Presenter

Todd E. Petzel

Chief Investment Officer, Offit Capital Advisors LLC

Todd E. Petzel is Chief Investment Officer of Offit Capital Advisors and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining Offit Capital, Mr. Petzel was a founding partner and Chief Investment Officer of Azimuth Asset Management, a New York based fund of hedge funds. Previously, he served as Chief Investment Officer of Commonfund, an asset manager and fund of funds focused primarily on investing on behalf of endowments and foundations. During his seven-year tenure at Commonfund Mr. Petzel served as Chair of the internal investment group responsible for the structure and strategy of assets under management equal to approximately $30 billion at of the time of his departure, up from $16 billion at the beginning of his term. Prior to his work at Commonfund, Mr. Petzel served as Chief Economist at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chief Economist at the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York. Mr. Petzel began his career as an economics professor at Macalester College and Stanford University, and later served as a lecturer in finance at the University of Chicago from 1989-1996. He has written extensively on finance and markets as editor-in-chief of Derivatives Quarterly (1994-2001) and as author of Financial Futures and Options: A Guide to Markets, Applications, and Strategies (1989). Mr. Petzel holds a Ph.D., M.A. and B.A., with honors, in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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