CAIA Member since 2013

CAIA Member since 2009

Hamlin is Head of Research at Tomlinson Research and has over 16 years' of economics and investment industry experience. He started his career in 1997 as assistant economist in the UK Government Department of Social Security; he then moved into equity analytics starting with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (pension) and IDEAglobal (independent research provider).

CAIA Member since 2005

CAIA Member since 2008

Over 20 years industry experience having worked for international asset managers and fund distribution platforms. Business development in Iberia and Latinamerica, servicing institutional and wholesale clients. Wide experience in both traditional asset classes and alternatives (hedge fund, private equity, private debt).

Mrs. Writzel began her career at Austrian financial service provider C-Quadrat GmbH, where she worked in client service. Since May 1998, Mrs. Writzel has looked after Asset Allocation AG’s institutional clients and is also responsible for product selection. A Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) with 25 years’ capital market experience, Mrs. Writzel has a solid background in alternative investments.

CAIA Member since 2008

CAIA Member since 2012

Panayiotis Lambropoulos is a Portfolio Manager of Hedge Funds at the Employees Retirement System of Texas – a $26 billion retirement plan – located in Austin, Texas. His responsibilities include sourcing, analyzing and evaluating potential hedge fund managers, process and performance assessment, interviewing various fund employees and third-party service providers, and maintaining due diligence efforts.

Dennis Montz, CAIA, is the Senior Vice President and Director of Private Investments at Sentinel Trust Company. In this role, Montz sources, conducts due diligence on, analyzes, and monitors investments for four proprietary private equity funds of funds in conjunction with external specialized consultants. Additionally, he oversees limited partnership investments in venture capital, corporate finance, and real estate funds, as well as analyzes other private investment opportunities for clients.

Michael Griffin is a founding partner of SilverOak Financial Group, Ltd., an investment management and financial planning firm in Houston, TX. He began his financial services career in 1999. He subsequently took an interest in the CAIA designation and received his Charter in 2010 in an effort to better serve his clients and in support of his own direct investment activities. Michael graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 with a BBA in Finance and a BA in Japanese.

Within the financial community, Timothy Peterson is well-known and respected as one of the industry's leading experts on alternative investments. He is the author of Performance Measurement for Alternative Investments and has been invtied to speak at investment conferences around the world, on topics ranging from risk to investment manager ethics. Timothy has over 20 years in global investment experience. He was previously the CFO and Portfolio Manager for a family office in Texas. After consulting to some of the most well-known and respected investment managers around the world, Mr.