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Working closely with founder Eli Broad and the foundations’ investment committee, she manages $2.5 billion in assets for The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Broad Art Foundation—as well as overseeing the Broad family’s personal investments. In this role, K.C. leads asset allocation, manager due diligence and investment selection across asset classes. Before joining Broad, K.C. was a senior consulting associate with Cambridge Associates, an investment advisor to non-profit institutions and high-net-worth families. K.C. is a CFA® charterholder and graduated with a B.A. in Economics magna cum laude from Colby College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was a George F. Baker Scholar and received the Christian A. Johnson Award in Economics. K.C. and her husband live in Los Angeles with their three children.

Lara is responsible for advising, crafting, and implementing investment strategy for high net worth families, individuals, foundations, and privately held businesses. Lara previously served as a portfolio manager for several alternative investment mutual funds at Altegris Advisors where she was also the firm’s Head of Investment Strategy. Lara has eighteen years of investment experience, including her tenure as a junior portfolio manager for an LA-based credit hedge fund as well as her time as an analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. Lara has been frequently quoted in several publications including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Investment News, and CNBC.

Robert is responsible for manager selection and portfolio construction within fixed income relative value, macro, and mortgage strategies. He is responsible for the creation of certain structured products at the firm. In addition, he also serves as the main point of contact for certain institutional investor relationships in Asia. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Robert ran his own consulting firm, helping investment banks and hedge funds with research and due diligence. Prior to that, Robert traded Japanese Government Bonds at Morgan Stanley, and covered hedge

Arts & Sciences employs a long short, fundamental investment approach, thematically investing across the capital structure with a deep cognizance for the macro path and narrative. Prior to Arts & Sciences, Ms. Smith was the Head of Business Development at Commonwealth Opportunity Capital – a $2.3bn discretionary global macro hedge fund with offices in Los Angeles, Greenwich, CT and London, UK. At Commonwealth, Ms. Smith oversaw the firms Business Development, Marketing and Investor Relations functions. Prior to Commonwealth, Ms. Smith worked in the Capital Introductions team within Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage where she was responsible for the Continental European investor base and hedge fund relationship management within the prime brokerage division. Ms. Smith received a MA in Land Economy & Economics from St Catharine's College, Cambridge University.

Eli Sokolov is Managing Director at Cliffwater, LLC, and a member of the hedge fund research team. Prior to joining Cliffwater in 2007, Eli was a Senior Associate at MSCI Barra, where he conducted research in the areas of trading cost, securities analyst skill, real estate risk, firm valuation, and alpha forecasts. Eli earned a BA in Astrophysics and Economics with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA with highest honors from The Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. Eli holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society Los Angeles.

Before black-and-white Capital, Seth was a founding partner and portfolio manager at Contour Asset Management LLC, which managed the Manticore Fund. During the almost seven years of operating Contour, assets grew from roughly $500mn in AUM to over $1.5Bn in assets, in part due to returns. Contour was started in 2009 in partnership with both David Meyer and Brummer & Partners. Before the creation of Contour, Seth was part of the investment team within Brummer & Partners. Prior to joining Brummer & Partners, Mr. Wunder was one of the founding members of Tracer Capital Management LLC (“Tracer”), a hedge fund dedicated to investing in global equities within the TMT sector. Mr. Wunder’s main responsibilities included overseeing all investments within various sub-sectors of TMT including software, IT services, enterprise hardware and for-profit education. Prior to Tracer, Mr. Wunder spent several years as an analyst at both Oppenheimer Funds and Morgan Stanley Investment Management group, covering the broader enterprise technology landscape and some aspects of financial services. Mr. Wunder holds a B.S. in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell University.