Executive Team
Butler Capital is led by Founder, R. Alan Butler, Jr., and Chief Operating Officer, Antoine C. Kemper, Jr. Collectively, they have extensive buy-side and sell-side Wall Street backgrounds, deep experience in alternative asset placement and a broad understanding of how to manage business risk and the operational infrastructure of large hedge funds. The team’s depth of knowledge has helped raise approximately $7 billion to-date successfully from a global investor base for over twenty-five different hedge funds and niche private equity funds across multiple strategies.
R. Alan Butler, Jr
Founder & Managing Member
Founded Butler Capital in 2001 and built it into a successful global capital placement business focused on raising capital for alternative investment Managers. Currently leads the firm's capital raising and sourcing efforts by leveraging Butler’s extensive investor network database and long-standing industry relationships.
Previous Experience
Institutional US Equity Sales at Lehman Brothers leading a team of eight professionals focused on coverage of large hedge funds
Senior Institutional Sales at Thomas Weisel Partners directing a team of eight professionals focusing on East Coast Private Banking Clients
Senior Salesman focusing on equities, equity derivatives and high yield at Dillon Reed & Co.
Salesman covering institutional investors, hedge fund and high net worth individuals and families at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management
Antoine C. Kemper, Jr
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Compliance Officer
Head of operations team, oversees the administrative, finance, reporting communications functions, and integrated technology systems.
Previous Experience
Executive Vice President at E*TRADE Financial managing the Equity Capital Markets Division, Market-Making/Specialist Division, and Day Trading Division
Chief Operating Officer at Dempsey, a market-making and specialist firm on the Chicago Stock Exchange
1st Vice President of Prudential Securities in the Capital Markets Group
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.
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, Stern School of Business
Previous Experience
Head of Business Development and Investor Relations, Casablanca Capital, an Event/Activist Hedge Fund
Senior Hedge Fund Placement Agent, Oakpoint Advisors
Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at Eastern Advisors, an Asian Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund, and Tiger Management seed
15 years experience in Global Institutional Equity Sales and Trading in New York, London and Hong Kong
BS in Business Administration with a major in Finance from Georgetown University
John F. Donovan
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Madison Peak Advisors, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
Previous Experience
SVP, West Coast Regional Head, Prime Brokerage Sales, Jefferies & Company
Senior Sales Executive, Reflow Management, Sutton Place Associates, Gordon Getty Family Office
Principal, Research Equity Sales, Bank of America Securities
Principal, Research Equity Sales, Montgomery Securities
Board Member, CALALTS, California Alternative Investments Association
BA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Robin Fink
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Taku 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
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
William Gordon
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Director of Globalis Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
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
Jeffrey G. Hansen
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital
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
B.S. Business Administration from the University of Vermont
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Charterholder
Christopher Healy
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Principal of BridgeWood International Ltd, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
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
Micah E. Jacobs
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital
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
John Lovisolo
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Partner of Scott Peak Capital, 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
Richard P. Miller-Jones (Penn)
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Adare Advisors, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
Previous Experience
Co-Founder of Stony Point Advisors, a fund of hedge funds focused on long/short equity Managers
Founder of Perini-Morley, a New York floor-based commodities/futures brokerage and proprietary trading firm
Over 30 years of financial, due diligence and research experience
BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA in Finance with a concentration in Investment Management from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University
John W. Morley
Alternative Asset Sales and Director of Research 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
Jeffrey C. Smith
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital
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
Peter Spartin
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Director of Globalis Partners, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
Previous Experience
Managing Director at Guggenheim Group in the Alternative Asset Management Group
Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette in fixed income sales
33 years prior experience in sales and marketing
BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Columbia Business School
S. Cranford Stoudemire
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital
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
William D, Vogel, CFA
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Member of Mission Peak Group, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
Previous Experience
Over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry, spending ten years in the US and then the past eight years in Hong Kong
Chief Operating Officer, Factorial Management Ltd., an Asian Event Driven Hedge Fund, Hong Kong
Managing Director Business Development, BosValen Asset Management, an Asian focused Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund, Hong Kong
Head of Business Development and Strategy, Serica Partners Ltd., an Asian Credit Focused Hedge Fund, Hong Kong
Head of Marketing and Investor Relations, Matchpoint Investment Management, an Asian Event Driven Hedge Fund, Hong Kong
Executive Director, UBP, Hong Kong
Executive Director, UBP Asset Management, New York
Financial Advisor and Regional Manager in the Alternative Investment Group, UBS Financial Services, USA
BA from Wake Forest University and holds the designation of Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA)
Robert Wood
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Founder of BridgeWood International Ltd, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
Previous Experience
Partner and Head of Business Development and Investor Relations, C12 Capital Management
Managing Director, Credit and Structured Credit, Barclays Capital
Director, Securitized Product and Structured Credit Institutional Sales, Deutsche Bank
BA in International Studies/Economics from Colby College
David G. Wright, CFA
Alternative Asset Sales for Butler Capital and Managing Partner of Scott Peak Capital, Alternative Asset Placement Firm
Research Team
An in-house research team, committed to sourcing and vetting what Butler deems uniquely talented Investment Managers, comprised of an average of more than 20 years of industry and due diligence/research capability.
Previous Experience
Co-Founder of Stony Point Advisors, a fund of hedge funds focused on long/short equity Managers
Founder of Perini-Morley, a New York floor-based commodities/futures brokerage and proprietary trading firm
Over 30 years of financial, due diligence and research experience
BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA in Finance with a concentration in Investment Management from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University
John W. Morley
Director of Research for Butler Capital and Alternative Asset Sales
Operations Team
Operations team focused on industry compliance, finance, technology, and sales support, with an average of more than 26 years of business experience.
Previous Experience
Controller at Matrix Capital Markets Group, a subsidiary of AXA Financial Services, a leading middle market M&A advisory firm
Controller at PBM Products, a privately held multi-million dollar marketing and distribution company
Member of the audit group at Ernst & Young
Over 21 years of operational and financial experience
BBA and MSA from James Madison University specializing in Accounting and Information Systems and is a Certified Public Accountant
Anne E. Grady
Controller at Butler Capital
Previous Experience
Executive Assistant to the Commander of the 305th Communications Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, United States Air Force
Over fifteen years of operational and IT experience
Kristin A. Feeney
Director of Operations at Butler Capital
Outsourced Operations
Previous Experience
Senior Vice President, Director of Regulatory Accounting and Financial Compliance, Wachovia Securities
Chief Financial Officer of First Clearing LLC
Managing Director, Controller, Wheat First Securities
Certified Public Accountant
BS in Business Administration (Accounting) from Pennsylvania State University
Jeff Harpel
FINOP for Butler Capital Partners
Director at Oyster Consulting
Serves as the FinOp for a number of brokerage firm clients of Oyster Consulting