Our Team

Duncan P. Hennes

Co-founder, Managing Member

Mr. Hennes is the Managing Member and co-founder of Atrevida Partners, LLC. Prior to co-founding Atrevida in 2007, he co-founded Promontory Financial Group, an advisory firm focused on the financial services sector. Prior to co-founding Promontory, Mr. Hennes was the Chief Executive Officer of Soros Fund Management.

Prior to joining Soros, Mr. Hennes was at Bankers Trust Company for 12 years. He held a number of positions, including Executive Vice President in charge of the Sales, Trading and Derivatives division, the Treasurer of Bankers Trust Corporation, member of the firm's Management Committee, Asset Liability Committee and Capital Commitment Committee and member of the board of directors of BT Alex Brown Inc.

Mr. Hennes represented Bankers Trust on the Board of Oversight Partners I, the consortium that took over Long Term Capital Management, where he was elected Chairman of the Board.

Prior to joining Bankers Trust, Mr. Hennes was a Certified Public Accountant and an Audit Manager with Arthur Andersen and Co. where he was employed for eight years.

Mr. Hennes received a Bachelor of Science degree, Summa cum Laude, from the Wharton undergraduate division of the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. In 1979, he received an MBA degree, with distinction, in Finance from the Wharton Graduate Division. Mr. Hennes is on the Boards of Citigroup and Citibank NA, Standard & Poor’s and Syncora Guarantee Inc., and on the Advisory Board of Freeman & Co. LLC.

Marc P. Sussman

Portfolio Manager

Mr. Sussman is a portfolio manager at Atrevida Partners. Prior to joining Atrevida Partners in 2007, Mr. Sussman was a partner and portfolio manager at PFG Advisors, LLC where he was jointly responsible for managing a pool of capital focusing on various fixed income strategies, including volatility arbitrage trades, yield curve trades, and cross-sector spread trades.

Prior to joining PFGA, Mr. Sussman was a portfolio manager at Soros Fund Management in the relative value arbitrage group where he was jointly responsible for managing a pool of capital focusing on various G-7 fixed income relative value strategies. Prior to joining the relative value group, Mr. Sussman was an assistant portfolio manager in the mortgage arbitrage group at Soros Fund Management. In this role, Mr. Sussman assisted in managing, trading, and hedging a multi-billion dollar mortgage arbitrage portfolio. He helped design and implement a risk management system to monitor the interest rate, prepayment, and convexity risk of the portfolio.

Prior to joining Soros, Mr. Sussman was a trader in the Fixed Income Arbitrage Group at Bankers Trust Company.

Mr. Sussman received a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1994.

Marion S. Robinson

Operational Governance

Ms. Robinson is responsible for operational governance, compliance and due diligence at Atrevida Partners. Prior to joining Atrevida in 2007, she was a Managing Director in the North American Equity Division of Nomura Securities International where she was responsible for all regulatory, legal, compliance, audit, business continuity planning and IT control matters for the division.

Prior to Nomura, Ms. Robinson was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, where she was the Chief Operating Officer for the firm-wide 630-person legal department.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Ms. Robinson was at Bankers Trust Company for 19 years. She held a number of positions there, including: Global Head of Policy and Development for the Derivatives businesses; Global Head of Transaction Management; Head of the Product Risk group. She was a member of the original team responsible for founding the swaps/derivatives business at Bankers Trust and Bankers Trust’s representative in the founding of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (“ISDA”). She served on ISDA’s board of directors for 5 years.

Ms. Robinson received a BA in Economics from Wellesley College and an MBA in Finance and an MA in Economics from Stanford University.

Samuel L. Jacob

Business Development

Mr. Jacob is responsible for business development at Atrevida. He is experienced in capital raising, consulting and providing advisory services for companies in financial services, technology, health care processing, entertainment and business intelligence and active as a private investor. He was advisor to the CEO of trueEx, the world's first CFTC-designated, Dodd-Frank compliant exchange for interest rate swaps.

Mr. Jacob’s previous positions include:

  • [icon type="angle-double-right" class="fa-li accent"]Vice-Chairman of Emigrant Savings Bank in New York where he was a member of the Risk and Asset and Liability Committees as well as Chairman and CEO of Emigrant Mortgage Company and Emigrant Funding Corp;
  • [icon type="angle-double-right" class="fa-li accent"]Managing Director at JP Morgan/Chase where he was responsible for relationships with banks, central banks and finance companies globally;
  • [icon type="angle-double-right" class="fa-li accent"]Partner and Senior Managing Director at Bankers Trust Company where his responsibilities in the US, Europe and Asia over 16 years included: Head of Global Fixed Income Sales; Deputy Head of the Asia Merchant Bank;
  • [icon type="angle-double-right" class="fa-li accent"]Audit Manager and Certified Public Accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Audit Manager and Certified Public Accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Lucien D. Burnett

Business Strategy

Mr. Burnett is responsible for business strategy at Atrevida. Mr. Burnett has over 30 years of experience in investment strategy and risk management with particular expertise in working with the insurance industry.

Mr. Burnett’s previous positions include:

    • [icon type="angle-double-right" class="fa-li accent"]Partner, Business Development, Saguenay Strathmore Capital, a $2 billion asset management firm located in Purchase, NY, Toronto and London. He joined Saguenay in 2004 as head of business development and client services.
    • [icon type="angle-double-right" class="fa-li accent"]Managing Director, AIG Financial Products, for seven years where he was responsible for management of the firm’s capital markets coverage of the US insurance industry;
    • [icon type="angle-double-right" class="fa-li accent"]Partner and Senior Managing Director, Bankers Trust Company, Capital Markets Group from 1980 to 1997.

Mr. Burnett is a graduate of the University of North Carolina where he attended as a Morehead Scholar and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.

Helen T. Strolin

Investor Relations and Administration

Ms. Strolin is in charge of Investor Relations and Administration at Atrevida Partners. Ms. Strolin has over 20 years of administrative experience supporting senior level executives. Prior to joining Atrevida Partners, she was an executive assistant to a general partner Forstmann Little & Co. Prior to that position, Ms. Strolin worked for ING Barings as the executive assistant to the Chairman of the Americas Region and Greenwich Associates, a financial research firm.