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Prisma Capital Partners Adds New Senior Team Members

Prisma Capital Partners LP today announced that it is continuing to add to its experienced staff with the addition of six recent hires, including three senior members, in the key areas of portfolio management, operational due diligence and marketing. This expansion comes as the firm celebrates its five year anniversary with a constructive outlook on hedge funds.

The new members to Prisma’s team include several hedge fund industry veterans as well as younger associates. The expansion of staff follows the relocation of the Prisma headquarters from Jersey City, New Jersey to larger offices in New York, and the opening of a London office last year. The new senior members of the team include the following:

James M. Walsh, Managing Director:

After serving as an institutional marketing consultant for the firm since 2004, Jim joins Prisma to coordinate the marketing effort. He brings with him over three decades of experience in capital markets, investment management and private client services in the US, Asia and Europe. He has held senior positions at Zurich Financial Services, Societe Generale Securities Corporation/SG Cowen Inc., Prudential Securities Incorporated and The First Boston Corporation/CSFB Ltd. Jim spent eleven years in Tokyo for First Boston and Prudential Securities where he had senior management responsibilities throughout the Asia Pacific Region.

Prior to joining Prisma, he was co-founder of Walsh Advisors, LLC, an advisory firm marketing alternative investment solutions to institutions. Jim has an MBA from Columbia University and a BS and MS in physics from Stevens Institute of Technology where he is a member of the Board of Trustees and co-chair of its Finance and Investment Committee. He also serves on the board of the Foreign Policy Association.

Daniel S. Lawee, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income, Volatility and Reinsurance:

Dan has over 13 years of experience in investment strategies including fixed income, currencies and mortgages. Prior to joining Prisma, he served as a portfolio manager at Northwater Capital Management where he was responsible for fixed income, structured credit volatility and reinsurance fund strategies. He also previously served as a Vice President on the Corporate FX Desk at TD Canada Trust where he provided corporate and institutional coverage and options marketing.

He began his career as an account executive in the mortgage department at Republic National Bank of New York, where he was responsible for its wholesale mortgage origination channel in Manhattan. Dan has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario and a BA from Concordia University.

Queenie Chang, CPA, CFA, Senior Operational Due Diligence Associate:

Ms. Chang has over 15 years of experience in hedge fund due diligence and hedge fund accounting. Previously Queenie served as a Vice President at DB Advisors Fund of Funds and an Assistant Vice President at Julius Baer Investment Management LLC, in both cases with responsibilities for global operational due diligence. She began her career as an auditor at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Hong Kong and then moved on to senior credit and accounting positions at the Bank of Bermuda (Hong Kong and New York), and at SAGEN Asset Management, LLC.  She has an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Boston University, and a B.Comm., Accounting from the University of New South Wales.

About Prisma Capital Partners:

Prisma Capital Partners is an alternative investment manager with approximately $3.5 billion of assets under management, focused on providing multi-manager hedge fund solutions to institutions world wide. Over 95% of the firm’s assets are managed on behalf of institutional investors including pension funds and insurance companies. Prisma was founded in 2004 by three former Goldman Sachs partners when it acquired the hedge fund investment management team of AEGON USA Investment Management and began managing the AEGON proprietary hedge fund portfolio. The firm is registered with the SEC and is regulated by the FSA in the UK.