Team
INVESTMENTS
Jason Mudrick | Chief Investment Officer
Jason began his Wall Street career in 2000 advising on mergers and acquisition transactions as an Associate in Merrill Lynch’s Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking Group. In 2001 he joined Contrarian Capital Management, where he began his focus on special situation investing. In October 2002 Jason launched the Contrarian Equity Fund, an investment vehicle focused on purchasing debt that would be restructured into equity, post-bankruptcy equities and other event driven deep value special situations. As Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Contrarian, Jason grew that business to peak assets of approximately $400 million in the Contrarian Equity Fund and close to $1 billion in total assets including the positions Contrarian’s other funds co-invested along-side Jason's fund. Jason left Contrarian in October 2008 to launch Mudrick Capital.
Jason has served on dozens of creditors' committees and served on the Board of Directors of numerous public and private companies, including Safety-Kleen Holdings, Integrated Alarm Services Group, Salton, Rotech Healthcare, NJOY Holdings, Corporate Risk Holdings, Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation, Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation II, Fieldwood Energy, Proenza Schouler, Affinion, cxLoyalty, Tenerity, AURA Network Systems, Thryv and Nelson Education. Jason also spent two years in graduate school teaching economics classes to Harvard University undergraduates. Jason has a B.A. in Political Science from the College of the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Jason was admitted to the New York State Bar.
RESEARCH
Victor Danh | Managing Director & Senior Analyst
Scott Bynum | Managing Director & Senior Analyst
Lisa Ong | Managing Director and Senior Analyst
Shankar Murugavell | Managing Director & Senior Analyst
Kent Kim | Managing Director & Senior Analyst
Matt Pietroforte | Managing Director & Senior Analyst
Luigi Ugge | Analyst
Joseph Estrada | Analyst
Hunter Hughes | Analyst
Michelle Lord | Executive Assistant to the CIO
TRADING
Kevin Sahl | Head Trader
Anthony Turilli | Trader
OPERATIONS
Thomas Bachner | President
Before Bridgewater, Mr. Bachner served 10 years in the U.S. government in a variety of intelligence-related roles. He served three tours in Eastern Europe, including two years in Bosnia as part of the NATO peacekeeping mission. After leaving government service and earning an MBA from the University of Texas-Austin, Mr. Bachner was a strategy consultant for Arthur D. Little, focused on corporate financial strategy. He received a BA in political science with a focus on Soviet-American relations from Yale College, where he was a member of the varsity hockey team for three years.
Mr. Bachner currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New York Region of OneGoal, a leading national college access and success organization.
FINANCE AND OPERATIONS
Glenn Springer, CPA | Chief Financial Officer
Jonathan Villoslada, CPA | Controller
Victoria Koleski, CPA | Manager
Justin DeVito | Operations Manager
Nuha Chowdhury | Senior Operations Associate
Douglas Aaron, CPA | Senior Accountant
Avery Dumke | Accountant
Olivia Cicinelli | Office Manager
CLIENT SERVICES
Carly Gross | Head of Client Partnerships
Anthony Williams | Head of Institutional Partnerships
Anthony received a B.A. in marketing from Morehouse College. Previously, Anthony also worked in London and Hong Kong after being awarded a fellowship through City Fellows for Finance.
Vanessa Sea | Head of Consultant Relations & North American Distribution
Vanessa received her B.S. in Finance and International Studies from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and earned her MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.