Nicola Meaden-Grenham
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Nicola Meaden is the founder and CEO of Dumas Capital Limited, a specialist independent consulting company within the alternative investment industry. From 2001 until end 2003 Nicola was Managing Director and a member of the investment committee with the Blackstone Group Inc. where she was responsible for establishing and managing the development of the group’s fund of hedge fund activities in Europe. In 1990, Nicola founded TASS Research (TASS) which became one of the market’s leading information and research companies specialising in hedge funds. In 1999 TASS merged with Tremont, the US based consultant and fund of funds manager. She was responsible for managing the London operation and expanding the company’s fund of fund activities into Europe and Japan; she was instrumental in the construction and launch of the CSFB Tremont hedge fund indices. In 2001 Tremont and TASS were bought by Oppenheimer Funds Inc. Before establishing TASS, Nicola managed the research and development of the managed funds business within Gourlay Wolff & Co, a London based firm of commodity brokers. Nicola has a BA in History & Politics from Exeter University. She is the co-author of two books published by Prentice Hall: Derivative Markets & Investment Management, and Futures Fund Management; she has been a columnist for Forbes Global Magazine; she is, currently, a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin specialising in policy and financial regulation.
See also: 10:45 am 'Hedge Funds - A Discussion of key industry issues'
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