprietary Trading and has been involved in credit index and derivative trading since 1999. Ms. Chernova has been involved in the credit derivatives market since its inception. Prior to co-founding Sancus, she was a Managing Director at JP Morgan, serving as Head of North American Credit and Structured Credit Globally for the Proprietary Positioning Business from July 2007 to January 2009. Previously, she served as Managing Director and Head of Correlation and Index Trading at Dillon Read Capital Management LLC, and prior to that, Head of U.S. Credit Correlation at Goldman Sachs. Ms. Chernova received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2000 and a BS in Finance from Northwestern College in 1996. |
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Charles Najda
Co-Founder and Director
Monument Street Capital Management
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| Charles Najda is Co-Founder and Director of Monument Street Capital Management, which runs a systematic macro strategy targeting absolute returns during all stages of the macroeconomic cycle. Launched in December 2010, the firm’s strategy uses a single quantitative investment approach to trade a defined set of instruments across many major asset classes including equities, treasuries, metals, and commodities. As Director, Mr. Najda overseas Monument Street’s investment management and risk management processes. Based outside Boston, the firm has less than $1 million in assets under management. Prior to Monument Street, he was Vice President of Primena Corporation and led the development of firm’s financial analysis and attribution software, featuring patented data modeling capabilities. Targeting the alternative asset space, the technology he developed delivered advanced risk and performance analytics for complex datasets. Mr. Najda graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics with Honors. He is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor and member of the National Futures Association. Mr. Najda is a Financial Risk Manager, certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. |
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Danilo Santiago
Founding Partner
Rational Asset Management
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| Danilo Santiago is a founding partner of Rational Asset Management, a long-short hedge fund with $50 million in assets which he co-manages with Cláudio Skilnik. Fund operations started in April 2008, focusing on publicly traded, liquid U.S. equities. Rational has also formed a partnership with Turim Investimentos, one of the biggest multi-family offices in Brazil. Before founding Rational, Mr. Santiago worked for three years on a multi-billion dollar, fundamental-focused hedge fund in New York City. Prior to that Mr. Santiago spent six years at McKinsey & Co, the majority of which at the Corporate Finance Practice, also in New York City. Mr. Santiago holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (class of 1994). |
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William A. Ullman
Managing Director
Harbor Drive Asset Management
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| William A. Ullman is Managing Director of Harbor Drive Asset Management of Stamford, Conn., and Co-Manager of the Harbor Drive Fund, which has $20 million in assets under management. The fund , which launched in 2007 and began marketing to outside investors in May, employs an opportunistic event driven approach with a focus on distressed credit, high yield bonds, busted converts, relative value arbitrage and long/short equity.
Prior to joining Harbor Drive Fund in 2006, Mr. Ullman founded Right Wall Capital Fund, LP, a limited partnership focused on investing in the financial services sector; initial strategic funding came from Bear Stearns. In 2001, he became head of business development for Bear Stearns’ Global Clearing Services Department, managing two groups focused on developing and growing the firm’s clearing and prime brokerage franchise and managing the department’s top 120 client relationships. . In 1997, Mr. Ullman joined Bear Stearns’ Financial Institutions Group as a Managing Director and was promoted to Senior Managing Director in 1999. In that role, he managed the group’s corporate finance practice for asset managers, broker dealers and “e-finance” companies. He began his career in 1989 as an associate in the Financial Institutions Group in Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking Department, where he became a Director in 1997, spending four years based in New York and three years in London. Mr. Ullman graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1985 and received his MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management in 1989. |
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