I help entrepreneurs become owners of their own thriving business.

• Analyzed and raised capital for pre-revenue startup companies: • Absolute Strategies Fund – pioneer startup alternatives mutual fund.• 60% hit rate on exits.• 130% net return on direct portfolio investment versus flat VC Index and S&P 500 down 14%.

• Formulated investment process, actively manage and market liquid, multi-alternatives 1940 Act OE mutual fund.• Objective: generate non-correlated, low downside-capture, absolute-returns with premium to inflation.• Tactical allocation among universe of alternative asset classes and investment strategies or cash and dynamic security selection process including individual stocks, ETFs and mutual funds.• Conduct risk, return and investment process analysis of mutual funds and other actively managed strategies.Any third party posts linked to this profile should not be considered to represent my views.

Long/short equities in Basic Materials sector.

• Wall Street Journal All Star for Stock Picking and Earnings Estimate Accuracy.• Ranked 5th among 110+ senior analysts in institutional investor commission votes (1999 - 2000).• Voted by clients to Institutional Investor All America Research Team (1999 and 2000).• Ranked 1st or 2d on Wall Street in trading volume for all companies covered (1995-’00).• Chosen lead underwriter for two largest equity offerings in chemicals industry (DuPont‘s $1.5 billion offering in 1995, Praxair‘s $200 million offering in 1996).

Research analyst in Oil and Gas and Refining sectors.