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Hedge Fund Rising Stars: Justin Press

Justin Press
BTIG


Justin Press, co-head of prime brokerage at New York–based global trading and fund services firm BTIG, spied an opportunity in 2004. Press, a nephew of Joel Press, an accountant and founding figure in hedge fund services, was then working as head of Midwestern prime brokerage sales for UBS. He realized that as hedge fund firms were growing into massive, multibillion-dollar businesses, large prime brokerages were paying less and less attention to smaller hedge fund firms. So eight years ago Press, now 38, moved to San Francisco–based broker-­dealer Baypoint Trading and began building up its prime brokerage group. In 2005, when Baypoint merged with New York–based Bass Trading, Press became co-head of the prime brokerage business at the new entity, BTIG. Today, BTIG has more than 325 hedge funds on its prime brokerage books.

Hedge Fund Rising Stars
NAMEFIRM
Rick GersonFalcon Edge Capital
David Ben-UrCaxton Alternative Management LP
Atwood 'Porter' CollinsSeawolf Capital
Javier DyerPermal Group
Adam FisherCommonwealth Opportunity Capital
Grace Gu BlackRock
Jason Karp Carlson Capital
Akiva Katz Bow Street
Laurie Katz GoldenTree Asset Management
Ingrid Kiefer Canyon Partners
Simon KrinskyHall Capital Partners
Carrie Lo California State Teachers Employees Retirement System
Drew McKnightFortress Investment Group
Marina Mekhlis Rocaton Investment Advisors
Neil MessingBureau of Asset Management, New York City
Gideon Nieuwoudt Silver Creek Capital Management
Ricky Nardis UBS Alternative Investment Solutions
Vinay Nair Ada Investments
Sean MurphyGame Creek Capital
Kimberly Mounts MAP Alternative Asset Management Company
Tony WaskiewiczSisters of Mercy Health Systems
Andrew Tsai Chalkstream Capital Group
David Solomon Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Howard Shainker Bow Street
Danny Sachnowitz Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust
Dean Curnutt Macro Risk Advisors
James Grossman Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System
Chris Paolino Hartford Investment Management
Mick McGuireMarcato Capital Management

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