Gareth Henry
Fortress Investment Group
For most people, the prospect of studying actuarial mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, does not get the pulse racing. And yet that is what Gareth Henry, 32, chose to do. After graduating in 2000, he worked in management research at Watson Wyatt for a few years before joining U.K.-based money management firm Schroders, where he became a product manager in the multiasset-class group. In 2007 he left to go to U.S.-based alternative asset manager Fortress Investment Group to help with its marketing efforts.
Today, London-based Henry is a managing director at Fortress, in charge of raising capital in the European, Middle Eastern and African markets — and by all accounts, he’s phenomenal at it. Through hard work and relationship building, the reformed math geek has established great ties to sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and insurance companies.
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| Name | Firm |
| Eric Alt | Hall Capital Partners |
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| Benjamin Durrant | ICG Advisors |
| Jennifer Fan | Arrowhawk Capital Partners |
| Joshua Fink | Enso Capital Management |
| Pierre-Henri Flamand | Edoma Capital Partners |
| Gareth Henry | Fortress Investment Group |
| Erez Kalir | Sabretooth Capital Management |
| Katie Kalvoda | Newport Wealth Management |
| Edward Keller | Morgan Stanley |
| Andrew Laurino | Credit Suisse |
| Svetlana Lee | Varna Capital |
| Gary Lehrman | Lombard Odier Investment Managers |
| Greth Lester | Perella Weinberg Partners |
| Greg Lippmann | LibreMax Capital |
| J. Jason Mitchell | GLG Partners |
| Gaurav Patankar | Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co. |
| Craig Perry | Sabretooth Capital Management |
| Scott Pittman | Mount Sinai Medical Center |
| Gregory Racz | Hutchin Hill Capital |
| Angela Samfilippo | Pine River Capital Management |
| Jill Schurtz | Robeco-Sage Capital Management |
| Jonathan Shafter | Boston Provident |
| Steven Simmons | Maxim Group |
| Scott Sinclair | Cascabel Management |
| Faisal Syed | Pamli Capital Management |
| Morgan Sze | Azentus Capital Management |
| Oliver Wiener | BTIG |
| Patrick Wolff | Grandmaster Capital Management |