Eloise Yellen Clark

Activist, Agnostic, Athlete, Care taker, Concerned citizen, Finance professional, Investor, Jewish, Life mentor, Parent, Philanthropist, Single, World traveler

Eloise Yellen Clark is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of OmniQuest Capital, LLC. The firm, founded in 2002, is a registered investment advisor specializing in the management of multi-manager and multi-strategy alternative investment portfolios. In July 2003 the firm launched it's flagship fund of funds, OmniQuest I, LLC, comprised of a fundamentally diversified, “best ideas” portfolio of uncorrelated hedge funds. Among the original seed investors were Greg Maffei (CEO of Liberty Media), Jay Hoag (Founder of Technology Crossover Ventures) and Richard Barton (Founder of Expedia and Zillow). Eloise has over 35 years experience in financial markets with particular expertise in derivatives, risk management, and complex securities. Eloise spent the first 13 years of her career in sales and trading. In her last position, as managing director of the corporate capital markets group at Bankers Trust, she had responsibility for structuring and execution of derivative transactions, debt origination, structured investments, and strategic risk management products. Prior to joining Bankers Trust, Eloise worked in the interest rate swap group at Merrill Lynch where she designed and managed the systems used to hedge the interest rate swap book and later marketed swaps to financial institutions. At Merrill, she worked extensively with mortgage-backed securities and other complex structured securities. Eloise began her career as a foreign exchange trader at Citibank. Prior to founding OmniQuest Capital, Eloise spent a few years as a visiting professor at UCLA where she designed and taught two “real world” classes, The Trading Game and Case Studies in Capital Markets and Investment Management. She holds a MBA in finance from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a BA in economics from Barnard College, Columbia University. Ms. Clark has a life-long interest in improving the quality of educational and financial opportunities for woman, with a particular interest in woman living in emerging and frontier economies. Ms. Clark has worked on a number of projects focused on these issues. To date, one of her greatest honors was serving on the board of the Woman in Power program at the JFK School at Harvard University. This board provides financing for students at the JFK School to research the implications of woman in politics and further, provides funding for scholarships to help woman advance to top positions of influence in public leadership. Among one of the board’s greatest accomplishments was its role in assisting Ellen Sirleaf Johnson win the 2005 Presidential election in Liberia, becoming the first female head of state in Africa.

Inequality: income inequality, gender inequality, global inequality, educational and medical inequality, that over 800mm people don’t have electricity. Climate Change: hitting the poorest areas first. Personally: meditation, yoga, mindfulness, kindness and compassion.

Investments, derivatives, risk management

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