Matt Garrett - Founder / Macro Strategist
In his role as Macro Strategist Matt works with Institutional Family Offices and Institutional Investors as well as CIOs, PMs, Risk Mangers, and Traders to deliver actionable high impact market intelligence and commentary that is used for trade idea generation to portfolio strategy. This product is derived from research and an analytical framework focused on identifying market regime changes. The roots of which go back to his research in 2006 that identified the impending systemic level crisis centered around sub-prime. He has given expert interviews in the financial media, most recently to discuss global implications of PBOC’s devaluation after he accurately predicted the event in 2014. He has also been a contributor and Senior Macro Strategist to The Daily Shot, a macro newsletter that was part of the Wall Street Journal. Matt started his career as a low middle market credit analyst covering middle market borrowers across various industries and reporting to the Chief Credit Officer of Newstar Financial. His responsibilities included the due diligence and modeling of new deals, supporting restructurings, valuing assets, and interest rate forecasting.
Dr. Lev Borodovsky - Advisor
is an investment and risk executive with over 20 years experience and currently serves as Chief Risk Officer of Star Mountain Capital. Additionally, he is Editor of The Daily Shot newsletter, part of the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Borodovsky was a founding team member and Chief Risk Officer at GSO (Blackstone platform) and later Bell Point Credit Opportunities Fund where he was a Founding Partner. Prior to GSO / Blackstone, Dr. Borodovsky was the Head of Risk Management for the Alternative Capital Division at Credit Suisse First Boston.
Mario Manna - Advisor
has spent much of his career in senior roles at top macro hedge funds working directly for the founders and senior partners. Most recently he was MD and Portfolio Strategist at The Vega Fund. Previous roles include Senior Trading Strategist at Bridgewater Associates, and as a Senior Global Macro Trader at Moore Capital Management for over twelve years. Manna was a co-founder of Nightberg, a global macro strategy firm, whose clients consist of major macro hedge funds, large asset managers, family offices, Fortune 500 companies, investment banks, and government agencies. He also held senior sales roles at Jefferies.