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

Brian Beh

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital Founder and Principal at Beh Investment Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

Previous Experience

• Partner at MMX Management LLC, Wayzata, MN

• President and Principal at First Light Asset Management, Edina, MN

• President and CEO at Roxbury Capital Management, various roles, including Director of Marketing and Sales

• Sales and Marketing at John Nuveen & Co

• Institutional Sales at Blunt Ellis & Loewi

• Investment Consultant at Kemper Securities

• B.B.S. in Journalism from the University of Iowa

• Over 30 years in the investment industry with expertise in public and private markets

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

G. Kipp Good III

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Precision Approach Capital, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

Previous Experience

• Citi Private Bank: Director of Business Development for Capital Markets and Alternative Investments Groups.

• Smith Barney: Product and Sales Management, Managed Product National Sales Team.

• Dryden Wealth Management/Prudential : Director of Product Development and Management with a focus on European and Asian markets.

• Prudential Securities: Pioneered in the development of investing platforms, developing, engineering, building and marketing revolutionary investment advisory programs with multi-billion dollar annual asset growth. 

• Industry knowledge and marketing successes include a wide range of product areas, with significant international and domestic experience, including alternative investments, mutual funds, managed accounts, and structured products.

• B.A. in Management/Finance from Gettysburg College

• FINRA Series 24 (General Securities Principal), Series 7 (General Securities Representative) and Series 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law)

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

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

Ethan Levinson

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Co-Managing Member of Kfir Capital Partners

Previous Experience

• Chairman & CEO, IDB Capital

• President, COO, & CCO, Brighton 5th Capital

• Advisory Board Member, Alternative Capital Advisors

• Co-Founder & President, SJ Levinson & Sons

• Managing Director, Albert Fried & Company

• Florida Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

• MBA, University of Miami (FL)

• BA, University of Wisconsin- Madison

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

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

Colin O’Donnell

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Leelanau Management

Previous Experience

• Registered Representative, Hollister Securities B/D, focus on private credit, private equity, real estate and hedge funds  

• Principal, Leelanau Management, advisory services to family offices and fund managers  

• Principal, Black Oak Capital Management, led all operations and public markets investment functions  - financials, consumer, REIT investments  

• Principal, Minetta Lane CP, led all operations and public markets investment functions - financials, consumer, real estate investments  

• Investment Analyst, Steadfast Financial, financials, consumer, real estate investments  

• VP, GMAC Commercial (now Berkadia, a division of Berkshire Hathaway) real estate and specialty finance

• Associate, Credit Suisse First Boston, High Yield, Private Equity and Leveraged Loans

• BS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

• MBA, Columbia University

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

Jay Pollitt

Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Principal at Beh Investment Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm

Previous Experience

• Managing Director at Mar Vista Investment Partners, cultivating and maintaining relationships with institutional consultants, family offices, endowments/foundations, public funds, and emerging manager platforms, and hedge fund-of-funds

• National Sales Director for Roxbury Capital Management, focusing on business development and client service

• Area Vice President for Caremark, a subsidiary of CVS Health

• Senior Vice President at MetLife, starting his career in business development and client service

• M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

• B.B.A. in Finance, with a minor in Spanish, from the University of Iowa

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

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

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