Speaker
Jack Woodruff
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
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Candlestick Capital Management
Mr. Woodruff is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Candlestick Capital Management (“CCM”), a consumer-focused fundamental long/short equity hedge fund headquartered in Greenwich, CT.
Mr. Woodruff is responsible for all investment decisions of the CIO portfolio and managing a team of Portfolio Managers. In addition, Mr. Woodruff designed CCM’s investment and research process and is the primary risk manager for the firm's aggregate investments.
Prior to founding CCM in 2019, Mr. Woodruff was a portfolio manager at Citadel (Surveyor Capital) for approximately eight years, where he managed the firm’s largest investment team. Mr. Woodruff was made a Partner at Citadel in 2013. Prior to Citadel, Mr. Woodruff spent four years as a senior analyst covering the consumer sector at Sigma Capital, a division of SAC Capital Advisors. Prior to SAC, Mr. Woodruff worked as a consumer analyst at Northsound Capital and Trivium Capital.
Mr. Woodruff started his career at Ernst and Young where he worked in a variety of roles for six years. Mr. Woodruff earned an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern California.
Moderator
Peter Greene
Partner
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Schulte Roth & Zabel
Investment Management Group co-head. Advises on all matters related to the formation and structuring of private funds, the design of upper-tier deals, and compliance and regulatory requirements for well-pedigreed emerging and veteran private capital managers.
Peter has advised on many of the leading single strategy and multi-manager hedge fund launches over the past 19 years. His clients include well-pedigreed managers launching their first funds and some of the largest veteran hedge fund managers. Having previously served as the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of a buy-side firm, Peter has a unique understanding of his clients’ goals and the nature of their interactions with investors, regulators, auditors, administrators, employees and outside counsel.
He also has particular experience in insider trading determinations, including the purchase, analysis, and use of alternative data.
Peter serves on the Board of Directors of the Managed Funds Association (MFA), the voice of the global alternative asset management industry.
Business Insider recognized Peter as one of “the 29 bankers, advisers, and lawyers to know if you’re thinking about starting your own hedge fund.”
He is recognized as a leading investment funds lawyer for his work in the hedge funds space by Chambers USA, Chambers Global and The Legal 500 US with clients stating that “he is the lawyer that I rely most heavily on and he is a really good resource for commercial legal advice” and “an exceptional lawyer” who “combines an excellent business sense with a strong legal background.”
Peter is also the chair of the Board of Directors of The Acceleration Project, a woman-founded, woman-led nonprofit providing consulting services to empower under-resourced entrepreneurs in order to create a more inclusive economy while channeling talent back into the economy.
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