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Dan Von Kohorn
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Summary
Portfolio manager for Commodities fund; investment committee for two equity funds. Financial technician with experience in bonds, equities, commodities, asset allocation, and building analytics for each. Focus on quantitative analysis: relative value, time series, yield/premium curves, fundamental valuation, statistical arbitrage, and efficient frontier modeling. Also enjoy assisting creative technology companies through financing and strategic partnerships.

Experience
VKRA / Fund Investors L.P.
August 2002 - Present, Westport, CT
VP, Portfolio Manager
  • Portfolio Manager for commodity investment limited partnership.
  • R&D and member of investment committee for three investment limited partnerships.
  • Lead software developer, data acquisition and quantitative signaling.
  • Publish investment commentary.
  • Assisted in registration with the SEC.
  • Revised compliance policies and procedures with assistance from ACA Compliance Group.

Mediatech Capital Partners
July 2001 - Present, New York, NY & Boston, MA
Outside Director, Technology Investments (7/02 - present)
Vice President (7/01 - 7/02)
  • Corporate finance and strategic advisor in the software, information services, and network device sectors.
  • Negotiated advisory engagement with the firm's first public client.
  • Assisted with 60+ projects including M&A, restructuring, and private placement investment consideration.

AnIdea Corporation
May 1999 - Sept. 2001, New York, NY
Chief Strategic Officer (9/00 - 9/01)
Chief Executive Officer (5/99 - 9/00)
  • Founded ThoughtStore to provide intellectual property licensing software.
  • Served more than 600 individual and institutional IP portfolio managers.
  • Managed the sale of ThoughtStore, Inc. to Cool License Corp., including successor CEO.
  • Licensed system to Lucent Technologies for license management of software products from Bell Laboratories.

Winged Keel Asset Management
Oct. 1998 - Jan. 2000, New York, NY
Director of Research
  • Responsible for the asset allocation, investment research, and performance measurement for the firm.
  • Developed automated systems for asset allocation, documentation, and client-ready presentations.
  • Built automated notification tools to streamline client communications.
  • Built automated marketing reports to identify cross-selling targets and improve sales pipeline visibility.
  • Technology Committee chairman, Executive Committee member.

JP Morgan Investments, Fixed Income Group
July 1997 - Oct. 1998, New York, NY
Analyst
  • Primary responsibility for development of Broad Market and Tax Aware Frameworks (fixed income asset allocation models). The models produced portfolios optimized by excess or absolute risk and return characteristics, with optimal bet sizes and turnover rates for strategic and tactical management of duration and sector allocations. Tax Aware Framework additionally considered income and capital gains tax rates.
  • Produced 19 custom pitches with asset allocations, resulting in new or enhanced mandates for $4.2 Billion from institutions, government organizations, and high net worth individuals.
  • Assisted development of relative-value program for security selection in dollar-neutral fund overlay strategy for the Multi-Markets Group, an internal hedge fund.
  • Produced market analytics for pricing and strategy of Muni BMA swaps, duration management of taxable portfolios using derivatives, and crossover trading.
  • Taught employee classes for fixed income analytics, derivatives pricing, and asset allocation.
  • Mentored a team of 4 Analysts.
  • Received the only perfect score on the division-wide annual performance review for 1998.

Education
Princeton University
September 1993 - June 1997
A.B. in Economics
Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • Graduate courses: Principles of Corporate Finance, Legal and Regulatory Policy Toward Markets, International Macroeconomics, Topics in Applied Economics: Financial Markets.
  • Original Research: Finance: Deviations from MPT, CAPM, and APT, as Applied to Global Equities Indices; Number theory: Order Relations of Infractions.

Wolfram Education Group
November 2003
M330: Neural Networks
  • Feed-forward Neural Networks and Radial Basis Function, Nonlinear Dynamic Black-Box Modeling, Classification and Clustering with Neural Networks.

Research and Writing
Community Service
Professional Associations
  • Registered Investment Advisor representative (NASD, Series 65) ('99)
  • Member, New York Society of Security Analysts, ('99)

Additional Experience
  • Board of Directors: InnerPass, Inc. ('08)
  • Founding Partner: Beacon Angels, LLC ('06)
  • Founding Partner: IRIServe (Industrial Response Internet Services) ('02)
  • Board of advisors, Jovus Inc. (Financial services software) ('02)
  • Technical advisory board: RealAI (game combat AI) ('01)
  • English teacher, 7 Japanese companies in Tokyo ('95)
  • Assistant, Brookhaven National Labs Linear Particle Accelerator test facility ('95)

Personal
  • Open source and free software advocate.
  • Enjoy Skiing, carpentry, electronics.
  • Basic Japanese and Spanish.
  • Married, one child.
  • Excellent health.

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