Institutional Investor’s Hedge Fund Rising Stars, 2010

The recent economic turmoil has created unprecedented investment opportunities — and dangers — for hedge funds. Navigating the financial terrain has never been more daunting; here are 31 professionals who are doing it with aplomb. The editors of Institutional Investor selected these Hedge Fund Rising Stars based on extensive research and reporting, beginning with a call for nominations sent out broadly to the hedge fund industry earlier this spring.

Institutional Investor’s Hedge Fund Rising Stars include fund managers, business executives, consultants, investors and a smattering of prime brokers. Among them are individuals who have excelled on Wall Street and are now launching their own hedge fund firms, as well as those who have worked at some of the industry’s best-known hedge funds and are now launching their own ventures.

Marc Andersen

co-Managing Member

Axial Capital Management

Eliav Assouline

Managing Member

Axial Capital Management

Timothy Babich

Managing Partner, CEO

Fortelus Capital Management

Julien Balkany

Managing Member, CIO

Nanes Balkany Partners

Keith Black

Associate, Opportunistic Strategies Group

Ennis Knupp & Associates

Jason Bonanca

Head of Strategy and Research, Partner

MKP Capital Management

Joshua Berkowitz

CEO, CIO

Woodbine Capital Advisors

Todd Builione

Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer

Highbridge Capital Management

Scott Carter

Head of Sales and Capital Introduction, North America, Co-Head Hedge Fund Consulting, Global Prime Finance

Deutsche Bank

Daniel Celeghin

Partner

Casey, Quirk & Associates

Neil Chriss

Managing Principal, CIO

Hutchin Hill Capital

Patrick Degorce

CIO

Thélème Partners

Matthew DesChamps

Chief Operating Officer

Kepos Capital

Stuart Feldman

Head of East Coast Capital Introductions, Prime Brokerage

Jefferies & Company

Matthew Grossman

CIO, CEO

Plural Investments

Kevin Lenaghan

Strategy Head , Multi-Strategy and Arbitrage Hedge Funds

Cliffwater

Robert Mazurek

Investment Officer, Absolute Return

New York State Common Retirement Fund

Youlia Miteva

Managing Member

Proxima Capital Management

Jason Mudrick

Chief Investment Officer

Mudrick Capital Management

Anita Nassar

Managing Director, Co-Head of International Marketing

Citadel Investment Group

Ralph Nacey

Principal

WestSpring Advisors

John Novogratz

Senior Managing Director

Millennium Management

Edward O’Reilly

Managing Director, Head of Marketing and Sales for the Americas

Capula Investment Management

Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux

Founder, CIO

Ajna Partners

Arvind Raghunathan

CEO

Roc Capital Management

Tomer Seifan

Head of Prime Brokerage Structured Products and Funding Desk

BNP Paribas

Mal Serure

Co-Managing Member, Co-Portfolio Manager

Arrow Capital Management

Daniel Sundheim

Portfolio Manager

Viking Global Investors

Peter Tarrant

Managing Director, Head of Business Development and Capital Introduction

BTIG

James Treanor

Senior Investment Officer, Private Equity and Strategic Investments

Florida State Board of Administration

Boaz Weinstein

Founder, CIO

Saba Capital Management

The Rising Stars will be honored at Institutional Investor’s 8th annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards, held at the Mandarin Oriental on June 21, 2010. At the dinner Tiger Management Corp. founder and chairman Julian Robertson Jr. will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his amazing hedge fund career, spanning more then 30 years. Orin Kramer , chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council, will be presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award for his work helping to advise New Jersey’s state pension system and encouraging public pension funds to invest in alternatives.