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↑Chief Investment Officer
Adam Fisher is the co-founder of CommonWealth Opportunity Capital. He brings extensive knowledge and experience investing in and managing public and private companies globally. Prior to CWOC Mr. Fisher co-founded Orient Property Group (“OPG”) in 2006 focusing on investments throughout the Asia Pacific region. OPG is backed by D.E. Shaw & Co., a global hedge fund with assets in excess of $35 billion.
Prior to CWOC and OPG, Mr. Fisher founded Irongate, a property investment and development firm based in Los Angeles. Irongate and its predecessor entity was involved in property transactions in Florida, California, Hawaii, Mexico, and Canada. Adam disposed of the vast majority of the portfolio prior to forming OPG in 2006 and moving to Hong Kong to oversee that effort. Prior to founding Irongate, Mr. Fisher worked in New York for two private equity firms, NMS Capital and TD Capital, as well as a risk arbitrage firm affiliated with Reservoir Capital.
Adam Fisher is a founder and a principal shareholder of Signal Peak Mining LLC, a joint venture with First Energy (NYSE:FE) and the BoichGroup. The Company is the owner of the largest underground long-wall coal mine in the United States and through an affiliate also owns a short line rail company that transports its coal. Mr. Fisher is also a founder and a principal shareholder of American Energy Group, a specialty chemicals manufacturer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Adam Fisher holds a JD/MBA from Columbia University and a BS from Washington University in St. Louis.
↑President
Reagan Silber is the co-founder of CommonWealth Opportunity Capital. He is an accomplished entrepreneur with a long and proven track record of business building and leading organizations through start-up, turn-around, and growth cycles. His vision, experience, and critical eye are vital to CWOC’s idea generation and risk assessment.
Prior to CWOC, Mr. Silber served as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of Edge Group, a development, gaming, and management company formed in 2004. Edge Group partnered with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to develop real estate in Las Vegas. Mr. Silber sold off the vast majority of his Las Vegas assets in the summer of 2007.
In 1996, Reagan Silber helped found and served on the board of Alamosa Holdings. Alamosa, in partnership with Sprint, built and launched the first digital wireless communications networks in rural America, bringing personal communications services to more than 29 million people in 17 states. Alamosa went public in February 2001 and Mr. Silber exited the company prior to the telecom bubble collapse in 2002. In 2006, Alamosa was acquired by Sprint Nextel for $3.4 billion.
Mr. Silber began his career as an attorney in Texas. He and his partner Trevor Pearlman formed Silber Pearlman LLP in 1991. Under Mr. Silber’s leadership the firm grew to more than 40 attorneys and 200 professional staff. Mr. Silber also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law and held teaching appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and Southern Methodist University.
A native of Texas, Reagan Silber earned his undergraduate and law degrees with honors from the University of Texas in Austin.
↑Managing Director
Csaba Konkoly is a Managing Director of CommonWealth Opportunity Capital GP LLC and is a member of the CWOC Investment Committee. As a seasoned investment professional, he brings knowledge and skill to CWOC ranging from trading, analysis, and portfolio management to business development, operations, and risk. Prior to CWOC, in January 2005, Mr. Konkoly co-founded GATKO Partners LLP, a global equity long/short hedge fund in London and Singapore.
Prior to GATKO Partners, Mr. Konkoly focused on hedge fund, private equity and fund of funds investments at Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co, Croesus Capital Management, LLC and F3 Capital Management (extension of Croesus Capital) in New York and Budapest from 1997. Mr. Konkoly started his career in 1993, holding various proprietary and sales trading roles with specialist investment banking firms focusing on Emerging European markets in Budapest, Moscow, and London.
Csaba Konkoly received his M.Sc. from the University of Budapest, majoring in International Economics.Mr. Konkoly attended the part time MBA Program at the New York University Stern School of Business from 1999 -2001.
↑Portfolio Manager
Ian Epstein is a global macro portfolio manager with extensive experience across asset classes and instruments. Prior to joining CWOC, Mr. Epstein held capital risk-taking positions at Caxton Associates, Argonaut Capital Management and Balyasny Asset Management. Prior to those positions, Mr. Epstein spent four years in the Peoples Republic of China as a private equity investor, making strategic investments in Asian firms that were poised to take advantage of the newly emerging international trade regime (as highlighted by China’s accession to the World Trade Organization).
Mr. Epstein’s career in global macroeconomic investing began in Switzerland with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. (http://www.unctad.org). As an original member of the Portfolio Investment Project for Least Developed Countries, he gained firsthand knowledge of the financial profit potential in emerging markets, the genuine differentiation of national economies and the way in which public policy can drive the relative dispersion of asset market performance.
Ian Epstein has an extensive network of international banking relationships and is an expert in the use of derivatives for portfolio optimization. Mr. Epstein graduated with honors from the University of California Berkeley where he majored in Political Economy.
↑Chief Operating Officer
Greg Sutton has been at Commonwealth Opportunity Capital since its launch in December 2008. Mr. Sutton is a member of the CWOC Investment Committee and is
responsible for all non-investing aspects of the firm’s business, including, risk systems, leverage analysis, valuation, accounting, tax, operations, legal and compliance, and technology infrastructure. Additionally, he serves as the firm’s Risk Manager.
Prior to CWOC, Mr. Sutton was a Director at Pacific Media Capital (an affiliate of DB Zwirn & Co., LP). Previously Mr. Sutton spent seven years as an investment banker at Roth Capital Partners and SG Cowen where he completed over 40 M&A and financing transactions. Mr. Sutton began his career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant advising fortune 500 companies on operational and strategic projects.
Greg Sutton received a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Arizona and a MBA from the Marshall School of Business at USC.
↑Vice President
Prior to joining CWOC, Gabriel Mass was an analyst and trader at Falcon Management Corporation, a global macro hedge fund founded in 1991, and a securities analyst in the fixed income group of Symphony Asset Management, a hedge fund unit of Nuveen Investments managing over $10 billion. Gabriel also practiced law in the New York office of the international law firm Jones Day where he focused on structured finance and derivatives.
Gabriel has experience in a wide range of asset classes, including foreign exchange, interest rates, credit, and equity. He has met with Central Bank officials, brokers, analysts, and senior corporate executives in numerous countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Gabriel Mass received his JD from Fordham School of Law and his B.A. in English Literature (Honors) from Georgetown University. He was a contributor to the section on foreign exchange derivatives in the book Capital Markets, Derivatives and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2009). Gabriel is a CFA Level 3 candidate.
↑Analyst
Patricia Hsu joined CommonWealth Opportunity Capital as an analyst in March 2010. Prior to CWOC, Ms. Hsu was an equity research associate at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, a brokerage and investment firm based in Hong Kong, covering Chinese consumer staples and Taiwanese non-tech domestic inflation related sector. Before CLSA, she was a money market dealer at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, UFJ.
Ms. Hsu received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from National Taiwan University and a MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
