Capital Placement Team

Butler Capital’s capital placement team provides global distribution capabilities through its senior relationships across the institutional investor universe. The goal is to understand both the needs of the manager as well as the specific investment objectives of each investor.


Peter Arethas

Alternative Asset Sales at Butler Capital and Managing Director of Evergreen Park Capital, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Placement Firm and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Saint Xavier University

  • Vice President, Gabriel Horn Capital

  • Venture Fellow, VU Venture Partners

  • Supervisory Principal, Chase Private Client, JPMorgan Chase

  • President, American Trust Investment Services

  • MBA in Finance from DePaul University, BS Economics from Indiana University - Kelly School of Business


Kevin Burke

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Director of Globalis Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment Distribution, Sound Securities

  • Chief Executive Officer, Ambac Financial Group, Investment Advisor and Broker Dealer subsidiaries

  • Director of public pension and corporate institutional sales, Paine Webber’s asset management subsidiary, Mitchell Hutchins

  • Global Securities Lending Executive, Chase Manhattan Bank

  • Chairman of the Corporate Affiliates Board, the National Association of State Treasurers

  • Contributing Author, Dr. Frank Fabozzi’s “Securities Lending and Repo” published in 1997

  • BA from Fordham University (Honors), MA Vanderbilt University (National Fellowship) and MBA in Finance New York University from Stern School of Business


Ted Duff

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Fife Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Managing Director, Quantum GBL, Manager Research and Product Development

  • Managing Director, Kellner Capital, Marketing and Business Development

  • Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch, Global Private Client Group

  • Associate, Bear Stearns, Private Client Services

  • 20+ years in investment management and capital placement

  • Trinity College BA in History; served on Board of Fellows 2012-2015

  • Current trustee, St. George’s School, member of the investment committee


William Gordon

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Director of Globalis Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • CEO, CCO, Founder & Managing Member, Dix Hills Partners, LLC, a global interest rate strategy, grown from $1 million to $1.2 billion in seven years

  • Founder, Sound Partners, LLC, a fund of hedge funds, eventually folded into Dix Hills Partners, LLC

  • Managing Director, Institutional Division, Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management (PaineWebber)

  • Managing Director, Prime Brokerage, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets

  • Vice President, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, advising Fortune 500 corporations and institutions regarding private equity, hedge funds and traditional asset management

  • MBA from Harvard Business School and BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Jeffrey G. Hansen

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital

 

Previous Experience

  • Principal at Guardian Investment Management in Portfolio Management and Equity Research

  • Senior Vice President at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods in Institutional Equity Sales

  • 15 years prior experience in equity research and institutional sales

  • BA in Business Economics and Sociology from University California, Los Angeles


Christopher Healy

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Partner of BridgeWood International Ltd, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Director, Haitong International, a large Hong Kong based multi-national financial services firm, New York

  • Vice President, Seer Capital Management, a $1bn+ diversified securitized credit hedge fund, New York

  • Director, Zais Group, a $5bn+ structured credit hedge fund focused on corporate and mortgage credit, New Jersey

  • Vice President, Ramius, a $10bn+ global alternative asset manager and hedge fund management firm, New York

  • BS Business Administration from the University of Vermont

  • Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Charterholder


Micah E. Jacobs

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital

 

Previous Experience

  • Marketing Manager at Brighton House, a firm that provides market intelligence and data on global institutional investors to alternative asset Managers

  • 12 years prior experience in sales and marketing

  • BA from the University of Vermont and an MBA from the F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College


Michael Kennedy

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Calpa Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Managing Director at Wilshire Associates, Santa Monica, CA, Head of IP Investment Products for Pensions and sell side firms

  • Founded Calpa Strategies focused on surplus assets at insurance companies and banks and on their asset/liability management

  • Programs and developed investment structures/hedging strategies that work specifically to reduce risk.

  • Director at Deutsche Asset Management in New York, gaining experience in many facets of the insurance asset management industry

  • Executive at Frank Russell in Tacoma WA, Managing Clients service and sales for Institutional and sell side firms

  • 25 years’ experience in Institutional Investment Consulting, Asset Management, Insurance Investment and Investment Banking

  • BS in Commerce degree from Santa Clara University, where he majored in Marketing, minored in Art History


John Lovisolo

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Partner of Scott Peak Capital, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Partner and COO, Coherence Capital Partners

  • Managing Director, Co-Head of Prime Brokerage Sales, Barclays Capital

  • Managing Director, Head of Credit Sales, Barclays Capital

  • Managing Director, Head of Marketing for North American Structuring Group, Deutsche Bank

  • VP, Structured Credit Trading, Blackhawk Limited Partnership

  • VP, Fixed Income Sales, Bear Stearns and Co

  • BA in Managerial Economics from Union College


Richard P. Miller-Jones (Penn)

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Adare Advisors, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Managing Member, Cherry Valley Solutions, Outsourced CFO/COO/CTO Solutions for Investment Managers/Family Offices/PE firms

  • Managing Director, Head of Prime Brokerage Sales, Cowen & Company

  • Managing Director, Head of Prime Brokerage Sales, Jefferies & Company

  • Managing Director, Prime Brokerage Sales, Banc of America Securities

  • Vice President, Prime Brokerage Operations, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette

  • Loyola College, Baltimore MD


Michelle Paisley

Managing Director

CC Strategic Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Managing Director, MVision Strategic Advisors, Global Private - Capital Market Advisory and Fund Raising (HK)

  • Division Director, Macquarie Group, Public Capital Market leadership roles in China, HK, India, Asia and Australia

  • Senior Vice President, Bankers Trust, Fund Manager and Analyst for European and Global Funds (Sydney, Australia)

  • Senior Analyst, CitiGroup, Institutional Equity Research (Sydney, Australia)

  • Analyst, HSBC/James Capel, Rated European Paper & Packaging Analyst (London, UK)

  • 25+ years of experience investing, analyzing and broking across public and private financial capital markets globally

  • MA Honours Degree in French & Psychology, St Andrews University, Scotland


Jeffrey C. Smith

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital

 

Previous Experience

  • Partner at S3 Partners, LLC, providing counterparty risk and cost mitigation solutions for hedge funds, responsible for business development, relationship management, and capital placement services

  • Head of Latin American Equity Sales and Trading at Credit Suisse

  • Institutional Equity Sales at Banco Garantia, Brazil

  • Institutional and High Net Worth Sales in the Shafiroff Group at Lehman Brothers

  • Investment Officer and Equity Research Analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

  • 25 years prior experience in sales and marketing

  • BS in Business Administration with a major in Finance from Georgetown University


Peter Spartin

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Director of Globalis Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Product Specialist, Alternatives, ABN AMRO Asset Management

  • Managing Director, John A. Levin & Company, Investment Manager

  • Managing Director, Weiss, Peck & Greer

  • Portfolio Manager and Client Service, Fiduciary Trust Company

  • Vice President, ASB Capital Management

  • 25 years experience in Investment Management and Capital Placement

  • BA in Business and Economics from McDaniel College and MS in Business from The John Hopkins University


Charlotte Stopford Sackville

Managing Member

CC Strategic Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Managing Director, Sales and Marketing, Stark Investments, a Global Multi-Strategy Firm

  • Director, Marketing, One Europe Fund, a European Equity Long/Short Fund

  • Vice President, Marketing, Bank of Bermuda

  • 20+ years experience in Capital Raising and Financial Services in London and Hong Kong

  • BA in English from Curtin University, Western Australia


Brian Thom

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Principal of Waveny Partners, Alternative Asset Management Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Capital Placement Practitioner and Advisor to Corporate Clients for Butler Capital and Principal of Waveny Partners

  • Head of Corporate Finance for the Americas with Société Générale

  • Managing Director at FBR & Co. Leading M&A and equity capital raising transactions in the Energy sector

  • Global Mergers & Acquisitions group at JPMorgan

  • Master in Business Administration from McMaster University


William D, Vogel, CFA

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Mission Peak Group, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

 

Previous Experience

  • Portfolio Manager and Head of Telecom, Media and Technology Investments at Omega Advisors

  • Senior Consultant to S&P Global’s Chief Credit Officer for criteria process re-engineering

  • Turnaround Consultant for Portfolio Company at Cerberus Capital Management

  • Six years of sell side experience as head of telecom services equity research at various Wall Street firms based in New York and London

  • Six years buy side equity research experience in Boston, Los Angeles and London

  • BA in Government with focus on International Political Economy from Harvard University


Paul Wigdor

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Partner of Scott Peak Capital

 

Previous Experience

  • Managing Partner, Ascendant Advisors

  • President, Superfund USA

  • Managing Director, Head of Equity Trading, BNY Mellon/Pershing

  • Associate Director, Counsel, Bear Stearns & Co.

  • BA in American Studies from Brandeis University

  • JD from Fordham University