Diane Alfano is a Member of the Board of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. When the appointment was announced in 2000, Ms. Alfano became the first woman to join the Board of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. In addition, she is a Member of the Board of Institutional Investor, Inc. and also served as a Member of the Board of Information Management Network from the time of that company’s acquisition in 2004 until February 2007. She is Managing Director of Institutional Investor Conferences and runs the division’s membership and sponsored conferences businesses. In addition, since Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC acquired Metal Bulletin Plc in October 2006, Ms. Alfano has managed the MARHedge business. As Managing Director, Ms. Alfano oversees more than 90 employees in New York, London, and Hong Kong with responsibility for every aspect of the business, including sales and editorial content as well as the marketing, client services, and logistics functions. Since 1987, she has supervised new product development for the division, which conducts business in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East with annual revenues of more than $40 million. Her division is the largest and most profitable business group within Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. Prior to joining Institutional Investor in 1984, Ms. Alfano was a Sales Account Executive with the Burroughs Corporation from 1979 to 1983. An alumna of the Loomis-Chaffee School, she graduated from Tufts University in 1978 with a B.A. degree in French and Political Science. From 1976-1977, Ms. Alfano studied at La Sorbonne and the Institut d’Etudes des Sciences Politiques.

Lori Crosley, Principal, is a consultant in the Custom Project Group and focuses on providing strategic marketing counsel to the firm's investment management clients. Ms. Crosley has extensive experience in financial services, including in capital markets, corporate finance, retail/high-net worth banking, and both buy- and sell-side investment management. Previously, Ms. Crosley served as an adviser in the Private Client Group at CSFB (formerly DLJ), prior to joining Ennis Knupp and Associates where she served as a lead investment consultant and member of the research team for Transitions, Indexing, and Custody, as well as on the advisory council for Alternative Investments. Ms. Crosley holds a BS degree in economics and an MBA in finance and marketing from Northwestern University.

Cathy Iberg is currently Managing Director of Marketable Alternative Investments and Deputy CIO for The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO). UTIMCO is a Texas non-profit corporation engaged exclusively to provide investment management services to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System. Prior to assuming her current position with UTIMCO, Ms. Iberg has served in various senior management positions with the organization including interim appointments as Chief Executive Officer. Her employment with the organization dates back to April of 1991 when she joined the U.T. System Office of Asset Management, the predecessor to UTIMCO. Previous to joining U.T. System, Ms. Iberg practiced in the area of public accounting for 15 years. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and is a CPA.

Erinch R. Ozada is the Chief Investment Officer and CEO of Archery Capital, which he founded in 1996. Mr. Ozada has over 22 years of investment and financial experience, having worked in virtually every aspect of today’s modern capital markets, including advising family groups and institutional clients on asset allocation, portfolio construction, and risk management. Currently, in his role as Chief Investment Officer, Mr. Ozada is responsible for managing the overall tactical exposure and manager selection process for the hedge fund of funds managed by Archery Capital, each of which is an alpha-strategic fund focused on investing in seasoned emerging long/short managers with solid track records. Prior to founding Archery Capital in 1996, Mr. Ozada was a Vice President in the Private Wealth Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, which he joined in 1984. At Goldman, he advised clients on asset allocation and portfolio management. He managed pools of assets (approximating $1 billion) for high net worth individuals, family offices and institutions in diverse locations such as Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. During his tenure at Goldman, Mr. Ozada developed a disciplined approach to investing by implementing customized risk-adjusted performance review procedures. Mr. Ozada received his M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business with Honors, where he concentrated on International Finance. He received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Hamilton College in Economics and Political Science.

Bryan E. Schneider joined New England Pension Consultants in 2000. Mr. Schneider is a member of our alternatives assets group and works with research, due diligence, and performance monitoring in the alternative asset investment class. Specifically, he focuses on evaluating hedge fund strategies, including both direct investments and fund-of-funds, and the roles of these strategies in client portfolios. Mr. Schneider works with clients in designing alternative asset class portfolio structuring, plan implementation, manager selection, and performance measurement and monitoring. Mr. Schneider works with all types of clients including Endowments, Corporate Plans, Public Plans, and Taft-Hartley Plans. Mr. Schneider is a member of the Alternative Asset Due Diligence Committee. Prior to joining NEPC, Mr. Schneider was a mathematics professor. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from St. Anselm College. He is a CFA charter holder and a member of both the Boston Security Analysts Society and the CFA Institute.

Barry J. Cohen is the Director of Alternative Investments of Bear Stearns Asset Management and a member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Cohen joined Bear Stearns in 1987 as head of its Risk Arbitrage Department. Mr. Cohen later co-headed the Bear Stearns Global Equity Arbitrage Funds. Prior to joining Bear Stearns in 1987, Mr. Cohen was a risk arbitrageur at First Boston Corporation, and an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Mr. Cohen holds a B.A., from Harvard College and received J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, respectively. Mr. Cohen is a member of the Board of Directors of both the Mt. Sinai Children’s Center Foundation and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Mr. Cohen also serves on the Board of Advisors to the Harvard Office for the Arts and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange Hearing Board.

Gregory Brousseau is a Founding Partner of Central Park Group with over 20 years experience in alternative investments, including merger arbitrage and fundof-funds portfolio management. Most recently Mr. Brousseau served as Co-Head of UBS Financial Services Alternative Investment Group and was a member of the Firm's Operating Committee. Before UBS, Mr. Brousseau spent 13 years at Oppenheimer & Co. as an Analyst in the Firm's merger arbitrage department and ultimately Co-Managing Oppenheimer's alternative investment department. He began his career at Procter & Gamble and his financial services career at E.F. Hutton & Co. Mr. Brousseau is a board member of the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association and since 1997 has served as an executive board member of the Hole in the Wall Gang, a children's charity located in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned his B.S. degree in business at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Ari Glass is the President of Platinum Management (NY) LLC which he joined in March 2007. In addition to overseeing most non-investment related functions, Mr. Glass helps source, evaluate and negotiate to bring on new managers as well as continued evaluation of existing managers. Mr. Glass was previously COO of Intrepid Capital Management, a $2.5B hedge fund organization which he joined in August 2000. At Intrepid, Mr. Glass oversaw all non-portfolio related activities and launched Intrepid Associates, an affiliated entity that through which Intrepid added other fund managers including sector funds in the Healthcare and Global Utilities spaces. Mr. Glass was previously employed at Vector Capital Management (1998-2000) Coopers & Lybrand (1995-1998) and Prudential Securities (1994-1995).

Matthew T. Hoffman is the Chief Investment Officer of Weston Capital Management LLC. Weston is a global alternatives provider with $2.1bn in assets under management, having offices in New York, London, Palm Beach and Connecticut. Mr. Hoffman is responsible for overseeing the firm’s investment activities and serves as a member of Weston’s Investment Oversight Committee, its Management Committee, and is a Director on its Hedge Fund Incubation Board. Mr. Hoffman focuses on identifying emerging managers of quality and potential, evaluating specialized strategies, seeding promising new talent, and building portfolios around them. Mr. Hoffman has over 20 years of experience in the global investment markets serving in various executive and management roles for firms in the US, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Prior to joining Weston, Mr. Hoffman was a founding partner and Chief Investment Officer for Mayer & Hoffman Capital Advisors, LLC. Mr. Hoffman holds Bachelor’s in Mathematics / Economics and Biology and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.

Marc Zwebner is a Managing Director-Investor Relations of EnTrust Capital and has been with EnTrust since November 2006. Prior to joining EnTrust, Mr. Zwebner was a Senior Vice President at CARE Capital Group, a NYC based Fund of Hedge Funds. Mr. Zwebner has over 14 years in Financial Services arena in various Corporate Finance & Development functions. Most notably, he was Vice President and Head of the Centre Solutions Corporate Finance department (affiliate of Zurich Financial Services) responsible for all M&A activity and managed their Alternative Investment Portfolio. Mr. Zwebner’s prior work experience also included Zurich Financial Services M&A Group, Reliance Group Holdings, Deloitte and Touche and Coopers and Lybrand. He holds a BS from Yeshiva University.

Robert Brady has over 15 years of experience working in the capital markets and recently joined Schroders to focus on expanding the institutional presence of our Alternative Investments offerings in the Americas. Mr. Brady came from Optima Fund Management which is a $5 billion hedge fund of funds and single manager platform where he was a Director of Sales concentrated on the institutional investor community. Prior he was an Equity Partner at Coda Capital a convertible bond arbitrage manager in charge of business development until it was purchased by Gartmore Global. Mr. Brady spent most of career at Deutsche Bank in various roles where his last assignment was establishing the Equity Capital Markets office in Boston. There he recruited a team to service the specialized needs of the private equity community.

Ricardo Cortez has over 25 years of investment experience in the investment management field. Before joining The Torrey Funds, Mr. Cortez was Vice President and Product Manager of Goldman Sachs' external money manager program. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Prudential as a Senior Vice President overseeing product development, communications, and sales for the Investment Management Services Division of Prudential. Mr. Cortez began his career with Merrill Lynch as a stock market analyst and was Senior Portfolio Manager and President of Liberty Capital Management, a $500 million investment management firm located in New York City. He graduated with a BA cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York. Mr. Cortez has been a guest lecturer at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and at Harvard. Mr. Cortez is a CIMA (Certified Investment Management Analyst) and serves on the Board of Advisors and as co-chair of the Alternatives Committee for IMCA (Investment Management Consultants Association). In addition, Mr. Cortez is on the Alternatives Committee of the Money Management Institute and is the author of several published articles on hedge funds.

Linda C. Prager leads Citi Prime Finance’s Business Consulting Services (BCS) group. The BCS group assists Citi’s clients in managing and growing their businesses. From start-up to growth to maturity to IPO and decline, BCS assists its clients in solving business issues in operations, technology, fund structuring, tax, real estate HR and global deployment. Prior to joining Citi, Ms. Prager worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (“PwC”) Advisory practice for over 9 years. During her tenure, Ms. Prager directed multiple practices dedicated to evaluating and improving business operations, while aligning key business objectives. Her clients included hedge funds, fund of funds, RIAs, RICs, large multi-national investment banks and private equity firms. Prior to PwC, Ms. Prager worked in both legal and financial services firms. Ms. Prager obtained her JD from The Texas A&M University, South Texas College of Law, her MBA from The University of North Texas, and her BBA from The University of Texas at Austin.

Walter Zebrowski has served in senior management roles for several alternative investment funds since 1992, including CFO, COO and CIO/CSA. The funds focused primarily on market neutral strategies (i.e. quantitative, convertible, merger & acquisition arbitrage); utilized technical and quantitative models to analyze and evaluate multiple markets and asset classes, or concentrated on private equity investments and transactions. Within the Fund of Funds arena, Mr. Zebrowski analyzed, evaluated and conducted due diligence on hundreds of investment managers using various investment management strategies in multiple asset classes.

Currently, Mr. Zebrowski serves as CIO of Hedgemony Partners, an alternative investment management and technology development firm focusing primarily upon distress, bridge financing and development stage opportunities within the alternative investment and technology arenas. The firm employs an activist strategy in managing its portfolio company investments by having members of the firm serve as senior management for portfolio companies. Accordingly, Mr. Zebrowski is the acting CEO of Hedgemony Systems a recognized leader in delivering enterprise-wide systems and technology to alternative investment funds, including CRM, BPM, ECM, message management and archival, Investor Relationship Management & Account Servicing. Additionally, Mr. Zebrowski serves as CEO of TurboCompliance, a recognized leader in delivering, on demand, enterprise-wide Governance Risk and Compliance systems.

As an avid speaker and author, Mr. Zebrowski has moderated panels and presented for organizations such as Institutional Investor, IIR/GAIM, MarHedge, Global Association of Risk Professionals and the AICPA. As Chairman of the Regulatory Compliance Association’s CCO University, he oversees the entire Masters of Compliance Degree Program. The CCO University curriculum spans over 26 classes, and 179 hours of course work. The faculty of professors includes many blue chip CCOs, GCs, CROs, attorneys and CPAs, as well as senior members of regulatory authorities.

Timothy M. Clark is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Group. Mr. Clark’s practice focuses on alternative investment funds, representing hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds in fund formation, as well as structuring transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, private placements and equity offerings. Mr. Clark’s clients range from investment banking, manufacturing, technology and telecommunications industries. Recently, Mr. Clark has been involved in the formation of global buy-out, real estate, distressed debt and mezzanine funds. He has also executed private and public debt and equity transactions, overseeing all aspects of high-yield debt, investment grade debt, and equity securities transactions. A frequent lecturer on alternative investing, Mr. Clark is also a CCO University Faculty Professor for the Regulatory Compliance Association ("RCA"), and has published numerous articles on private funds and compliance-related issues. Mr. Clark graduated from New York University Law School in 1991, where he was Articles Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law, and received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1988, with honors.

Art Tully is the Co-Leader of the Americas Hedge Fund practice and the Leader of the New York Financial Services Office Asset Management practice. Since 1977, Mr. Tully has worked with financial services clients, including investment banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, registered investment funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Mr. Tully specializes in securities brokerage and commodities trading activities, as well as capital markets valuation and operating procedures. Mr. Tully’s experience includes advisory services relating to self-clearing and introducing securities and commodities brokerage activities, assessments of internal control practices, development of operating policy and procedures manuals, and valuation of capital market portfolios. Mr. Tully serves as the firm’s industry representative on the AICPA Stockbrokerage and Investment Banking Liaison Task. He has spoken at many industry conferences and has authored several E&Y thought leadership articles.

Sarvjeev S. Sidhu manages over $4.0 billion in institutional and retail emerging markets assets on behalf of AEGON N.V. He invests in sovereign, corporates, structured, and local markets across global emerging markets. Mr. Sidhu has over 14 years in emerging markets experience. Before joining AEGON in July 1999, Mr. Sidhu spent eight years with Lincoln National Corporation USA, where he served as a Portfolio Manager of emerging markets investments. Mr. Sidhu earned his MBA and MPA from Indiana University, USA, as well as his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology, India. Mr. Sidhu is a CFA charterholder.

Punita Kumar-Sinha is the Senior Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer for Blackstone Asia Advisors L.L.C. which includes The India Fund, Inc., The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. and The Asia Opportunities Fund L.L.C., and is a Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group L.P. Ms. Kumar-Sinha has managed The India Fund since July 31, 1997, The Asia Tigers Fund since June 30, 1999 and The Asia Opportunities Fund since its inception on December 1, 2006. Ms. Kumar-Sinha has over eighteen years experience in fund management in international and emerging markets. Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. Kumar-Sinha was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc., and CIBC World Markets, where she was also the Portfolio Manager for The India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund. Prior to that she was the Portfolio Manager on the emerging markets team at Batterymarch, which she joined after four years at Standish Ayer & Wood. At Standish Ayer she developed country allocation models and strategies as part of the international equity management team as well as researched investments in Southeast Asia and other international markets. While at graduate school, Ms. Kumar-Sinha interned at J.P. Morgan Investment Management and at the IFC's emerging markets index group. She also spent a year with the Latin American Department of the World Bank. She has been frequently featured in the media, including, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Star News, and The Economic Times. Many of her contributions at seminars and conferences have projected the potential and prospects of India as an investment destination. Ms. Kumar-Sinha has a Ph.D. and a Masters in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She has an MBA and is also a CFA Charter holder. Ms. Kumar-Sinha is a member of the CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mike Moran covers G7, Asia and EMEA/LatAm currency strategy out of New York. Of his nine years at Standard Chartered, Mr. Moran spent five years as Senior Regional Economist based in Hong Kong, responsible for economic and market analysis with focus on regional currency and interest rate trends. Mr. Moran continues to travel around Asia, maintaining communications with policymakers and market contacts. In addition, Mr. Moran is a regular speaker at various economic road shows both within and outside the Bank. Prior to Hong Kong, Mr. Moran covered G7 currency and interest rate research with Standard Chartered in London. Mr. Moran holds a Masters degree in Economics from Cambridge University. He is a member of a number of business organizations including the Hong Kong, American and British General Chambers of Commerce. Mr. Moran contributes to market journals from time to time in addition to various media appearances.

Suresh Ramàmurthi brings over 15 years of operating and investing experience in India, US and Europe. Prior to co-founding Vithàm, Mr. Ramàmurthi served as a principal in BC Capitàl, a venture capital and incubator firm focused on early stage growth companies and emerging markets. Prior to BC Capitàl, Mr. Ramàmurthi founded, grew and managed a fund administration and transaction processing services firm that managed over 10m investor accounts. Previously, Mr. Ramàmurthi led and managed origination and structuring the securitization of Indian home loans for a leading Indian home loans provider. Mr. Ramàmurthi has a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Anu Sahai has over 15 years of investment experience spanning convertibles, high yield and equities. Ms. Sahai started Anew Capital Management in October 2006 and is the Portfolio Manager of the Anew India Opportunity Fund, an opportunistic long /short India focused fund that invests primarily in equity and convertible securities. Prior to starting Anew Capital, Ms. Sahai was the Portfolio Manager of the Convertible portfolios at ING for five years. She joined ING in 1997, managing equities, high yield and convertibles portfolios during her career there, in each case outperforming benchmarks significantly. Before joining ING, Ms. Sahai was Head of Indian Research Sales in Hong Kong with Marlin Partners, a London based institutional stockbroker. She started with them as an Indian Equity Analyst and helped develop the research product and methodology for analyzing Indian companies. Ms. Sahai has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics from Bombay University. Ms. Sahai is a member of the CFA Institute and a member of the American Mensa.

Michael Peltz has been Executive Editor of Institutional Investor magazine since July 2005. During that period, Mr. Peltz has also been the Editor of Alpha, the hedge fund magazine launched by Institutional Investor two years earlier. Under Mr. Peltz’s leadership, Alpha has gone from six issues a year to its current ten and recently won its first National Award of Excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for the October 2006 cover story, “The Ballad of Gary Bland.” Mr. Peltz began his journalism career at Institutional Investor in 1987 as a Copy Editor, eventually becoming a Senior Writer for the magazine covering a broad range of financial subjects, including derivatives, hedge funds and trading. From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Peltz worked at Worth magazine, where as Financial Editor he both wrote and edited. He then spent two years as a Senior Writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine, before returning to Institutional Investor to assume his current position. Mr. Peltz has a BA degree in English and Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College.

Mary E. Avella, a Certified Public Accountant, is Chief Financial Officer of Tano Capital, LLC. Ms. Avella has extensive knowledge and experience with global alternative investment private equity and hedge fund accounting, tax, structuring, and fund administration matters. Prior to joining Tano Capital, Ms. Avella was Head of West Coast BISYS Alternative Investment Services. She also served as Vice President and Global Head of Tax and Fund Structuring for HSBC Global Fund Services division. Ms. Avella was previously Chief Financial Officer of Thomas Weisel Asset Management where she was responsible for alternative investment management funds, audit, tax compliance and consulting relationships, as well as investment accounting and valuation matters on Advent Axys and Advent Partner. Ms. Avella was also the Managing Director of the International Asset Gathering arm of E*Trade Group Inc. Her responsibilities included the development of global fund management products, strategic partnering initiatives with European fund managers, online tax strategy consultation, and the launch of E*TRADE's online fund supermarket in the United Kingdom. Ms. Avella started her career, and was promoted to Manager, with Arthur Anderson. Ms. Avella was subsequently Tax Director of the Investment Services Group at Barclays Global Investors where she built the Tax Department and structured new global investment funds for more than seven years. Ms. Avella holds a Bachelors of Science in Applied Science and Business from the University of San Francisco. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst Level III candidate.

Philipp Levy joined Laurus from Paulson & Company, a multi-billion dollar New York based hedge fund where he was co-head of marketing and investor relations. Previously, Mr. Levy was a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Capital Introduction Group at Bear Stearns & Co. Mr. Levy has over twenty years of experience working in financial markets in New York, London and Zurich selling a variety of financial products including hedge funds, private placements, venture capital funds, convertible bonds, and warrants to international institutional investors in the United States and overseas. Mr. Levy grew up and received his education in Switzerland and graduated with a national degree in banking administration. Mr. Levy speaks several languages and is fluent in Swiss German, German, French and Italian.

Peter M. Ortiz is the Director of Operations/CCO of Treesdale Partners, where he is responsible for administrative, accounting, compliance, and operational functions for the family of Treesdale multi manager funds. Mr. Ortiz works on compliance issues regarding due diligence inquiries, the review of P&L calculations, and is responsible for the continual day-to-day operations of Treesdale. Prior to joining Treesdale in 2004, Mr. Ortiz was a fund administration associate with Kenmar, a multi-billion dollar Fund of Funds, where he worked on reviewing, finalizing, and distributing the month end NAVs for a variety of multi strategy fund-of-funds. Mr. Ortiz holds a B.A. in Economics from St. John’s University.

Douglas Hirsch is a member of Sadis & Goldberg LLP and oversees the Litigation Group. Mr. Hirsch has extensive experience representing clients in a diverse range of commercial business disputes, securities litigation, real estate litigation and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Hirsch has extensive experience representing investment advisors in all types of hedge fund related litigation as well as dissolution proceedings and disputes between principals. Mr. Hirsch also has extensive experience counseling investment advisers as to their registration and compliance obligations. Mr. Hirsch has lectured extensively on a wide range of hedge fund topics, most recently at the 2005 Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Leaders Conference; 2005 Financial Research Associates' 2nd Annual Managed Accounts Compliance Forum; the 2005 Institute For International Research's "Hedge Fund: Regulation and Compliance" conference; and the 2005 Managed Accounts Forum at the Flatotel in New York City. Mr. Hirsch is also the author of "Which Offshore Advisors Must Register", 2005 Euromoney Compliance Review Handbook. "Arbitration: Be Careful What You Wish For", Hedge Fund Conference Forum, NY Helmsley Hotel, 2004; "Brownfields, Diamonds In the Rough For Municipalities", New York Environmental Lawyer, Winter 1998; "A Guide To EPA's Lender Liability Regulations", June 24th, 1992, Standard & Poor's Review of Banking and Financial Services. Mr. Hirsch graduated from Hofstra University School of Law in 1990 and was a member of the Hofstra Law Review. In addition to being a member of the bars of the states of New York and New Jersey, Mr. Hirsch is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. Mr. Hirsch is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Kip Allardt brings 27 years of international market-related experience from both the buy and sell side of the financial industry. Mr. Allardt came to Discovery from Sovereign Investment Management and Research a firm he founded to provide investment research and trading advice to institutional clients. Before that, Mr. Allardt managed the emerging markets business at Medley Global Advisors, a Global Macro Political advisor to institutional investors. Mr. Allardt spent 8 years at CSFB managing local market portfolios of sovereign emerging markets debt and was later CSFB's emerging markets sovereign strategist. Prior to CSFB, Mr. Allardt spent 12 years working overseas as a proprietary trader of FX options and local currency denominated bond portfolios for British Petroleum, Continental Grain and Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology and New York University.

Joyce Heinzerling is a Partner of Archery Capital LLC, a New York-based fund of funds focused on alpha-strategic investing in seasoned emerging managers. At Archery Capital, Ms. Heinzerling serves as General Counsel and CCO, and is a member of the Investment Team and the Risk Management Committee. Prior to joining Archery Capital in May 2000, Ms. Heinzerling served as Counsel to the Asset Management Group at Shearman & Sterling where she specialized in advising investment advisory groups and domestic and offshore private equity funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds, as well as domestic SEC-registered mutual funds. Previously, Ms. Heinzerling was a Special Counsel at Kramer Levin Naftalis Kamin & Frankel, where she represented several large institutional investment advisory groups, primarily hedge funds and mutual funds. Prior thereto, at the beginning of her career, Ms. Heinzerling served as in-house counsel for the SEC-registered funds advised by Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. and Lazard Freres & Co. Ms. Heinzerling is a frequent panelist at industry seminars and conferences, where she speaks on topics pertaining to Hedge Fund Regulation, Due Diligence, and Risk Management. Ms. Heinzerling also serves on the Board of Trustees of Burnham Investors Trust, a registered mutual fund, and is a member of The International Bar Association, The New York Bar Association, the Financial Women’s Association, the Women’s Investment Management Forum, and is a Sustaining Member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. Ms. Heinzerling is also the founder of Apples for Appalachia©, a not-for-profit association formed in 2006 whose mission is to supply educational materials to school children in rural Appalachia.

Christopher Mears is an audit principal in Rothstein Kass’ financial services group. Mr. Mears has over 17 years’ experience in financial services, with a particular emphasis on investment partnerships, offshore funds, and private equity funds. As principal, Mr. Mears advises alternative investment clients at the initial organizational phase to address the accounting and tax matters that may have an impact on the fund. After fund formation, he typically oversees all services provided to the fund by the Firm, including the audit and ongoing consultation regarding many diverse operational, transactional and tax matters. He is a member of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Mr. Mears started his career at Arthur Andersen in 1989 and joined Rothstein, Kass in 1992 as a senior accountant. In 2000, he was promoted to principal and currently services on the Firm's executive committee. Mr. Mears is a frequent speaker at various conferences as well as firm marketing events, has been quoted by various publications including the Wall Street Journal and has authored articles pertaining to hedge funds and private equity. He earned a B.S. in accounting from Rutgers University in 1989.

John Bailey is the CEO of Spruce Private Investors, LLC; a $1.7 billion absolute-return investment firm that acts as an outsourced Chief Investment Officer for family offices and charitable institutions using a global, systematic, absolute return investment approach similar to that of successful multi-generational families and leading endowments. The firm utilizes leading-edge proprietary computer-based systems for capital market forecasting, asset allocation, spending policy, portfolio construction, risk management, overlay management, manager selection, pro-active portfolio re-balancing, and consolidated performance reporting. Spruce employs professionals from leading firms such as Bridgewater, Commonfund, J.P. Morgan, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories, Princeton University’s endowment fund, and the Rohatyn Group. The firm enjoys competitive advantages in dynamic portfolio construction, leading-edge risk management, and strategic access to established and emerging alternative managers. In 2002, Mr. Bailey was nominated “Family Office Executive of the Year” by Institutional Investor’s Private Asset Management for his industry work on behalf of wealthy families, and currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association. Prior to Spruce, Mr. Bailey was the CEO of Family Office Services for a Connecticut-based multi-client family office where he was responsible for asset allocation and manager selection, was an officer at the Columbus Circle Trust Company (owned at the time by PIMCO), and a sell-side equity research analyst at Oppenheimer & Company. Mr. Bailey has an Executive MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business, is an avid yacht racer, and is married with two young children.

François Bloch is the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director of Amas Bank (Switzerland) Ltd, a private bank founded in 1978 by the Hinduja family of India, whose Hinduja Group has become one of the largest transnational business conglomerates in the world. Among his duties is managing institutional funds, which have receive the prestigious AAA rating for "S&P" and ranked in the top league with major fund rating agencies. Prior to joining Amas Bank, Bloch worked at Dexia in Structured Products and was a Member of its Investment Committee from October 2002 to November 2005. From April 2000 to September 2002, he worked at Bank Leumi, first as a Director responsible for six investment funds, then as a Vice Director and Head of Structured Products. From 1995 to 1998 Bloch was responsible for the management of four Coutts Money Market Funds and co-management of seven bond funds. Prior to that,. he was awarded best fund manager over five years in fixed income management worldwide. He built up a risk management system for Nomura, Switzerland for bonds, convertibles, warrants and equities. Funds he has overseen have been recognized numerous times by organizations including Reuters/Bopp, Investment International and Micropal. Bloch received an Executive MBA in finance degree from the University-Paris-Dauphine/UQAM in 2001 and holds multiple diplomas in various areas of finance from the University of St Gallen.

Douglas R. Dubiel currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer of Goodrich, LLC, a family office, with responsibility for overseeing more than $1 billion in assets. These assets are comprised of equities, bonds, real estate and various alternative asset classes. Prior to joining Goodrich, LLC, Mr. Dubiel was a Vice president and Wealth Management Advisor for 14 years in the Private Client Group at Merrill Lynch where he gained extensive experience in structuring and managing portfolios for ultra high net worth investors. Mr. Dubiel is a graduate of Cornell University.

Charles Krusen is the Chief Investment Officer for Krusen Family Partners located in Tampa, FL with the investment office in New York, NY. The organization's investment strategy is designed to actively manage and rebalance the asset allocation capturing market returns through index derivatives and enhancing those returns by investing the capital in primarily hedge funds and private equity. Current search includes a natural resource hedge fund that will be able to capitalize on the emergence of an India/China middle class. Mr. Krusen has worked in the derivatives markets for 30 years for major firms including Societe General, UBS and Citigroup. Mr. Krusen is an honors graduate from Harvard University.

Robert Maroney oversees all activities of multi-entity family office Connecticut Investments LLC and invests broadly in virtually every asset class. The individual entities vary considerably by size, risk profile and cash flow requirements. A large proportion of the assets are in alternative assets, including single-manager funds and private equity, along with a more modest allocation to venture capital. With over 50 hedge funds across all entities, the portfolio investments are constructed to meet the profile of each individual account. Because most entities either directly or indirectly benefit US taxpayers, a comprehensive program is followed to place the greatest emphasis on after-tax returns with a further focus on tax-deferral strategies. A relatively high proportion of the assets are invested outside the US so there is a significant effort to identify appropriate international investment opportunities, including emerging markets. Within the organization there is considerable familiarity with the specific requirements of charitable remainder trusts and foundations. The activities of accounting, tax and legal professionals are closely coordinated with the needs of each entity. Prior to work as an investment professional, Mr. Maroney served as a division president of a multinational Fortune 200 firm and was the CEO of a privately owned global manufacturing company. Mr. Maroney holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. with high distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Robert A. Weigand, Ph.D. is professor of finance and holder of the Brenneman Professorship in Business Strategy at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Previously Dr. Weigand has been on the faculties of Texas A&M University, the University of Colorado, and the University of South Florida. His published research spans many topical areas, including investments, portfolio management, corporate finance and banking, and has appeared in scholarly journals such as The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Investing, Financial Management, The Financial Review, and the Journal of Financial Research. Dr. Weigand's management experience is in the resort hotel/country club industry. He is an active public speaker and offers consulting services and educational seminars for corporations and private clients.

John Cuthbertson is Director of Research at Ten Asset Management, where his responsibilities include strategy engineering, development, portfolio optimization, attribution analysis, and the oversight of all ongoing research. Dr. Cuthbertson develops and evaluates potential indicators of future stock performance using historical simulation of strategies and statistical analysis, etc. He is also responsible for the overall development and integration of Ten’s optimized portfolio selection system. Dr. Cuthbertson joined IRC in 1996 from University of California, San Diego and served as Vice President and Senior Research Analyst, responsible for fundamental research. Dr. Cuthbertson wrote and integrated software for the firm’s optimized portfolio selection system used to create and re-balance client portfolios. He was responsible for building the firm’s research database, integrating data from multiple sources. Dr. Cuthbertson also developed analytical tools for evaluating and attributing performance of strategies and signals. Dr. Cuthbertson received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Dr. Cuthbertson is President and a member of the Board of Directors CFA and is also a member of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA).

Michel Girardin is a Member of Senior Management and the Senior Economic adviser of UBP Gestion Institutionnelle, the Asset Management affiliate of Union Bancaire Privée. As such, he advises Institutional clients on Investment Strategy, with an emphasis on Alternative Investments. Mr. Girardin is also in charge of Institutional Clients in Italy and Ticino. He has some 20 years experience as Head of Research and Chief Investment Officer for Private Banks in Geneva and Zurich. Mr. Girardin’s experience includes that of managing global Equity and Bond Funds as well as an Asian Fund of Hedge Funds. Mr. Girardin holds a Ph.D. and B.A. in Economics from the University of Lausanne and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. Mr. Girardin is a regular columnist in the Swiss and International press and an occasional lecturer on Economics and Finance at the University of Lausanne and Geneva.

Andrew Stewart leads FRM’s product development and strategy effort in New York. Mr. Stewart and his team are responsible for conceiving, researching, designing and managing the execution of new products and strategies as well as analyzing and refining existing products and working practices. Mr. Stewart is also a member of FRM Americas’ Board of Directors. Previously, Mr. Stewart was Head of Business Development, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for FRM Americas and was employed by FRM Americas' London affiliate, Financial Risk Management Limited, in a number of management positions covering legal, compliance, marketing, client service and operations functions. Before joining FRM, Mr. Stewart was an associate in the Investment Funds Group at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. In addition, Mr. Stewart worked for several years as a management and financial consultant. Mr. Stewart received a B.A. from the University of California and a J.D., cum laude, from Indiana University, where he was an editor of the Indiana Law Journal.

Tristram S. Lett has been heavily involved in the hedge fund industry for well over a decade. For six years he was a member of the Board of Governors for the Toronto Futures Exchange and for five years was its Chair. As well as being the current Deputy Chair of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), Mr. Lett is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fields Institute for Research into the Mathematical Sciences, a member of the editorial advisory board of the Canadian Investment Review, a member of the Professional Risk Managers Industry Association (PRIMA) and the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He is an MSc graduate of LSE and frequent writer, speaker and media commentator on matters pertaining to hedge funds. Mr. Lett is the Managing Director of Integra Alpha Beta Strategies, a fast growing business line within Integra’s corporate family.

Jenny Anderson was born in Chevy Chase Maryland. She attended the National Cathedral School and then Colorado College, where she graduated cum laude with a dual degree in history and political science. After a short stint on Capitol Hill trying to help Democrats get elected in 1994, Ms. Anderson moved to Mexico City where she worked for “Business Mexico,” a renowned business magazine published by the American Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Anderson rose to the rank of editor of that esteemed publication before undertaking the task of writing quarterly macroeconomic business reviews for the Economist Intelligence Unit. After three years in Mexico and one summer in Argentina, Ms. Anderson returned the U.S. in 1997 to get a masters degree in international finance at Columbia University. Ms. Anderson joined Institutional Investor magazine in 1999, covering macroeconomics, Latin America and Wall Street. She later took a job at the New York Post and then joined the New York Times. Ms. Anderson currently covers Wall Street, regulation and hedge funds.

Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Zukerman writes about hedge funds and writes the Heard on the Street column. Mr. Zukerman also writes about other investing and Wall Street-related topics and has covered the bond market for the Journal. Mr. Zukerman was part of a team that won the 2007 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, and he was part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the demise of WorldCom. He joined the paper in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. Previously, Mr. Zukerman was the managing editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Report, a newsletter published by Investment Dealers' Digest. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude.

Putnam Coes is Chief Operating Officer of Paulson & Company, an investment management firm specializing in global merger and event arbitrage. Prior to Paulson, Mr. Coes was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley where he served as COO of the Firm’s hedge fund business, Morgan Stanley Absolute Return Strategies, and earlier as COO of the Firm’s fund-of-funds business, which he co-founded. Before Morgan Stanley, Mr. Coes was a manager with Marakon Associates, a consulting firm, where he focused on strategy development and valuation for large banks and financial services firms. Prior to Yale SOM, Mr. Coes served in various policy and management roles in the administration of George H.W. Bush. He is a graduate of Trinity College.

Roseanne Kelly has been Head of Investment Fund Listings at the Irish Stock Exchange since 2000. Ms. Kelly's previous experience includes a 15 year career with AIB Bank and a seven year career with Deloitte. Ms. Kelly holds professional qualifications in both accounting and banking. The Irish Stock Exchange is a long established European stock exchange

Vidak Radonjic is a senior hedge fund executive with over 12 years of experience in capital markets and alternative investments. Mr. Radonjic has conducted due diligence on established and emerging hedge fund managers across all investment strategies and has thorough knowledge of fund of funds portfolio construction and risk management. Over the last several years, he has allocated over $400MM to independent managers. Mr. Radonjic is a Managing Partner of The Beryl Consulting Group, and has held senior positions in the alternative investment at UBS AG, The International Investment Group, Salomon Smith Barney, WR Capital Management and Infiniti Capital. Mr. Radonjic holds an MBA in Finance from Pace University and Masters of International Affairs in Economics from Columbia University, New York.

Paul G. Tiranno is Vice President, Head of Operational Due Diligence. Mr. Tiranno was hired in 2006 to formalize the operational due diligence function for the fund of hedge funds group. He is responsible for evaluating the operational, legal, accounting, compliance, and general business risk of all potential fund investments. Mr. Tiranno has examined hundreds hedge fund managers and service providers globally and maintains an extensive network of industry contacts. He is a frequent speaker on operational best practices. Prior to joining ING Investment Management, Mr. Tiranno was the Head of Operational Due Diligence for Pioneer Investments. Mr. Tiranno began his career as an attorney specializing in hedge fund formation, compliance, and operations with the firms of Tannenbaum Helpern and Schulte Roth & Zabel and was Senior Legal Counsel for the Bank of Bermuda. Mr. Tiranno received a BA from Lehigh University and a JD from Seton Hall University School of Law.

Prior to his current appointment Luis Alvarez served as Vice President in charge of administration and management in one of Puerto Rico’s main venture capital/merchant banking consulting firms. Before this, Mr. Alvarez co-founded the first independent asset management firm in Puerto Rico specializing in absolute return strategies. Medici Capital Management LLC which he co-founded as a means to create the first long/short vehicle of investment in Puerto Rico resulted in said firm being acquired first by a venture capital firm and afterwards by a commercial bank. A trained lawyer, Mr. Alvarez is a Graduate of New York University and Harvard University.

Benjamin Alimansky joined Brooklyn NY Holdings LLC as a portfolio manager in July 2006. Prior to joining Brooklyn Holdings, Mr. Alimansky was a strategist for Olympia Capital Management, a $4BN Paris-based Fund of Funds. At Olympia, he was responsible for US managers specializing in credit, fixed income arbitrage, and global macro strategies. Prior to Olympia, Mr. Alimansky was a portfolio manager for DB Advisors, a proprietary trading and investment business within Deutsche Bank. Before Deutsche Bank, Mr. Alimansky worked for Goldman Sachs for ten years. While at Goldman, he spent five years in Fixed Income Research, developing relative value trading models, three years in Firmwide Risk Management at head of the model development group, and two years at GSAM’s Hedge Fund Strategies Group in Princeton, NJ, as head of Quantitative Research and Risk Management. Prior to Goldman, Mr. Alimansky was an associate in CS First Boston’s Fixed Income Research group. Mr. Alimansky has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Computer Science from Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Jerry D. Davis has been Board chairman of the Employees’ Retirement System, City of New Orleans since 1994, and trustee since 1986. With no investment staff, Mr. Davis handles all contracts and relationships with managers, consultants, custodian and actuary. As one of the most senior public plan trustees, Mr. Davis speaks regularly at conferences on a variety of topics. Mr. Davis recently retired from his paid position as the Employee Training Administrator for the 8000-member workforce, but continues to serve in his elected post as the Employee Representative on the Board of Trustees. Mr. Davis also sit on the Civil Service Commission as the Employee Representative. This body establishes personnel rules and policies for all classified city employees. Mr. Davis retired from the US Coast Guard with rank of Commander, after a 38 year career including active and reserve service; three times appointed as unit commander, and served four tours on staff of the Commandant or the District Commander. Mr. Davis has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Tulane University, and three years graduate study in clinical sociology at the University of New Orleans. The Employees’ Retirement System, City of New Orleans is a Municipal government pension plan, fully funded, with $140 million in assets.

In his role as Chief Investment Strategist, Bryan Decker serves as the chairman of the firm’s Investment Committee. The role of the investment committee is to develop both short-term and long-term views regarding market opportunities. As Director of Alternative Research, Mr. Decker continues to oversee Evaluation Associates’ efforts in the alternatives arena, including private equity, real estate, hedge funds (fund-of-funds) and commodities. In this capacity, Mr. Decker engages in due diligence on managers, evaluates market opportunities and makes recommendations to clients. Previously, as Director of the firm’s Research Department, Mr. Decker managed and coordinated activities across the various asset class teams, ensuring consistency in the firm’s investment manager due diligence process, market evaluation and manager search process. He joined Evaluation Associates in 1993 as an analyst covering alternative strategies for Evaluation Associates Capital Markets, and subsequently joined the consulting practice in 1997. Mr. Decker earned his BA from Vassar College, majoring in Physics and Economics, and his MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Dean Rubino is the Chief Executive Officer of Richcourt and a member of its investment committee. Richcourt, a fund of hedge funds established in 1992, co-owned by Hamilton Lane Advisors LLC and Citco Group Limited, manages approximately $1.5 billion in assets. Prior to joining Richcourt, Mr. Rubino was a partner at the Taylor Companies where he was a portfolio manager and risk manager and spearheaded their innovations within the insurance dedicated fund industry. While at Taylor, Mr. Rubino also initiated proprietary research in the long-biased equity and activist hedge fund arena culminating in the launch of a dedicated portfolio co-managed by Mr. Rubino. Before joining the Taylor Companies, Mr. Rubino served as a senior member of HypoVereinsbank (HVB) Group's Alternative Investment Committee, allocating more than $700 million of proprietary bank capital to hedge funds and funds of hedge funds. In this role, he was also responsible for structuring complex tax-efficient investment vehicles, which included the creation of an offshore reinsurance company and the origination of hedge fund-based bank-owned life insurance transactions. In addition, Mr. Rubino is credited with establishing a risk management platform designed specifically for the aggregation and measurement of hedge fund risk within an institutional framework. He is also a co-developer of the Bifurcated Fund Analysis Model. Mr. Rubino began his career at Merrill Lynch, graduating from the Merrill Lynch Global Technology Leaders management training program, and subsequently worked within the fixed income technology area for that firm. Mr. Rubino is also a member of American Mensa, and received his B.A. from Trinity College and his M.B.A. from the Columbia University School of Business.

Russ Alan Prince is the president of Prince & Associates, Inc., the leading market research firm specializing in global private wealth. With two decades of concentrated experience with the ultra-high-net-worth and elite advisors, he is a highly sought consultant on strategic, profitablility and structural business issues. Mr. Prince is frequently cited for his expertise in the international business and financial press including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and The New York Times. Mr. Prince is a prolific writer, having penned more than forty books include the seminal titles – Inside the Family Office, The Sky’s the Limit, Fortune’s Fortress and Fame & Fortune. Mr. Prince writes numerous columns, including Calculated Response for Worth, and is the editor of Private Wealth.

Harry S. Davis is a Partner in the Litigation Department of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York. Mr. Davis specializes in complex commercial litigation and regulatory matters for financial services industry clients, including hedge funds, funds of funds, prime brokers, auditors and administrators. Mr. Davis has substantial experience with both securities regulatory matters and private litigation, including handling investigations before the SEC, US Attorneys Offices, US Department of Justice, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, US Federal Trade Commission, self-regulatory organizations and state attorneys general and state securities regulators. Mr. Davis has also litigated numerous cases in federal and state court throughout the United States. Throughout his career, Mr. Davis has handled a wide variety of insider trading, market manipulation, short swing profit, securities and common law fraud, hedge fund advertising, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract cases. He also provides litigation and compliance counseling to, and conducts internal investigations for, many of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP's hedge fund clients in order to detect and prevent small issues from growing into bigger problems. Most recently, Mr. Davis has represented clients in connection with regulatory investigations and litigations relating to Manhattan Investment Fund, Beacon Hill, Durus and the ongoing mutual fund market timing investigations by federal and state regulators, as well as the SEC’s ongoing PIPEs investigation. Mr. Davis has also won important victories on behalf of hedge funds in novel securities law and fraudulent transfer litigations that presented issues of first impression in New York and California. Mr. Davis is a 1988 magna cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School, where he served as an associate editor of The Cornell Law Review, a member of the Moot Court Board and a member of the National Trial Advocacy Team, and is a 1984 graduate of The Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, Mr. Davis was associated with Cravath Swaine & Moore and served as a law clerk to Hon. Joseph Tauro (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts). Mr. Davis is also a prolific author and speaker and is frequently quoted by the national press on topics of interest to hedge fund managers and service providers.

Marc Baum is a Managing Director and the Chief Compliance Officer of Ramius Capital Group, LLC. Mr. Baum joined Ramius in June 2005. Immediately prior to joining Ramius, Mr. Baum was the Principal of Solel Group, a consulting practice focused on managing and implementing change across the legal, regulatory, compliance and operations areas of regulated financial services firms. Before Solel, Mr. Baum was the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for the Seaport Group, which specializes in trading and brokering the capital structure of stressed and distressed companies among distressed and high yield institutional investors. Seaport was formed in the broker dealer subsidiary of the IPO Group where Mr. Baum served as the CEO and which published the IPO.com web site. Previously, Mr. Baum served as the Chief Legal Officer and Managing Director for compliance at T.D. Securities/The Toronto-Dominion Bank. Before TD, Mr. Baum practiced capital markets law at J.P. Morgan Securities, Nomura, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers. Mr. Baum began his legal career at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Mr. Baum received his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1980 in Government and History, earned his MSc focusing on International History from 1918-1946 from the London School of Economics in 1981, and received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1984. Mr. Baum is a Trustee of American Jewish World Service and a Director of The NASDAQ Stock Market Educational Foundation, Inc.

Adam D. Gale is Of Counsel in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's New York office. Mr. Gale is a member of Orrick's Private Investment Funds Group, where he focuses his practice on regulatory and compliance advice to international and U.S. private investment funds and advisors, including hedge funds, private equity funds, funds-of-funds and real estate funds. In addition, Mr. Gale provides regulatory and compliance advice to broker-dealers, registered investment companies and financial institutions. Mr. Gale has extensive experience drafting and implementing compliance policies and procedures, and counseling clients on Investment Company Act of 1940, Investment Advisers Act, Commodities Exchange Act, broker-dealer and other securities law issues, as well as in SEC enforcement actions and investigations. Mr. Gale has been quoted in numerous articles concerning hedge funds, including in CFO Magazine. Prior to joining Orrick, Mr. Gale was Senior Counsel at The Bank of New York, where he advised the Bank's hedge fund, investment adviser and broker-dealer subsidiaries on regulatory and compliance issues. Previously, Mr. Gale was at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP for ten years, where he focused on regulatory and compliance issues, SEC investigations and securities litigation. Mr. Gale received his J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Writing & Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review, and his B.A., cum laude, from Cornell University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He clerked for Hon. Wilfred Feinberg of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Ivan Harris is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Mr. Harris focuses his practice on hedge fund, investment adviser and broker-dealer litigation and compliance matters, securities enforcement, and securities regulation. He has an extensive background that includes more than 13 years of private practice,government, and inhouse hedge fund and broker-dealer experience. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Harris was an assistant regional director for enforcement in the SEC's Southeast Regional Office in Miami, which he joined in 1998. Mr. Harris has particular knowledge in hedge fund enforcement and litigation, having led an SEC investigation of a major hedge fund collapse and an investigation of the first SEC case involving illegal hedge fund short selling. Immediately prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Harris served as the regulatory counsel for a financial services firm, where he advised on trading issues and compliance matters pertaining to the firm's hedge fund and broker-dealer operations. He also served on several securities industry committees that focused on issues relevant to fixed income trading and securitized products. In addition to his hedge fund background, while at the SEC, Mr. Harris also led several significant investigations involving corporate accounting and financial fraud, insider trading, and broker-dealer and investment adviser misconduct. Mr. Harris also has developed a background in cases with international aspects, having investigated major accounting, disclosure, stock manipulation, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases with connections to Europe and Central and South America. Mr. Harris also assists clients in obtaining "no action" relief from the SEC staff and in advising broker-dealers and investment advisers in connection with SEC, NASD, and NYSE examinations. Before joining the SEC in 1998, Mr. Harris practiced in the litigation departments of two New York law firms. He is admitted to practice in Florida and New York.

John Cravenho has been focused on developing and executing strategies to grow ING’s Global Alternatives Platform. This has encompassed; launching proprietary hedge funds, product development, distribution and the introduction and management of third-party Hedge Fund and Private Equity strategic relationships. Mr. Cravenho has extensive Global financial experience having held management positions in; London, Singapore, Chicago and New York, and conducted business in over 30 countries worldwide. Mr. Cravenho previously held management positions with; J.P. Morgan Chase, First National Bank of Chicago, and Dean Witter Financial Services. Mr. Cravenho was also President of an international financial management consulting firm where he advised clients and implemented programs to dramatically increase free cash flow at many leading Global 1000 Companies and was frequently published in this regard. Mr. Cravenho has a broad academic background; B.S. Providence College, MBA St. John’s University, MBA Stern School of Business at New York University, and graduate of the Rutgers Graduate School of Banking and Harvard’s Executive Finance Programs. He is a Registered Investment Advisor, CPA, and Certified Management Consultant. Mr. Cravenho is a member of the Economics Club of New York and serves on its Membership Committee. Mr. Cravenho also serves on the Finance and Audit Committees of the Board of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is a member of the; CT Hedge Fund Association, Professional Risk Management Association, and International Association of Financial Engineers.

Telis Bertsekas has occupied the role of Portfolio Manager of MFS Technology Fund ($200M) since 2005 and has been a Technology Research Analyst since 2004. Before joining MFS Investment Management, Mr. Bertsekas was Co-Manager of AXP Global Technology and a Research Analyst for American Express. Mr. Bertsekas previously served as Portfolio Manager for Fidelity Select Software and Computer Services Fund at Fidelity Investments. Mr. Bertsekas achieved his BS Degree in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to attain an MBA from Sloan School of Management in 1997.

Prior to founding LightKeeper Investments, LP with Scott Nicholas and Alan Kirby, Nina Hughes managed the Technology Opportunities fund and the RiverSource® Global Technology Fund within the RiverSource Investment division of Amerprise Financial. Prior to RiverSource, Ms. Hughes was a technology analyst at Tudor Investment Corp. Ms. Hughes also has over 10 years of relevant technology industry experience as a Biomedical Engineer at Baxter Healthcare and an Electrical Engineer at RF Microsystems, Inc. Ms. Hughes earned her B.S.E.E from the University of Vermont, her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and her M.B.A from Babson College.

Robert Levin, Chief Executive Officer, founded Transclick and has successfully led the company through multiple rounds of seed and early stage financing, has sold to early critical reference accounts and forged important strategic partnerships. Mr. Levin has provided strategy and financing guidance to early-stage technology ventures for most of the last decade. Mr. Levin has served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance at the Columbia Business School and also at the School of International and Public Affairs. Early in his career Mr. Levin worked with his family's firm as a trader and senior analyst. At that time the family firm, Chilewich Corporation was number 53 on Forbes' list of 500 privately held U.S. corporations. Mr. Levin was trained in Institutional Sales and Trading at Salomon Brothers and worked as a macro strategist for Paul Tudor Jones and for Louis Moore Bacon. In the early 1990's he served as a consultant for ViaTel, a value-added telephony services provider. An internationally recognized expert on new economy trends in finance and technology, Mr. Levin has presented at public and executive forums such as the Japan Society, the Chambers of Commerce in Osaka and Tokyo, as well as conferences for Institutional Investor, Dow Jones, Investment Management Institute and other international events. Mr. Levin has given expert testimony before Vice President Al Gore's hearings on the Global Information Infrastructure. Mr. Levin received an MBA in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and a BA in French Civilization from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Levin earned a Masters in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 2002.

Michael I. Marcus currently manages the Pergament Falcon Fund of Funds. Previously, Mr. Marcus was a Senior Analyst for Richmond Capital, an in-house risk arbitrage and special situations hedge fund. Mr. Marcus also served as a Trader and Analyst for Pergament's Midtown Strategic Capital, a long/short equity hedge fund for which he analyzed and traded stocks as well as built and managed the proprietary screening and trading models. Mr. Marcus originally joined Pergament Advisors as an Analyst and Trader for the Firm's core equity investment strategies. Mr. Marcus began his career at Bear Stearns. Mr. Marcus graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Finance and Management. He is a CFA charterholder and member of AIMR and the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Guy Caplan, CFA, is Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for the Argent Funds Group's Low Leverage convertible arbitrage products and the Argentum Multi-Strategy Fund. Mr. Caplan joined the firm in 1999, became Portfolio Manager for Argent's convertible products in 2001 and Portfolio Manager for its multi-strategy offering in 2005. Mr. Caplan started his career at Richardson Greenshields in Toronto, Canada as a Salesman/Trader on the convertible securities desk. Mr. Caplan joined Midland Walwyn Bermuda in 1996 as Vice President on the proprietary equity desk. In 1998 Mr. Caplan moved to Connor Clark in Toronto as a Portfolio Manager, with a focus on convertible arbitrage, quantitative arbitrage, and risk arbitrage in US and Canadian Securities. Mr. Caplan holds an MBA from Queens University, as well as a B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia.

John Hock joined Alexandra from Tremont Capital Management, a leading fund-of-funds group; where he was Executive Vice President and Head of Global Sales and Client Servicing, as well as a member of the Executive Committee. During his five-year tenure at Tremont, Mr. Hock helped to reorganize Tremont’s global business efforts to include strengthen the firm’s institutional business platform. Prior to joining Tremont, Mr. Hock was a Senior Managing Director and Partner at Alpha Investment Management, where he developed the firm’s global institutional hedge fund-of-funds effort. Prior to that Mr. Hock headed up institutional marketing efforts at Citibank Global Asset Management and UBS (NY) Asset Management. Mr. Hock was also a Co-Founder and Head of Sales and Marketing for Oak Hall Capital Advisors. Mr. Hock holds a B.S. and an MBA from Long Island University, which honored him in 2005 with a Distinguished Alumni Award.

Howard Needle, General Partner of Acuity Capital Management LLC, has spent the past 19 years working in the convertible market. He started with Lehman Brothers in 1988 as a convertible sales-trader. In 1995 Mr. Needle moved to Bankers Trust to manage the convertible sales effort. In 1998 Mr. Needle went to Banc of America Securities as a Managing Director and Partner in the equity derivatives department to manage the convertible sales and trading operations. In May of 2002, Mr. Needle moved to Greenwich Capital Markets managing a proprietary global convertible portfolio of $300MM. Mr. Needle started Acuity Capital Management LLC with David Harris in 2003. He currently serves as CEO and a portfolio manager of Acuity Capital Management LLC. Mr. Needle and Mr. Harris have worked together since 1995. They have extensive experience in structuring, pricing, and evaluating convertible securities on a global basis. They have broad and deep relationships throughout the broker/dealer and investor communities. Mr. Needle earned a bachelor degree in Economics from Harvard in 1984 and an MBA degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1988.

Matthew Rowe is Head of Trading and member of the Trading Group at Tamalpais Asset Management. Mr. Rowe brings more than nine years of experience in derivative and convertible bond trading to Tamalpais Asset Management. Mr. Rowe employs his deep experience in building and utilizing rigorous analytical and proprietary quantitative risk management models to capitalize on market events and changing market conditions, as well as to evaluate the convertible bond universe from multiple perspectives. As part of the original team at Marin Capital Partners, Mr. Rowe co-managed the portfolio of U.S. convertible bonds and helped bring the firm from inception to $2.4 billion in assets under management at its peak. His roles included Member of Overall Portfolio Management Team, Convertible Bond, High Yield and Credit Derivatives Trader/Analyst and Head of Equity Options Trading; he also supervised the trading support team. Prior to joining Marin Capital, Mr. Rowe worked on the Pacific Options Exchange for London International Trading. Mr. Rowe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wittenberg University in History and Liberal Arts and is an active member of MENSA. Mr. Rowe has 9+ years of experience in the Derivitives trading industry.

Michael J. Serota is the co-leader of the US Hedge Fund Practice and leader of the US asset management tax practice. This practice is responsible for service delivery, quality control, resource management, and market activity for hedge fund clients across the globe. Mr. Serota joined Ernst & Young from Deloitte & Touche where he was a partner and leader of its national hedge fund practice. Previously he was a tax partner in Arthur Andersen’s hedge fund practice serving clients across the United States and United Kingdom. Mr. Serota has worked extensively across the hedge fund, mutual fund, private equity and venture capital fund industries in the United States and internationally. Mr. Serota is a member of the American Bar Association and the AICPA and received both an undergraduate degree and a J.D. from the University of Illinois.

Jeffrey P. Barnett is responsible for all aspects of Granite Point Capital's business, including human resources, systems, trading, compliance and risk management. Mr. Barnett also serves on the firm's investment committee and has been instrumental in crafting a number of the firm’s investments in private equity transactions. Launched in February of 2004, Granite Point Capital is a research-driven, long/short equity hedge fund with a global mandate and a focus on mid-small cap US equities. While primarily focused on the public markets, Granite Point has invested in a number of PIPEs, private equity and venture-backed companies. Prior to joining Granite Point Capital, Mr. Barnett was vice president of venture-backed StarMine, the financial analytic software company, where he spearheaded the development of new software tools from concept to post sales support for such global clients as UBS and Lehman Brothers. Before StarMine, Mr. Barnett was a vice president in the equities division of Credit Suisse (First Boston). Mr.Barnett is a board member of the Boston chapter of the Hedge Fund CFO Association. Mr. Barnett is a cum laude graduate of Saint John's University (Minnesota) and received an M.B.A. from Stanford University, from which he has twice received the Outstanding Achievement Award for volunteer service.

Eli Combs is a Managing Director of Eos Partners, a $2.7bn+ USD Investment Manager, with investments in private equity, distressed and performing credit securities and long/ short equity strategies. Mr. Combs is Head of Business Development for all of the Eos Partners investment funds. In this capacity, and in conjunction with other principals of Eos Partners, Mr. Combs identifies new potential investment managers, structures investment vehicles, builds investment teams, and leads the capital raising process for these investment strategies. Prior to this, Mr. Combs was in a similar role with Dickstein Partners and with Caxton Health Holdings. He began his career in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs in New York. Mr. Combs has an MBA from Yale University, a MS in Finance from The City University of New York, and a BS from Miami University.

W. Carter Neild is a Managing Director and General Partner of OrbiMed Advisors, a $6 billion investment firm focused on the global healthcare sector. Mr. Neild is active in both the public equity and private equity businesses at OrbiMed and leads the firm’s investments in pharmaceutical royalty assets. Prior to working for OrbiMed, Mr. Neild spent three years as a Divisional Director of the UBS Alternative Investments Group, and several years in portfolio management and investment product development at the First National Bank of Chicago, now part of J.P. Morgan. Mr. Neild received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, a B.A. in Economics from Emory University and a C.E.P. degree from L’Institute D’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Mr. Neild received the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1995.

Robin Yanyan Yang, MBA, CFA, joined Jayhawk Capital Management in 2006 as a senior investment analyst. Previously Miss Yang was the founder and CEO of Fiery Phoenix Consulting, an independent research firm that specialized in the China market. Prior to founding her own her firm, Miss Yang was a sell-side research analyst for seven years with Stephens Inc., the largest investment bank off Wall Street. While at Stephens, she attained honorable mention in the annual Institutional Investors poll in 2003 and 2004. Prior to that, Miss Yang worked at American Airlines’ accounting division and Wal-mart’s international division. Miss Yang was born and grew up in mainland China. Before she came to the U.S. in 1995, Miss Yang worked as a translator at an import and export company and was a self-employed travel agent in China. Miss Yang is frequently quoted in publications including Forbes, SmartMoney, MarHedge, the Deal, the Wall Street Transcript, Global Investing, and others. She is also frequently invited to speak at conferences including Hedge Fund World, the China Private Equity Conference, the Global Chinese Financial Forum, and others. Miss Yang is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English.

Martin Schwartz is the Chief Compliance Officer of Millennium Partners, LP a multi-strategy New York-based hedge fund, with primary responsibility for developing and administering Millennium's regulatory compliance program. Prior to joining Millennium, Mr. Schwartz practiced law with the law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. At Fried Frank, Mr. Schwartz's practice was focused on the regulation of financial institutions under the federal securities laws. Mr. Schwartz counseled clients on a full range of securities law requirements, and represented clients in connection with SEC and SRO examinations and enforcement actions. Before entering private practice, Mr. Schwartz was on the staff of the SEC's Division of Market Regulation at the Office of Financial Responsibility Risk Management and Control. As an SEC staff member, Mr. Schwartz administered the financial responsibility rules relating to broker-dealers. Mr. Schwartz received a JD from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was an Articles Editor of the ABA journal The Business Lawyer. Mr. Schwartz is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Mr. Adams is Partner and CCO at ARX Investment Management LP, a global long/short credit fund. ARX Investment Management has assets under management of $1.2 billion. Mr. Adams holds an AB from Brown University and an LLB from Yale Law School.

Gregg E. Berman is currently head of RiskMetrics Risk Business covering institutional and wealth management offerings that serve Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Prime Brokers, Banks, Financial Advisors, Insurance Companies, and Corporates. Mr. Berman joined RiskMetrics as a founding member during the time of its spin-off from J.P. Morgan in 1998 and has held a number of roles from research to head of product management, market risk, and of business management. Prior to joining RiskMetrics Group, Mr. Berman co-managed a number of multi-asset Hedge Funds within New York-based ED&F Man. His start in the Hedge Fund space began in 1993, researching and developing multi-asset trading strategies as part of Mint Investment Management Corporation, a $1bn CTA based in New Jersey.Mr. Berman is a physicist by training and holds degrees from Princeton University (Ph.D. 1994, M.S. 1989), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. 1987).

Stephen McCaffrey is a Senior Counsel of KeySpan Corporation, a holding company that was created when Long Island Lighting Company merged with Brooklyn Union. KeySpan was acquired by National Grid UK and is now part of the National Grid Family. Mr. McCaffrey is responsible for practice areas involving all aspects of employee benefits related to defined benefit and defined contribution plans as well as executive compensation. He is also responsible for legal matters related to KeySpan's Treasury and Finance department. Mr. McCaffrey became a member of Long Island Lighting Company Legal Department in 1986. Before that, he was a Senior Tax Analyst in the company's tax department, responsible for federal, state and local tax issues. Mr. McCaffrey was appointed to the US Department of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council in March 2007. Mr. McCaffrey is admitted to practice before the Courts of the States of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, the United States District Court of New Jersey and the U.S. Tax Court. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from St. John's University and his law degree from St. John's University School of Law. Mr. McCaffrey is a member of the American Bar Association. Mr. McCaffrey is also legal counsel for the KeySpan Foundation and the KeySpan Insurance Company.

David Mooney has been involved in the commodities trading business since 1988. Mr. Mooney joined NewFinance in 2005 to establish the Opus Commodities Fund. Prior to that, Mr. Mooney worked for Merrill Lynch in New York where he had responsibility for making proprietary investments in commodities hedge funds. In this capacity, he developed portfolio construction and investment guidelines, as well as risk management processes specifically tailored for the commodities asset class. In 2003-4 Mr. Mooney built a European Power and Gas business and a derivatives capability for Trafigura AG, a private oil trading company with a substantial market share in physical oil markets. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Mooney built and managed the Bank of America proprietary commodities trading business. Mr. Mooney started his commodities career trading natural gas in North America, a market in which he was a pioneer. He began his career at Citibank in London in 1984.

Julian Barrowcliffe joined Proxima in April 2004 from Bank of America (from 1999 to 2003) in New York where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Trading. There Mr. Barrowcliffe managed a global derivatives business and personally traded a proprietary portfolio of relative value positions in crude oil and refined products. Prior to that Mr. Barrowcliffe was Managing Director at Cinergy Capital and Trading (May 1996 –June 1999) where he developed the recently deregulated utility’s derivatives trading capability. Prior to Cinergy he was a Director and Head of Energy Trading at Merrill Lynch (April 1992 – December 1995). Previously Mr. Barrowcliffe worked at Bankers Trust (October 1987 –April 1992) as a Vice President of Derivatives and at Shell International (June 1985-October 1987) as an oil trader. Mr. Barrowcliffe received his B.A. (hons) D.I.S. Business Administration & French from Loughborough University of Technology, UK.

Jeffry Haber is Controller of the Commonwealth Fund and Associate Professor of Accounting at Iona College. The Commonwealth Fund, among the first private foundations started by a woman philanthropist—Anna M. Harkness—was established in 1918 with the broad charge to enhance the common good. The Fund carries out this mandate by seeking to move the United States towards a high performance health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, and focuses particularly on the most vulnerable due to income, minority status, health, or age. The Fund supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund is a value-added foundation—conducting intramural research; working closely with grantees in designing, publishing, and communicating the results of projects; and conducting a web-based and media-oriented communications program aimed at reaching influential health policy and practice audiences. Annual income derives from its endowment, which has a market value of approximately $685 million, including a significant allocation to alternative investments. Active since 1986 in making alternative investments; The Fund now has approximately 50, including hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and natural resources. Its annual program and administrative budget is $30 million.

As Associate Professor, Dr. Haber teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in a variety of accounting areas. He also publishes in the areas of investments, anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, earnings quality, ethics, bankruptcy prediction and other areas of financial and managerial accounting. Dr. Haber received a B.S. and M.S. from Syracuse University in May, 1982 and a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in August 1994. He is a CPA, licensed in New York and is active on a variety of professional committees

Rodney Lake is an Investment Analyst in the Office of the Chief Investment Officer at The George Washington University, since July 2005. Mr. Lake is responsible for ongoing manager monitoring, performing due diligence for new opportunities, monitoring global economic, political and investment themes as well as capital flows in the public and private markets. He also serves as a teaching assistant for Applied Portfolio Management, a course in the George Washington MBA program where students manage a $1 million portfolio that is part of the University’s endowment. George Washington University’s enrollment totals more than 19,000 students and the Office of The Chief Investment Officer, which was established in 2003, is responsible for the investment of the University’s $1.0 billion endowment. Mr. Lake was previously a Senior Financial Analyst in the Executive Vice President and Treasurer’s office at George Washington University. Prior to joining the University, Mr. Lake was a Financial Analyst in the mortgage division of California Federal Bank. He received his BS from West Virginia Wesleyan College and his MBA from The George Washington University.