Eric Alper serves as General Counsel to SkyBridge.  He came to the firm from the roles of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of U Capital Group, LP, one of SkyBridge’s seeded funds. Prior to joining U Capital, Mr. Alper was Chief Financial Officer of Weston Capital Management, LLC (2006 – 2007), Vice President of Finance at Ivy Asset Management Corp (2004 – 2006) and a Vice President at Neuberger Berman (2000 – 2004).  He was also employed by several multinational corporations as Tax Counsel, and started his career in public accounting.

Mr. Alper received an LLM in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law, and a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan’s School of Business Administration; in addition, Mr. Alper is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant and attorney with the State of New York.

Deidre Ball is in Investor Relations at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge in 2007, she worked at Eton Park Capital Management as Executive Assistant to Scott Prince. Ms. Ball began her career as a Human Resource Specialist at JPMorgan’s Investment Bank Training & Development group.

Ms. Ball earned a B.A. in Communications from the University at Buffalo.

Elizabeth Bellino is a Vice President of Marketing for SkyBridge, responsible for the marketing and client service functions for the SkyBridge product suite. Prior to joining the firm in July 2010, she served as a Vice President of Marketing and Client Service in the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI). Ms. Bellino held various roles in CAI, including product development, product management, and investing services for the fund of hedge funds and single manager hedge fund platform.

Ms. Bellino received a B.S. in Management with a minor in Finance from Providence College.

Timothy Bello is Head of Global Platforms at SkyBridge. Prior to SkyBridge, he was a founding member of Fides Capital Management LLC based in Pasadena, a firm which focuses on distressed real estate transactions west of the Rockies.  Before Fides, Mr. Bello co-led the Permal Group’s US platform distribution operation, where he helped coordinate the launch of Permal’s first US taxable fund of hedge funds into the marketplace.

Mr. Bello earned a B.A. from St. Lawrence University.

King Chan is a senior hedge fund accountant covering funds of hedge funds and managed accounts at SkyBridge. Prior to this role, Ms. Chan performed a similar role in the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI). Before joining CAI in 2005, she worked as mutual fund accountant at The Bank of New York.

Ms. Chan received B.S. in Finance and Management Information System from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She also holds CAIA charter and is a member of CAIA association.

Steven Ciampi is a Managing Director responsible for the Business Development and Manager Research in London, the Middle East and Asia for SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge in July 2010, Mr. Ciampi was a Managing Director in the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments, responsible for Business Management in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and Global Marketing/Client Service; he joined Citigroup in 1993 and later managed their Futures Business in Europe and Australia.  From 2001, Mr. Ciampi was responsible for Citigroup’s Equity Finance and Prime Brokerage unit in London. He was previously the Vice Chairman of the UK Futures Industry Association and was a member of the Executive Board of the Futures and Options Association and a past member of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Mr. Ciampi is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

Tom Gallagher is Chairman of SkyBridge Capital AG, the European branch of SkyBridge.  He is also Chairman of Exchequer Fund Management A.G., Exchequer Capital GmbH, Exchequer Managed Accounts SPC Ltd., and 3Oaks Capital GmbH.  Previously, Mr. Gallagher was Head of Alternative Investments at Valartis Asset Management S.A.  Prior to founding Exchequer Fund Management, and Exchequer Managed Accounts SPC, Mr. Gallagher founded Exchequer Capital GmbH, and before that he was Director of European Wealth Management at Alstra Capital Management, Director of Strategic Products at Moore Capital Management’s Fund Investment Group, founder and Chief Strategic Officer at Oak Hill Platinum Partners (now Platinum Grove Asset Management), Counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Milbank Tweed, and a partner at Gallagher & Blitz, Chadbourne Parke, and O’Connor & Hannan.  Before that, Mr. Gallagher was Legislation Counsel for the Joint Committee on Taxation of the Congress of the United States.  Mr. Gallagher also is a member of the Supervisory Board of Fundmatrix A.G. and the Yale Club of Switzerland.

He is a graduate of Yale University Law School, Loyola University Law School, and Villanova University, and lives in Zürich, Switzerland.

Sarah Hansen is an Associate at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge in 2008, she interned at Bank of New York Mellon in the Mortgage-Backed Securities group in 2007.

Ms. Hansen received a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Vanderbilt University.

Alyson Hopkins joined SkyBridge in July 2010 as an Executive Assistant. Prior to this role, she was an Executive Assistant in the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI). Ms. Hopkins joined Citigroup in 2005 as an Assistant to the Head of Global Sales. She also served as an Assistant to the Sustainable Development Investments team.

Ms. Hopkins received an Associates Degree from the Katherine Gibbs Business School.

Christopher Hutt is the Head of Hedge Fund Administration and Operations at SkyBridge where he is responsible for managing the operations for the SkyBridge product suite and is also the product manager for the fund of hedge fund products and managed accounts. Prior to this role, Mr. Hutt was Director of Hedge Fund Operations within the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI). Prior to joining CAI in 2004, Mr. Hutt held various product management positions at Morgan Stanley & Co. and JPMorgan Chase over an eight year span.

Mr. Hutt received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Cortland.

Janice Lann is an Assistant Vice President of Hedge Fund Accounting at SkyBridge, responsible for both funds of hedge funds and managed accounts.  Ms. Lann previously held a similar position in the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI), where she also worked on single manager funds.  Prior to joining CAI in 2006, Ms. Lann was a managed accounts accountant at NuVerse Advisors.

Ms. Lann received a B.B.A. in Accounting from Baruch College, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Matt McCann is a Vice President and heads the marketing efforts for various SkyBridge managers.  In addition, he works on all marketing initiatives related to the SkyBridge fund products.  Prior to SkyBridge, Mr. McCann worked at 1-800-flowers.com as a staffing coordinator.

He received a B.A. in Business Management from Hofstra University.

Jonathan McEvoy is a Senior Vice President in Business Development at SkyBridge.  Previously, Mr. McEvoy was an Investment Banking Analyst and Associate at RBC Capital Markets.

Mr. McEvoy earned an M.B.A. at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management where he concentrated in Finance and a B.A. from Dickinson College.

Samantha Nick is in Investor Relations at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge this year, she interned at The United States Securities and Exchange Commission in the summer of 2009.

Ms. Nick received a B.A. in Economics at New York University.

Max Osborne is a Director of global platform distribution at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge, Mr. Osborne managed US sales for The Permal Group, where he was a key member of the team that launched the company’s first domestic fund of hedge funds and a 1940 Act registered mutual fund to all major distributors. Before joining Permal in 2007, Mr. Osborne spent five years at Citigroup Solomon Brothers (now Legg Mason) covering sales for southern California and Hawaii. He has also worked as an independent financial advisor.

Mr. Osborne has a B.A. from Western Connecticut State University.

Victor Oviedo is Partner and Head of Business Development at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge in 2006, Mr. Oviedo was a Senior Consultant in the Capital Markets Management Consulting Group at Oliver Wyman, a financial services and strategy risk management consulting firm. He began his career in investment banking at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette and has also held positions at Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust.  

Mr. Oviedo holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University.  He earned his B.A. degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Robert Phillips is a Partner and the Chief Financial Officer of SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge in 2007, Mr. Phillips served as the Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of two investment management companies--Lucerne Management, LLC and Coventry Capital, LLC.  Prior to 2001, Mr. Phillips served as the Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of a publicly held bio-pharmaceutical contract service organization where he was responsible for all finance, accounting, SEC reporting, and investor relation functions.  Mr. Phillips began his career as an auditor and spent 8 years with BDO Seidman, LLP, a national professional services firm which provides assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies.

Mr. Phillips earned a B.A. degree in Accounting from Upsala College in 1984 and is a certified public accountant.

Brahm Pillai is a Vice President of Product Management at SkyBridge.  Mr. Pillai is responsible for setup, operational management and trade execution for the various fund of hedge fund products and managed accounts at SkyBridge.  Before joining SkyBridge in July 2010, Mr. Pillai was a Product Manager within the Hedge Fund Management Group of Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI), having an active role in the operational management of the firm's offered products.  Prior to joining CAI in 2005, Mr. Pillai worked in the Structured Finance Department at Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, specializing in Mortgage-Backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities issuance and underwriting.

Mr. Pillai received a B.A. in Business and Media from New York University.

Sue Ponce is the Chief Administrative Officer at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge, she was the Chief Administrative Officer and Anthony Scaramucci’s executive assistant at Neuberger Berman and Oscar Capital Management. Previously, she worked at Goldman Sachs as Mr. Scaramucci’s executive assistant and a senior sales assistant in the institutional equities department.  Ms. Ponce began her career at Kidder Peabody as a senior sales assistant.

She received a B.A. in Economics from SUNY Albany.

Grace Ramazani is a Vice President on the marketing team. Prior to joining SkyBridge, she worked in the fund raising department of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

She graduated from Clark University with a degree in Psychology.

Jeanie Reyes joined SkyBridge in 2009 as Accountant within our Operations group. She comes to SkyBridge with previous fund of funds accounting experience from Prisma Capital Partners. Prior to her work in accounting, she worked within the Sales Administration division of L’Oreal Paris.

Ms. Reyes received her BBA in Accounting from Baruch College in 2006.

Barry Schanker is a Director of Global Business Development at SkyBridge, where he is responsible for the global distribution of the SkyBridge product suite across all channels and platforms. Prior to this role, Mr. Schanker performed a similar role in the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI) and was the National Sales Director at CAI. Mr. Schanker has been in the investment banking industry since 1984 starting out with the predecessor firm Shearson Lehman Brothers. He has held various Taxable Fixed Income Trading and Sales positions on the institutional and retail level, including three years in the Portfolio Management group at Salomon Smith Barney, a subsidiary of Citigroup.

Mr. Schanker received a B.S. from C.W. Post University in New York where he graduated with cum laude honors.

Minna Urrey is the Director of Operations at SkyBridge.  Prior to joining SkyBridge in 2007, Ms. Urrey was a co-founder and Vice President of Global PACT, Inc., an organization providing international social entrepreneurship training.  She also worked for the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates in the administration of Rutgers University.

Ms. Urrey graduated first in her class with a B.A. degree from Rutgers College.

Chip Welsh is an Associate on the firm’s marketing and business development teams. Prior to joining SkyBridge in January 2010, Mr. Welsh interned at the Aetos Capital Fund of Hedge Funds in New York and at Fox Television in Chicago.

He received a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan.

Jason Wright is a Partner and Head of Sales at SkyBridge. Prior to SkyBridge, Mr. Wright was Managing Director of Business Development at Soleil Securities Group. He was also Managing Director at SoundView Ventures from 2000 to 2003 and Director.