Matt Newton

Matt is the Head of Equities at Pura Vida. Previously, he worked at Moore Capital Management, where he built out Moore Equity Strategies Americas (MESA), a diversified long/short equity team. This included formation of a 20-person, multi-manager investment team that managed just under $3 billion gross including a best ideas portfolio he co-managed. Prior to Moore, he spent 10 years at Citigroup in various positions. He was a co-founder of Citi Principal Strategies, a multi-manager fundamental long-short equity investment team where he was head trader and co-portfolio manager on the best ideas portfolio. He served as Head of US Cash Trading at Citigroup, where he managed a 50-person trading desk. Previously, he held trading positions within Citigroup’s Cash Equity department, including Sector Head for Diversified & Healthcare sectors. Before Citi, he had worked in US Shares Trading for Goldman Sachs and Global Equity Trading for Scudder Kemper Investments. Matt received a B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.