Jeff Aronson
Co-Founder and Managing Principal
Centerbridge Partners

​Jeff is the Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Centerbridge Partners, L.P.  Jeff oversees the Firm’s investment activities and serves as a member of the Management Committee. Jeff has been active in alternative investments, including private credit, private equity and real estate, for nearly 35 years. Prior to co-founding Centerbridge in 2005, Jeff was a partner at Angelo, Gordon & Co., where he led that firm’s distressed securities and leveraged loan efforts.

Before joining Angelo, Gordon & Co. in 1989, Jeff served as Senior Corporate Counsel at L.F. Rothschild & Co. He began his career as a securities attorney with the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. Jeff is the former Chair and a current member of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University and also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine and New York University School of Law. He is a director and member of the Executive Committee of The Partnership for New York City. Jeff received a B.A., with honors, from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law.

Nicolas Giauque
Co-CIO
Farallon

Mr. Giauque joined Farallon in 1998, where he is Co-Chief Investment Officer, Head of European Investing, and a Partner. Prior to joining Farallon, Mr. Giauque worked in the investment banking and asset management divisions of Goldman Sachs for four years in Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Giauque graduated with a Master of Management from Hautes Etudes Commerciales.

Tim Hurd
President and CIO
BlueSpruce

Tim Hurd is the President and CIO of BlueSpruce, a long-biased fund which focuses on public equities in the business services, consumer, financial technology / asset management, healthcare, and TMT sectors.

Before starting BlueSpruce in 2013, Mr. Hurd spent seventeen years investing in private equities at Madison Dearborn, most recently as a Managing Director, where he invested in and served on the boards of numerous firms including PayPal, TransUnion, and Nuveen Investments. He began his career practicing M&A at Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with Highest Distinction. 

Howard Marks
Co-Chairman
Oaktree

Since the formation of Oaktree in 1995, Mr. Marks has been responsible for ensuring the firm’s adherence to its core investment philosophy; communicating closely with clients concerning products and strategies; and contributing his experience to big-picture decisions relating to investments and corporate direction. From 1985 until 1995, Mr. Marks led the groups at The TCW Group, Inc. that were responsible for investments in distressed debt, high yield bonds, and convertible securities. He was also Chief Investment Officer for Domestic Fixed Income at TCW. Previously, Mr. Marks was with Citicorp Investment Management for 16 years, where from 1978 to 1985 he was Vice President and senior portfolio manager in charge of convertible and high yield securities. Between 1969 and 1978, he was an equity research analyst and, subsequently, Citicorp's Director of Research.

Mr. Marks holds a B.S.Ec. degree cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance and an M.B.A. in accounting and marketing from the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago, where he received the George Hay Brown Prize. He is a CFA® charterholder. Mr. Marks is an Emeritus Trustee and member of the Investment Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Royal Drawing School and is Professor of Practice at King’s Business School (both in London). He serves on the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Council and the Advisory Board of Duke Kunshan University. He is an Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the Investment Board.

David M. Rubenstein
​Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
​The Carlyle Group

Sam Zell
​Founder
Equity Group Investments