The recent economic turmoil has created unprecedented investment opportunities — and dangers — for hedge funds. Navigating the financial terrain has never been more daunting; here are 31 professionals who are doing it with aplomb. The editors of Institutional Investor selected these Hedge Fund Rising Stars based on extensive research and reporting, beginning with a call for nominations sent out broadly to the hedge fund industry earlier this spring.
Institutional Investor’s Hedge Fund Rising Stars include fund managers, business executives, consultants, investors and a smattering of prime brokers. Among them are individuals who have excelled on Wall Street and are now launching their own hedge fund firms, as well as those who have worked at some of the industry’s best-known hedge funds and are now launching their own ventures.
Marc Andersen
co-Managing Member
Axial Capital Management
Eliav Assouline
Managing Member
Axial Capital Management
Timothy Babich
Managing Partner, CEO
Fortelus Capital Management
Julien Balkany
Managing Member, CIO
Nanes Balkany Partners
Keith Black
Associate, Opportunistic Strategies Group
Ennis Knupp & Associates
Jason Bonanca
Head of Strategy and Research, Partner
MKP Capital Management
Joshua Berkowitz
CEO, CIO
Woodbine Capital Advisors
Todd Builione
Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Highbridge Capital Management
Scott Carter
Head of Sales and Capital Introduction, North America, Co-Head Hedge Fund Consulting, Global Prime Finance
Deutsche Bank
Daniel Celeghin
Partner
Casey, Quirk & Associates
Neil Chriss
Managing Principal, CIO
Hutchin Hill Capital
Patrick Degorce
CIO
Thélème Partners
Matthew DesChamps
Chief Operating Officer
Kepos Capital
Stuart Feldman
Head of East Coast Capital Introductions, Prime Brokerage
Jefferies & Company
Matthew Grossman
CIO, CEO
Plural Investments
Kevin Lenaghan
Strategy Head , Multi-Strategy and Arbitrage Hedge Funds
Cliffwater
Robert Mazurek
Investment Officer, Absolute Return
New York State Common Retirement Fund
Youlia Miteva
Managing Member
Proxima Capital Management
Jason Mudrick
Chief Investment Officer
Mudrick Capital Management
Anita Nassar
Managing Director, Co-Head of International Marketing
Citadel Investment Group
Ralph Nacey
Principal
WestSpring Advisors
John Novogratz
Senior Managing Director
Millennium Management
Edward O’Reilly
Managing Director, Head of Marketing and Sales for the Americas
Capula Investment Management
Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux
Founder, CIO
Ajna Partners
Arvind Raghunathan
CEO
Roc Capital Management
Tomer Seifan
Head of Prime Brokerage Structured Products and Funding Desk
BNP Paribas
Mal Serure
Co-Managing Member, Co-Portfolio Manager
Arrow Capital Management
Daniel Sundheim
Portfolio Manager
Viking Global Investors
Peter Tarrant
Managing Director, Head of Business Development and Capital Introduction
BTIG
James Treanor
Senior Investment Officer, Private Equity and Strategic Investments
Florida State Board of Administration
Boaz Weinstein
Founder, CIO
Saba Capital Management
The Rising Stars will be honored at Institutional Investor’s 8th annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards, held at the Mandarin Oriental on June 21, 2010. At the dinner Tiger Management Corp. founder and chairman Julian Robertson Jr. will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his amazing hedge fund career, spanning more then 30 years. Orin Kramer , chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council, will be presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award for his work helping to advise New Jersey’s state pension system and encouraging public pension funds to invest in alternatives.
