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Date: Thursday, March 16th
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: JMHH 245
We are excited to invite you to a Fireside Chat and Q&A with Keith Stimson, Partner & Head of Gryphon’s Heritage Fund Team, and Dawn Fitzpatrick, CEO and CIO of Soros Fund Management. The event will take place on Thursday, March 16th at 5:30 pm in JMHH 245.
Register here. The event will NOT be recorded. Penn cards will be scanned at the door.
Please see Keith Stimson’s and Dawn Fitzpatrick’s bios below:
Keith is a Partner and the Head of Gryphon’s Heritage Fund Team. He is responsible for leading the origination and monitoring of investments and managing the group, including the Heritage Fund’s investments in Kano Laboratories, Repipe Specialists, and Vivify Specialty Ingredients and prior investment in Heritage Distribution Holdings. Keith is a member of the firm’s investment committee. Prior to leading the Heritage Fund Team, Keith was Head of Gryphon’s Consumer Team, where he originated and led Gryphon’s platform investments in Amport Foods, Ann’s House of Nuts (Amport and Ann’s were consolidated under Flagstone Foods), Consolidated Fire Protection, Dessert Holdings, Fleet Laboratories, K&N Engineering, Matrixx Initiatives/ZICAM, Mechanix Wear Gloves and TrustHouse Services. In addition, Keith led multiple add-on acquisitions for platform companies, including for Consolidated Fire Protection, Flagstone Foods, TrustHouse Services, Heritage Distribution and K&N Engineering, as well as the sale processes for Flagstone Foods, Consolidated Fire Protection, TrustHouse Services, Sheplers, Heritage Distribution, K&N, Matrixx, Desserts Holdings and Miller Heiman Inc. Keith received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as well as his MBA from Wharton.
Dawn Fitzpatrick is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Soros Fund Management LLC, in this capacity she heads the firm with oversight for both investment and non-investment personnel. Prior to joining Soros in 2017, Dawn spent 25 years at UBS and its predecessor organizations, where most recently she was Head of Investments for UBS Asset Management. In that role, she had global responsibility for overseeing active and passive strategies across asset classes, comprising over $500 billion of client capital. Prior to that she was CEO and CIO of the O’Connor hedge fund business. Dawn began her career as a clerk on the American Stock Exchange and then a trader on the Chicago Board of Options exchanges. During her tenure, she served as head of various direct investment teams specializing in equities, convertible corporate bond arbitrage, and merger arbitrage, as well as derivatives across asset classes. At UBS, Ms. Fitzpatrick was a Group Managing Director, and served as a member of the UBS Asset Management Executive Committee. Ms. Fitzpatrick received her Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. At Penn she ran track and now sits on the Penn Athletics Board of Advisors.