Hedge Fund Forum

Adam Singleton is the CIO of External Alpha and chairs the External Alpha Investment Committee. He is responsible for the investment policy and oversight of externally invested client portfolios. He also serves on the Solutions Risk and Portfolio Committee and the Investment Committee.

Previously, Adam held various positions across Man FRM, including Head of Investment Solutions, Head of Equity Long-Short manager selection, managing the Investment Risk function within the Risk Management team, as well as fund selection in Relative Value and Specialist Credit strategies.

Prior to joining Man Group in 2005, Adam worked as an analyst within Investment Consulting at Watson Wyatt. Adam holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick and is a CFA charterholder.

Agata Dornan is the CIO and founder of Chepstow Lane, a $315 million European credit opportunities fund launched in 2022. She brings 20 years of experience investing across U.S. and European markets. Prior to founding Chepstow Lane, Agata led Soros Fund Management’s European credit strategy and served as Partner and Portfolio Manager from 2016 to 2020. She began her buy-side career at Soros in 2005, later joining Camulos Capital in London, and held a research role at BlueMountain Capital. Agata started her career at Deutsche Bank in New York. She holds a degree from Middlebury College and completed programs at LSE and Tuck Business School.

Ali Benzakour is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Envestra Capital LLP, bringing over 17 years of experience across leading global investment platforms. He has built his career at the intersection of finance and the energy transition, with a consistent focus on sectors undergoing profound structural change.

Before establishing Envestra, Ali spent five years as a portfolio manager at prominent hedge funds, where he managed long/short equity strategies centered on the sectors most impacted by the energy transition. At Millennium Capital Partners (2019–2022), he ran a dedicated book focused on these sectors. Prior to that, he was a portfolio manager at GLG Partners, overseeing the European Utilities and Infrastructure book.

Earlier in his career, Ali spent six years at Eton Park, a multi-strategy hedge fund, as part of the fundamental long/short equity team. He began his professional journey in investment banking as an analyst in the Telecom, Media, and Technology M&A team at Goldman Sachs in London.

Ali holds a Master of Science in General Engineering from École Centrale Paris.

Colin Lancaster is the Head of EMEA and Global Co-Head of Discretionary Macro and Fixed Income (DMFI) at Schonfeld. Colin joined Schonfeld in 2021 and is responsible for strategic initiatives across EMEA and DMFI, including DMFI business development and DMFI capital allocations. He serves on the firm’s Global Investment Committee and is based in London.

Prior to joining Schonfeld, Colin was Head of Macro Strategies at Citadel and Head of Macro at Balyasny Asset Management. During his career, Colin has managed global investment operations in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Chicago and San Francisco. Colin holds a BA in Politics from Princeton University and a JD from Marquette University Law School.

Imogen has spent the past four years working closely with hedge funds and continues to do so in her current Relationship Management role. She began her career at Bloomberg as a Fixed Income Specialist, and her experience spans both the sell side and buy side. She has extensive experience working with a multitude of new launches, across all strategies and sizes. Imogen holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Exeter. For more information about how Bloomberg’s terminals, products, and data solutions can support your firm, please contact her at iduthie@bloomberg.net.

Josh co-founded Regents Gate Capital in 2023, following twenty years of financial markets experience where he invested globally, leading multiple teams and managing multibillion-dollar portfolios.  Most recently Josh spent four years as a Portfolio Manager in the London office of Balyasny Asset Management (“BAM”). There he managed a multibillion-dollar equity market neutral portfolio focused on European and US Industrials and Technology sectors. Prior to joining BAM, Josh spent over 11 years at Citadel in Global Equities as a Portfolio Manager in the San Francisco office investing globally across US, Europe and Asia focusing on Industrial and Technology sectors. Josh began his career in New York as an Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers.  He graduated with a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University studying pre-medical with a neuroscience focus while playing Division 1 soccer.

Nishant Kumar is Chief Correspondent at Bloomberg News, with over two decades of experience specializing in the asset management industry. Nishant has dedicated his career to in-depth reporting on the intricacies and dynamics of hedge funds, providing valuable insights and analysis that shape industry understanding. His extensive experience and focused expertise make him a trusted voice in financial journalism.

Ruth David leads Bloomberg’s newsroom in London, home to over 550 journalists. She joined the company in 2010 in Mumbai, as part of the Asian finance team. Ruth has been in London since 2012, as a reporter on the European mergers and acquisitions team, breaking news on some of the biggest deals in the region. She also worked in Delhi, New York and Hong Kong for publications including Forbes, The Economic Times and Asiamoney magazine. Ruth has a masters in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington D.C. and a master’s in political science from Delhi University.

Yan is responsible for EPM’s Emerging Manager program globally. Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2019 he worked at New Holland Capital, where he was a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for investment research and portfolio management with a focus on quantitative strategies. Yan began his career at Ziff Brothers Investments. Yan holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MA in piano performance from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He is a CFA charterholder.

Roger Hilty (Swiss) is a Partner on the Liquid Markets Multi-Manager team at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is co-responsible for the Liquid Markets Multi-Manager team. Further, he is a member of the Liquid Markets Management Team and the Liquid Markets Multi-Manager Investment Committee.
Mr. Hilty joined the firm in September 2004 from LGT Bank, where he started his career in January 2000 in the Trading/Treasury division. From 2000 to 2004, his responsibilities involved activities in equity, fixed-income, currency and commodity exchange traded and OTC products as well as processing of transactions for Asian, European and US markets.
Prior to working in Finance, Mr. Hilty was a professional road racing cyclist in the international cycling team GS Ericsson Villiger (ERI). Mr. Hilty has an MBA in Finance and a BA in Business Administration from University of Liechtenstein. He is fluent in German and English.

Paul Tivnann is the Global Head of Enterprise Sales. Since joining Bloomberg in 1999, Paul has held various senior level management positions within Sales and Product departments, before his most recent position, leading our Enterprise sales effort globally. Reporting to the Company President, Paul is responsible for the commercial success of the Enterprise Data Business, Enterprise Sales Business and Quant Analysis platforms among other things.

Paul began his career as an interest rate and bond option broker, having worked for Tullett and Tokyo and later FIMAT. A graduate of Bristol University, Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in physics.

Kriti Gupta is the London-based co-anchor of “The Opening Trade” on Bloomberg Television. Formerly, she anchored “Daybreak Europe.” She has also served as the anchor of “Bloomberg Surveillance: Early Edition” and “Bloomberg Markets: Americas” from New York.

She has broken news and moved markets in interviews with global central bankers, energy and finance ministers as well as some of corporate America’s biggest CEO’s. Kriti also contributes markets and field reporting throughout the day as a correspondent notably covering surging oil prices after the war in Ukraine from Houston, rail strikes, former President Trump’s Manhattan arraignment, and the Brooklyn subway shooting.

Kriti began her career with Bloomberg in September 2018. After covering the US-China trade war, Covid-19 pandemic and 2020 election, she led coverage and macro commentary for Markets Live, Bloomberg’s go-to traders’ blog. She was also a weekly columnist and served as an audio squawk for trading floors around the world.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Kriti worked in equity research, serving some of the largest hedge funds on Wall Street. She graduated from the University of Virginia.

John Aylward founded Sona Asset Management in March 2016. He draws on 24 years of credit market experience and an enduring entrepreneurial spirit in fulfilling his role as Sona’s CIO.

Prior to founding Sona, John joined Highbridge Capital in 2014, a multi-strategy firm, to run the European Credit Business.

From 2010 to 2014, John headed up the European corporate credit strategy at Claren Road Asset Management, a long/short credit manager. Prior to joining Claren Road, John’s career began back in 2002 at Deutsche Bank (DB). There he gained broad credit experience in a variety of roles before being appointed as the head of high yield trading.

John graduated from Trinity College in Dublin with an LLB Law.

Mr. Gokani is the Head of European Absolute Return Strategies, and strategy head for macro, relative value, and quantitative strategies. He also serves as an impact investments lead. Based in the London office, he is responsible for leading investment research and manager monitoring, with a focus on European and other globally oriented strategies. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Mr. Gokani held various roles in HSBC’s Research department, globally. He worked in equity research covering clean technology investments, and later worked as an emerging markets fixed-income strategist. Mr. Gokani earned a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Bayes Business School, University of London.