Greth Lester
Perella Weinberg Partners
According to fellow hedge fund marketers, Greth Lester is one of the best. Lester, 36, joined New York–based Perella Weinberg Partners in June 2007 after three years as a vice president in charge of business development with the fund-of-funds firm Ivy Asset Management.
Lester, who has a BA in anthropology from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, started out as a consultant with the Darien, Connecticut, advisory firm Casey, Quirk & Associates before moving into hedge funds, first as director of marketing for a New York hedge fund and then with Ivy. Since joining Perella Weinberg he has helped raise assets for its hedge funds, including the $3 billion distressed-debt fund Xerion. This year he moved to the U.K. to head up fund resources and branding efforts in Europe.
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| Name | Firm |
| Eric Alt | Hall Capital Partners |
| Jennifer Croswell | SAC Capital Advisors |
| Clayton DeGiacinto | Axonic Capital |
| 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 |