Neil B. Kennedy

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Mr. Kennedy joined Harbert in November 2006.
He has over 20 years of merger arbitrage and event-driven investing experience.
Most recently, Mr. Kennedy was with Hamilton Investment Management LLC (HIM) where he served as managing member; and co-head of mergers at Hamilton Partners Ltd, HIM's predecessor.
Previously, he served as executive director in the risk arbitrage and special situations group at Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) and O'Connor & Associates, SBC's predecessor.
Prior to that, Mr. Kennedy was an options market maker on the floor of the American Stock Exchange.
Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of the State University of New York (New Paltz).

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Hamilton Investment Management LLC Hamilton Investment Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Hamilton primarily invests in U.S. equities, convertibles, high yield bonds and options. They use in-house, fundamental research to seek convertible securities, risk arbitrage, utility pairs trading and special situations trades. The firm's arbitrage investments focus on foreign and domestic deals and often involve the use of options. The firm's pairs trading strategy is a long/short market neutral approach that focuses on the U.S. electric utilities sector. Their convertible securities strategy focuses on several types of investing, including gamma trading, credit and synthetic puts. For special situations, Hamilton's strategy may involve capital structure arbitrage trades, privately negotiated exchanges and other event-driven situations.	Analyst-Equity	2005-05-31
Harbinger Capital Partners LLC Harbinger Capital Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Harbinger specializes in event/distressed investment strategies. The firm seeks to invest in alpha-generating ideas that are uncorrelated to investment cycles. They generally pursue the following strategies: (1) event-driven (2) distressed/bankruptcy (3) value and (4) corporate shorts. Investments may be passive, active and control investments in a wide range of industries and countries. Harbinger combines a flexible, innovative approach to uncovering opportunity with a detailed investment process, which emphasizes rigorous fundamental research, thorough vetting of each prospective investment, and the identification of catalysts for value realization.	Portfolio Manager-Equities	-

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Hamilton Investment Management LLC Hamilton Investment Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Hamilton primarily invests in U.S. equities, convertibles, high yield bonds and options. They use in-house, fundamental research to seek convertible securities, risk arbitrage, utility pairs trading and special situations trades. The firm's arbitrage investments focus on foreign and domestic deals and often involve the use of options. The firm's pairs trading strategy is a long/short market neutral approach that focuses on the U.S. electric utilities sector. Their convertible securities strategy focuses on several types of investing, including gamma trading, credit and synthetic puts. For special situations, Hamilton's strategy may involve capital structure arbitrage trades, privately negotiated exchanges and other event-driven situations.	Finance
Harbinger Capital Partners LLC Harbinger Capital Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Harbinger specializes in event/distressed investment strategies. The firm seeks to invest in alpha-generating ideas that are uncorrelated to investment cycles. They generally pursue the following strategies: (1) event-driven (2) distressed/bankruptcy (3) value and (4) corporate shorts. Investments may be passive, active and control investments in a wide range of industries and countries. Harbinger combines a flexible, innovative approach to uncovering opportunity with a detailed investment process, which emphasizes rigorous fundamental research, thorough vetting of each prospective investment, and the identification of catalysts for value realization.	Finance
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