BTIG
Justin Press, co-head of prime brokerage at New York–based global trading and fund services firm BTIG, spied an opportunity in 2004. Press, a nephew of Joel Press, an accountant and founding figure in hedge fund services, was then working as head of Midwestern prime brokerage sales for UBS. He realized that as hedge fund firms were growing into massive, multibillion-dollar businesses, large prime brokerages were paying less and less attention to smaller hedge fund firms. So eight years ago Press, now 38, moved to San Francisco–based broker-dealer Baypoint Trading and began building up its prime brokerage group. In 2005, when Baypoint merged with New York–based Bass Trading, Press became co-head of the prime brokerage business at the new entity, BTIG. Today, BTIG has more than 325 hedge funds on its prime brokerage books.
| Hedge Fund Rising Stars | ||||||
| NAME | FIRM | |||||
| Rick Gerson | Falcon Edge Capital | |||||
| David Ben-Ur | Caxton Alternative Management LP | |||||
| Atwood 'Porter' Collins | Seawolf Capital | |||||
| Javier Dyer | Permal Group | |||||
| Adam Fisher | Commonwealth Opportunity Capital | |||||
| Grace Gu | BlackRock | |||||
| Jason Karp | Carlson Capital | |||||
| Akiva Katz | Bow Street | |||||
| Laurie Katz | GoldenTree Asset Management | |||||
| Ingrid Kiefer | Canyon Partners | |||||
| Simon Krinsky | Hall Capital Partners | |||||
| Carrie Lo | California State Teachers Employees Retirement System | |||||
| Drew McKnight | Fortress Investment Group | |||||
| Marina Mekhlis | Rocaton Investment Advisors | |||||
| Neil Messing | Bureau of Asset Management, New York City | |||||
| Gideon Nieuwoudt | Silver Creek Capital Management | |||||
| Ricky Nardis | UBS Alternative Investment Solutions | |||||
| Vinay Nair | Ada Investments | |||||
| Sean Murphy | Game Creek Capital | |||||
| Kimberly Mounts | MAP Alternative Asset Management Company | |||||
| Tony Waskiewicz | Sisters of Mercy Health Systems | |||||
| Andrew Tsai | Chalkstream Capital Group | |||||
| David Solomon | Goldman, Sachs & Co. | |||||
| Howard Shainker | Bow Street | |||||
| Danny Sachnowitz | Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust | |||||
| Dean Curnutt | Macro Risk Advisors | |||||
| James Grossman | Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System | |||||
| Chris Paolino | Hartford Investment Management | |||||
| Mick McGuire | Marcato Capital Management | |||||