Shelley R. Goldberg / 917-***-**** / **********@*****.***
Shelley R. Goldberg
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New York, NY 10023
LinkedIn: shelleyrg3/
Phone: 212-***-****
Mobile: 917-***-****
Email: **********@*****.***
Professional
Summary
Environmental
Sustainability
2013 – Present
ESG Investment Advisor and Strategist
Investment advisor and strategist in environmental sustainability and commodities focusing on impact investing with the goal of monetizing developments in global resources. More than 20 years structuring and managing portfolios with a deep understanding of physical and financial trading, hedging and asset allocation. Featured on live television and internet business broadcasts respectively (CNBC, PBS News Hour, Reuters). Frequent writer and publisher.
Invest-With-Purpose, Founder & Principal, New York, NY Established a consultancy and investment management practice backed by extensive achievements in institutional investment advisory, macroeconomic strategy and portfolio and hedge fund management. Advisor and strategist in environmental sustainability, climate change and recycling, focusing on plastic pollution, sustainable agri-business and energy and water efficiency.
• Acting CEO of Empire State Green Greenhouses, a division of Chobe Advisors, LLC, a large infrastructure project, solar-powered vertical farm, waste biodigester, battery storage and packaging facility;
• Strategic Partner, Tiger Hill Capital Management, building scalable, global impact platforms;
• Consulted to multiple RIAs and family offices on ESG investing and portfolio construction;
• Advised multi-sector companies on how to improve its ESG rankings;
• Consulted a Washington DC nonpartisan advisor on ESG in Hybrid and Zero-Emission EVs;
• Advised a fund investing in conversion of conventional GMO-based farmlands to certified organic;
• Strategist for an early-stage engineering firm developing a sustainable fracking technology;
• Business development for a plastic pollution, on-for-profit serving as an innovation center business accelerator and foundation.
Market
Strategist
2010 – 2013
Commodity Strategist, Brevan Howard US Investment Management LP, New York, NY Strategist for the Brevan Howard Commodities hedge fund, as well as the firm’s $42b global macro– Master Fund. Structured, generated and executed trades expressed through complex options, swaps and derivatives employing forward curve discrepancies and volatility surfaces.
• By request of Alan Howard, the firm’s founder, appointed as in-house global commodity sector specialist and point-person for the firm’s multiple portfolios teams;
• Chosen to join Washington DC in-house policy and economic think-tank for trade idea generation. Director, Global Resources and Commodity Strategy, Roubini Global Economics, New York, NY Chief Commodity Strategist for Nouriel Roubini covering energy, metals and mining and agriculture. Established investment and trade ideas including directional and relative value, commodity-equity plays and industry-specific investments based on macro- fundamental themes, global trade flows, government policy, currency and interest rate movements, technological, environmental and demographic implications. Frequent speaker at industry events, round table discussions and client engagements.
• Analysis and assessment of all aspects of the commodity sector thorough quantitative modeling, regression, correlation, stress tests, scenario analysis and heat map studies;
• Offered sector recommendations in multiple asset classes and geographies. Shelley R. Goldberg / 917-***-**** / **********@*****.*** Portfolio
Management
2004 – 2009
Risk
Management
2000 –2003
Portfolio Manager & Sector Head, UBP Asset Management, LLC, (Union Bancaire Privée), New York, NY
Conceptualized, launched and directed UBP’s Global Resources Fund of Funds portfolio investing in Global Macro, Equity Long / Short and CTA managers. Appointed to Global Resources Sector Head and as the Principal Strategy Advisor to a broad client base. Completed comprehensive due diligence on managers and statistical analysis on portfolio construction, risk management and hedge overlay enhancements.
• At the manager level, formalized detailed assessment and comprehensive due diligence of over 1,000 hedge fund managers operating in multiple strategies;
• At the portfolio level carried out quantitative analysis on multi-manager portfolios, including peer groups and benchmarks.
Managing Member, G3 Capital Partners, LP, New York, NY Founder and Portfolio Manager of an energy and Infrastructure hedge fund focusing on futures, options, derivatives and energy sector equities. Sub-sectors included P&E and refining companies, oil and natural gas companies, services, MLPs, royalty trusts, utilities and alternative energy companies.
• Built the business model, founded and launched the fund, infrastructure and team;
• Business Development Consultant and Energy Portfolio Manager for the fund’s seed capital provider, an asset management advisory firm and family office;
• Maximum return 40%, maximum drawdown, (6.4%).
Principal, StoneHedge Partners, Inc., New York, NY Active in all phases of hedge fund seed capital development, fund selection, infrastructure and risk management. Analysis of investment strategies, fund selection and due diligence, regulatory and compliance review, trade oversight and capture, valuation and reporting, systems and technology, marketing, sales, distribution and capital introduction.
• Review of prime brokers, fund administrators, accountants and attorneys;
• Analysis of financial and price risk management policies and procedures;
• Presided over product structure, fee arrangement, financing and guarantor sourcing. Senior Manager, Deloitte, LLP, (Investment Management Division) New York, NY Risk Management Consultant focusing on price and market risk for global financial and industrial clientele.
• Designed and spearheaded the launch of a fund of funds. Presided over structure, implementation and development of front, middle and back offices;
• Implements FASB 133 and Sarbanes Oxley for a U.S. energy utility;
• Appointed head of the front office and Head Trader for a power generator distributor (oil, natural gas and green certificates) stationed in the Netherlands;
• Restructured a large bank in Ecuador after a national banking crisis;
• Optimized hedging solutions for a Midwest cow/calf production facility;
• Oversaw litigation support engagement in an interbank gold trading dispute;
• Completed strategic analysis of an M&A transaction resulting in a $44 billion acquisition. Shelley R. Goldberg / 917-***-**** / **********@*****.*** Sales &
Trading
1990 –1999
Education
Certificates of
Achievement
Board of
Advisor /
Volunteer
Published /
Broadcast
Vice President: Rothschild Inc., (Division of NM Rothschild & Sons, Ltd.) and MG London, Inc., Division of Metallgesellschaft, Inc.) New York, NY Assistant Vice President, AIG Trading Corporation, Fort Lee, NJ Options Trader, Phillip Brothers, Inc., (Division of Salomon, Inc.) New York, NY Originated, priced and executed multi-currency derivative investment, hedges, swaps and arbitrage strategies. Represented Latin American clientele (central banks, commercial banks and industrials) overseeing transactions throughout central and South America in Spanish.
• First of a 16-member team promoted to Junior Trader. Formulated letters of credit, bills of lading and demurrage;
• Appointed options specialist and liaison to in-house trading desks
• Originated, priced and executed multi-currency derivative investment, hedges, swaps and arbitrage strategies;
• Promoted to Portfolio Manager and Derivatives Trader of commodity-based financial instruments and capital markets-based transactions involving hedging, asset allocation and project finance;
• Appointed to member of in-house securitization team;
• Generated 5 years of consistent profitability through persistent identification of strategic growth opportunities.
New York University Stern School of Business, New York, NY M.B.A., Finance and International Business
Tufts University, Medford, MA
B.A., Political Science and Spanish; Student Senate; Cum Laude and Dean's List Universitad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain:
Political Economics
Yale University: Introduction to Climate Change & Health Princeton University: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Strategic Approach
• Chobe Advisors, LLC
• Invest NYC Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Initiative Working Group, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
• The I Can Still Do that Foundation
• Healthcare Without Harm
• World Monuments Fund
Available upon request