MFA Network 2020 | Managed Funds Association | 27 January 2020 | Loews Miami Beach Hotel, 1601 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA

MFA NETWORK 2020 is MFA’s primary business development and networking conference. Hailed as one of the top networking events for the alternative investments industry, MFA Network 2020 brings together top allocators, fund managers and leading industry service providers for one-on-one allocator meetings, educational programming and investor-led roundtable discussions for three valuable and business generating days. The conference provides manager suites, a balanced allocator to manager ratio, top institutional pension consultants and a focus on emerging business issues and trends that are critical to allocators and fund managers across all strategies. All meetings are facilitated through our digital platform, the MFA Conferences and Events App.

2020 Speakers

Dmitry Balyasny
Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Balyasny Asset Management, L.P.

Jamil Baz
Head of Client Solutions and Analytics, PIMCO

Ciana Becker
Senior Portfolio Manager, Capital Markets & Factor Investing, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)

Cristina Van Beelen
Managing Director, Systematic Investing, Magnetar Capital LLC

Amy Bensted
Director of Hedge Fund Products, Preqin

Leda Braga
CEO, Systematica Investments

John Budzyna
Managing Director- Alternative Investments, KPMG LLP

Elizabeth Burton
Chief Investment Officer, Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii

Pablo Calderini
President and Chief Investment Officer, Graham Capital Management, L.P.

TJ Carlson
Chief Investment Officer, Texas Municipal Retirement System

Nadia Cobalovic
Senior Vice President, Northern Trust

Mohamed Elkordy, Ph. D.
Senior Portfolio Manager, Opportunistic & Special Situations, Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Co.

Chris Delong
Chief Investment Officer, Taconic Capital Advisors

Jonathan Dorfman
Senior Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Napier Park Global Capital

Jordan Drachman
Senior Vice President and Portfolio Strategist, The D. E. Shaw Group

Derek Drummond
Managing Analyst, State of Wisconsin Investment Board

Patrick Esteruelas
Head of Research, Emso Asset Management Limited

Marcus Frampton
Chief Investment Officer, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation

David E. Francl
Managing Director, Absolute Return, San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System

Nili Gilbert
Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager, Matarin Capital Management

Jonathan Glidden
Managing Director – Pensions, Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Jamie Gnall
Vice President, Alternatives Research and Advisory, Wilshire Associates

Paul Goldschmid
Member and Senior Research Analyst, King Street Capital Management

Linda Gruendken
Senior Scientist, GAM Systematic Cantab

Jody A. Gunderson
Managing Principal, CarVal Investors LLC

Matt Halbower
Founder, CEO, CIO, Pentwater Capital Management LP

D. Brooke Harlow
Chief Commercial Officer, Managed Funds Association

Jan Hatzius
Chief Economist and Head of Global Economics and Markets Research, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Kenneth J. Heinz
President, Hedge Fund Research, Inc.

Sir Michael Hintze
Founder and Group Executive Chairman, CQS (UK) LLP

Jonathan Hitchon
Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, Two Sigma Investments, LP

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, Tudor Investment Corporation

David Hohmann
Director of Administration and Risk, Tufts University

Helen Idenstedt
Portfolio Manager Idiosyncratic Alternative Investments, AP1

Danielle Johnson
Managing Director, Co-Head of the Equities Group in the Americas, Credit Suisse

Simon Judes
Managing Director, Winton Group

Thomas Krauss
Head of North America Capital Introduction, Citi

David Kupersmith
Principal, AQR Capital Management, LLC

Isabelle Mateos y Lago
Managing Director, Investment Institute, BlackRock

Panayiotis Lambropoulos
Portfolio Manager – Hedge Funds, Employees Retirement System of Texas

Anthony Lawler
Co-Head of GAM Systematic, GAM International Management Limited

Ken Lee
Director of Investments, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Bill Li
Senior Investment Officer - Director of PCS, MassPRIM

Farouki Majeed
Chief Investment Officer, Ohio School Employees' Retirement System

Shaun Martinak
Senior Portfolio Manager, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)

Sean McChesney
Vice President Hedged Strategies, Fund Evaluation Group

Keith Meister
Founder, Corvex Management LP

Michael Mendelson
Principal, AQR Capital, LLC

Louis Molinari
Managing Director, Head of Capital Solutions, Barclays

Kate Murtagh
Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer, Harvard Management Company, Inc.

Susan E. Oh
Director, Risk Parity, Currency Hedging, and Strategic Implementation, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System

Brian Payne
Investment Officer – Diversifying Strategies, Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois

Sandy Rattray
CEO, Man Group AHL

Marc Rothenberg
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Peter Salvage
Global Head of Credit Fund Services, BNY Mellon

Glenn Shapiro
Managing Director, Head of Special Situations and Fundamental Strategies, UBS Hedge Fund Solutions

Nathan Sheets
Managing Director, Chief Economist, Head of Macro Research, PGIM Fixed Income

Justin W. Slatky
Executive Vice President and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senior Portfolio Manager, Shenkman

Leo Svoboda
Managing Director, Head of Liquid Alternatives, Nationwide

Robert Tipp
Chief Investment Strategist, PGIM Fixed Income

Phillip Titolo
Head of Direct Private Investments, Portfolio Manager, Alternatives Investment Management, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Tom Tull
Chief Investment Officer, Employees Retirement System of Texas

Maria Vassalou
Founder and CIO, Vassalou Capital Management LP

Marcos Veremis
Managing Director, Cambridge Associates LLC

Victoria Vodolazschi
Director, Investments, Willis Towers Watson

Trent Webster
Senior Investment Officer – Strategic Investments, Florida State Board of Administration

Jennifer Wildeman
Senior Portfolio Advisor, Aksia LLC

Ash Williams
Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer, Florida State Board of Administration

Brandon Yarckin
Chief Operating Officer, Universa Investments

Jae S. Yoon
Chief Investment Officer, New York Life Investment Management

Josh Younger
Managing Director, U.S. Interest Rate Derivative Strategy, J.P. Morgan

David Zervos
Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies LLC

2020 Sponsors

• BNY Mellon
• BofA Securities
• BarclayHedge
• Barclays
• CME Group
• Cboe Global Markets
• Citi
• Credit Suisse
• Crux
• Delta Air Lines
• EisnerAmper
• First Republic Bank
• Goldman Sachs
• Hedge Fund Alert
• Hedge Fund Research
• J.P. Morgan
• KPMG
• LeapYear
• Morgan Stanley
• Morgan Lewis
• Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services
• PGIM Fixed Income
• PIMCO
• Parametric
• Preqin
• RAM Active Investments
• SEI
• Societe Generale
• State Street
• Wellington Management
• Wells Fargo