Neil B. Kennedy

Mr. Kennedy joined HMC in November 2006 as Senior Managing Director. He has over 20 years of merger arbitrage and event-driven investing experience. Most recently, Mr. Kennedy was with Hamilton Investment Management LLC (“HIM”) where he served as a managing member and as co-head of mergers at Hamilton Partners Ltd, HIM’s predecessor. Previously, he served as executive director in the risk arbitrage and special situations group at Swiss Bank Corporation (“SBC”) and O’Connor & Associates, SBC’s predecessor. Prior to that, Mr. Kennedy was an options market maker on the floor of the American Stock Exchange. He is a graduate of the State University of New York (New Paltz).

John H. Frank

Mr. Frank joined HMC in December 2006 as Director of Investments.  Before joining HMC, he was a Senior Analyst at Charter Management, a New York based merger arbitrage and event driven fund.  Prior to Charter, he was an analyst at Miller Asset Management where he researched special situation and event driven equities.  Before Miller, Mr. Frank was a founding member of the investment team at Investment Strategies Fund LP, a value-oriented fund focused on catalyst driven equities.  Prior to coming to the buy-side Mr. Frank was an Associate Director at Georgeson & Company where he consulted publicly traded companies on issues related to shareholder value and communications.  Mr. Frank has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Iowa.

Niraj Gupta

Mr. Gupta joined HMC in June 2007 as Director of Investments.  Prior to joining HMC, he was a Vice President at Innovation Advisors (“IA”) in New York, focusing on mergers & acquisitions and equity private placements for high-growth technology companies in the US, Europe and India.  Prior to joining IA, Mr. Gupta was a Telecom Specialist and Senior Analyst in the London and New York practices of Broadview International, a global mergers & acquisitions investment bank focused on the IT, Media and Communications sectors.  Before joining Broadview, Mr. Gupta was an M&A analyst in the Industrials group at Wasserstein Perella & Co.  Mr. Gupta holds a Master of Business Administration degree with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michael P. Reinking

Mr. Reinking joined HMC in April 2007 as a Trader. Before joining HMC, he worked on the Institutional Sales and Trading desk at Ladenburg Thalmann Financial. Prior to joining Ladenburg Thalmann Financial, he was the trader for a Long/Short Utility and Energy portfolio at Jemmco Capital a market neutral hedge fund. Before Jemmco Capital, Mr. Reinking was employed at Hamilton Partners Ltd. as a trader for a relative value portfolio. Prior to being hired onto the trading desk at Hamilton, Mr. Reinking was an operations manager at the firm. He began his career at Deutsche Bank as an Investment Administrator. Mr. Reinking is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has his Series 7 and 63 licenses. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and International Business.