Christopher Sylvester

Directeur/Membre du Conseil chez

Prosetta Biosciences, Inc.

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Christopher John Sylvester is currently Director at Prosetta Biosciences, Inc. and Managing Director & Senior Investment Analyst at Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC since 2020.
Former positions include Vice President at Fred Alger Management LLC from 2014 to 2020, Co-Head of Corporate Research at UBS Financial Services, Inc. in 2008, Analyst at UBS Securities LLC in 2004, Analyst at Diamondback Capital Management LLC, Analyst at Lombard Odier Asset Management (USA) Corp., Senior Analyst at Banc of America Securities LLC in 2004, Analyst at Schwab SoundView Capital Markets in 2004, Principal at PaineWebber, Inc. from 1997 to 2000, Research Assistant at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Analyst at Catapult Capital Management LLC from 2013 to 2014.
Education includes graduate degree from The College of William & Mary in 1997 and undergraduate degree from Bucknell University.

Postes actifs de Christopher Sylvester

Sociétés	Poste	Début
Prosetta Biosciences, Inc. Prosetta Biosciences, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Operates as a biopharmaceutical company	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	-
Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC Investment ManagersFinance Manulife IM-US utilizes a broad range of equity, fixed income, currency and asset allocation approaches. They manage differentiated investment processes and place an emphasis on proprietary fundamental research but may also employ quantitative analysis. The firm’s equity investment research combines quantitative and qualitative bottom-up fundamental analysis. Their fixed income management teams engage in intensive fundamental research and analysis, both top-down and bottom-up, to assess potential investment opportunities.	Analyst-Equity	01/09/2020

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Fred Alger Management LLC Fred Alger Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance FAM is a growth manager that uses proprietary, bottom-up, fundamental research to identify companies that are undergoing positive dynamic change. The firm invests in companies experiencing high unit volume growth and/or companies undergoing a positive life cycle change.	Analyst-Equity	01/09/2020
Catapult Capital Management LLC Catapult Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Catapult Capital invests primarily in the North American capital markets. The firm employs multiple portfolio managers with specialized expertise in particular sectors, industry groups, or financial products. Portfolio managers are generally making investments based on detailed fundamental analysis of the industry, company, or products. Within their particular specializations, the managers and their teams of analysts determine the optimal mix of instruments on a relative value basis, aiming to maximize return while minimizing direct market exposure and controlling risk. Using this approach, the firm seeks superior risk-adjusted returns while minimizing correlation to the overall market or specific investment sectors. Catapult Capital has in place risk management processes to achieve portfolio diversification with defined parameters for each portfolio manager.	Analyst-Equity	01/08/2014
Diamondback Capital Management LLC Diamondback Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Diamondback Capital Management specializes in the systematic trading of US long/short equities. The objective of the firm's Master Fund is to generate above average, positive returns that are not correlated to the primarily US equity markets. The fund may invest or trade (on margin or otherwise) long and short positions in all types of US and non-US securities, derivatives and other financial instruments including, but not limited to: (1) US and non-US common stocks and preferred stocks (2) bonds, notes, commercial paper, bank deposits and acceptances (3) any other obligations and instruments, evidences of indebtedness or securities, rights, warrants and options to purchase or sell any of the foregoing or any securities index (4) total return swaps, interest rate, security and currency swaps, caps, floors, contracts for differences (5) other notional principal contracts, repurchase and reverse repurchase contracts, currency forward contracts and (6) stock and financial futures and options, commodity futures and options on futures. Diamondback Capital management may employ any or all of the following investment strategies: (1) long/short equity investment strategies (2) event-driven strategies including merger arbitrage (3) convertible bond and capital structure arbitrage and other related strategies (4) quantitative trading strategies including statistical arbitrage (5) fixed-income strategies (6) credit and distressed trading strategies (7) global macro strategies (8) commodities strategies and (9) index-based strategies. The firm's long/short equity strategies focus on investing and trading long and/or short positions in equity securities in US and international sectors and sub-sectors including the financial, healthcare, industrial and cyclical, consumer and retail, telecommunication, media and technology, energy and insurance sectors. Their event-driven strategies involve investment opportunities resulting from transactional events such as spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy reorganizations, recapitalizations and share buybacks, as well as merger arbitrage strategies. Diamondback's convertible bond and capital structure arbitrage generally involves investments in convertible and derivative securities designed to take advantage of price discrepancies between the convertible and derivative security and the underlying equity security or other convertible or derivative security. These investments may be made at multiple levels of an entity's capital structure to take advantage of valuation or other pricing discrepancies. These strategies may also use options to hedge equity exposure and asset swaps and credit default swaps to hedge credit risk. The firm's quantitative trading strategies use historical price data in an effort to anticipate future price movements. These strategies typically rely heavily or entirely on computer-generated trading signals and trading systems to initiate, maintain and liquidate positions. The fund may also employ quantitative methods that seek to allocate capital among the different investment strategies that Diamondback identifies as having the most profit potential, based on the historical performance of the strategies and their judgment. Diamondback's fixed-income strategies primarily focus on taking advantage of relative mispricings between related fixed-income securities through convergence/divergence trades. Certain of these trading strategies arbitrage different maturities on the fixed-income yield curve by taking long positions in higher yielding, longer duration fixed income instruments and short positions in lower yielding, shorter duration instruments; others implement a variety of hedged, spread and outright trading approaches, focusing on both relative and absolute interest-rate movements. The firm's credit and distressed trading efforts focus on investing and trading in bank loans and participations, credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, bonds and other credit-related instruments. Certain of these strategies are highly issuer-specific, and may involve issuers experiencing significant financial or business difficulties, while others rely more on probabilistic statistics projecting likely payout streams. Given the volatility in the credit markets over the last few years, there may be substantial risks, as well as opportunities, in these strategies. Diamondback's global macro strategies seek to analyze shifts in macroeconomic trends and to capitalize on directional opportunities across a broad spectrum of markets, asset classes and financial instruments. The firm trades commodities trading opportunistically and employs a wide range of volatility, directional, relative value, hybrid and other strategies. The fund may invest in:(1) energy products including heating oil, light crude oil, natural gas and unleaded gasoline (2) precious metals including platinum, silver, gold and palladium (3) base metals including copper, zinc, tin and lead (4) agriculturals (including wheat, soybeans, soybean oil, live hogs, hog bellies, live cattle and corn); and the so-called softs such as cocoa, coffee, cotton and sugar. Diamondback's index-based strategies may involve trading publicly-traded equity securities, equity indices and ETFs with the objective of tracking additions, deletions, upweights, downweights and rebalancings in G20 and other major market indices. In general, Diamondback tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, industrial services, energy minerals, healthcare technology and technology services sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market caps. Diamondback maintains a high turnover rate.	Analyst-Equity	31/12/2009
UBS Financial Services, Inc. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance UBS Financial Services' asset allocations are based on a proprietary methodology. In developing those allocations, the firm considers asset class risk and return results that are based on estimated forward-looking return and risk assumptions, as measured by standard deviation, which are based on UBS proprietary research. The development process includes a review of a variety of factors, including the return, risk, correlations and historical performance of various asset classes, inflation and risk premium.	Corporate Officer/Principal	01/04/2008
Banc of America Securities LLC Banc of America Securities LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services	Analyst-Equity	31/12/2004

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Fred Alger Management LLC Fred Alger Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance FAM is a growth manager that uses proprietary, bottom-up, fundamental research to identify companies that are undergoing positive dynamic change. The firm invests in companies experiencing high unit volume growth and/or companies undergoing a positive life cycle change.	Finance
UBS Financial Services, Inc. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance UBS Financial Services' asset allocations are based on a proprietary methodology. In developing those allocations, the firm considers asset class risk and return results that are based on estimated forward-looking return and risk assumptions, as measured by standard deviation, which are based on UBS proprietary research. The development process includes a review of a variety of factors, including the return, risk, correlations and historical performance of various asset classes, inflation and risk premium.	Finance
Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC Investment ManagersFinance Manulife IM-US utilizes a broad range of equity, fixed income, currency and asset allocation approaches. They manage differentiated investment processes and place an emphasis on proprietary fundamental research but may also employ quantitative analysis. The firm’s equity investment research combines quantitative and qualitative bottom-up fundamental analysis. Their fixed income management teams engage in intensive fundamental research and analysis, both top-down and bottom-up, to assess potential investment opportunities.	Finance
UBS Securities LLC UBS Securities LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services	Finance
Prosetta Biosciences, Inc. Prosetta Biosciences, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Operates as a biopharmaceutical company	Health Technology
Diamondback Capital Management LLC Diamondback Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Diamondback Capital Management specializes in the systematic trading of US long/short equities. The objective of the firm's Master Fund is to generate above average, positive returns that are not correlated to the primarily US equity markets. The fund may invest or trade (on margin or otherwise) long and short positions in all types of US and non-US securities, derivatives and other financial instruments including, but not limited to: (1) US and non-US common stocks and preferred stocks (2) bonds, notes, commercial paper, bank deposits and acceptances (3) any other obligations and instruments, evidences of indebtedness or securities, rights, warrants and options to purchase or sell any of the foregoing or any securities index (4) total return swaps, interest rate, security and currency swaps, caps, floors, contracts for differences (5) other notional principal contracts, repurchase and reverse repurchase contracts, currency forward contracts and (6) stock and financial futures and options, commodity futures and options on futures. Diamondback Capital management may employ any or all of the following investment strategies: (1) long/short equity investment strategies (2) event-driven strategies including merger arbitrage (3) convertible bond and capital structure arbitrage and other related strategies (4) quantitative trading strategies including statistical arbitrage (5) fixed-income strategies (6) credit and distressed trading strategies (7) global macro strategies (8) commodities strategies and (9) index-based strategies. The firm's long/short equity strategies focus on investing and trading long and/or short positions in equity securities in US and international sectors and sub-sectors including the financial, healthcare, industrial and cyclical, consumer and retail, telecommunication, media and technology, energy and insurance sectors. Their event-driven strategies involve investment opportunities resulting from transactional events such as spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy reorganizations, recapitalizations and share buybacks, as well as merger arbitrage strategies. Diamondback's convertible bond and capital structure arbitrage generally involves investments in convertible and derivative securities designed to take advantage of price discrepancies between the convertible and derivative security and the underlying equity security or other convertible or derivative security. These investments may be made at multiple levels of an entity's capital structure to take advantage of valuation or other pricing discrepancies. These strategies may also use options to hedge equity exposure and asset swaps and credit default swaps to hedge credit risk. The firm's quantitative trading strategies use historical price data in an effort to anticipate future price movements. These strategies typically rely heavily or entirely on computer-generated trading signals and trading systems to initiate, maintain and liquidate positions. The fund may also employ quantitative methods that seek to allocate capital among the different investment strategies that Diamondback identifies as having the most profit potential, based on the historical performance of the strategies and their judgment. Diamondback's fixed-income strategies primarily focus on taking advantage of relative mispricings between related fixed-income securities through convergence/divergence trades. Certain of these trading strategies arbitrage different maturities on the fixed-income yield curve by taking long positions in higher yielding, longer duration fixed income instruments and short positions in lower yielding, shorter duration instruments; others implement a variety of hedged, spread and outright trading approaches, focusing on both relative and absolute interest-rate movements. The firm's credit and distressed trading efforts focus on investing and trading in bank loans and participations, credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, bonds and other credit-related instruments. Certain of these strategies are highly issuer-specific, and may involve issuers experiencing significant financial or business difficulties, while others rely more on probabilistic statistics projecting likely payout streams. Given the volatility in the credit markets over the last few years, there may be substantial risks, as well as opportunities, in these strategies. Diamondback's global macro strategies seek to analyze shifts in macroeconomic trends and to capitalize on directional opportunities across a broad spectrum of markets, asset classes and financial instruments. The firm trades commodities trading opportunistically and employs a wide range of volatility, directional, relative value, hybrid and other strategies. The fund may invest in:(1) energy products including heating oil, light crude oil, natural gas and unleaded gasoline (2) precious metals including platinum, silver, gold and palladium (3) base metals including copper, zinc, tin and lead (4) agriculturals (including wheat, soybeans, soybean oil, live hogs, hog bellies, live cattle and corn); and the so-called softs such as cocoa, coffee, cotton and sugar. Diamondback's index-based strategies may involve trading publicly-traded equity securities, equity indices and ETFs with the objective of tracking additions, deletions, upweights, downweights and rebalancings in G20 and other major market indices. In general, Diamondback tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, industrial services, energy minerals, healthcare technology and technology services sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market caps. Diamondback maintains a high turnover rate.	Finance
Lombard Odier Asset Management (USA) Corp. Lombard Odier Asset Management (USA) Corp. Investment ManagersFinance LOAM offers a variety of investment strategies when managing their funds. The strategies generally follow a risk-based methodology where risk is allocated between the various premia. By combining them using a proprietary risk-based methodology, the strategies target smoother returns in different market conditions, which are less exposed to drawdowns and to specific risks linked to individual strategies.	Finance
Banc of America Securities LLC Banc of America Securities LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services	Finance
Schwab SoundView Capital Markets Schwab SoundView Capital Markets Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides financial and brokerage services	Finance
PaineWebber, Inc. PaineWebber, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides stock brokerage and asset management services	Finance
Bucknell University Bucknell University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
The College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Engineering & ConstructionIndustrial Services Provides marine research, engineering and higher education services	Industrial Services
Catapult Capital Management LLC Catapult Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Catapult Capital invests primarily in the North American capital markets. The firm employs multiple portfolio managers with specialized expertise in particular sectors, industry groups, or financial products. Portfolio managers are generally making investments based on detailed fundamental analysis of the industry, company, or products. Within their particular specializations, the managers and their teams of analysts determine the optimal mix of instruments on a relative value basis, aiming to maximize return while minimizing direct market exposure and controlling risk. Using this approach, the firm seeks superior risk-adjusted returns while minimizing correlation to the overall market or specific investment sectors. Catapult Capital has in place risk management processes to achieve portfolio diversification with defined parameters for each portfolio manager.	Finance