Jigar Patel, CFA

Key member of the investment team involved in portfolio construction, capital allocation, and risk budgeting across a multi-PM, multi-strategy platform spanning equity L/S, relative value, global macro and quantitative strategies. Led sourcing and underwriting of portfolio managers, managed aggregate exposures and risk frameworks, and led investment discussions with sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors on portfolio construction and manager selection.

Co-founded and built the firm's hedge fund and liquid alternatives platform, scaling AUM from $300M to $1.4B while running multi-strategy portfolios across market cycles. Led manager sourcing, due diligence, portfolio sizing, and mandate negotiations with full accountability for performance and risk oversight. Designed multi-strategy portfolio construction for UHNW and institutional portfolios, formalized institutional risk frameworks covering liquidity and counterparty exposure, and built quantitative tooling in Python for portfolio analytics and stress testing.

Worked closely with head of research on manager selection and portfolio construction for $500M fund of funds portfolio. Conducted research for diversified multi-strategy and CTA fund of funds portfolios, and analyzed daily trading positions for managers in the seeding business to assess balance sheet risk.

Performed quantitative analysis of risk and P&L reports for interest rate derivative portfolios. Built yield curves for global US dollar denominated portfolios daily and conducted theoretical analysis on probability of market movements to determine impact on client and trader portfolios.