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Managing Directors
Andrea M. Bollyky, Managing Director
Client Relations
Ms. Bollyky is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and leads the business development and client relations activities for Aetos Capital’s absolute return strategies.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2004, Ms. Bollyky was a Principal with Clay Finlay Inc., a specialist global equity management firm with $8 billion under management and offices in New York, Tokyo and London where she was responsible for managing the firm's global business development and marketing activities. Prior to joining Clay Finlay in 1995, Ms. Bollyky was an Account Executive with Gartmore Capital Management, a global asset manager headquartered in London where she was responsible for managing the firm’s North American consultant relations and client service activities. Earlier in her career, Ms. Bollyky was a Manager with SEI Corporation and a member of the International Investment Group, which created multi-manager investment products offered to the pension, endowment and foundation markets. Ms. Bollyky was also involved in the evaluation and analysis of investment managers for use in the firm's multi-manager investment strategies and for recommendations to the firm's consulting clients. She began her career as a Research Analyst affiliated with the Hungarian Ministry of Finance in Budapest, Hungary.
Ms. Bollyky was educated at Lehigh University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in International Business with a concentration in Economics and Eastern European Studies, and the Economic University of Budapest. Ms. Bollyky is a member of the Board of Directors of AIMSE.
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Anne Casscells,
Managing Director
Co-President and Chief Investment Officer of Absolute Return
Strategies
Ms. Casscells is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and the Co-President and Chief Investment Officer of Aetos Capital’s absolute return strategies.
Prior to joining Aetos in 2001, Ms. Casscells was Chief Investment Officer of the Stanford Management Company, where she was responsible for the investment of over $10 billion in endowment funds and other assets of Stanford University, including absolute return investments and a portable alpha program she developed while there. Prior to joining Stanford, Ms. Casscells was a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Fixed Income Division and an analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company.
Ms. Casscells earned her Masters of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and Bachelor of Arts in British Studies, cum laude, from Yale University. She is a member of the Asset Managers Committee convened by the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets which authored Best Practices for the Hedge Fund Industry, April 15, 2008. She has also served as a trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Northern California Public Broadcasting (formerly KQED), where she was Treasurer and head of the Finance Committee. Currently, Ms. Casscells serves as an off-board member of the finance and investment committees. She also was an Advisor to the Finance Committee of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. She is the co-author with Robert Arnott of two articles titled Demographics and Capital Markets Returns and Will We Retire Later and Poorer? She also co-authored with Clifford S. Asness an unpublished monograph titled Comparing Apples-to-Apples the Stock Market is Expensive, April 2004.
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James T. Gibbons, Managing Director
Portfolio Manager
of Absolute Return Strategies
Mr. Gibbons is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and is a portfolio manager and senior member of Aetos Capital’s absolute return strategies investment team.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2002, Mr. Gibbons served as a Senior Vice President at Evaluation Associates Capital Markets, where he was responsible for research and due diligence on a large group of relative value and event driven hedge fund managers. During his career at Evaluation Associates Mr. Gibbons and team managed up to $2.6 billion in assets. Before joining Evaluation Associates, Mr. Gibbons spent ten years with AIG in New York, London and Tokyo. He served as chief investment officer for various AIG insurance entities
and Managing Director for AIG Global Investment Corp. His responsibilities
included asset allocation as well as the management of fixed income, equity
and non-traditional investment teams that invested $13 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gibbons worked for Unilever in their treasury units in the U.S. and London.
Mr. Gibbons received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Georgetown University.
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Scott M. Kelley, Managing Director
Chief Executive Officer of Aetos Capital Asia and Aetos Japan
Mr. Kelley is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and Chief Executive Officer
of Aetos Capital Asia and Aetos Japan.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2001, Mr. Kelley was a
Managing Director and co-head of Morgan Stanley’s global real estate
investment banking group, where he was responsible for all international
client matters. He was also a member of the Investment Committees for
MSREF I, II and III and the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Special
Situations Fund.
Mr. Kelley is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable,
McIntire School of Commerce Advisory Board, Pension Real Estate
Association, the Urban Land Institute and a former director of the
National Multi-Family Housing Council and the National Association of
Real Estate Investment Trusts.
Mr. Kelley received a Bachelor of Science degree from
the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and a
Masters in Management with Distinction from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate
School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Daniel H. Klebes II, Managing Director
Chief Investment Officer of Aetos Japan
Mr. Klebes is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and Chief Investment Officer of Aetos Japan.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2004, Mr. Klebes was a Managing Director in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He founded the Tokyo operations for The Whitehall Funds, Goldman Sachs’ real estate opportunity fund, and headed or co-headed Whitehall’s operations in Japan from 1997 to 2004. During that time he led the acquisition of over $5 billion in Japanese real estate and real estate secured loans. Mr. Klebes also served as a member of Whitehall’s Investment Committee from 1999 to 2004. Mr. Klebes joined Goldman Sachs in 1987 in the Investment Banking Division and spent his entire career in real estate. He has lived in Japan for more than 10 years and is fluent in Japanese.
Mr. Klebes received his Bachelor’s degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and his Master’s from Stanford University.
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Michael F. Klein, Managing Director
Co-President and Head of Operational, Business and Legal
Due Diligence of Absolute Return Strategies
Mr. Klein is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and the Co-President
and Chief Operating Officer of Aetos Capital’s absolute return strategies.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2000, Mr. Klein was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co.
and was President and a Director of the Morgan Stanley Institutional Open and Closed-End Funds. Mr. Klein joined Morgan Stanley in 1995 and was involved in both the firm’s institutional asset management and retail funds businesses. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he practiced law at the international law firm of Rogers & Wells in New York.
Mr. Klein is a magna cum laude graduate of Colgate University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received his Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School where he graduated cum laude.
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Harold J. Schaaff, Managing Director
General Counsel
Mr. Schaaff is a Managing Director and General Counsel of Aetos Capital.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2001, Mr. Schaaff was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and the President and a Director of the Morgan Stanley Institutional Open and Closed-End Funds. Prior to March 2000, Mr. Schaaff was a Managing Director and General Counsel for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Mr. Schaaff joined Morgan Stanley in 1989. Prior to 1989, Mr. Schaaff practiced securities law for Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
Mr. Schaaff received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Los Angeles where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a John M. Olin Law and Economics Scholar.
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Kenny Tse, Managing Director
Aetos Capital Asia, Head of China Real Estate
Mr.
Tse is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital Asia and head of its real
estate business in China. He is based in Hong Kong.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2007, Mr. Tse was a Managing Director
and head of Morgan Stanley’s real estate research in Hong Kong/China,
where he was responsible for building the China real estate research
franchise. Mr. Tse received the top analyst ranking from Greenwich
Associates in 2006 and ranked #2 in both 2004 and 2005. Mr. Tse also led primary and secondary equity offerings by a wide
variety of the most prestigious Chinese real estate companies. Mr. Tse
joined Morgan Stanley in 1997 after spending three years at Fidelity
Investments.
Mr.
Tse received his Bachelor of Agricultural Economics degree from the
University of Sydney with majors in Economics and Applied Finance.
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Richard G. Woolworth,
Jr., Managing Director
Aetos Capital
Mr. Woolworth is a Managing Director of Aetos Capital and is responsible for a number of the firm's strategic relationships with institutional clients.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital, Mr. Woolworth
was with Morgan Stanley for 23 years in both the firm's
Investment Management and Investment Banking businesses.
As part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Mr. Woolworth
served in various management roles, including as Head of
the U.S. Institutional Coverage Group, and was responsible
for developing strategic relationships with the firm's largest
clients. Prior to joining Investment Management, Mr. Woolworth
worked in the Investment Banking Department with responsibility
for business development with a number of the firm's major
industrial clients, and also served as Co-Head of the Private
Placement Group. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Woolworth
worked for five years with Dillon Read & Co. in Investment
Banking.
Mr. Woolworth is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business. Prior to pursuing graduate studies,
he was a Teaching Fellow at Phillips Academy (Andover).
Mr. Woolworth is currently a Trustee of Groton School and a member of the Investment Committee. He served for many years as a Trustee of the
Morgan Stanley Foundation, and also headed the leadership group which
founded Trinity Church (Greenwich, CT).
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Directors
Jon P. Awong, Director
Aetos Capital Asia
Mr. Awong is a Director of Aetos Capital
Asia and has been based in Hong Kong since 2006. He is responsible for pricing and execution of the Fund's non-Japan Asia investments.
Prior to relocating to Hong Kong, Mr. Awong was a senior member of Aetos Japan's investment team and led Aetos Japan's pricing and portfolio management functions. Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2001, Mr. Awong was a member of the acquisitions team at The Blackstone Group's real estate funds, having sourced and executed on a number of property investments.
Mr. Awong attended the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics (summa cum laude) from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa and was also the recipient of the Pinkel Award.
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Han Chen, Director
Aetos Capital Asia
Mr. Chen is a Director of Aetos Capital Asia and a member of the China real estate investment team based in Beijing.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2007, Mr. Chen was a Senior Vice President at CDIB Capital responsible for sourcing and executing real estate investment transactions. Mr. Chen joined CDIB from Vantone Real Estate Co., Ltd., a prominent Chinese developer where he was Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Chen also had extensive investment banking experience in Asia and the United States, having worked at BOC International and JPMorgan Chase.
Mr. Chen received a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from Hope College where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Darren S. Glickman,
Director
Real Estate
Mr. Glickman is a Director of Aetos Capital responsible for the accounting and finance functions related to Aetos Capital Asia.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2003, Mr. Glickman
was a Vice President in the Investment Accounting division
of Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he focused primarily on
accounting and reporting for private equity real estate
partnerships. Prior to joining Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
Mr. Glickman was an audit manager in the Real Estate Services
division of Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
Mr. Glickman is
a Certified Public Accountant in New York State and has
a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from
Baruch College.
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Susan Gong,
Director
Aetos Capital Asia
Ms. Gong is a Director of Aetos Capital Asia and is based in Beijing.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2008, Ms. Gong was a Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Macquarie Bank Limited where she was responsible for identifying investment opportunities and leading business activities in Beijing. Prior to joining Macquarie in 2003, Ms. Gong served as Investment Manager and Chief Negotiator at Beijing Urban Development Group Co. Ltd. where she was responsible for strategic planning, setting up joint ventures, and conducting feasibility studies.
Ms. Gong received her MBA from Peking University as well as a Master of Science in Management of Technology from National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Engineering in Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning from Beijing Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
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James L. Kraus, Director
Real Estate
Mr. Kraus is a Director of Aetos Capital responsible for fund portfolio and risk management for Aetos Capital Asia.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2003, Mr. Kraus worked in the Real Estate Principal Investment Area of Goldman, Sachs & Co., working on the Whitehall funds as a member of their Finance and Administration team. His primary responsibilities were investor reporting and reporting to senior management on fund performance and risk analysis. Prior to Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Kraus was an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.
Mr. Kraus graduated from Binghamton University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.
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Kenneth Lau, Director
Aetos Capital Asia
Mr. Lau is a Director of Aetos Capital Asia. He is based in Hong Kong and is responsible for sourcing and structuring of new transactions.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital Asia in 2007, Mr. Lau was a Vice President of Wachovia Bank N.A. in Hong Kong where he was responsible for the negotiation and execution of all real estate transactions in the Greater China region. Prior to Wachovia, Mr. Lau was a Vice President of Lehman Brothers’ Global Real Estate Group involved in the firm’s real estate activities in the Taiwan and China markets. At Wachovia and Lehman Brothers, Mr. Lau completed numerous asset and project-level equity investments and debt financings in conjunction with developers and property investors. Mr. Lau began his career as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers’ Corporate Finance Group serving the advisory and capital raising needs of financial institutions throughout the Asia Pacific region.
Mr. Lau received his Master degree in Engineering (Engineering, Economics and Management) from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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Thomas Liu, Director
Aetos Capital Asia
Mr. Liu is a Director of Aetos Capital Asia. He is head of the Beijing office and responsible for the real estate business in China.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital Asia in 2007, Mr. Liu was Executive Director and Co-Head of the Mezzanine/Structured Investment Group at CDIB Capital Limited, the Hong Kong subsidiary of China Development Industrial Bank of Taiwan. At CDIB, he was responsible for sourcing and executing structured transactions in the real estate sector in Greater China. Prior to that Mr Liu was Chief Operating Officer of He Qiao Group in Beijing overseeing the development and operation of over 2.5 million square feet of residential and commercial projects in China. Before moving to Beijing in 2004, Mr. Liu had been involved in a variety of private equity and real estate related financial advisory, consulting, and acquisition and disposition activities throughout Asia. He started his career in the Hong Kong headquarters of the Shangri-La Group, working on the development and pre-opening planning for various projects in Southeast Asia and China.
Mr. Liu received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (summa cum laude) and Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Food Administration (magna cum laude) from Boston University. He then received his Master in Business Administration from the joint executive program of Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese.
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Joseph J. McDonald, Director
Absolute Return Strategies
Mr. McDonald is a Director and Manager of Operational Risk for Aetos Capital’s absolute return strategies investment team.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2006, Mr. McDonald was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for the operational due diligence of third party alternative investment managers on the firm’s Graystone Research advisory platform. In addition, he served as Risk Manager for the Alternative Investment Group, overseeing the Graystone Research and Morgan Stanley Managed Futures businesses. Prior to 2005, Mr. McDonald was a Vice President in the Credit Risk Management and Advisory Group at Goldman Sachs in New York. In this role he was responsible for assessing and monitoring the firm’s counterparty risk to hedge funds and other alternative investment vehicles.
Mr. McDonald received a B.A. in History from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
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Gwynne
M. Murphy, Director
Real Estate
Ms. Murphy is a Director of Aetos Capital responsible
for institutional investor relations and marketing activities
related to Aetos Capital Asia.
Prior to joining Aetos in 2006, Ms. Murphy was
a Vice President of Lazard Frères Real Estate Investors
from 2000 to 2006 responsible for investor relations for
the firm's real estate funds. From 1996 to 2000, Ms.
Murphy worked for a European affiliate of Security Capital
Group Inc., a global real estate research, investment and
management company. Based in London, Ms. Murphy
focused on capital markets and investor relations initiatives
in Europe and the United States. Previously, Ms. Murphy
lived in Tokyo from 1989 to 1993. She studied at the International
Christian University and subsequently spent three years
as an Associate in the International Finance Division of
The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Limited.
Ms. Murphy received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics
from Northwestern University. She received her MBA and Masters
in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Scott D. Sawyer, Director
Chief Financial Officer of Aetos Absolute Return Strategies
Mr. Sawyer is a Director of Aetos Capital and Chief Financial Officer of Aetos Capital’s Absolute Return strategies investment team.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2004, Mr. Sawyer was Client Portfolio Manager at General Electric Asset Management where he was responsible for the daily investment and operational oversight of third party accounts investing in various U.S. and international equity strategies. Prior to 2002, Mr. Sawyer was Manager of Fund Operations at General Electric Asset Management where he was responsible for the budgetary, control and reporting requirements for numerous families of mutual funds. Prior to joining General Electric Asset Management, Mr. Sawyer was a Manager at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP.
Mr. Sawyer graduated from Bucknell University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting.
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Michael Spath, Director
Portfolio Manager of Absolute Return Strategies
Mr. Spath is a Director of Aetos Capital's absolute return
strategies investment team.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2007, Mr. Spath developed a
quantitative credit-equity trading strategy with Creedon Keller & Partners.
Mr. Spath previously had a 13 year career at Goldman Sachs, where he was a
Vice President in the Fixed Income Division. From 2000-2002, Mr. Spath
was Co-Business Manager of Goldman Sachs' Credit Derivatives Department.
Prior to that arrangement, he was a Senior Deal Captain in the
Collateralized Debt Obligation Group, a Vice President in Fixed Income
Research and an Associate in the Mortgage Department.
Mr. Spath has a B.A. in Economics and Computer Science
from Brown University and is also the author of Dangerous Delusions:
America on the Brink; A Critical Solution to America's Political and
Economic Dilemma, 1995.
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Christopher B. Taube, Director
Real Estate
Mr. Taube is a Director of Aetos Capital and a member
of the Aetos Capital Asia real estate team. He is responsible for
evaluating all non-Japan acquisitions and for developing investment
initiatives in new markets.
Prior to joining
Aetos Capital in 2007, Mr. Taube was a Principal at Fremont Realty
Capital in New York where he was involved in sourcing, closing and
managing private equity
real estate investments. Prior to joining Fremont, he graduated from
Columbia Business School. Prior to Columbia Business School, Mr.
Taube was at The Georgetown Company in New York where he worked on
real estate development projects including retail, office and
residential. He started his career at Lazard Freres & Co. LLC as an
analyst in the Media and Communications Group.
Mr. Taube
received a B.A. from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia
Business School where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma and was a
member of the Dean’s Honor List.
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Deepak Wadhwa, Director
Aetos Capital
Mr. Wadhwa is a Director of Aetos Capital involved
in the tax and finance functions related to Aetos Capital
and its subsidiaries.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in 2005, Mr. Wadhwa
was a tax manager in the Financial Services division of
Ernst & Young LLP, where he focused primarily on tax
consulting for real estate partnerships, investment partnerships,
private equity funds, and multi-national corporations. Prior
to joining Ernst & Young LLP, Mr. Wadhwa was a tax senior
consultant in the Financial Services division of Arthur
Andersen LLP.
Mr. Wadhwa graduated magna cum laude from St. John's University
where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
He also received his Masters of Science in Accounting from
St. John's University with a concentration in Tax. Mr. Wadhwa
is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of
New York.
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