Alex is a Director in the investment office of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic, Alex worked for the Chief Investment Officer of J.P. Morgan. Earlier in his career, Alex was a Senior Analyst with Morgan Creek Capital Management. He also served in the U.S. Army, with multiple overseas deployments. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an MBA from Duke University.

Roxton McNeal serves as the Head of Multi Asset Investment Strategy & Allocation at the UPS Pension Group. He maintains investment oversight for the strategic and tactical allocation of the approximately $42 billion in assets held for the UPS defined benefit plans. He is also responsible for the implementation of plan level derivative overlay strategies, Asset/Liability Management (ALM) and risk and performance monitoring. He is one of four Investment Committee members with the overall responsibility for the operation and administration of the UPS Pension Group Portfolios and overseeing the implementation of the investment policy.

Panayiotis Lambropoulos is a Portfolio Manager of Hedge Funds at Texas ERS, a $29 billion retirement plan located in Austin, Texas. His portfolio management responsibilities include sourcing, analyzing and evaluating potential hedge fund investments. He focuses on the Trust’s Absolute Return Portfolio and Opportunistic Credit allocation. He is responsible for the Trust’s Emerging Hedge Fund Manager program – ERS Launchpad.

Celia is the Chief Investment Strategist. With more than 25 years of investment experience, she is responsible for formulating our global investment strategy and portfolio construction philosophy. Celia joined Cambridge Associates in 1996 and has contributed to a wide range of research initiatives covering strategic and tactical asset allocation, portfolio risk management, endowment spending policy, and liquidity management. She is the author of our quarterly publication, VantagePoint, in which she shares our firm’s house view and investment philosophies. Celia is a regular contributor to additional research publications, covering a wide range of capital market, asset allocation, and investment planning topics. She is also a frequent speaker and moderator at the firm’s roundtables and various industry conferences. Before joining Cambridge Associates, Celia was a consultant for Harlan Brown & Co, a competitive intelligence consulting firm. In this position, she researched, wrote, and presented market analysis commissioned by Fortune 500 clients on a variety of consumer and industrial products. She also worked for the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), where she conducted research and wrote reports on retirement income security issues. Celia received an MBA from Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

David serves as a Portfolio Consultant, advising institutional investors in portfolio construction and manager selection across hedge funds, private markets, and risk premia. Prior to joining Albourne, David worked at Core Capital Management, an investment management firm in Chicago specializing in alternative investment solutions for high net worth investors and family offices. In his role there as a Hedge Fund Associate Analyst, David conducted due diligence on prospective and recently initiated hedge fund investments, drafted detailed investment due diligence reports, maintained the firm‰Ûªs proprietary research database, and pitched investment recommendations for portfolio inclusion. Prior to Core, David interned at Cantor Fitzgerald in Debt Capital Markets. Prior to this, David was with HVB Group, New York, the second largest private commercial German bank, where he worked in Credit Portfolio management, establishing a risk management infrastructure to measure credit risk and loan loss reserve balances. David has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and an AB from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Deepak Gurnani is the Founder and Managing Partner of ARP Investments. Deepak is the former CIO and head of Investcorp's hedge fund group. He was one of the founding members of Investcorp's hedge fund business in 1996 and also a member of the firm's Management Committee. Deepak retired from Investcorp in March 2013. Prior to Investcorp, Deepak Gurnani spent six years with Citicorp. Deepak has conducted extensive research over the last 15 years into various aspects of hedge fund investing - analyzing risk and return in hedge funds, quantifying Alternative Risk Premia inherent in hedge fund returns, using tactical asset allocation to enhance hedge fund portfolio returns, integrating hedge funds into institutional asset allocation and using separate accounts for risk management. Deepak holds a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Kevin Zhu is Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Construction at OPTrust, one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension funds with net assets of over C$20 billion. Kevin has over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, including both central banking and total portfolio investment framework and strategy design for large Canadian defined benefit pension plans. Kevin joined OPTrust in 2016 where he currently leads Total Fund portfolio management functions, including portfolio construction research and innovation, capital and risk allocation across asset classes and strategies, and dynamic overlay portfolio management. Prior to joining OPTrust, Kevin held the position of Director, Strategy & Asset Mix at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Prior to this appointment, Kevin was Senior Economist at the Bank of Canada. He holds a MA in Economics from Carleton University and is a CFA Charterholder. In 2017, Kevin was named to Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute’s Public Investor 100.

As Managing Director, Craig is actively involved in all aspects of the investment portfolios, including asset allocation, portfolio construction, manager selection, and performance reporting. Prior to the launch of Verger, he performed similar investment duties for Wake Forest University, and Agway, Inc., a Syracuse, NY based company that had over $500 million in pension plan assets. Craig earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Alfred University, a master’s degree in finance from Syracuse University, and is a CFA® charterholder. Craig has been honored by aiCIO magazine with a spot on 2014’s (Mostly) 40 under 40, and has served as an Advisory Board member to a number of investment partnerships.