Michael Rudd

Managing Partner, Fort Greene Capital

Michael Rudd is the Managing Partner at Fort Greene Capital, a family office advisory group. He specializes in private equity and hedge fund selection, as well as portfolio construction.

Prior to Fort Greene Capital, Michael served as Chief Investment Officer at Sigma Analysis and Management Ltd in Toronto, constructing portfolios of hedge funds for Sigma’s managed account platform. Michael started his career at UBS in London, rising to lead the credit derivative index (iTraxx) and swaption trading desk before transferring to New York to run RBC’s covered bond and yankee bank trading platforms.

Michael received an MSc in Accounting and Finance (specialization Finance) from the London School of Economics and is a Chartered Investment Manager®.

Matt Shandro

Portfolio Manager, President, Fulcra Asset Management Inc

Matt founded Fulcra Asset Management in 2009. Matt has 19 years of investment management experience, with an extensive background in fixed income and corporate investing. His previous experiences include managing corporate bond funds at Great Pacific Capital Corp, CI Investments and Marret Asset Management. In 2004, the $2 billion Signature High Income Fund that he co-managed at CI Investments was awarded the “Canadian Income Trust Fund of the Year” by Morningstar. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of British Columbia.

Peter Carey

Head of Business Development, Axonic

Mr. Carey is Head of Business Development at Axonic Capital LLC.  Prior to joining Axonic, Mr. Carey was head of business development at Archview Investment Group. Prior to Archview  he was a Managing Director at SkyBridge Capital where he led the firm’s hedge fund solutions business.  Prior to SkyBridge, Mr. Carey was a Senior Investment Officer and Director of Absolute Return Strategies at the New York State Common Retirement Fund where he led the successful restructuring of the Fund’s $5 billion hedge fund portfolio. Mr. Carey worked in the institutional fixed income department at Bear Stearns.  Mr. Carey is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served as an Infantry officer in the U.S. Army.  He holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Southern California.

Jens Nystedt

Senior Portfolio Manager

Emso Asset Management

Jens began his career in 1998 as an Economist at the International Monetary Fund, where he worked for the Research, Policy Development, Special Operations, and International Capital Markets Departments. He then joined Deutsche Bank in 2004, initially as Chief Economist for EMEA and Head of the Local Markets Strategy, and subsequently held senior research positions in both the Emerging Market and Global FX Research groups. Jens then joined GLG where he was part of the Global Macro Investment team. Following GLG, Jens joined Moore Capital in 2008 where he held roles in portfolio management and global macro analysis. In 2014, Jens joined Morgan Stanley as a Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Sovereign Research. He joined Emso in 2017. Jens holds a PhD in International Economics and Finance and a MSc in International Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics.  Jens is based in New York.