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Patrick Adelsbach – Research - Event Driven
Patrick has over 14 years of financial markets experience, the last 11 of which were focused on hedge fund research and hedge fund investment management. Patrick joined Aksia at its inception in October 2006 as the Head of the Event Driven research team. Patrick’s team is responsible for the sourcing, strategy research, and risk management of client investments in Event Driven funds. Patrick performs investment due diligence on hedge funds in the Event Driven sector and manages a team of research professionals.
Prior to Aksia, Patrick oversaw all Event Driven investments and was a member of the Hedge Fund Investment Group Investment Committee at Credit Suisse. Patrick started his career at Capital One Financial Corporation where he focused on developing quantitative methods to target credit product opportunities. In 1999, Patrick moved to South Africa as part of a three-person team that identified and structured several credit-focused joint ventures between Capital One and Nedcor, one of South Africa’s largest commercial and investment banks.
In 2000, Patrick returned to the U.S. to join the fund of hedge funds investment management group at Credit Suisse, where he became a generalist for manager research and selection. In 2003, concurrent with the formation of the Hedge Fund Investment Group, he was promoted to manage the group’s investments in the Event Driven and Fixed Income Emerging Markets sectors. When the firm combined its Alternative Capital Division with the investment activities of the firm’s Private Bank in January 2006, Patrick’s responsibilities grew to oversee all Event Driven investments.
Patrick graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A.S. in Systems Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.