Finance Teach-in: All-star Investor Panel, Thurs April 4th 12:30-2:00, N470 in Chou Hall

Hosted by Wolfe Research

We have a unique opportunity for you to hear from and ask questions of five prominent investment professionals living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. They will share war stories on the best and most challenging investments over decades-long careers, and offer perspective and advice on getting into the asset management industry.

Please join our final Finance Teach-in, the capstone of the semester: an All-star Investor Panel, with the following panelists:

Ravi Paidipaty
Ravi is a Portfolio Manager for Surveyor Capital (part of Citadel). He was formerly a Managing Member at Farallon over almost a decade. He had earlier worked in private equity and investment banking. He is a Yale undergrad alumnus and a Harvard MBA.

Peter Supino
Peter is a Senior Research Analyst at Sanford Bernstein, covering Telecom, Cable & Satellite. Prior, he worked at Passport Capital, a San Francisco based hedge fund that managed as much as $5 billion in macro and fundamental equity strategies, from 2008 to 2017. At Passport, Peter's roles included Analyst, Sector Portfolio Manager, and Director of Research, and he served on the Management and Compensation Committees. Previously, Peter was a Research Analyst at Weitz Investments, a concentrated value fund manager founded in 1984, and held several positions at Allen & Co., a merchant banking firm founded in 1922. Peter graduated from Williams College in 1998 where he majored in History, studied Art History, and quarterbacked 3 Varsity football teams. He lives in San Rafael, CA with his wife Shawna, their three children, and six pets.

Byron Penstock
Byron is a Senior Research Analyst at Scharf Investments. He began his investment career in 2004 at RS Investments where he was a co-Portfolio Manager and Investment Analyst for each of the four strategies managed by RS Growth and Value. Prior to his 12-year tenure at RS Investments, Penstock was an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in New York. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Juris Doctorate degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, and is a CFA charterholder.

Andrew Raab
Andy is a Managing Director of FPR Partners, a private investment partnership focused on public equities. Prior to founding the firm in 2003, Andy held positions with Hellman and Friedman, Bain Capital, and Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette. Andy received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business after graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Michigan.

Clinton Yara
Cinton is an Investment Professional at Park Presidio Capital located in San Francisco's Presidio district. He entered the investment industry in 1999 as an analyst at BoA following his B.A. from Boston University. After completing his MBA at Harvard Business School in 2003, Yara served as a co-Portfolio Manager at RS Investments for seven years before leaving for the then-new hedge fund Park Presidio Capital in early 2014.
and moderator:

Jon Stenzler
Jon is a Managing Director at Wolfe Research, a premier equity research boutique, where he is a member of the firm's Executive Committee, oversees recruiting, co-heads the institutional sales department and leads West Coast sales. Prior, Jon spent seven years at EvercoreISI, where he was a Managing Director and ran West Coast sales. Prior to ISI, Jon worked for ten years at Citigroup, and prior to that he was a journalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jon received an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Master's in Journalism from New York University and graduated from Lafayette College with a B.A. in Economics.



Teach-ins are an opportunity for students to share as much as to learn, so please come with questions and ready for broad participation. Or feel free to come just because this will be really interesting!

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