David Hammond ’93
Hammond is a managing director of Goldman Sachs in its Investment Banking division, based in New York City. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, he was a managing director in the Investment Banking division of Credit Suisse where he was co-head of the Global Industrials Group Americas and global head of metals and mining. Before joining Credit Suisse in 2012, he was global head of metals and mining for Morgan Stanley, having joined its Mergers and Acquisitions Group as an associate in 1997. Hammond earned his BA, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his JD/MBA from New York University.
Timothy Hotchandani ’04
Hotchandani has been a managing director at Rothschild & Co in healthcare investment banking since joining the firm in 2017. Prior to Rothschild, he spent seven years at Deutsche Bank, where he advised on a variety of M&A, debt, and equity transactions for clients including Life Technologies, Abbott, Bio-Techne, Danaher, Medicis, Merck KGaA, Qiagen, and Thermo Fisher, among others. Hotchandani has also worked at Lehman Brothers, Macquarie Capital, and Thomas Weisel Partners. He is a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and holds a BBA in finance and economics, with distinction and Beta Gamma Sigma, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Paul Leff ’83, MS’84
Leff runs his family office, Warbasse67, out of New York City. He cofounded Perry Capital in 1988, served as its CIO, and retired from Perry Capital in 2014. From 1986 to 1988, he was a principal and portfolio manager at Harvard Management Company. From 1984 to 1986, he was a trader and research analyst at Kayne, Anderson and Co., where he specialized in corporate reorganizations. Leff is a founding member of the Wisconsin Naming Partners, a Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA) board member, vice chair of the Investment Committee of the WFAA board, and a cochair of the Wisconsin Eastern Alumni Scholarship Fund: an organization that provides academic scholarships to minority, disadvantaged students from New York City. He has been an owner of the Las Vegas Raiders since 2007. Leff earned an MS in finance and a BBA in finance and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Greg Margolis ’91
Margolis joined ExodusPoint as a portfolio manager focusing on the consumer sector in May, 2021. Prior to joining ExodusPoint, he was a portfolio manager at the Millennium platform company Blue Arrow Fund since 2013, and spent more than 10 years as a portfolio manager with four firms — Balyasny Asset Management, Visium, BNP Paribas, and Nomura. He has been on the buy side since 1998. He earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1998 and his BBA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Gregg Moskowitz ’93
Moskowitz is the managing member and portfolio manager of Interval Partners, a New York–based long/short equity investment manager. He is responsible for running Interval’s investment and portfolio strategy and oversees all business operations. Prior to launching Interval Partners, Moskowitz was a managing member of Bascom Hill Partners. At Bascom, he was head of the investment research team and managed the opportunities portfolio: a separate carve-out that concentrated primarily on the consumer, industrial, and financial sectors. Prior to cofounding Bascom, Moskowitz was a senior analyst for the Captain’s Fund at the Galleon Group from 2003 until 2008. His primary focus was in the consumer and financial sectors, and his responsibilities included in-depth company research and portfolio strategy. Prior to Galleon, he was a senior vice president of business development at Blue Spike, a digital-content protection company. He began his career in the business-turnaround and corporate-restructure division of Price Waterhouse. Moskowitz graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a BBA in risk management and insurance.
John J. Oros ’71
Oros is a managing director and a member of the Management Committee of J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC, a private equity firm based in New York. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, he held a number of executive positions at Enstar Group Limited, including the role of executive chairman from 2000 – 2010. He was also an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group of Goldman Sachs for almost 20 years, where he became a general partner in 1986. In addition, he was appointed chairman of the Federal Savings and Loan Council in 1987, where he served for two years. John received his BBA in Business from the UW-Madison.
Danny Robbins ’06
Robbins is a vice president in private wealth management who’s based in New York. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2010 in its equity sales and trading division and covered some of the firm’s largest hedge-fund clients, helping to facilitate sophisticated investments. In 2013, after seven years in institutional equity sales, he transitioned into the Investment Management Division. In his current role, he is responsible for helping clients to implement strategic and tactical asset-allocation decisions and access unique investment opportunities. Robbins is a founding member of the United Jewish Appeal’s Young Wall Street Committee and continues to serve on its board. He earned a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
John Roglieri ’93
Roglieri is head of structuring for prime solutions and financing within Global Markets at BNP. In this role, he is responsible for managing a team that seeks to create new products to meet the esoteric financing needs of its hedge-fund clients. His team works closely with hedge-fund and large-asset managers to understand their strategies and create meaningful solutions through new products and financing solutions. Roglieri joined BNP Paribas in 2010 and was previously head of funding origination, a role in which he managed and developed capital-markets funding programs for the bank, including developing and managing CLO products and short-term-debt capital-markets programs. He has more than 20 years of experience on Wall Street, including work as a principal member of the credit hedge fund ICP Capital and as the president and CFO of an asset-management firm. Roglieri previously worked as a structured-credit analyst for Fitch Ratings and is a trained accountant who began his career at PriceWaterhouse. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MBA in accounting from Boston University.
Ricky Sandler ’91
Ricky founded Eminence Capital in 1999. Today, Eminence is a ~$7.0B global investment management organization investing client capital across global financial markets as well as private equity markets. As CEO and CIO of Eminence, Ricky is responsible for setting the firm’s strategic direction as well as directly managing its 20+ person investment team and diversified investment portfolio. Prior to launching Eminence, Ricky was co-founder and co-general partner of Fusion Capital Management, LLC. Prior to that he was a research analyst covering a wide range of industries and companies for Mark Asset Management, where he began his investing career in 1991.
Ricky received a BBA in Accounting and Finance graduating with honors from the University of Wisconsin. Ricky has served as a board member for the University of Wisconsin Foundation and as a member of its Development Committee, Investment Committee and Traditional Asset Subcommittee. Ricky is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Adam Taetle ‘90
Taetle is a senior managing director of Evercore’s corporate advisory business and is based in the firm’s NYC office. He is focused on advising clients across the consumer retail sector. Mr. Taetle was most recently the co-head of the Global Consumer Retail Group at Barclays. Over his more than twenty year career, he has advised clients on a number of notable transactions including Energizer’s pending acquisition of the Spectrum Battery Business, Lorillard’s sale to Reynolds American, Post’s acquisition of Michael Foods, Wrigley’s sale to Mars, Ralcorp’s sale to ConAgra, Smithfield’s sale to Shanghui and Kellogg’s acquisition of Pringles from Proctor and Gamble. Prior to joining Barclays, Mr. Taetle was a managing director at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Taetle earned a BBA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Adam Wolfberg ’93
Adam Wolfberg is a managing member, founder, and portfolio manager of Longview Alpha Partners and a managing member and cofounder of Hurricane Capital Advisors, both which began operations in 2021. He began his career in 1993 at the international public-accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand, where he participated in a select rotation in the company’s business assurance and financial advisory service lines. In 1995, he left Coopers and Lybrand to take a position with ED&F Mann International, a clearinghouse specializing in executing futures and options investments for an institutional and individual clientele. In 1997, he founded Delta Asset Management Group, which was the general partner of Delta Enhanced Equity Fund: a hedge fund geared toward consistent returns derived from the investment of limited partner capital in various asset classes, including public and private equity markets.
Adam has worked as a portfolio manager focused on global TMT equity investing at SAC Capital Advisors, Galleon Asset Management and Diamondback Capital Advisors and was the founder and portfolio manager of XI Asset Management. From 2013 – 2020, Adam Wolfberg served as managing member, cofounder and portfolio manager of Eastbay Asset Management, a long/short global equity fund focused on the technology and consumer sectors. Mr. Wolfberg graduated in 1996 from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he received a Masters in Finance and Statistics. Mr. Wolfberg received his Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a concentration in Finance in 1993.