Diane Alfano Chairman
Institutional Investor
Jane Wilkinson CEO, Institutional Investor Publishing Group
President, Institutional Investor
(In alphabetical order) Allison Adams Managing Director & Group Publisher
Institutional Investor Publishing Group
David E. Antin Managing Director & Group Publisher
Institutional Investor Publishing Group
Fred R. Bleakley Managing Director
Institutional Investor Memberships and Conferences
Joseph Casalino U.S. Human Resources Director
Euromoney Institutional Investor
Christine Cavolina International Publisher
Institutional Investor Magazine Group
Graham Chitty Publisher
Institutional Investor Intelligence
Lewis Knox Executive Director
Institutional Investor Memberships
Tom Lamont General Editor
Institutional Investor Intelligence
Adele Langie Executive Director
Institutional Investor Forums
Simon McLoughlin Executive Director, Europe & Middle East
Institutional Investor Memberships and Conferences
Barbara Munder Executive Director
Institutional Investor Memberships
Melissa Murray Executive Director
Institutional Investor Conference Division
Steve Murray Editor
Institutional Investor Intelligence
Michael Peltz Editor
Institutional Investor
Lyn Perlmuth Director
Fixed Income Forum and Institutional Investor Legal Forum
Tracey Redmond Fenton Director of Business Development
Institutional Investor Publishing Group
Steven Weiss VP Finance
Institutional Investor
Kristin Zammit Executive Director of Sales
Institutional Investor Conferences and Memberships
Diane Alfano has been a Member of the Board of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC since 2000 and was appointed Chairman of Institutional Investor on October 1st, 2010. Ms. Alfano serves as CEO of Institutional Investor’s Conference Division, where she began her career with the company in1984. In this capacity, she runs the division’s membership and sponsored conference business which produces more that 90 roundtables, forums and conferences a year globally for financial executives, asset managers, hedge fund managers and institutional investors. She also supervises new product development for the division and oversees 80 employees in New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore in every aspect of the business, including sales, programming, marketing and logistics. Prior to joining Institutional Investor, Ms. Alfano was a Sales Account Executive with the Burroughs Corporation from 1979 to 1983. An alumna of the Loomis-Chaffee school, she graduated in 1978 from Tufts University in Boston with a B.A. in French and Political Science. From 1976-77, Ms. Alfano studied at La Sorbonne and the Institut d’Etudes des Sciences Politiques in Paris.
Jane Wilkinson joined the company in 2000 and was appointed an Executive Director in March of 2007. She is Group Director of Marketing and Digital Publishing of Euromoney Institutional Investor, and moved to New York in 2010 where she is President of Institutional Investor, and CEO of Institutional Investor Publishing Group, which includes the II Magazine, II Journals, II Intelligence, and II Research.
Allison Adams is responsible for the Institutional Investor Journals including the prestigious, Journal of Portfolio Management. The Institutional Investor Journals are written by, edited and read by the premier global innovators of the financial community including renowned academics, portfolio managers, hedge fund managers and institutional investors. The IIJournals.com research platform contains over 30 years of fully searchable cutting-edge research articles, accessed by researchers all over the world looking for the latest innovations in the financial markets. Ms. Adams also supervises new product development for the division and oversees every aspect of the business. Ms. Adams joined Institutional Investor in 1999 as the Advertising Director of the Institutional Investor Journals and she also served as Group Publisher of the Institutional Investor Intelligence Division (FKA:Institutional Investor Newsletters). Before joining Institutional Investor, Ms. Adams was a Vice President at Bear Stearns on the High Yield Trading Desk, where she sourced distressed debt from institutional credit officers worldwide. Ms. Adams started her career at Credit Lyonnais. Her financial industry experience includes loan operations, par loan sales, distressed debt sales. She studied Finance and French at The University of Rhode Island where she received a B.S.degree from the school of business and a B.A. degree in French. Ms. Adams serves on the Board of Directors, Nominating and Website Committees of the Nurses Educational Funds in New York City.
David E. Antin joined Institutional Investor in February, 2002. He is currently the Managing Director of Institutional Investor’s Magazine Group which includes our flagship publication Institutional Investor, our website www.institutionalinvestor.com and Institutional Investor’s Alpha our hedge fund service. Prior to joining Institutional Investor David worked in the Audit and Business Assurance division of Arthur Andersen in New York where he qualified as a Certified Public Accountant. He left Andersen in early 2000 to become the V.P. of Finance and Operations at Argent Trading, a private equity-backed international corporate trading firm with 22 offices in 18 different countries.
David received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, Magna Cum Laude from Long Island University, where he was a Merit Fellow and the recipient of a full academic scholarship.
Fred R. Bleakley , as Managing Director and Editorial Director of Institutional Investor Memberships and Conferences oversees programming for Institutional Investor Membership groups and is in charge of programming for the U.S. Institute and the European Institute. He is a former Managing Editor of Institutional Investor magazine. Previously he was a Senior Special Writer and Finance Editor for the Wall Street Journal and was Deputy Business Editor of the New York Times.
Joe Casalino joined Institutional Investor as Human Resources Director in 1995. He remained on in that capacity after the company’s acquisition by Euromoney PLC in 1998. In addition to providing HR support for all New York operations including Institutional Investor Inc., Metal Bulletin, ISI and IMN, he also provides HR consulting and advisory services to other Euromoney Institutional Investor companies such as MIS Training, Latin Finance, and Gulf Publishing.
Prior to joining II, he held various HR positions with financial services companies including 18 years in both domestic and international assignments with Chase Bank.
Christine Cavolina has been Publisher of Institutional Investor magazine since 2003. Prior to joining Institutional Investor as Publisher in New York, Ms. Cavolina was Deputy Publisher of Euromoney magazine in London. Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC is one of Europe’s leading financial media companies. Euromoney magazine is the flagship title of the Group.
Graham Chitty is publisher of the Institutional Investor Intelligence investment management titles, including Money Management Intelligence, Foundation and Endowment Intelligence, and iiSEARCHES. He joined Euromoney in 2000 to develop web sites in the directories group and has run iiSEARCHES since 2005. He started as a journalist at Reed Business Information, has run small businesses, and has an MBA from Cass Business School, London.
Lewis Knox is Executive Director of TraderForum and Financial Technology Forum, Institutional Investor's membership groups for buyside equity traders and investment management chief information officers, respectively. Lew is responsible for product content and event programming. Before joining II Memberships, he was assistant managing editor, technology and development at Institutional Investor magazine, where he was responsible for technology coverage and for developing new research features. Before taking over the technology beat, Lew was the research editor at the magazine, where he was responsible for the editorial components of II’s signature research rankings, including the All-America Research Team. He is on his second tour at II: from 1984 until 1997, he worked in various divisions of the company, including a 10-year stint in Newsletters, where he was part of the team that launched Global Money Management and Derivatives Week. Lew has an A.B. in romance languages and literatures from Princeton University
Tom Lamont has been with Institutional Investor since 1976 and served as the Editor for II Intelligence (formerly II News) from 1981 – 2010. He was a news reporter and editor the prior five years. Mr. Lamont was a member of Euromoney Institutional Investor’s Board of Directors from 199 to 2010. From 1970-1976 he was with Investment
Dealers' Digest in a variety of positions. He has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, 1968 and an M.S. in Public Relations from Boston University, 1970. Mr. Lamont is married, lives in Ridgewood, N. J., and owns thoroughbred races horses as an outside avocation.
Adele Langie is Executive Director of Institutional Investor Forums' business in the United States. Based in New York, she has P&L responsibility of all the domestic private investor meetings with institutional investors (DB and DC), family offices, registered investment advisors and corporate financial executives. She also serves as Executive Director of Sales for the US Institute, a prestigious membership group for the Chairmen and CEOs of asset management firms. Before joining Institutional Investor, Adele was a Managing Director at RogersCasey, a global pension consulting firm. Prior to this, Adele was a Vice President at Greenwich Associates, a global market research and consulting firm. Adele has also has experience working for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, IBM Credit Corporation and Xerox Corporation.
Adele graduated with an M.B.A., with Honors, from the Harvard Business School, and a B.A. in Economics, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Smith College.
Simon McLoughlin is Managing Director of II's Membership and Conference business in Europe. Based in London, he looks after a team of 35 and is responsible for business development. Simon has led the development of our online communities for institutional investors and investment managers, which now have more than 1300 members in 82 countries, controlling assets of $18 trillion USD. Prior to joining Euromoney Institutional Investor plc in 2006, he was Head of Corporate Development at LexisNexis Europe. Mr McLoughlin started his career as a journalist on The Sun in London. He attended Cambridge University and gained an MA (Hons) in Law and English Literature.
Barbara Munder is Senior Advisor for Institutional Investor. Previously, she was Executive Director, Institutional Investor Memberships with operational responsibility for two of the unit’s membership groups, and also the COO of wf360, a distance learning company. Prior to that she was a twenty-year veteran of The McGraw-Hill Companies where she was ultimately SVP for corporate-wide marketing and e-business initiatives. She served on the company’s investment committee, which oversees the company’s defined benefit ($900m) and defined contributions ($900m) plans and was Secretary for The McGraw-Hill Companies Board of Directors’ Corporate Governance Committee. Previously, she was Vice President and General Manager, Business Week Services with oversight for the media unit’s newsletter, conference and electronic products group.
Melissa Murray has been with the Conference Division at Institutional Investor since 1996. Currently she is an Executive Director, responsible for sales and client service for various memberships and conferences involving senior executives at asset management organizations. Prior to joining Institutional Investor, Melissa was a Director at Christie’s, Inc. in the Special Events department. Melissa graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in art history. Her interests include squash, tennis, theater, cooking and travel.
Steve Murray is the Editor of II Intelligence’s 10 news and database titles. He joined the division in 1993 as a reporter and was a managing editor and executive editor in the capital markets, mutual fund and investment management groups before being named deputy editor of the division in 1999. He was named editor of the group in 2010. Prior to joining II he was a daily newspaper reporter at The Bristol Press in Bristol, Conn., and The Brockton Enterprise in Brockton, Mass. He has a B.A. from Marist College.
Michael Peltz is Editor of the Institutional Investor magazine group, overseeing all editorial operations, including its digital properties. From July 2009 to July 2011, he was Executive Editor, responsible for overseeing the editorial content of Institutional Investor’s Americas edition. Prior to that he was Editor of Institutional Investor's Alpha, a leading magazine dedicated to covering the hedge fund industry. During his two decades as a financial journalist, Michael has closely followed Wall Street, asset management, hedge funds and other alternative investments, derivatives and trading. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he has also worked at Worth and Bloomberg Markets magazines.
Lyn Perlmuth is director of the Fixed Income Forum and Institutional Investor Legal Forum, private membership groups. She previously ran a publications and conferences business at Dow Jones after more than 16 years in Institutional Investor’s Newsletters division, beginning as a reporter, editor, head of new product development and then group publisher. She was for several years a corporate finance columnist for Institutional Investor magazine.
Tracey Redmond drives and manages a variety of new and going business initiatives for Institutional Investor’s global publishing group. Tracey joined II in September of 2005 from the International Trademark Association, where she was the head of Business Development. Tracey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Salem State College and resides in New York City.
Steven Weiss joined Institutional Investor in 1999 as VP of Finance and as such is responsible for financial reporting and facilities. Steven also serves as head of real estate and contracts for the Euromoney US Group. Prior to joining II he served as Finance Director for Fremantle International, a producer and syndicator of TV programming throughout the world, and as Controller for Mark Goodson Productions, the famed game show creator.
Steven is a CPA and has a BS in Economics and an MBA in Public Accounting.
Kristin Zammit has been with Institutional Investor since 1997. Ms. Zammit is responsible for sales and client service for the Institutional Investor Institute, Hedge Fund Institutional Forum, and for sales of the majority of II Forums sponsorships around the globe. Kristin has spent her entire 28 year career in sales, helping a variety of companies in and outside the financial industry with a broad range of sales and marketing initiatives including marketing, advertising, trade show sales, sales planning, sales training, product launches, trade shows, and conferences. Kristin graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Loomis-Chaffee School in Windsor, and subsequently graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA with a B.A. in Theatre and Psychology.