Kanundrum Capital was founded by global investor and CNBC contributor Brian Kelly. Brian has over 15 years investment 
experience trading US & international equities, forex, options, futures, metals, and commodities.  He has traded for some of the largest hedge funds, pension funds, and mutual funds and is known for his ability to trade complex risk arbitrage and relative value strategies.

Prior to founding Kanundrum Capital, Brian was a co-founder of MKM Partners, a brokerage firm catering to the institutional equity trading community.  He is a contributor to Business Week – Exchange, Financial Times – Alphaville, Seeking Alpha, and Daily Markets.  Mr. Kelly is a CNBC contributor and can be seen regularly on Fast Money.

Mr. Kelly is a graduate of the University of Vermont where he received a BS in Finance. He also holds an MBA from Babson Graduate School of Business with a concentration in finance and econometrics.

Hayes has been a member of the Global Equity Group since its inception and has been a member of the Strategy Policy Group (SPG) since 2000. Hayes is also chair of SPG Country Sector Sub Group.  He was instrumental in creating our Active/Passive International Equity product range which he continues to manage and also developed the country screening models for our Global and EAFE equity products. Hayes joined Baring Asset Management in 1994 as a Portfolio Manager with responsibility for Global Equities. Prior to joining Baring Asset Management, Hayes worked in international investment research in London and New York. He began his career as an investment consultant with Meidinger, now part of William M. Mercer. He lectures frequently, including classes in Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Business and UVA’s Darden School of Business. Hayes has a B.A. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University and a M.S. in Banking and Financial Management from Boston University. He was awarded his CFA designation in 1989 and is FINRA Series 7 and 24 registered.

James D. Rosener is a partner in the Commercial Department of Pepper Hamilton LLP. Mr. Rosener heads the firm's International Practice Group, is managing partner of the New York office and has served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. His practice is devoted primarily to international transactions, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing. Mr. Rosener has represented domestic and foreign private equity funds in transactions in over 70 countries throughout the world, including platform and follow-on acquisitions, distressed buyouts, including in bankruptcy, corporate carve-outs and restructurings. He also has represented U.S.-based companies in transactions throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia (particularly, India and China), as well as several European, Indian, South American and Japanese companies in merger and acquisitions, financing and licensing transactions involving the United States.

Kathryn Rooney Vera is the Senior Macroeconomic Strategist at Bulltick Capital Markets, a boutique investment bank that specializes in serving international clients. She is responsible for the analysis of US economic developments including Federal Reserve decisions and the effects of fiscal policy on both US and emerging markets and economies. She publishes her views on a daily basis and makes strategic investment recommendations for clients based on her economic analysis.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Rooney Vera served as an economist and strategist at Bear Stearns in Emerging Markets Fixed Income Research, where she covered the Latin America region. Prior to such appointment, she worked on the buy�]side as a sovereign analyst at MetLife Investments where she conducted in�]depth economic analyses on emerging markets, working closely with the portfolio manager on asset selection and portfolio allocation.

Ms. Rooney Vera is a frequent contributor to major newswires, local press in Latin America, and often appears on financial news networks (CNBC, Bloomberg television, Fox Business, CNN en español). She is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones, and Latin Finance.

Ms. Rooney Vera holds a Masters of Business Degree specializing in Economics and Finance from New York University\'s Stern School of Business. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Spanish literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, having also studied at the University of Valencia in Spain.

Mr. Ross is the Global Technical Strategist for Auerbach Grayson, a NYC based Brokerage firm specializing in the Global Emerging Markets. He publishes macro technical strategy, market commentary, and specific tradable recommendations for institutional clients. His coverage universe includes currencies, commodities, interest rates and major indexes in over 128 countries around the world. Throughout his 17 year career on Wall Street, Mr. Ross has worked as an equity market maker, proprietary trader and technical analyst. He holds an MBA in finance from the Stern School of Business at NYU and a BBA from Emory University. His commentary has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Barron's, Forbes, Smart Money, Fortune, CNN Money and theStreet.com. In addition he has appeared on TV and Radio around the world throughout Asia, India, Europe and the Americas.

Morris F. DeFeo, Jr. is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Corporate Group and the Head of the firm's MENA Practice. His practice covers all facets of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, roll-ups and securities transactions on behalf of real estate, information technology, computer software, Internet, defense technology, telecommunications and other clients, including emerging and new entrant companies, in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Brazil, India and the Far East. Morris represents public and private corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies,  ¥real estate investment trusts (REITs), and other clients in connection with public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, including initial public offerings and shelf-registered offerings, Rule 144A high yield debt offerings, international joint ventures, mergers, asset and stock acquisitions and dispositions, exchange listings and compliance with the registration, proxy solicitation, and periodic reporting requirements of the U.S. securities laws. As outside general counsel for public companies, Morris also provides guidance on the complex and far-reaching requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including those related to section 404 internal control over financial reporting, disclosure controls and governance. 

Morris received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law in 1984, where he was an Edward J. Hennessey Scholar and a G. Joseph Tauro Scholar. Morris is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars.

Ravi Vish is the Director of the Economics and Policy Group and Chief Economist at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, a member of the World Bank Group. MIGA provides political risk insurance to investors and lenders. Vish oversees teams responsible for assessing project and country risks, development impact, political risk research, and environmental, social and reputational risks. Vish has thirty one years of experience encompassing private equity, investment banking, project finance, and political risk insurance. He previously held senior positions with the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, as Chief Financial Officer in Global Financial Markets, Chief Investment Officer/Manager in Global Information Communications and Technologies, and Chief Investment Officer in Asia Financial Markets. Vish was also Director and Senior Portfolio Advisor at DuPont Capital Management, and CEO and Chairman of the Investment Committee at WestLB Mellon Asset Management (USA). Vish has also served as Director and Head of Corporate Finance at Natwest Markets in Indonesia, as well as at ING Barings in India. He also worked at the Liberian Bank for Development and Investment in Monrovia and Mellon Bank.

Vish holds an MBA from the Wharton School, a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management. His B. Tech (Mechanical Engineering) is from the Indian Institute of Technology. He is the author of a book entitled “The Political, Economic, and Labor Climate in India.”

Dr. Harry G. Broadman is a Managing Director at PwC and Chief Economist and Leader of PwC's Emerging Markets, Governance and International Investment & Trade Practice Group. His career has spanned all key emerging markets, especially China, Russia, India, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Balkans, sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, Thailand, and Mongolia. Prior roles include Chief Economist of Albright Capital Management LLC, an international emerging markets investment management firm co-chaired by the former Secretary of State, and senior official at the World Bank Group working in China, the Balkans, former Soviet Union and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Jennifer Delaney is a Director at UBS working on the Global Emerging Markets Equity Strategy Team.  The team manages cross country and sector views across the emerging markets universe and maintain a 40 stock recmmended portfolio.  Thematic research interests include corporate governance in GEM and the Frontier markets.  The team was ranked #1 in Extel in 2011.
 
Jennifer joined UBS in 2004 and during her tenure has worked in a number of roles within strategy research including in developed market equity strategy and the cross-asset global asset allocation team.  She began her career in London, moving to the US with UBS in 2006.  Jennifer graduated from Cambridge University with a BA Hons in Economics. She is a CFA charterholder.

Jamie is a Senior Investment Director and head of the SL Capital Boston office.  He joined SL Capital in 2008 and is responsible for the investment activities in North America.  Jamie sits on the Advisory Boards of several leading North American private equity funds and is also responsible for SLCP's coverage of Latin America.  Prior to joining SL Capital, Jamie spent eight years at Allianz in a number of roles of increasing responsibility, the last of which was Managing Director and Head of the New York office for Allianz Private Equity Partners.  Jamie has an MBA from the McCombs School at the University of Texas, an MBA from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and a combined BA/MA from Tufts University.  Jamie is a CFA charterholder and fluent in Spanish and German.

Richard Kang has served as Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at Emerging Global Investors since its founding in September 2008. He has been active in both institutional and individual asset/risk management for eighteen years with extensive experience in alternative asset classes, especially hedge funds and managed futures. Mr. Kang began his career at Guardian Timing Services, a Toronto based hedge fund focused on global macro and GTAA strategies including the very early use of ETFs.  In late 2002, Mr. Kang co-founded Meridian Global Investors (“Meridian”), an investment counseling firm and thereafter Quadrexx Asset Management, a Toronto based fund-of-hedge funds.  More recently, Mr. Kang co-founded and was CIO of ETFx Indexes LLC, a boutique index provider focused on alternative investments and strategies.

Mr. Kang received his degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada, is an associate editor of Institutional Investors’ Journal of Index Investing and is an adjunct professor at NYU.

David Turner is Managing Director and Head of Private Equity for the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.  He joined Guardian's Investment team in June 2007 to lead the roll-out and development of their private equity investment initiative.  He has over 25 years experience in private equity investing and portfolio management.  David has originated and led over 90 private equity investments totaling roughly $4.7 billion in committed capital and managed portfolios totaling over $17.5 billion in cumulative commitments.  These investments include venture capital, buyout and special situation partnerships and small-cap stock distributions as well as direct and co-investments in numerous early, growth and later stage middle market companies.  David has led investments in the U.S. domestic market as well as developed and emerging international markets.  Previously, David spent five and one-half years at WestLB Mellon Asset Management as a General Partner and later as CEO and CIO of their Private Equity Group.  Prior to WestLB Mellon, David was Director of the Alternative Investments Division and Senior Portfolio Manager for the State of Michigan Retirement System's Alternative Investment Division.  David has presented and spoken at many private equity industry seminars and conferences and earned a B.A. from SUNY at Geneseo.

Steve Cowan, Managing Director. Mr. Cowan is a founder of 57 Stars, an independent global investment manager owned and managed by its investment team with more than USD 1 billion under management focused on partnership and co-investment in select private equity markets outside of the United States, primarily in emerging markets. Operating out of four offices around the world, 57 Stars’ team has approximately 100 years of collective experience investing in international private equity markets. Prior to 57 Stars, Mr. Cowan served in the Investment Funds Department of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). He received his AB (magna cum laude and with honors) in Political Science and Development Studies from Brown University, a JD from the Harvard Law School, and, during college, participated in the Yale-in-China program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Roberto Sifon-Arevalo is a Director in the Sovereign and International Public Finance group in New York. Since 2003, when he joined the Latin America team, he has monitored credit ratings on sovereigns, regional and local governments and multilateral financial institutions. Currently he is the primary analyst for the credit ratings of Venezuela, Panama, Jamaica, Chile, and Belize. He is a secondary analyst for Argentina, Colombia, the Bahamas, Paraguay, Guatemala, and Montserrat and participates in the credit ratings of several states and municipalities in Mexico and Brazil. He has also been responsible for the credit ratings of several multilateral and development financial institutions throughout the region, among others: the Central American Bank for Economic Integration and the Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas.

Roberto’s prior work experience includes eight years in various analytical positions at Banco Santander Central Hispano and Banco Sudameris in Argentina. Roberto holds a degree in business administration from the Universidad de Belgrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and a Masters in International Affairs specializing in International Economic Policy from Columbia University (New York).

Gustavo Galindo is a senior research analyst for Russell Investments’ emerging markets equity research team. Based in New York, Gustavo’s.primary responsibility is to participate with the global and emerging markets team to evaluate investment processes and identify emerging markets money managers with high potential for superior returns going forward over a full market cycle. His investment recommendations are utilized by Russell clients around the world and by portfolio mangers of Russell’s growing multi-manager business.

Prior to joining the Russell emerging markets team in 2005, Gustavo worked in a similar function analyzing global developed money managers since 2003. Before Russell, Gustavo worked for three years in private equity and consulting in Mexico City, where he got significant exposure to global investors and company management teams. His responsibilities included company valuation utilizing quantitative models.

Gustavo was in the top 10% of his Yale School of Management graduating class in hedge funds analysis and probability modeling. He is fluent in Spanish.

Mr. Somek is the Portfolio Manager for The Caravel Fund (International) Ltd., a global frontier markets fund. Caglar is responsible for overseeing Caravel’s portfolio adding his insight and expertise to the analysis of stocks across the 25+ emerging markets in the Caravel universe. In addition, Caglar helps manage a team of five analysts who have regional coverage responsibilities. Prior to joining Caravel, Caglar was a Vice President, Senior Investment Analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management International (2007 – 2008) focusing on the Asia Pacific ex-Japan region with broad research responsibilities including the basic materials, energy and financial sectors. From 2005 – 2007, Caglar worked at Salomon Brothers Asset Management as a Vice President, Investment Analyst covering commodities and capital goods sectors and supporting all cap growth and value funds. Caglar also spent five years (2000 – 2005) as a Global Basic Materials Analyst and Valuations specialist at Credit Suisse First Boston. Caglar was raised in Turkey and speaks Turkish and French fluently. He is a CFA Charterholder, has an M.A. in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University and a B.S. in Economics, Banking, Finance and Insurance from University of Paris IX Dauphine.

Richard Kang has served as Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at Emerging Global Investors since its founding in September 2008. He has been active in both institutional and individual asset/risk management for eighteen years with extensive experience in alternative asset classes, especially hedge funds and managed futures. Mr. Kang began his career at Guardian Timing Services, a Toronto based hedge fund focused on global macro and GTAA strategies including the very early use of ETFs.  In late 2002, Mr. Kang co-founded Meridian Global Investors (“Meridian”), an investment counseling firm and thereafter Quadrexx Asset Management, a Toronto based fund-of-hedge funds.  More recently, Mr. Kang co-founded and was CIO of ETFx Indexes LLC, a boutique index provider focused on alternative investments and strategies.

Mr. Kang received his degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada, is an associate editor of Institutional Investors’ Journal of Index Investing and is an adjunct professor at NYU.