Frank C. Meyer brings over thirty-five years of investment experience and a deep roster of industry contacts to his position as Senior Advisor to SkyBridge Capital. In this capacity, Mr. Meyer provides strategic guidance to the SkyBridge management team across all aspects of the business, supporting the firm’s capital raising, business-building and investment efforts. Mr. Meyer plays a pivotal role in our due diligence and risk management processes.
Prior to his retirement in 2004, Mr. Meyer was chairman of Glenwood Capital Investments, LLC, an investment advisor specializing in hedge funds, which he founded in 1988. In 2000, Glenwood became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Man Investments division of Man Group, plc, following a joint venture relationship that was established in 1994 to distribute Glenwood's products to the global market. Mr. Meyer is currently a private investor.
From 1986 through 1987, Mr. Meyer was a general partner of Knightsbridge Partners, a private equity firm. From 1973 to 1986, he served as co-manager of Grosvenor Partners, a fund with an investment program in hedge funds similar to that of Glenwood Capital Investments. Prior to 1973, he was employed at A.G. Becker & Company, where he helped redesign that firm's performance measurement service for pension funds. Mr. Meyer received his B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and began his career at the university's School of Business as an instructor of statistics.
Hesham Alquraini currently serves as Vice President at the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO), where he is responsible for sourcing new investments in the following asset classes and strategies: hedge funds, buyouts, venture capital, mezzanine debt, secondary transactions, life sciences and technology. Mr. Alquraini maintains strong relationships with top-tier managers across Europe and Asia.
Born and raised in Kuwait City, Hesham Alquraini was educated in Kuwait and the United States. In 1993 Mr. Alquraini was awarded a degree in Industrial Engineering from Toledo University in Ohio. Following his graduation, he helped establish the Industrial Engineering department at the University of Kuwait. In 1995, Mr. Alquraini joined the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), where he first served in the Local Investments department and later became a member of the firm’s Privatization team. In that capacity, he helped market Government Owned Entities to strategic investors through both private and public placements. In early 2000, Mr. Alquraini assumed his current role at the KIO in London, where he currently resides with his wife and three children. Mr. Alquraini continues to represent both KIA and KIO on a number of fund advisory and corporate boards.
Steve Braverman is Co‐Founder and Managing Director of Pathstone Family Office, an independent, family and employee owned integrated wealth management organization providing multi‐generational financial management and customized investment advisory to families of significant wealth. He has more than 20 years of professional experience working with family offices and providing advice on their total wealth management.
Prior to co‐founding Pathstone Family Office, Mr. Braverman served as President of Harris myCFO Investment Advisory Services, LLC. He speaks frequently at industry conferences and is a regular contributor to the media on a wide range on subjects regarding high net worth families, their investment options and an integrated approach to achieving multigenerational goals. Mr. Braverman has received a number of important industry awards and recognitions over his career. Worth Magazine recently identified him as a “Leading Edge Advisor” and profiled him in their May/June 2009 issue. In 2007, he was nominated by Institutional Investor’s “Private Asset Management” magazine for Family Office of the Year.
Jon Hirtle is the Chief Executive Officer of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co., a privately-held investment firm, where he chairs the firm’s Executive Committee and serves on the Investment Policy Committee. Now in its twenty first year, Hirtle Callaghan was the first investment firm to offer outsourced Chief Investment Officer capabilities to institutions and high net worth individuals. With over $17 billion of assets under supervision, Hirtle Callaghan manages sophisticated, globally diversified portfolios across asset classes for family groups and institutions throughout the U.S.
Prior to founding Hirtle Callaghan, Mr. Hirtle worked at Goldman Sachs, where he provided investment advisory services to institutions and family offices. Mr. Hirtle received his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 1974 and 1982, respectively. In addition, he served in the United States Marine Corps from 1975 to 1982. Mr. Hirtle is a trustee of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative and the Abbey Leadership Foundation.
Edward J. Mathias is a Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. He was instrumental in the founding of The Carlyle Group and assisted in raising the firm's initial capital. Prior to joining Carlyle in January 1994, Mr. Mathias was a member of the Management Committee and Board of Directors of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., a major investment management organization.
Mr. Mathias presently oversees Carlyle’s Global Growth Products and also serves on the Investment Committees for Carlyle's energy affiliate, Carlyle-Riverstone, as well as The Mid-Eastern Northern African Fund (MENA). He also acts in an advisory role for the firm's Global Credit Funds.
Mr. Mathias has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is presently a Trustee and member of the Penn Investment Board that oversees the University’s endowment. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where he serves on The Dean’s Board of Advisors. He also serves on The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Investment Advisory Committee. Mr. Mathias is a director of NexCen Brands, Inc. and Triple Crown Acquisition Corp. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, co-chairs the President’s Circle at the National Gallery of Art where he is also a member of the Trustees’ Council, and is Program Chairman for The Economic Club of Washington.
Robert Matza joined GoldenTree in January, 2006. Mr. Matza was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of Neuberger Berman, Inc., as well as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Lehman Brothers’ Management and Investment Committees. He joined Neuberger Berman in April 1999 as a Principal. Mr. Matza led the team that successfully completed the IPO of Neuberger Berman in November 1999. As Chief Operating Officer he presided over a significant overhaul of the company’s infrastructure, investment talent and process while transitioning the company from a successful partnership to an asset manager that was poised for growth. He negotiated and completed six acquisitions between 2000 and 2003. In 2003, Mr. Matza negotiated the $3.0 billion merger of the company with Lehman Brothers. Assets under management grew from approximately $68 billion to over $100 billion in the two year period subsequent to the closing on October 31, 2003. Mr. Matza’s previous industry experience, prior to 1996, includes 16 years with Lehman Brothers and its predecessor companies, where he last served as Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Operating and Investment Committees. In 1996 he joined Travelers Group as its Treasurer and became Deputy Treasurer of Citigroup after Travelers and Citicorp merged. While at Citigroup, he was on the Finance, Investment and Merger & Acquisition Committees. Mr. Matza is a member of the Advisory Board of Moelis & Company Holdings LLC, (Moelis & Company is an investment bank that provides financial advisory services and capital raising solutions to clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and other strategic matters). He is an Advisory Director of SkyBridge Capital, LLC (SkyBridge Capital is a private investment partnership that provides strategic capital to talented managers who are developing new or early-stage hedge funds) and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board and the Board of the Center for Institutional Investment Management of the University at Albany’s School of Business. Mr. Matza earned his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany, his MBA in finance from New York University and he is a Certified Public Accountant. He started his career at Coopers and Lybrand on the audit staff.