Donna Walker Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

(SEC-registered long/short equity fund of funds, established 1991) - Member of the Investment Committee responsible for all manager research, selection, ongoing monitoring and allocation decisions. Played key role in increasing assets under management from $504 million to $905 million.- A Sire fund won InvestHedge’s best 20 Year Performance award in 2015, 2016 and 2017; InvestHedge’s 2014 best 5 Year Smaller Manager Specialist award; InvestHedge’s 2013 best 20 Year Smaller Manager Specialist award; and InvestHedge’s 2010 best Emerging Manager.- Mentored emerging managers regarding marketing materials, DDQ’s and other investor documents.- Functioned as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer with oversight of Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Legal, Audit and Administrative Services, Investor Relations, Client Services and Private Investigator. - Oversee all aspects of due diligence on all managers including investment analysis, compliance, operational due diligence and private investigator reports. - Formalized all phases of the due diligence process. Negotiated side letters, reviewed manager brokerage statements, reviewed risk overlays, and monitored compliance.- Created liquidity matrix, initiating manager lockup adjustments to prevent liquidity mismatches.- Oversaw SEC onsite audit as compliance lead, receiving extremely clean exceptions report.- Identified and initiated contact with consultants who became investors, growing asset base. - Led overhaul of marketing materials in response to investor requests for enhanced reporting.

Wall Street Scoundrel Art (www.fearlessdart.com) focuses on frauds and bubbles- past and present- from a short seller’s perspective. My hope is to expose frauds and bubbles by bringing them to light in a way spread sheets and research reports can’t. “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

(Domestic long/short equity hedge funds - consumer focused) - Managed money exclusively for Bass Brothers Trading (BBT), a $2.5B multi-strategy hedge fund, from 2000-2003, resulting in average annualized return of 8.13%, annualized alpha vs. the HFRI Equity Hedge Index of 7.2%, up capture of 76.04% and down capture of 32.03%.- Managed, traded and marketed portfolio of domestic long/short equity hedge fund focused on the consumer, 2003 to 2005.

(Convertible arbitrage and relative value hedge fund co-founded by Donna Walker)Strategies included convertible arbitrage, relative value arbitrage and special situations.

(Market neutral hedge fund with $100M of assets under management)Strategies included convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, warrants and pairs trading.

Invested the firm's proprietary capital in convertible securities, warrants and long/short equity.

- Analyzed opportunities for convertible investments, pairs trading and merger arbitrage. - Worked on the pricing of the Texaco preferred stock Bass received in exchange for $1B in Texaco common stock.- Worked on potential acquisition of Marathon Oil which was eventually acquired by US Steel.