Sassan Alizadeh, Ph.D. Dr. Alizadeh is a Managing Director of HCM and Senior Portfolio Manager for the Global Macro Group. He is responsible for leadership of the Group as well as overseeing the Group’s research agenda and portfolio management duties. In addition to his position at HCM, Dr. Alizadeh is a principal of Highview Global Capital Management, LLC, a commodity trading advisor owned in part by Glenn Dubin, a principal of HCM. Dr. Alizadeh has over 18 years experience in systematic and quantitative trading. He began his career as the first Manager of Research at Quantitative Financial Strategies where he helped to develop and implement proprietary trading strategies. For six years starting in 1994, he was a proprietary trader at Bear Stearns where he traded several different systematic and quantitative strategies. He later joined Parametric Capital Management as head of Futures Trading where he implemented and traded a currency and commodity global macro model before joining HCM in April 2003. Dr. Alizadeh has a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Tufts University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently is an Adjunct Professor of Finance in the Masters of Financial Engineering program at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Additionally, Dr. Alizadeh has performed academic research in various areas of finance and co-authored and published, as lead paper in the Journal of Finance, an article in the area of stochastic volatility estimation and its ramifications in the foreign currency markets. This work also was awarded first prize at the Wharton School’s Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research for “Outstanding Working Paper in Investment Research for 2001”.

Mark Nodelman, CFA. Mr. Nodelman is a Managing Director of HCM and a Portfolio Manager for the Global Macro Group. He is responsible for portfolio management duties and commodities and global macro research. He joined HCM in May 2008 from Goldman Sachs, where he spent nine years as a researcher and a Portfolio Manager in the Quantitative Investment Strategies Group. At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Nodelman co-managed the team’s commodities effort, developing relative value, timing and event driven systematic strategies to trade commodities futures, swaps and options. Mr. Nodelman also launched and managed several quantitative commodities vehicles, including Goldman Sachs Commodities Funds and Goldman Sachs Quantitative Commodities Master Fund. Additionally, Mr. Nodelman was responsible for deploying these strategies and other global macro quantitative strategies within several of the firm’s global macro hedge funds, including Global Alpha (over $10 billion in assets under management). Mr. Nodelman holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Christopher M. Tufts. Mr. Tufts is a Vice President of JPMIM and is responsible for the fixed income investments portion of the Fund. He has been a portfolio manager with JPMIM since 2003 and an employee of the firm since 1997. Mr. Tufts holds a B.A. in Economics and French from the College of the Holy Cross.