Jeffrey Tarrant

Jeffrey Tarrant

Chairman and Founder at MOV37 and Protege Partners

TED Attendee
New York, New York, United States
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About Jeffrey

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Business leader, Entrepreneur, Finance professional, Inventor, Investor, Philanthropist, Producer, Technologist, World traveler

Bio

Jeffrey Tarrant has more than three decades of experience picking emerging talent. Prior to founding MOV37 and Protégé Partners, Jeffrey managed institutional size alternative investments for private family fortunes and was a member of the board of The Investment Fund for Foundations. Jeffrey is known for investing in and seeding emerging managers, many of whom have become renowned names in the industry. During this time, Jeffrey also created Altvest (now a division of Morning Star), the hedge fund industry’s first Internet-based commercial database and analytics systems. Jeffrey was recently inducted into the 2018 HFM InvestHedge Hall of Fame, which recognizes the innovative contributions of prominent hedge fund investors. Jeffrey was founder and director of ARK, (Absolute Return for Kids), a U.K. based charity with a mission to transform the lives of children. He is currently a director of WITNESS, a global human rights organization, and he is on the advisory board of The Angiogenesis Foundation. Jeffrey’s philanthropic efforts include active support for many award-winning social issue documentary films. Jeffrey Tarrant is a graduate of Harvard Business School and University of California at Davis.

I'm passionate about

Collaborative research technologies, documentaries that illuminate social issues, autonomous learning, philanthropy, traveling

An idea worth spreading

Global citizen witnessing

Areas of expertise

ALIS, Asset management technology, Asset Managment, Documentary Films, Hedge Funds, machine learning

The TED story

I am on the board of WITNESS and have heard that the TED Conference is inspirational. I am here to be inspired, and perhaps to inspire.

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