WR Capital Management is an independent, privately held company. With a substantial capital commitment in its multi-strategy/multi-manager fund by the firm’s principals, WR Capital Management’s interests are aligned with those of its investors.  The firm’s commitment is to provide robust returns with the lowest volatility possible through careful selection of the most talented hedge fund managers.  Our team of investment professionals brings an average of 19 years experience each in the securities and/or financial services industry.  The team is gathered largely from top-tier Wall Street firms, with broad multi-disciplinary talents from diverse fields such as risk management, alternatives hedge fund trading, fixed income and equity trading, and structured products.

The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Management Biographies

Walter Raquet, CPA - Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Mr. Raquet has over 41 years of experience in the securities industry. He was founder, Executive Vice President, Director of Knight Trading Group from 1994 to 2002. From 1992 to 1994, he was Senior Vice President with Spear, Leeds & Kellogg/Troster Singer, managing their technology and marketing functions. From 1982 to 1992, Mr. Raquet was at Herzog Heine & Geduld, Inc., a trading firm, where he directed the firm’s technology and marketing efforts. Mr. Raquet was also Corporate Controller for Paine Webber, Incorporated between 1980 and 1982. He was Executive Vice President of Cantor Fitzgerald from 1977 to 1980 and Controller for Weeden & Co. from 1968 to 1976. He is a CPA and practiced at the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse. Mr. Raquet received a BS in Accounting from New York University in 1966. Walter Raquet currently serves on the Board of Directors of Crossmatch, Inc., a bio-metric technology company.

John Cunningham, CPA - President & COO

Mr. Cunningham has over 15 years of experience in the securities industry. Mr. Cunningham has held several roles at WR Capital Management since 2004, including Portfolio Manager and Chief Operating Officer. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Cunningham served as Senior Vice President and the Financial and Operations Principal of Knight Securities, L.P. and Knight Capital Markets. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Cunningham was an officer at Greenwich Capital Markets and was responsible for issuer risk and counterparty risk management on fixed income, asset backed, derivative, and foreign currency products. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Cunningham practiced at the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP where he earned his CPA while specializing in the capital markets group. Mr. Cunningham earned his MBA from Cornell University and his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany.

Andrew Weisman - Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Weisman has over 20 years of experience in the securities industry. Prior to joining WR and founding Patel Weisman he was a Managing Director and Chief Portfolio Manager for Merrill Lynch’s Hedge Fund platform, responsible for strategy, risk management, portfolio construction, and portfolio analytics. In 2002 he co-founded (in association with JPMorgan) Strativarius Capital Management and served as Director of Research. From 1998 to 2002, he was Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for Nikko Securities International. From 1997 to 1998 he was Head of Structured Products at Yamaichi America. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Weisman was a Senior Asset Manager with Commodities Corporation. Mr. Weisman has completed all course work and comprehensive exams towards a PhD in money and financial markets at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University and holds a MA, and BA from Columbia University. His awards include the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award (2002) and the GAIM Research Paper of the Year (2003). He is currently a Member Board of Directors of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Portfolio Management.

Sandeep A. Patel, PhD - Executive Vice President, Research

 

Dr. Patel has over 15 years of experience in capital markets. Dr. Sandeep Patel was the Director and Head of Portfolio Analytics in HFDMG at Merrill Lynch from November 2005 to March 2008 and Founder and Managing Member of Governance Performance Management from August 2004 to October 2005. Dr. Patel served as Managing Director of the Portfolio Analytics Group at Standard & Poor's from 2000 to 2004, and prior to that as a Modeling Specialist of Currency and Equities at Tudor Investment Corporation from 1999 to 2000. From 1991 to 1999, Dr. Patel was Vice President of European Equity, Emerging Markets, U.S. Fixed Income and U.S. Equity with JP Morgan Investment Management. He has been a Visiting Professor of Emerging Markets Finance at New York University and a Visiting Professor of Corporate Finance at Texas Christian University. Dr. Patel received a PhD in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1984.

Henrik Neuhaus, PhD - Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
 

Dr. Neuhaus has over 20 years’ experience in capital markets, investment management, and risk management. Prior to joining WR Capital Management, Mr. Neuhaus was a founding partner at Triumvirate Capital Management in Stamford where he was responsible for development and implementation of quantitative methodology and served as joint Chief Investment Officer. Additionally he served as Chief Quantitative Officer of a funds-of-funds manager. Dr. Neuhaus co-founded SMN Advisors and managed his own consulting business. Before moving to the US in 1998, Dr. Neuhaus ran the Group Risk Division for Nikko Securities, traded derivatives for S.G. Warburg and J.P. Morgan, and worked as an analyst for Salomon Brothers. Dr. Neuhaus has a doctorate in economics from the University of London and has a BS in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.


Richard Gaebler, CPA, CFA, FRM - Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Gaebler has over 25 years experience in the securities and financial services industries. Prior to WR, Mr. Gaebler was the Head of Operations for the New York and Florida offices of the Bank of New York, AIS division. He was a Director at GlobeOp Financial Services, a hedge fund administration firm, managing a client service group of 25 for the firm’s flagship client. Previously, he served eleven years at Loeb Arbitrage Fund, handling all accounting, regulatory and tax matters for the hedge fund, leaving as a Managing Director. He is a CPA and practiced at the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen. Mr. Gaebler earned his MBA in Public Accounting from Hofstra University and his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter in 1998 and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification in 1999. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Securities Analysts (NYSSA), and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

Santa Federico - President & Chief Investment Officer of WR Completion Strategies
 
Prior to joining WR Capital Management, Mr. Federico was the Chief Risk Officer for Perry Capital, a $15 billion multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to Perry Capital, Mr. Federico was Managing Director of Strategic Risk Management at Credit Suisse First Boston and Head Market Risk Manager for Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup. Besides risk management, Mr. Federico has held various positions in portfolio management, derivatives trading, and quantitative research. Santa has 22 years of financial industry experience and holds degrees in physics from Princeton University and the École Centrale de Paris.

Monique Miller - Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager
 

Ms. Miller has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry. Prior to joining WR Capital Management, she was Division Head of Caxton Associates’ Strategic Quantitative Investment Division where she was responsible for trading oversight, manager evaluation, due diligence and research. Also while at Caxton, Ms. Miller managed the development and launch of several new businesses. Previously, Ms. Miller was employed by Capital Markets Risk Advisors where she performed risk analysis for a variety of institutions. She also spent several years as a Vice President at NationsBanc Capital Markets (formerly Chicago Research and Trading). Ms. Miller received an MBA with distinction from New York University in Finance and Economics and graduated cum laude with a Bachelors of Science from Syracuse University. Ms. Miller is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Financial Engineers and is Co-Chair of its Operational Risk Committee.

John M. Pagli, Jr. - Senior Vice President, Marketing & Investor Relations

  Mr. Pagli has over 12 years in the alternative investments industry, prior to which he was an investment banker and private equity investor. Prior to joining the firm, he had been with Pursuit Partners LLC as Director of Strategic Business Development; Managing Director for Alternative Investments at Proctor Investment Managers LLC; Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Para Advisors, Inc.; and Managing Partner of Forest Investment Management LLC, President of Forest Investment Management L.P., and President and Director of the Forest Global Convertible Fund, Ltd. He earned his MBA degree with distinction from New York University Stern School of Business Administration with concentrations in Corporate Finance and Corporate Strategy and graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Management with a BSBA degree with concentrations in Finance and International Economics. Mr. Pagli is registered with the SEC and NASD under Series 3, Series 7 and Series 63 licenses, and is a candidate for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.

Christian Voltaire Bautista, CFA, FRM - Vice President, Research

Mr. Bautista has over 10 years experience in asset management, securities analysis and project finance. Prior to joining WR Capital Management, Mr. Bautista worked for an asset management company based in New York City, primarily conducting due diligence on hedge fund managers. Before this, he was a senior manager and lead investment analyst of a business conglomerate based in the Philippines and was a business analyst for Philippines’ leading petroleum company. Mr. Bautista received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MBA from the Asian Institute of Management and completed Financial Risk Management course at New York University. He was awarded Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification in 2006. Mr. Bautista is a member of the CFA Institute, New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

Philip Tulimieri, CAIA - Vice President, Research
 

Mr. Tulimieri has 15 years of experience in the financial services industry including equity trading and research, and hedge fund research and due diligence. Prior to joining WR Capital Management, Mr. Tulimieri was a founding partner at Triumvirate Capital Management in Stamford where he was responsible for hedge fund manager selection and served as joint Chief Investment Officer. Prior to Triumvirate, Mr. Tulimieri was Director of Manager Research and member of the Investment Committee at Parker Global Strategies where he was responsible for identifying, evaluating, and monitoring hedge funds for the firm’s funds-of-hedge-funds. Prior to that, Mr. Tulimieri held various positions in trading, operations and research at Newgate LLP and was an investment analyst at AIG International Asset Management (now DKR Capital). Mr. Tulimieri received a BA in Economics from McGill University and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Clay McDaniel - Vice President, Research

  Mr. McDaniel has 5 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to joining WR Capital Management, Mr. McDaniel was the founder and President of McDaniel Capital Management where he advised private clients on their alternative asset portfolios. Prior to founding his firm, he served as an investment advisor to a family office in Florida. He has completed PhD coursework (All but dissertation) in Finance, an MS in Economics, and a BBA in Finance from the University of Kentucky. He is a CFA Level 3 candidate, and has served on the Investment Committee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County.

Kevin Duffy, CPA MBA - Vice President, Technology

 

Mr. Duffy has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry.   Prior to joining WR Capital Management, Mr. Duffy worked for the Pepsi Bottling Group where he managed the development of an application security framework based upon Open LDAP.  He was at Parker Global Strategies where he was the IT manager and was responsible for developing custom software to support the fund of funds business.  Mr. Duffy was a lead developer at SAC Capital Advisors in Stamford, CT.  He is a CPA and practiced account at Edward Isaacs & Co., NYC.  Mr. Duffy earned his MBA in Accounting from Baruch College and his BBA from Hofstra University.