Dr. Pomeranets is secretary/treasurer of the Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association and a finance faculty member at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to joining the PBHFA, she worked with the Canadian central bank in the financial markets division.

Corporate Governance Advisory and Founding Member of the Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association (PBHFA) since 2013 

Mark Shadwick  LLB, LLM, Barrister (England & Wales) has 24 years’ experience as a director of Cayman Islands-registered hedge funds and is a CIMA Approved Director under the Cayman Islands Directors Registration and Licensing Law 2014. Mark was a director & compliance officer of a licensed Cayman Islands trust company and director services company from January 2000 to December 2004, where he gained extensive director experience with funds and SPV’s. 

After a successful career at Citigroup, Mr. Gradante joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1986 and spearheaded the firm’s efforts in Europe which led to his position as CEO of the failing Chelsea National Bank for which he engineered a turnaround and sale. He subsequently became a partner of the Hennessee Hedge Fund Advisory Group, then a part of E.F. Hutton and later spun off as a wholly-owned private company (Hennessee Group LLC), where he co-founded the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index (the first of its kind) providing hedge fund research to clients. The Hennessee Group LLC managed $1.6 billion.

John Jannarone is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Capital Markets Media, the sole owner of IPO Edge, CorpGov, and Exec Edge. He worked as an investment banker in debt capital markets at Morgan Stanley and as a financial journalist at The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Princeton University, where he graduated cum laude.