People


Our Team

  • Mr. Hennes is the Managing Member, CIO and Co-Founder of Atrevida Partners, LLC
  • Co-founder, Promontory Financial Group, an advisory firm focused on the financial services sector
  • Chief Executive Officer, Soros Fund Management
  • Bankers Trust Corporation, Executive Vice President, Sales, Trading and Derivatives division, member of the firm's Management Committee, Treasurer
  • Certified Public Accountant and an Audit Manager with Arthur Andersen and Co
  • Boards of Citigroup and Citibank NA, Standard & Poor’s and Syncora Guarantee Inc.
  • Mr. Hennes received a Bachelor of Science degree, Summa cum Laude, from the Wharton undergraduate division of the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA degree, with distinction, in Finance from the Wharton Graduate Division

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  • Mr. Sussman is the Portfolio Manager at Atrevida Partners
  • Partner and portfolio manager at PFG Advisors, LLC where he was jointly responsible fixed income strategies, including volatility arbitrage trades, yield curve trades, and cross-sector spread trades
  • Portfolio manager at Soros Fund Management in the relative value arbitrage group
  • Assistant portfolio manager in the mortgage arbitrage group at Soros Fund Management
  • Trader in the Fixed Income Arbitrage Group at Bankers Trust Company
  • Mr. Sussman received a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University

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  • Mr. Burnett is responsible for business strategy at Atrevida
  • Partner, Business Development, Saguenay Strathmore Capital, a $2 billion asset management firm located in Purchase, NY, Toronto and London
  • Managing Director, AIG Financial Products responsible for management of the firm’s capital markets coverage of the US insurance industry
  • Partner and Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets Group, Bankers Trust Company
  • 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

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  • Ms. Robinson is responsible for operational governance, compliance and due diligence at Atrevida Partners
  • Managing Director in the North American Equity Division of Nomura Securities International responsible for all regulatory, legal, compliance, audit, business continuity planning and IT control matters for the division
  • Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Chief Operating Officer for the firm-wide 630-person legal department
  • Bankers Trust: Global Head of Policy and Development for the Derivatives businesses; Global Head of Transaction Management; Head of the Product Risk group; ISDA’s board of directors
  • Ms. Robinson received a BA in Economics from Wellesley College and an MBA in Finance and an MA in Economics from Stanford University

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  • Mr. Jacob is responsible for business development at Atrevida.
  • 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
  • Managing Director at JP Morgan/Chase where he was responsible for relationships with banks, central banks and finance companies globally
  • 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
  • Audit Manager and Certified Public Accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co.
  • Mr. Jacob received a BS in Economics, Summa cum Laude, and an MS in Accounting, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School

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  • Ms. Strolin is in charge of Investor Relations and Administration at Atrevida Partners
  • Executive assistant to a general partner Forstmann Little & Co.
  • Executive assistant to Chairman of ING Barings, Americas Region
  • Executive Assistant, Greenwich Associates

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Board of Directors

  • Co-Founder and Board Member, Atrevida Partners
  • Treasurer and interim portfolio manager, Citadel Investment Group
  • CEO, Zurich Capital Markets
  • MD and Head of Derivatives, RBS Greenwich Capital
  • MD and Head of interest rate, equity, FX and commodity derivatives at J.P. Morgan

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  • Dr. Laffer is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm that provides global investment research services to banks, fund managers and corporations
  • Founding member of the Congressional Policy Advisory Board, which helps shape legislative policies for the United States Congress
  • Member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board
  • Consultant to William Simon and George Shultz, as Secretaries of the Treasury, and Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense
  • First Chief Economist at the Office of Management and Budget under Mr. Shultz from 1970 to 1972
  • Distinguished University Professor at Pepperdine University, Charles B. Thornton Professor of Business Economics at the University of Southern California from 1976 to 1984, and Associate Professor of Business Economics at the University of Chicago from 1970 to 1976
  • Dr. Laffer received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1963. He received an MBA and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1965 and 1972 respectively

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  • Mr. van Hoof has held senior positions in European financial institutions for almost 20 years
  • Senior Portfolio Manager with PVF Pension Funds in Amsterdam
  • Senior Risk Manager and Deputy Head of global equity derivatives with Paribas Capital Markets, London
  • CEO and Chairman of Soros Funds Ltd.
  • Managing Director with Bankers Trust in London, responsible for M&A arbitrage, derivatives arbitrage and venture capital investments
  • Managing Partner of VHC Partners LLP/ VHC International Ltd., an investment management group, based in Jersey which ultimately managed some $850 million of funds

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