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Bruce H. Lipnick
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Bruce H. Lipnick is Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Asset Alliance Corporation (“Asset Alliance”). He is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Asset Alliance Advisors, Inc. He has an extensive background in alternative investments with over 35 years of experience in the investment management and financial services industries, and was a pioneer in utilizing various hedging techniques in portfolio management in the early 1970’s through the 1980’s. Among other affiliate manager-related activities, Mr. Lipnick serves on the Board of Directors of Wessex Asset Management Limited, a UK based hedge fund manager as well as on the board of many of Asset Alliance's subsidiary and sponsored funds. He is also a member of the Asset Alliance Investment Committee, Transaction Structuring Committee and Co-CIO of the Asset Alliance Manager Participation Fund. Prior to founding Asset Alliance, Mr. Lipnick served as principal, general partner and senior executive officer for several investment management organizations including Wharton Management Group, Inc., which he founded in 1982 and also served as president. Mr. Lipnick is a member of the Advisory Council of the Milken Institute California Center and of the Advisory Board of the Eco Power Conference in Brazil. He is also a member of United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Speaker’s Cabinet, and in 2002 he received Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mr. Lipnick is a supporter of the New Combinations Fund for the New York City Ballet and a supporter of the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center. He is also a patron of MOMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a past Dinner Chairman of Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund and a board member of Hedge Funds Care. In 2008, Mr. Lipnick received the Lifetime Humanitarian Award for Giving from Hedge Funds Care. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lipnick was President and Founder of the Elms Companies and was Vice President of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., a merchant investment bank, in addition to founding and serving as President of Pierpont Management, Inc., a family office. Mr. Lipnick received a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Long Island University in 1969. Mr. Lipnick has directly or indirectly owned or operated seats on several major U.S. Securities and Commodities Exchanges.
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Arnold L. Mintz
Co-Founder, President, Chief Operating Officer and Director
Arnold L. Mintz serves as President, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Asset Alliance. Prior to co-founding Asset Alliance in 1996, Mr. Mintz has served as a senior operating executive and general partner of several investment management organizations and has been associated with Mr. Lipnick in such endeavors for 28 years. Mr. Mintz currently serves as the President of Asset Alliance Advisors, Inc., as a member of the Board of Directors of Asset Alliance and as a member of the Asset Alliance Transaction Structuring Committee. He is also Global Head of Hedge Harbor Inc. and Hedge Harbor Limited, entities involved in Asset Alliance's placement business and serves as Director of Capintro Partners Limited in Dubai, which represents Asset Alliance's investment placement business in the Gulf region. Over the course of his career, Mr. Mintz has held senior management positions in operations, administration, marketing and sales. Mr. Mintz is currently also a member of the Board of Directors of Wessex Asset Management Limited, a UK based investment management company. Earlier in his career, from 1982 until 1996, Mr. Mintz served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Wharton Management Group, Inc. and served as chief operating officer and general partner for several investment management entities affiliated with Wharton. Previously, Mr. Mintz served as Vice President of Elms Capital Management, Inc. and Director of Acquisitions for Envirodyne Industries. Among Mr. Mintz’s non-profit activities, he serves on the Board of Trustees and is the Treasurer of the New York School for the Deaf and is a Director at the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. Mr. Mintz attended New Mexico State University and majored in Business Administration.
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Stephen G. Bondi, CPA
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Bondi serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Asset Alliance. As part of this role, Mr. Bondi oversees the financial, accounting, tax, operations, risk management and compliance departments and is an integral part of the manager evaluation and acquisition process as well as product development. He also serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Asset Alliance Advisors, Inc., as well as the Chief Compliance Officer for both Hedge Harbor, Inc. and Asset Alliance Advisors, Inc. Mr. Bondi has over 27 years of experience in the investment management and financial services industries. Mr. Bondi has significant mutual fund experience. After serving as Treasurer and trustee, he is now Asset Alliance's appointed observor to Hatteras Alternative Mutual Funds' Alpha Hedged Strategies Fund (NASD "ALPHX") and the Beta Hedged Strategies Fund (NASD "BETAX"), open-end multi-manager mutual funds. For approximately 18 years prior to joining Asset Alliance in July 2000, Mr. Bondi held various senior financial officer and business positions with Gabelli Asset Management Inc. (renamed GAMCO Investors, Inc.) and served as a director for certain related entities. Prior to joining Gabelli, Mr. Bondi was a Senior Accountant at Spicer & Oppenheim specializing in audits of financial services companies (1980 - 1982). Among Mr. Bondi’s non-profit activities, he serves as a Board Member , Vice President (after having served as Treasurer) and member of the Executive Committee of the Coalition Against Child Abuse and Neglect and through December 2007, he served as a founding trustee of the Greenwich Roundtable, Inc., an organization focused on educating investors regarding the alternative investment community. He received a Bachelorsof Business Administration from Hofstra University and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Bondi is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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James Parker
Managing Director of Asset Alliance International (UK), Ltd.
James Parker is Managing Director for Asset Alliance International. Mr. Parker joined Asset Alliance in March 2005, and has 28 years of financial experience. He is responsible for the development of the Group's international operations through manager research and acquisitions, securing strategic joint ventures and distribution opportunities, and the development of specialized products. Mr. Parker is a member of the Asset Alliance Investment Committee and Co-CIO of the Asset Alliance Manager Participation Fund. Before joining Asset Alliance, Mr. Parker was with ABN AMRO Asset Management in London, where he was a member of the Alternatives Group Investment Committee and portfolio manager of the Asia Pacific Multi-Strategy Fund, a fund of hedge funds. He began his financial career with Marine Midland Bank NA, and for 17 years worked in the Asian financial markets, from both London and Hong Kong. Previous positions included Managing Director of W I Carr Far East, London and Head of Global Equity Sales at HSBC Securities. Mr. Parker has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages and Modern History from Oxford University, UK.
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