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| OCTOBER 26, 2011, THE METROPOLITAN CLUB, NYC |
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Emerging Manager Showcase F
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Eric P. Billings
Co- Founder and Managing Partner
Billings Capital Management
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| Eric P. Billings is Managing Partner, Co-Founder, and Co-Portfolio Manager of Billings Capital Management (BCM), which is based in Arlington, Va. His responsibilities include portfolio management, fundamental analysis and all equity trading activities. BCM has $40 million in assets under management and is a value investor, employing a long term, multi-asset class strategy that invests in equity, credit and equity derivatives using a bottom-up approach and with a net long bias. Prior to starting the firm in 2008, Mr. Billings spent three years at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., most recently as an Associate Vice President, Institutional Brokerage. Mr. Billings received a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University in 2004 and his MBA from Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management in 2005. He is the son of BCM Senior Managing Partner Eric F. Billings. |
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Anuraag Shah
Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager
Tusker Capital
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| Anuraag Shah is Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager of Chicago-based Tusker Capital, which he founded in 2010 and which has more than $65 million under management. The Tusker Investment Fund makes global long-short investments in commodities and commodity companies based on structural and cyclical dislocations.
Prior to Tusker, Mr. Shah managed a $100 million portfolio as part of the $2 billion multi-strategy Atlas Global Fund at Balyasny Asset Management. From 2003-2007, he worked at Louis Dreyfus Commodities as a Global Proprietary Trader in their Macro Group in London. From 2000-2003, he was a Derivatives Trader in European equity markets at Morgan Stanley, where he managed an options volatility portfolio. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1995, starting in London in Investment Research before moving to Goldman’s Fixed Income Principal Investing Group in New York, where he invested Goldman’s capital in U.S. distressed assets, including both equity and debt.
Mr. Shah holds both a bachelors and masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics, and an MBA from INSEAD. |
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Philip Weingord
Seer Capital
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| Philip Weingord is the Managing Principal and CEO of Seer Capital Management. Seer, based in New York City, focuses on securitized products and manages approximately $425 million. Seer’s flagship hedge fund, Seer Capital Partners, launched in May 2009 and has assets of approximately $202 million. Mr. Weingord was previously with Deutsche Bank for 8 years, most recently as Head of Global Markets Americas. His responsibilities included the oversight for all Fixed Income and Derivatives business in the U.S. and Canada, including Interest Rate and Credit Trading, Credit and OTC Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Securitized Products, Mortgages, Institutional Sales and Research. Prior to this appointment in March 2004, Mr. Weingord was Head of Global Securitized Products, which included Asset-Backed Securities, CDOs and Mortgage-Backed Securities. He was on the Board of Directors of Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. since 2004 and a member of the Deutsche Bank Global Markets Executive Committee since 2001. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in March 2000, Mr. Weingord was Co-Head of ABS at Credit Suisse First Boston where he worked since 1986. From 1984 to 1986 he worked as a computer systems consultant for American Management Systems. Mr. Weingord holds a B.S. in Computer Science from SUNY-Albany. |
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Chris Weldon
Managing Partner
Prospect Hill Capital Management
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| Chris Weldon is Managing Partner and Founder of Prospect Hill Capital Management, which operates an event-driven, multi-asset-class investment strategy. The firm has under $20 million in assets under management and is located in Washington, D.C. Mr. Weldon has 11 years of experience investing and trading in stressed and distressed high yield, convertibles and bank loans. In 2007, he started and managed the non-control distressed team for HG Capital’s $500 million Bayside Fund I, with 20% allocated to Mr. Weldon’s group. Prior to that, he was with CRT Capital Group from 2004-2007, where he was responsible for the convertible and distressed high yield trading operation. From 2000-2004, Mr. Weldon was at Lehman brothers, where he traded a distressed convertible and high yield portfolio. He began his career in finance as a high yield analyst and trader at Wells Fargo in 1999. Mr. Weldon spent five years as an industrial engineer at Texas Instruments. He holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a BS from Michigan State University. |
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