Disgraced CIO James Velissaris Tried to Disappear From the Internet. But the Internet Remembers a Lot About James Velissaris.

As news broke Monday that investment firm Infinity Q Capital Management was gating and liquidating a fund portfolio, its chief investment officer James Velissaris seemed to disappear from the internet.

His LinkedIn profile is now defunct. The Infinity Q website, which nowonly includes a statement about the situation, said Tuesday that it was undergoing maintenance.

But Velissaris couldn’t vanish from the internet altogether. News articles, his own research, and a defunct version of Infinity Q’s website paint a picture of what led up to his time at the firm.

Late last week, theSecurities and Exchange Commissiontold Infinity Q’s non-executive chairman that it had found evidence that Velissaris had been altering the third-party valuation models for its $1.8 billion Diversified Alpha Fund. The firm said it had independently confirmed this but had not assessed the impact of those changes.

Velissaris has since been placed on administrative leave and locked out of trading accounts by Infinity Q. He has retained attorneys Sean Hecker and Michael Ferrara, who told亚博赞助欧冠Tuesday that “Our client has acted in good faith throughout his tenure at Infinity Q and will continue to do so moving forward. His focus has always been on delivering and preserving value for investors.”

Before working in finance, Velissaris was an athlete. He played football at his Illinois high school, setting asingle-game rushing recordin 2001 that was broken 13 years later.

Velissaris was good enough to play for a college team, and his stepfather, David Claerbaut, began walking him through the recruiting process in earnest. Claerbaut went on towrite a bookabout the intensity of the Division 1-A football recruiting process calledRecruiting Confidential: A Father, a Son, and Big-Time College Football.

Velissaris ended up at Harvard University, where he played first as a running back and second as a cornerback, Harvard’s football teamwebsiteshows.The Harvard Crimsonreportedin 2006 that Velissaris and other players were involved in a dust-up with a shuttle bus driver at the school, resulting in a one-game suspension.

Velissaris graduated from the university with a degree in economics. He also received a master's degree in operations research, with a concentration in financial engineering, from Columbia University, according to a now-defunct version of the Infinity Q website.

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Velissaris began his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, then moved to Arden Asset Management, where he conducted analysis on portfolio construction and asset allocation. While at Arden, Velissarispublished researchon diversified statistical arbitrage.

He went on to work for TPG Capital founding partner David Bonderman’s $3 billion family office, Wildcat Capital Management. At Wildcat, he managed uncorrelated investment strategies that would become the foundation for Infinity Q, according tothe defunct website.

Velissaris was both the chief investment officer and principal owner of Infinity Q.

∞Q在周二称圣atement that it is suspending all redemptions in its Diversified Alpha Fund, as well as certain private funds whose portfolios contain the same or similar derivatives.

Len Potter, the firm’s non-executive chairman, has assumed management of Infinity Q. Potter is the president and chief investment officer at Wildcat Capital Management, according to hisLinkedIn profile.

Infinity Q has also hired an independent expert to conduct a valuation of its portfolio and oversee its liquidation.

“pl基金打算进行清算an and distribution to shareholders, both of which will be presented to the SEC for approval,” according to a statement published on Infinity Q's website. “At this time, there is no estimate of when the liquidation and distribution will be completed. Until then, redemptions of fund shares will remain suspended.”