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Kyle Bass, Portfolio Manager, is the principal of Hayman Capital Management L.P., which was formed in December 2005. Hayman Capital Management serves as the investment manager to the Hayman Capital Master Fund, L.P. and Japan Macro Opportunities Master Fund, L.P. Previously, Mr. Bass co-managed the Subprime Credit Strategies Fund, L.P. and Subprime Credit Strategies Fund II, L.P.
Mr. Bass is a member of the Board of Directors of The University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO), which has aggregate assets of over $26 billion. Mr. Bass is a founding member of the Serengeti Asset Management Advisory Board and serves as a Board Member for the Troops First Foundation and Texas Rangers Foundation. In addition, Mr. Bass is a member of the Advisory Council of the Comeback America Initiative, which is dedicated to promoting fiscal responsibility and sustainability. Mr. Bass has testified as an expert witness before the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Prior to forming Hayman Capital Management, Mr. Bass worked as a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. and a Managing Director at Legg Mason, Inc. Mr. Bass graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate Finance from Texas Christian University in May 1992.
Porter Collins
Mr. Collins is General Partner and Portfolio Manager of Seawolf Capital. Mr. Collins is a managing member of the Investment Manager and the General Partner and serves as the portfolio manager and an analyst specializing in global banks and insurance investments. Prior to founding the Investment Manager in 2011, Mr. Collins was a partner of FrontPoint Partners, LLC from 2004 to June 2011, where he co-founded the FrontPoint Financial Services Funds. Previously, he worked as an analyst at Chilton Investment Company from 2000 to 2003. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Collins worked as an analyst in Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund group. Mr. Collins earned is Bachelors of Arts in History from Brown University in 1998. He was on the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team in 1996 and 2000.
Richard Evans
Dr. Evans is a 20 year industry veteran and leads the Healthcare practice at SSR. As a senior executive in the pharmaceuticals industry, Dr. Evans responsibilities ranged from corporate strategy to the pricing and distribution of the company’s products. His variety of assignments provided a comparable variety of vantage points on the industry. As an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein, he was ranked #1 by both Bloomberg and Institutional Investor for his U.S. pharmaceuticals coverage – across all industries and coverage he was ranked one of the top 20 analysts worldwide. Dr. Evans is the author of “Health and Capital” published in August of 2009. He is a co-founder of Sector & Sovereign Research, LLC.
Jeremy Grantham
Mr. Grantham co-founded GMO in 1977. Prior to GMO’s founding, Mr. Grantham was co-founder of Batterymarch Financial Management in 1969 where he recommended commercial indexing in 1971, one of several claims to being first. He began his investment career as an economist with Royal Dutch Shell. Mr. Grantham is GMO’s chief investment strategist and is an active member of GMO’s asset allocation division. He is a member of the GMO Board and has also served on investment boards of several non-profit organizations. Mr. Grantham has been featured in Forbes, Barron’s and Business Week and is routinely quoted by the financial press. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Dennis Lockhart
Dennis P. Lockhart took office March 1, 2007, as the 14th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In this role, Lockhart is responsible for all the Bank's activities, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. In addition, he serves on the Federal Reserve's chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
From 2003 to 2007, Lockhart served on the faculty of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, teaching in the master's program. He chaired the program's concentrations in global commerce and finance and international business-government relations, teaching courses in international finance and investment, global business strategy, and other subjects. He was also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
From 2002 to 2007, he served as chairman of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a sponsor/operator of emerging markets venture capital/private equity funds. From 2001 to 2003, Lockhart was managing partner at the private equity firm Zephyr Management LP, which is based in New York and with activity in Africa and Latin America. Prior to joining Zephyr, Lockhart worked for 13 years at Heller Financial, where he served as president of Heller International Group, which had activities in commercial finance and merchant banking in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In 2000, he served as chairman of the advisory committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
From 1971 to 1988, Lockhart held various positions, both domestic and international, with Citicorp/Citibank (now Citigroup). Early in his career with Citibank, he worked in the Middle East in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Greece, and Iran. From 1978 to 1986, he served in Atlanta as Citicorp's senior corporate officer and head of corporate banking for the Southeast. And from 1987 to 1988, he was head of the firm's Latin American debt-to-equity swap investment program, designed to restructure sovereign debt.
Lockhart serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, on the board of directors of St. Joseph's Health System, and as a trustee of Agnes Scott College and Atlanta International School. He also chairs the World Affairs Council of Atlanta and the Midtown Alliance.
Lockhart was born in 1947 in Bakersfield, California. He earned a BA in political science and economics from Stanford University in 1968 and an MA in international economics and American foreign policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1971. He also attended the Senior Executive Program at MIT, Sloan School of Management, in 1994. He served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1968 to 1974.
Rebecca Patterson
Rebecca Patterson is Chief Markets Strategist for the global Private Bank as well as the Institutional arm of J.P. Morgan Asset Management. In this role, Ms. Patterson provides market insights to help ultra high-net worth individuals, institutions, pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign entities make well-informed decisions for their portfolios. She also heads the global Strategy Group, providing in-depth, customized solutions for specific client challenges, as well as thought leadership on relevant industry and investment topics.
A senior member of the Private Bank's Investment Committee, Ms. Patterson was formerly Global Head of Currencies and Commodities for J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank, one of the world’s leading wealth management firms with $720 billion in client assets. In that role, Ms. Patterson oversaw a global team of 18 specialists that developed and executed customized investment strategies.
Over the preceding decade, she served on the Investment Bank’s currency research team. Her roles included senior global FX strategist for North America, based in New York, and head of emerging Asian FX research, based in Singapore. She also worked on the FX and precious metals research team in London.
Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Ms. Patterson was a journalist covering politics, economics and financial markets for Dow Jones, the Associated Press and the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, in London, Rome, New York and Washington, DC. She also worked at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.
Ms. Patterson is a graduate of New York University (MBA), Johns Hopkins University (MA), and University of Florida (BS). A trusted adviser to various departments of the U.S. government on financial-market and political issues, Ms. Patterson is frequently quoted in the financial media worldwide and is a co-host on CNBC’s weekly currency program, Money in Motion.
Jay Venkatesan, M.D.
Prior to founding Ayer Capital, Dr. Venkatesan was a Director at Brookside Capital Partners, the $9.8B hedge fund group affiliated with Bain Capital. In his role at Brookside, Dr. Venkatesan was responsible for jointly overseeing the healthcare investments of the portfolio and was involved in evaluating public and private investments in all of the healthcare subsectors. Prior to joining Brookside, Dr. Venkatesan was the founder and CEO of Varro Technologies, a knowledge management software Company focused on the life sciences. Previously, he was involved in healthcare venture investing at Patricof & Co. Ventures and in consulting at McKinsey & Company. Dr. Venkatesan received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.