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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Young has over 35 years of experience in investment banking, capital markets and investment management
Partner of CCP Equity Partners where he focuses on private equity investments in financial services related businesses
Chief Investment Officer of the Progressive Corporation where he supervised a $6 billion diversified investment portfolio and was actively engaged in the capital management of the company and its subsidiaries
Co-founder, Financial Institutions Capital Markets Group. Salomon Brothers
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co, Head the Fixed Income Division, member of the bank's Funds Management Committee
Mr. Young holds a B.A. degree from Rutgers University