| Name | Title | Contact Details |
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Kristen Ellis |
Director Information Technology Security | Profile |
Founded in 1997, Marshall Wace is one of Europe’s foremost hedge fund managers specialising in global long/short equity. We have investment management offices in London; Greenwich, Connecticut; and Hong Kong. Marshall Wace LLP was named Management Firm of the Year by the EuroHedge Awards 2011, reflecting the strong performance delivered by a number of our funds during the year. The firm is dedicated to the objective of providing its clients with a persistent, risk-adjusted return on their investment. Through our range of products, investors can select funds offering variable sources of alpha and beta, in different combinations, from equity markets around the world. We bring together two distinct but complementary approaches to asset management. First, traditional, fundamental long/short investing grounded in stock-specific analytical research and secondly, Marshall Wace TOPS (‘MW TOPS’), the pioneering, and proprietary, systematic, alpha capture strategy. Marshall Wace has built a robust and scalable global infrastructure. Our strong operational platform, disciplined multi-factor risk control systems and efficient quantitative trading support our portfolio managers in their efforts to maximise the skill-based return delivered to investors. In October 2010, 2011 and 2013, Marshall Wace was recognised as ‘IT Department of the Year - Buy Side’ by the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading & Technology. We were instrumental in the creation of the Hedge Fund Standards Board, which has been set up to establish and maintain a set of voluntary best practice standards for hedge fund managers including disclosure, valuation, risk management, fund governance and shareholder conduct. Marshall Wace is a founder signatory of its Best Practice Standards. Many of our partners and employees invest alongside our clients, ensuring alignment of interest.
At Core we align value with values. We invest in companies that deliver more efficient, well-designed financial products that save people time and money, create upward mobility, and scale broadly – driving both profit margins and consumer value. Investments include NerdWallet, Oportun, and Ripple, among many others.
Bullpen Capital is an early-stage, post-seed venture fund investing in technology companies that have been funded by super-angels and institutional seed funds. By extending the capital-efficient model beyond the seed stage, our capital keeps options open for founders and investors. By working closely with many of the leading super-angel funds, we can act with greater speed than most other venture investors. Bullpen is a $95 million venture fund with a differentiated strategy: we invest after product-market fit at what is, for many companies, the inflection point of value. Our round is often the critical step between a product-centric seed round and a much larger `Super-Sized` venture round. This smaller round provides the founding team more ownership and control of their destiny, and preserves the decision whether to raise large amounts of capital or to pursue a near-term exit.
Arsenal Capital Partners is a leading New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle market healthcare and specialty industrial companies. Arsenal makes investments in sectors where the firm has significant prior knowledge and experience. Arsenal targets businesses that have the potential for further value creation by working closely with management to accelerate growth and leverage the firm's operational improvement capabilities. Arsenal currently has $1.7 billion of committed equity capital.
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a privately-held financial institution that has been a thought leader and solutions provider for nearly 200 years. Entrusted with close to $4 trillion in client assets1, we serve the most discerning and sophisticated individuals and institutions through our asset management, banking and asset servicing businesses. Our culture of accountability fosters deep and lasting relationships built on commitment, adaptability and trust. BBH operates in seventeen global locations, including Beijing, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Dublin, Grand Cayman, Hong Kong, Jersey City, Krakow, London, Luxembourg, New York, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Wilmington, and Zürich.