Mark Jurish

Mark is the Head of Hedge Fund Investing and Seeding Strategies at Fiera Capital Inc. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Larch Lane Advisors LLC. Prior to forming Larch Lane in 1999, Mark was Managing Director at Paloma Partners, a firm that he joined in 1988. At Paloma, he was primarily responsible for evaluating, selecting and monitoring suitable investments for various Paloma trading entities, as well as creating and structuring new products. His duties included the creation and management of the fund that formed the basis for Larch Lane's flagship fund – Larch Lane Absolute Return. From 1986 to 1988, Mark was employed at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom as a specialist in financial investment modeling and management consulting. Mark began his financial career in 1984 at Arthur Young & Company (a predecessor of Ernst & Young), an international accounting and consulting firm. Previously, he served as an Independent Trustee of the MBIA Capital/Claymore Managed Duration Investment Grade Municipal Fund, on the Best Practices Committee of the Greenwich Roundtable and on the Board of Directors for the Managed Funds Association. Mark received his BA from State University of New York at Albany in 1980 and his MBA in Finance from New York University in 1984.