Bow Street
Akiva Katz, 34, and his business partner, Howard Shainker, became friends in 2004 at Harvard Business School. There they came up with the idea for Bow Street, named after a street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near the restaurant where they would meet to talk about their plan. Believing that economic conditions would be setting up a momentous event-driven climate over the next several years, they wanted to create a hedge fund that would combine a research-intensive approach with an event-driven mentality. After graduation Shainker joined activist hedge fund firm Third Point, and Katz, who had received his undergraduate degree in philosophy and economics from York University, hired on with Brahman Capital, the $2 billion-in-assets New Yorkbased hedge fund headed by Robert Sobel and Mitchell Kuflik. Katz and Shainker continued their friendship, and in 2011 made good on their plans coming together and launching Bow Street on July 1.
Hedge Fund Rising Stars | ||||||
NAME | FIRM | |||||
Rick Gerson | Falcon Edge Capital | |||||
David Ben-Ur | Caxton Alternative Management LP | |||||
Atwood 'Porter' Collins | Seawolf Capital | |||||
Javier Dyer | Permal Group | |||||
Adam Fisher | Commonwealth Opportunity Capital | |||||
Grace Gu | BlackRock | |||||
Jason Karp | Carlson Capital | |||||
Akiva Katz | Bow Street | |||||
Laurie Katz | GoldenTree Asset Management | |||||
Ingrid Kiefer | Canyon Partners | |||||
Simon Krinsky | Hall Capital Partners | |||||
Carrie Lo | California State Teachers Employees Retirement System | |||||
Drew McKnight | Fortress Investment Group | |||||
Marina Mekhlis | Rocaton Investment Advisors | |||||
Neil Messing | Bureau of Asset Management, New York City | |||||
Gideon Nieuwoudt | Silver Creek Capital Management | |||||
Ricky Nardis | UBS Alternative Investment Solutions | |||||
Vinay Nair | Ada Investments | |||||
Sean Murphy | Game Creek Capital | |||||
Kimberly Mounts | MAP Alternative Asset Management Company | |||||
Tony Waskiewicz | Sisters of Mercy Health Systems | |||||
Andrew Tsai | Chalkstream Capital Group | |||||
David Solomon | Goldman, Sachs & Co. | |||||
Howard Shainker | Bow Street | |||||
Danny Sachnowitz | Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust | |||||
Justin Press | BTIG | |||||
Dean Curnutt | Macro Risk Advisors | |||||
James Grossman | Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System | |||||
Chris Paolino | Hartford Investment Management | |||||
Mick McGuire | Marcato Capital Management |