Joe Childrey is founder and CIO of Probabilities Fund Management, LLC, a California-based registered investment advisor. The firm provides investment management for the Probabilities Fund, LP, a hedge fund, and for annuity owners as a Third Party Investment Advisor. Prior to founding his firm in 2007, Mr. Childrey served as a consultant to Stone & Youngberg, a California-based public finance and fixed-income securities firm. Before that he was senior vice president and managing director of Private Brokerage Asset Management at Wells Fargo Investments. Earlier, Mr. Childrey served as a senior vice president at A.G. Edwards and was branch manager of the La Jolla, California branch, one of the firm’s most prestigious. He began his career as an investment executive at PaineWebber. As an inventor, Mr. Childrey has a patented, award winning consumer electronics product on the market being sold worldwide.

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Francis Chimenti’s clients are comprised of high net worth individuals and families, business owners and corporate executives. Working with each client, he employs professional money management and, where appropriate, other investment strategies to address their needs. He has spent more than 15 years working as a Financial Advisor in a variety of leading institutions. From 2000 until he joined Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., he worked as a Portfolio Manager, in Smith Barney’s Private Client Group.

Mr. Chimenti's earned the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation from the Certified Financial Planning Board of Standards, Inc.

Mr. Chimenti is the proud father of 3 boys, Franco, Bruno and Enzo and is active in a variety of civic organizations. Among them are the Special Olympics of New York; the Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York; the National Council of Nonprofit Associations; the New York Law Enforcement Foundation; the New York First Responders Associations and Over 40 Females, an organization designed to help mature women achieve financial security.

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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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