Alex Dannenberg

Jonathan Bloom is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Stone Forest Capital, LLC; a global emerging markets equities Investment Advisor. He oversees legal, accounting, compliance, trading, FX, marketing and finance functions. He has been with Stone Forest Capital since 2014 and has over 25 years of capital markets experience. From 2010 until 2014, Mr. Bloom served as Chief Operating Officer and was a co-founder of Eagle River Asset Management LLC, a credit-focused hedge fund. Before Eagle River, Mr. Bloom was a managing director at Citigroup, where he delivered swap, financing, and tax-efficient transactions to the firm’s hedge fund clients from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Bloom was a Managing Director at Bank of America Securities from 1998 to 2006 where he established their Chicago prime brokerage in 1998. He eventually moved to New York to head Bank of America’s North American synthetic prime brokerage sales until his departure in 2006. From 1990 until 1998, he was a CPA and senior manager at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he provided tax and consulting services to hedge funds, investment partnerships, and hedge fund investors. Before Arthur Andersen, Mr. Bloom was a floor member of the Chicago Board of Trade, trading options on Treasury Bond Futures. Mr. Bloom held Series 7, 9, 10, and 63 NASD securities licenses and cofounded the Chicago branch of Hedge Funds Care, a philanthropic organization established to benefit organizations focused on helping abused children. Mr. Bloom authored Methods of Calculating Performance Compensation and the sixth chapter of The Chancellor Offshore Funds Manual. Mr. Bloom received a Juris Doctor degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1990 with a focus on commodity and security law and has passed the Illinois Bar and the Illinois Certified Public Accountant examinations. Mr. Bloom received a BS degree in Accounting from Northern Illinois University.