Eric Burl
Global Co-Head of Sales & Marketing, Man GLG
Eric Burl is Global Co-Head of Sales & Marketing and oversees all business activities in North America as Head of Americas. He is also a member of the Man Group Executive Committee.
Eric was previously Head of Managed Accounts at Man Group's multi-manager business (which merged with Man FRM in 2012), where he led the teams responsible for business development, product management and structuring of Man Group's proprietary managed account platform. Before joining Man Group in 2004, Eric spent time at UBS in London.
Eric holds a Bachelor's Degree in Management from the University of Nottingham and is CAIA certified.
Brooke Jones
Director of Investments, Carnegie Corporation
As the Corporation’s Director of Investments, Ms. Jones co-leads its overall marketables portfolio strategy, which includes long-only, absolute return, and fixed income mandates. As part of this role, Ms. Jones serves as the primary lead on the Corporation’s emerging markets public and private equity mandates.
Prior to joining the Corporation, Ms. Jones led Stanford Management Company’s emerging markets public equity effort. Previously, Ms. Jones worked at Development Alternatives, an economic development consulting firm, where she focused on financial services consulting in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Ms. Jones holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BS in Economics from Wharton, and a BA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Rachel Kort
Managing Director, Hall Capital Partners LLC
Rachel D. Kort is a Managing Director at Hall Capital Partners LLC and a member of the firm's Portfolio Management practice in New York. She is also a member of the firm's Executive Committee, Management Committee, and Investment Review Committee.
Ms. Kort joined the firm in 2008. Previously, Ms. Kort was at Goldman Sachs in Investment Banking in the Consumer and Retail group, in both London and New York. Ms. Kort began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst with Salomon Smith Barney in New York as part of the Global Financial Institutions group.
Ms. Kort serves on the Board of Trustees and Investment Committee for the Loomis Chaffee School. She also serves on the Montefiore Medical Center Investment Committee and is a member of the Montefiore Council. Ms. Kort was named one of Institutional Investor's 2013 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds. Ms. Kort holds an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College where she graduated cum laude and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Meisan Lim
Senior Investment Director, Cambridge Associates
Meisan is a senior investment director advising on Hedge Funds in Cambridge Associates’ Boston office. As a member of the firm’s pension practice, she advises a variety of institutional investors on issues such as asset allocation strategy, manager selection, risk management and investment program evaluation. She has more than 16 years of experience in the investment management industry.
Prior to joining Cambridge Associates in June 2016, Meisan spent almost eight years at Omega Asset Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of a European family office, most recently as the director of hedge fund research. In this role, she was responsible for leading the U.S. research effort for all strategies and contributed to the success of its Cerrado Fund, which was nominated for Best Global Equity Fund (based on last five years’ return) by Hedge Fund Intelligence’s InvestHedge for four consecutive years, from 2013 to 2016. While at Omega, she also helped launch an uncorrelated fund-of-funds product. Prior to that, Meisan worked in the capital markets group at Apollo Management and the fund-of-funds unit at Guggenheim Partners. Early on in her career, she held positions at Evergreen Investments (now Wells Fargo), Tsai Capital, and Bloomberg LP.
Education and Professional Credentials: CFA charterholder, MS Journalism, Columbia University, BA in Economics and Spanish, Middlebury College.
Kate Holleran
Managing Director, Barclays
Kate Holleran is a Managing Director in the Capital Solutions Group where she leads the hedge fund manager team globally within Equity Finance, based in New York. Kate actively coordinates with members of the Capital Solutions group to oversee a platform of over 220 clients. In this capacity she works with key stakeholders in origination, credit and equities sales and SRM to drive prime brokerage revenue. As part of her responsibilities, Kate oversees investor coverage across the Midwest and west coast regions.
Kate joined Barclays in 2008 where she held a similar role on the Capital Introduction team. Prior to this, Kate managed the hedge fund turnkey business at Lehman Brothers and also worked in the Prime CAO team focused on business planning and reporting. Kate joined Lehman in 2001 as part of the finance division in London where she spent four supporting the equity finance business.
Kate Holleran received a degree in Business and Economics with honors from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland. She holds designations from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA, passed finalist 2004) and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA, passed finalist 2010).
