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JANUARY 26TH
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We will be hosting a fund cram / review session. This event is oriented towards persons with Hedge funds or in Private Equity, that are looking to raise capital and improve their business development process. We will spend four hours reviewing documentation, approach, regulation, etc. This event is for people who presently run or are considering launching a Hedge Fund, Private Equity Fund or Real Estate Fund. To get through security, you must register.
The event starts at 12:30 p.m. and ends at 5:30 p.m. A reception will follow.
JEREMY BACH, BACH CAPITAL ADVISORS
Jeremy Bach, has been working in the Financial Services Field for close to 20 years. After beginning his career at regional CPA firms, Mr. Bach moved to the asset management field.
Most recently, Mr. Bach served as Vice President of Quantitative Sales at Markov Processes International. In this role Jeremy sold sophisticated software to institutional investors to help them evaluate, select and monitor their investment managers. In so doing, Jeremy worked very closely with his clients in helping them to both use the software tool and evaluate their managers.
Mr. Bach is a frequent speaker at industry conferences speaking on such topics as Hedge Fund Due Diligence, Style Analysis, Performance Measurement, and Hedge Fund of Funds.
RALPH DIFIORE, SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER, CHATSWORTH SECURITIES
Ralph Difiore, and has served as the Director of Retirement Funds for McDonnell Douglas Corporation and held similar positions at NCR Corporation and Owens-Illinois Inc. He was also a founding partner of a major international asset manager, an investment banker with James Capel Inc. and responsible for international marketing at Commodities Corporation. He has substantial experience in structuring and marketing a wide variety of sophisticated investment management products including equities, fixed income, real estate, and managed futures. Mr. DiFiore is a founding principal of Chatsworth Capital Corporation and a founding member of Chatsworth Securities LLC. He holds a BBA and an MA from Pace University.
PATRICK MCCURDY, VICE PRESIDENT HEAD OF CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, MERLIN SECURITIES
Patrick McCurdy has over seven years of experience in the hedge fund industry.
He began his career at Morgan Stanley where he worked in their Prime Brokerage Department. As a member of Morgan Stanley�s Capital Introductions team, Patrick managed relationships for more than 150 managers and investors and developed a proprietary network of global institutions. He was responsible for assisting hedge fund managers develop their marketing strategies and raise capital from institutional investors; fund of funds, family offices, endowments, pensions and foundations. At Merlin, Patrick is the Head of Capital Development and manages the firm�s investor relationships and consults managers on their capital raising mandates. Patrick holds a B.A. in economics from Williams College.
LAURI MARTIN, SENIOR PARTNER PRISM ADVISORS
Lauri Martin is owner of PRISM Advisors, a US based hedge fund due diligence advisory company. Lauri has 14 years of operational due diligence experience focused on hedge funds and financial institutions. She has performed over 1200 extensive hedge fund evaluations and her experience encompasses a wide range of asset classes at managers around the world.
Prior to forming PRISM in 2009, Lauri worked in the fund of funds and private banking arena where she managed the development of Swiss bank Union Bancaire Privee�s structural due diligence process. At UBP, she managed their global due diligence team focused on their hedge fund business, and was most recently their Deputy Head of Structural Risk.
Prior to UBP, Lauri worked for the CFO of JP Morgan�s investment management business. Prior to JP Morgan, she started her career at Ernst & Young, focused on capital markets and operational risk consulting for banks across the United States.
Lauri has significant experience identifying operational flags and patterns within asset management companies, and has spoken at industry conferences globally on the topic of operational risk.
THOMAS WALEK FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF WALEK & ASSOCIATES.
Tom directs strategy and programming for the firm's clients, working closely with senior executives to develop creative, business-driven communications strategies that achieve bottom line results. He brings market knowledge, experience and insight to help clients articulate core messages, manage brands, build visibility, prepare spokespersons, launch new products, and prepare for and manage crisis.
Tom is a member of the National Press Club, and the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI). He serves on the marketing and PR Committee of the Council Board Alternative Asset Management Association and Chaired The Sub-Committee that produced the AIMA guide to Media Relations for The Hedge Fund Industry. He is a featured speaker in the US and abroad for Euromoney, Futures Industry Association; MAR Hedge, Institute for International Research, Financial Research Associates, Infovest 21, Marcus Events and the University of Colorado Graduate School of Integrated Marketing Communications.
A native of Pennsylvania, he studied at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago; holds a BA cum laude in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder; and studied as an undergraduate at the University of Lancaster, UK.
Walek & Associates is one of the largest and fastest-growing independent financial and corporate public relations firms. Services include brand development and management, articulating core messages, building visibility, media relations, media events, international media expertise, speaking platforms, product launches, communicating complex financial topics to the marketplace, strong editorial resources, spokesperson preparation, in�depth and trend media research, and crisis preparation and management.
LAUREN COLONNA, - OVIS CREATIVE
Ovis Creative is a full service strategic marketing and communications firm dedicated to the unique needs of the finance and alternative asset management space.
The firm is an industry leader in the development of marketing solutions for emerging and existing fund managers. We are information architects who understand complex investment strategies and use our expertise to simplify, clarify and differentiate a product to investors.
SABRINA GIBBS, - LUNA VC
Sabrina Gibbs is a business development professional with over 15 years experience in financial services. She has worked for both asset managers and broker/dealers. She has developed comprehensive marketing programs, training intitiatives and strategic sales plans for such firms as Lazard and Morgan Stanley. She is the founder of Luna Ventures and a graduate of Columbia University.
KATHY KOHLER, - LUNA VC
Kathy is a strategic development executive with a successful 20 year career in wide-ranging, high-profile corporate and consulting positions. Kathys has focused primarily in the financial services arena where she has extensive market knowledge and competency in mergers and acquisitions/integration, growth strategy, global marketing, corporate reputation and brand. As a management consultant, Kathy has had the pleasure to work with many of the worlds largest companies, including Chase, American Express, Verizon and BlueCross BlueShield.
Kathy started as a commodities trader with a London company and continued her career in positions where she was responsible for the planning, development and distribution of financial products to three-tier networks.
She earned her BA from Iona College and attended London School of Economics Certificate Program. She has held all NASD/FINRA licenses and ----currently holds a Series 7.
CAROL DEGENER, PEPPER HAMILTON
Carol M. Degener is of counsel in the New York office of Pepper Hamilton LLP.
Ms. Degener has a broad corporate and corporate finance practice that includes the establishment and operation of hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds, domestically and offshore. She represents investment management companies and other clients in matters arising under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. She has broad experience with the structuring of management companies and general partners, regulatory compliance, solicitation agreements and disclosure regarding performance.
Representative transactions in which Ms. Degener has been involved include:
* the formation of a TALF fund
* the formation of a distressed mortgage hedge fund
* the U.S. private placement of a public commercial real estate company in conjunction with a London Stock Exchange public offering
* a Legacy Securities Public-Private Investment Fund Application
* the formation of a master feeder hybrid private equity/hedge fund complex
* the formation of a venture capital fund of funds
* the formation of a distressed asset backed security private equity fund.
Education
B.A. 1983, magna cum laude, Barnard College, Columbia University; Phi Beta Kappa
M.I.A. 1984 Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
J.D. 1987 Harvard Law School
Business Development Professional
LAWRENCE GELBURD, LECTURER, THE WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Lawrence is a regular contributor to MSNBC’s show “Your Business” and was featured in Bloomberg television’s “How to Develop a Business Plan.” He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Money, Inc, Entrepreneur, and numerous other publications.
He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and an MBA from Wharton
Rodney Gibson, Vice President, Ambrose Group
Since 1997, Ambrose Employer Group, LLC has been providing outsourced human resources, payroll, and employee benefits administration services to financial service, business service and technology companies across the country
Rodney Gibson is a fund professional at Ambrose Group focusing Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds. Through outsourcing HR aspects, Ambrose Group allows funds to focus on their core competence. Rodney holds and MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
David Bullock, President, Arque Advisors
David Bullock is president of Arque Advisors. He has nearly 30 years of financial services experience as consultant, business manager and investment manager.
For the last 10 years he has consulted and provided marketing and sales support to asset management firms and family offices on investment strategy and on the creation and distribution of new funds and investment products.
He created and manages Arque Advisors, LLC an SEC registered investment advsioryt firm that has an open architecture platform of third party money managers and their investment programs many of which are boutique and early stage. Arque Advisors also manages proprietary funds including an early stage hedge fund of funds based upon the platform of managers, and a tax lien investment strategy. Our experience while broadly based in all asset classes is strongest in alternative assets.
He has an MBA from The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and a degree from Princeton University
David Bergerson, President, Orion Capital Advisors
David brings a broad range of finance and marketing experience in private equity, equity research sales, risk management and trading. David began his career with Merrill Lynch covering non-dollar funding for the global swaps group following which he traded futures on the MidAmerica Commodities Exchange in the government and grains pits. During his nearly ten years at CIBC, David moved from derivative products to market risk management covering equities, commodities and high yield. In 2005, he became Executive Director and in 2006 joined CIBC World Markets� equity research sales team. Within the product specialist group, David led coverage of industrials and financials for CIBC�s institutional clients. In 2008, David joined New York based Sixpoint Partners as Vice President responsible for origination, due diligence and distribution of both private equity fund and direct private placement products. Institutional coverage included corporates, foundations, family offices and endowments. David received an M.B.A. from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. from Colgate University.
Orion Capital Advisors, LLC (�OCA�) is a consultancy and third party placement firm for private equity and other alternative investments. OCA has expertise in representing private equity managers of buyout and growth strategies in various sectors specializing in clean energy and digital media and presents funds to an extensive, diverse and global set of qualified investors. Securities offered through Fairview Securities, Inc. Member, FINRA/SIPC.
Greg Nowak, Partner, Pepper Hamilton Law Firm
Gregory J. Nowak is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP, where he concentrates his practice in securities law, particularly in representing investment management companies and other clients on matters arising under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the related Investment Advisers Act of 1940. He also represents broker-dealers and CTA�s and CPO�s with respect to matters under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act.
In addition, Mr. Nowak represents many hedge funds and other alternative investment funds in fund formation, investment and compliance matters, including compliance audits and preparation work. Mr. Nowak has represented a broad range of investment funds, from funds that use the traditional broad investment charters and invest globally in virtually any financial asset that can be readily traded, to specialty niche funds with narrowly defined investment strategies that invest in distressed debt and other illiquid securities. He also represents fund managers with products spanning both the private equity and hedge fund markets.
Representative securities engagements include:
* representing a client in its creation of a fund under the Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) of the New York Federal Reserve Bank
* representing the collateral manager in the formation of over $11 billion in CDO and CLO transactions
* serving as general counsel to the fund manager of a $1 billion long-short hedge fund
* advising an investment management group on a $600 million all-synthetic collateral-debt offering
* advising an investment management group on a $500 million mezzanine asset-backed securities deal
* providing advice and counsel to the sponsor/manager of a $450 million fund of funds
* serving as general outside counsel to a fund manager regarding a hedge fund to invest in Israeli equities for sale to Israeli, European and U.S. investors
* advising on SEC compliance for an investment manager and broker-dealer client
* conducting compliance audits and company-wide compliance programs for client professionals.
Mr. Nowak joined Pepper from Gartmore Global Investments, Inc., an asset management subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Nowak was Gartmore�s executive vice president for mergers and acquisitions, responsible for all aspects of acquisitions of investment advisory firms. He also was instrumental in developing and managing Gartmore�s hedge fund business, and in developing a compliance module that allows Gartmore to manage alternative assets such as hedge funds along with traditional investment products. Before joining Gartmore, Mr. Nowak was in private practice as a partner in another large, center city Philadelphia law firm.
Education
B.A. 1981, maxima cum laude, LaSalle College
J.D. 1984, Cornell Law School
LL.M. 1988 New York University School of Law
DATE:
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
TIME:
* 12:30 PM to 5:30 PM
* Lunch, administrative preceding presentations, presentations, round table, reception
VENUE:
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* Pepper Hamilton
* 3000 Two Logan Sq
* Eighteenth and Arch Streets
* Philadelphia, PA 19103
* (215) 981-4000
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