Manager Sales

Aaron Young, CFA, CAIA

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Professional Experience

K2 Advisors, LLC

Stamford, CT

Vice President: Quantitative Hedge Fund Analyst

March 2008 - January 2011

. Researched, analyzed and quantified over $9.7 billion of various risk and

exposure data from 3rd party risk providers as well as through internal

risk systems.

. Conducted risk due diligence on potential and current hedge fund

investments, working closely with Operational Due Diligence, Legal and

Research teams.

. Developed and monitored internal, external and fund manager imposed

portfolio risk guidelines and both report and make suggestions as

appropriate to K2's Risk Guideline and Allocation Committees.

. Assessed the risk and business viability of different long short, low

volatility, and alternative strategy managers who had either instituted

gates, were liquidating, facing redemption pressure or who were

restructuring in any way.

. Helped monitor the portfolios of hedge funds in which K2 was invested,

watching for and quantifying exposure breaches, market and liquidity

risks, concentration risk, style drift, and indications of excessive risk-

taking.

. Supported the firm's marketing efforts to institutional investors and

consultants, both through direct interactions as well as indirectly by

acting as a liaison between the firm's research & risk groups and its

marketing & client service groups.

. Assisted with the construction of multi-manager portfolios.

Bear Stearns Asset Management: Bear Measurisk

New York, NY

Vice President: Quantitative Hedge Fund Analyst

Dec 2005 - Feb 2008

. Managed risk results of over $30 billion from a major US endowment across

their long only, managed accounts, and alternative assets. This

accounted for over 270% revenue growth over the course of fiscal year

2007.

. Maintained key relationships with risk managers, portfolio managers,

analysts and investor relations personnel at FoHF's, pension funds,

endowments, hedge funds, consultants and other institutional investors.

. Served as a risk management liaison between investor relations and

portfolio managers at hedge funds and their investors, our clients,

communicating results and ensuring numbers are correct.

. Assisted clients in understanding risk transparency through VaR, RVaR,

Marginal VaR, CVaR, leverage, diversification benefits, correlations,

beta's, skewness, kurtosis, stress testing and risk factor sensitivities.

. Researched and quantified various risk and exposure numbers on a market

value and notional basis, placing these results on a dynamic web based

application for our clients.

. Processed, massaged data, and gathered attributes needed for monthly

position files to be placed through a Monte Carlo simulation. Strategies

include market directional, global macro, corporate restructuring,

convergence trading and opportunistic hedge funds.

. Focused efforts on the long/short equity space where the platform is best

suited. Analysis included style drift from market-cap and sector

rotation, as well as looking into leverage, liquidity and concentration

changes.

. Presented portfolio risks and provided recommendations related to

portfolio construction, volatility, liquidity, capital allocations,

position sizing, hedging and the use of derivatives for return

enhancement.

Bloomberg, L.P.

New York, NY

Senior Relationship Manager

June 2005 - Dec 2005

. Managed over $20MM in annual revenue from Merrill Lynch's institutional

accounts in NYC to their retail offices.

. Built relationships with over 1,500 users from both the Equity and Fixed

Income trading floors at Merrill Lynch.

. Supported fixed income, fixed income derivatives, credit derivatives and

research departments as a specialist offering training and seminars to

the current client base as well as potential clients.

. Identified/exploited growth opportunities by a complete understanding of

financial markets and clients needs.

Specialist/Consultant: Fixed Income/Equity Markets

August 2003 - June 2005

. Leader of Fixed Income Specialist Team and Equity Specialist member.

Specialized in valuation of fixed income securities such as cash, credit,

credit derivatives and mortgages while focusing on spread and credit

analysis.

. Created financial models allowing clients to utilize my expertise OAS

analysis, asset swap spread and credit default swaps. Proficient in

Black-Scholes pricing, dividend discount and earning growth models.

. Employed risk and hedge analytics on client's portfolios to ensure

minimized exposure and evaluate potential impacts under shock analysis

environments. Statistical tools include multiple regression, time

series, Monte Carlo, and Altman's Z-Score which helped in a 20 terminal

sale bringing in more than $700M in revenues.

. Developed and executed sales campaigns regarding new analytics by

providing seminars and one on one in-depth meeting's with our current

client base increasing dependency by over 20%.

Electronic Risks Consultants, Inc.

New York, NY

Account Manager

September 2002

- August 2003

. Managed current accounts while locating prospects through cold calling

and networking.

. Developed marketing techniques and built database of prospects while

ensuring sales in new markets.

. Seek out key decision makers to interact with, establish rapport with

potential clients and pursue closure.

Education

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Whittemore School of Business and Economics, - Dean's List

Major: Business Administration Graduated "Cum Laude"

Credentials / Affiliations

Chartered Financial Analyst

Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst

Technology

. Bloomberg Professional, MS Office, Visual Basic Application Programming

(basic), Pertrac, RiskMetrics, Measurisk, Matlab, SQL and Perl.

Interests

. Volunteer at Special Olympics held at the University of New Hampshire

1998 - 1999 and 1999-2000.

. Traveling and exploring foreign countries. Travels have included: Canada,

Mexico, St. Lucia, Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Spain, Portugal,

Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, and Denmark.

. University of New Hampshire Lacrosse 2000(2002, Club Hockey 2000(2001

. Fishing, Hockey, Lacrosse, Snowmobiling and Hiking.

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