Ron joined Robertson Stephens Asset Management as Chief Operating Officer in November 2016.Ron co-founded CounselWorks LLC, a strategic business and regulatory consulting firm, in 2006 and helped build and manage the firm until it was sold to Duff & Phelps in January 0f 2016.Until resigning in 2006 to start CounselWorks Ron was a Managing Partner and the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of Highbridge Capital Management.Ron was responsible since 1993 for the oversight of the day-to-day management of Highbridge and its operations, administration, human resources, media relations and legal and regulatory activities for about 235 people in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Grand Cayman. Ron was a member of Highbridge’s Board of Managers, Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Management Committee, Operating Committee, Risk Oversight Committee and Infrastructure Committee.Helped Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca build, run and grow a $12 billion private, international alternative investment management organization, consisting of a $6 billion multi-strategy, equity arbitrage hedge fund and a separate fund of funds business.Played key role in negotiating the $1.4 billion sale of Highbridge to JPMorgan in 2004.Co-founded Harmonic Fund Services, an offshore fund administration company.Former partner of Corbin Capital, a $3+ billion fund of funds management firm.Ron conducted for the SEC in 2010 an educational seminar providing an overview of prominent hedge fund strategies, and in 2011 a seminar on statistical arbitrage and high frequency trading.Specialties:-- launching private investment funds, and building out their operations, investor relations, risk management, legal and regulatory departments-- advising hedge fund founders on strategic issues such as equity participation plans-- analyzing investment strategies-- evaluating risk management processes-- implementing best practices for alternative investment firms
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