NEIL GROSSMAN

Neil Grossman is President of the Northeast Region Board of the American Friends of Hebrew University (AFHU) and a member of AFHU’s National Board of Directors. He spent three decades in the financial industry working as a proprietary trader, asset manager and market-maker. In particular, he has traded liquid products in major markets around the globe, with an emphasis on global macro and arbitrage-related strategies. He is the Founder and Proprietor of Elysabeth Vineyards, a boutique winery in Millbrook, New York.

Neil was a co-founder and CIO of the TKNG Global Macro Fund. Prior to establishing the Fund, he worked in the Chief Investment Office of JPMorgan Chase where, as an Executive Director, he ran a Proprietary Trading Group that focused on global rates and currencies. He also had senior risk-taking roles with Norges Bank (the Central Bank of Norway), Five Mile Capital Partners, an investment management firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, Global Asset Management, a European investment firm and Deutsche Bank, where he ran a large derivatives portfolio. Neil served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Polaris Asset Management, where he was responsible for managing a Fixed Income Arbitrage Fund.

Before he began his trading career, Neil was a corporate attorney at the New York law firm of Cole & Deitz.

Neil has a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, and an M.S. and B.S. in Fluid Dynamics from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science. He also spent a year conducting post-graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.