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MANAGEMENT

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MARINA SPYRIDAKI

PRINCIPAL

 

Marina joined HILBERT 8 in 2013. She has worked both in the UK, with Dunnhumby (subsidiary of Tesco) helping analyzing customer data and providing consumer insight and Greece, with AB Vassilopoulos (leading supermarket chain) as a junior category buyer.  Marina holds a BSc in Management Economics from University of Essex (UK) and a MSc in Management of Intellectual Property from Queen Mary College (UK).

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IBRAHIM DIANE

PRINCIPAL

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Ibrahim joined HILBERT 8 in 2016.  He holds a Master's degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago (2007) and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Brown University (2006). In the past, Ibrahim has worked as a risk analyst at Deutsche Bank, where his main responsibility involved building financial hedging tools for the interest rate swaps desk.  He also developed several trading strategies and provided various types of execution services to institutional clients (hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, etc.) as a bond futures trader at Barclays Capital.  In addition to having worked in the fixed income capital markets, he has experience in lender finance and commercial real estate, having briefly worked as a distressed investment analyst for the Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs.

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ADVISORY BOARD

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NIELS O. NYGAARD, PhD

 

Prof. Nygaard has been a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago since 1982. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, he taught at Princeton University. Prof. Nygaard holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Nygaard has been Director of the Financial Mathematics Program since its inception in 1996. Besides his interest in Financial Mathematics he has done research in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory.  Prof. Nygaard serves as an advisor overseeing the development of research and trading strategies at HILBERT 8.

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GORDON WINSTON

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Gordon is a financier, philanthropist and financial engineer who innovated investments in health, medical and advanced technology intellectual property and the securitization of IP royalty payments. He established one of the world’s leading IP private equity investments firms scaling AUM to >$3B and spearheaded private and bank-sponsored warehouse and acquisition facilities, and subsequent private and public capital market transactions. Gordon and partners provide merchant banking capabilities and focus on advanced technologies and manufacturing. The capabilities of a multi-faceted breed of financial engineers, experts in government, government procurement, policy, regulation, tax, international trade, and crisis management paired with significant investment capital is highly differentiated. He is the Co-Founder of Peace + Innovation Initiative, and a Founding Commission Member, United Nations, University for Peace.

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DANIEL HILPERT

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Daniel is the founder of real estate finance firm Equicap. Founded in 2006, Equicap has arranged over $5 billion in debt and equity financing for commercial real estate projects in the U.S. He has a Graduate Degree from Columbia University and has steered his business during several cycles, developing a deep understanding of the real estate debt and equity markets. Daniel’s entrepreneurial approach to dealmaking has given him an ability to navigate through difficult credit and economic environments. He has long-standing relationships with U.S. banks, pension funds, insurance companies and real estate private equity firms.

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