Caroline Gillespie Greer
CIM, Managing Director, Commonfund
Caroline shares responsibility for portfolio management and analysis, manager identification, due diligence, and investment monitoring. Prior to joining Commonfund in 2005, Caroline served as a Partner and Principal for Contego Capital Management, LLC, specializing in customized funds of hedge funds. She was responsible for sourcing, evaluating and monitoring hedge fund managers across a full range of strategies. Prior to joining Contego, Caroline was a Senior Vice President for Oppenheimer and Co. where she co-managed their funds of hedge funds program and monitored Oppenheimer’s private equity fund. Caroline began her career at Montrose Advisors, a boutique financial advisor specializing in managing customized funds of hedge funds and private equity portfolios. Caroline received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia University of New York.
Kristin Mott
Managing Director, Investor Relations and Marketing, MC Asset Management Americas, Ltd.
Ms. Mott currently serves as Managing Director, Investor Relations and Marketing for MC Asset Management Americas LTD a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation. MC Asset is an alternative asset management firm that provides unique investment opportunities to global institutional investors with a focus on real asset-based alternative strategies. Ms. Mott manages client and prospective client relationships, oversees the sales department and participates in new Fund development. Most recently, Ms. Mott helped launched a private equity fund in the shipping sector; successfully bringing to market a $300M first-time team, fund and strategy. Prior to joining MC Asset, Ms. Mott was Head of Investor Relations and Business Development for Arrowhawk Capital Partners where Ms. Mott led the marketing and client servicing efforts for a multi-strategy firm. While with Arrowhawk, Ms. Mott structured and launched a $700M relative-value commodity hedge fund. Prior to joining Arrowhawk, she served as Head of Investor Relations for DKR Capital. Previously, Ms. Mott founded The Mott Group, a strategic marketing, investor service and communications consultancy for hedge funds and funds of funds. Ms. Mott graduated from the School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota and is a member of numerous industry groups including 100 Women in Finance, where she is a member of the Advisory Council, Branding Committee and the Investor Relations & Marketing Professional Affiliation Group.
Kyu Scott
Managing Director, Perkins Fund Marketing
Ms. Scott joined Perkins Fund Marketing in March 2012 and has over 20 years of hedge fund marketing and investment banking experience. Perkins Fund Marketing is a leading placement agent that has raised over $6Bn for hedge fund managers since 1997. Ms. Scott is responsible for sales in Illinois and Missouri as well as for named accounts in the Tri-State, New England and Mid-Atlantic areas. She also works on new manager research and selection. Previously, she was a Director in the New York office of BlueCrest Capital, a multi-billion dollar London-based alternative asset management firm, where she marketed multiple hedge funds across a broad range of strategies to pension funds, foundations, endowments, consultants and family offices. Prior to joining BlueCrest in 2008, she was a Director at Perkins Fund Marketing. From 2005 to 2006, she was a partner with the Highlander Group at Citigroup Smith Barney, a wealth management team that advised high net worth individuals on investment portfolio design and wealth transfer, tax planning and risk mitigation strategies. From 2002 to 2005, Ms. Scott originated and marketed U.S. syndicated loans at ABN Amro and assisted in the build-out of this group. From 1995 to 2002, she originated and marketed Latin corporate bonds and U.S. syndicated loans at JPMorgan.
Ms. Scott graduated from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a master’s degree in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1993 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1995.
Sophie Tsai
Managing Director & Co-Head of Hedge Funds, State Street Global Advisors
Sophia Tsai is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Hedge Funds at State Street Global Advisors. She co-leads the hedge fund program and is also responsible for private equity investments in the energy and distressed sectors. Sophia joined SSGA in July 2016 through its acquisition of GE Asset Management. Prior to assuming the hedge fund role in 2015, she was a Managing Director focusing on direct, co-investments and fund investments across all sectors of private equity in North America for ten years. From 1995 to 2005, Sophia held several roles in Asia at GE Capital including Director at GE Equity focusing on direct private equity investments. She also led merger & acquisition transactions and due diligence for GE Capital Asia Pacific and GE Capital Finance. Prior to joining GE, she worked on client management and business development for the trading division of Swire Pacific Ltd.
Sophia holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in the US and the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong. She also received a BBA with concentration in Accounting from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sophia earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.
Jill Malandrino
Markets Reporter, Voice of America
Jill Malandrino is a markets reporter in Voice of America's New York Bureau, focusing on global macro trends and commodities. Prior to VOA, Malandrino was the Product Development Manager for TheStreet's Options Profits and reported from the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Chicago Board of Trade, CBOE and NYMEX trading floors. Her work has been featured on Yahoo! Finance, Fidelity, Nasdaq, CBOE and various financial blogs. Over Malandrino's 20-year career on Wall Street, she has held positions in institutional trading and compliance.
