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Simon Lack, CFA - Managing Partner

Following 23 years with JPMorgan, Simon Lack founded SL Advisors, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor, in 2009. Much of Simon Lack’s career with JPMorgan was spent in North American Fixed Income Derivatives and Forward FX trading, a business that he ran successfully through several bank mergers ultimately overseeing 50 professionals and $300 million in annual revenues. Simon Lack sat on JPMorgan’s investment committee allocating over $1 billion to hedge fund managers and founded the JPMorgan Incubator Funds, two private equity vehicles that took economic stakes in emerging hedge fund managers. Simon chairs the Investment Committee for Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, NJ, and also chairs the Memorial Endowment Trust Investment Committee of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Westfield, NJ. He is the author of The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It's Too Good to Be True, which received widespread praise from mainstream financial press including The Economist, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Simon makes regular appearances on cable TV business shows discussing hedge funds and investing, and is a CFA Charterholder.

     
         
 
 
Henry Hoffman, CFA - Partner

Henry joined SL Advisors from PNC Financial Services Group, where he spent three years as an equity analyst. While at PNC, Henry conducted fundamental equity research across a variety of sectors focused on their Large Cap Value and Large Cap Growth & Income strategies. Henry graduated from Duke University in 2006 with a B.S in Economics and Minor in Chemistry.

     
         
 
 
Larry Hirshik - Trading

Larry has 26 years of capital markets experience concentrated in the structuring, trading, and risk management of fixed income derivatives. Larry’s trading career began at Manufacturers Hanover Trust in 1983 where he traded interest rate derivatives. He subsequently ran trading desks at Bank of America and First Union where he oversaw teams of traders responsible for client flow and risk taking. Larry co-founded a profitable hedge fund trading corporate debt, credit and equity derivatives before setting up his current business which executes trades and manages risk for clients in futures, stocks and bonds. Larry has a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. (with honors) in Finance and Management Science from UCLA.

     
         
 
 
Ty Tessitore - Business Development

Ty has over 25 years of experience focused on the development, marketing and risk management of sophisticated derivative and capital market solutions for institutional and high-net worth clients in the following underlyings: currencies, fixed income, commodities, equities, credit and hybrids. He has worked at JPMorgan Chase (and its predecessor Banks), Bear Stearns and Citigroup Private Bank. Ty was the Founder and Business Head of the Commodity Unit at Manufacturers Hanover. Prior to his work experience in the Derivative Market, Ty was a CPA at Price Waterhouse in NewYork. Ty graduated from Fairfield University with a B.S. in Accounting (Magna Cum Laude).

     
         
         
         
         
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