Samuel K. Won

Samuel K. Won is the Founder and Managing Director of GRMA. Mr. Won has over 25 years of risk management, capital markets, trading and portfolio management experience at major financial institutions in both the public and private sectors. In the investment management industry, Mr. Won was Chief Risk Officer at Brencourt Advisors, Chief Risk Officer at Ospraie Management; and, at Citigroup Alternative Investments, he headed up investment risk management of over $50 billion in hedge fund, fund of fund, private equity and real estate private equity assets. On Wall Street, Mr. Won led trading risk management for institutional trading, proprietary trading and capital markets for Citigroup Global Markets, and played a similar role at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. In the public sector, Mr. Won was responsible for risk management for the capital markets portion of the government’s bailout of the Savings and Loan industry during the 1980s. Mr. Won was Co-Chair of the Managed Fund Association’s Chief Risk Officers Steering Committee where he played a lead role in developing the MFA’s “Sound Practices for Hedge Fund Managers.”

Mr. Won has extensive experience in investment risk management, risk architecture and analysis, asset allocation/risk budgeting, portfolio strategy, and investor relations/marketing for a wide range of asset classes and investment strategies, including: long-only investments, hedge funds, private equity, real estate and real assets. In addition, Mr. Won served on the Investment Committee and was Chair of the Risk Management Committee at several major financial institutions, where he headed up investment risk management.

He has advised leading hedge funds, private equity funds, long-only managers, institutional-investors, family offices and regulatory agencies, including the SEC, the CFTC, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the FCA, on major risk management, trading and capital markets issues and policies.

Mr. Won completed a B.A. at Northwestern University, attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and received a Masters degree from Columbia University in International Finance and Economic Policy Management.