Almanac Capital Management LP

George Zivic

Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer

George Zivic is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Almanac Capital Management. Mr. Zivic has over 10 years of experience in investment banking, hedge fund and derivative markets and began his commodity career with Enron Corporation in 1999. Throughout his career, Mr. Zivic has been published within industry journals and derivative texts and has participated as a market expert and featured speaker at industry functions.

Prior to founding Almanac Capital, Mr. Zivic was a Director and the Sector Head of Commodity Allocations for Credit Suisse in their alternative assets investment division. At Credit Suisse, Mr. Zivic's responsibilities included commodity hedge fund selection and due diligence for an $800 million portfolio of commodity dedicated allocations. Previously, Mr. Zivic held senior positions with firms including Takara, XL Capital and Rabobank.

Mr. Zivic was an early participant in the development of the weather derivatives markets, and was a contributing author of "Weather Risk Management: Markets, Products and Applications". Mr. Zivic attended York University in Toronto, receiving his B.A. with Honors in Economics and Political Science and an MBA from the Rotman Graduate School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Willem Kooyker

Co-Founder and Senior Advisor

Mr. Kooyker is the Founder, Chairman and Portfolio Manager of Blenheim Investments, a commodity and global macro fund. Mr. Kooyker began his trading career in the international commodities business in 1964 with Internatio-Muller in Rotterdam and became Managing Director of the International Trading Group. In 1981, Mr. Kooyker joined Commodities Corp., where he later became President.

Mr. Kooyker is the co-Founder of Almanac Capital and serves as a strategic advisor on market strategies, business development, capital management and company staffing.

Mr. Kooyker is a former member of the Board of Directors of the NY Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, a former president of the NY Cocoa Clearing Association, and a former member of the NY Mercantile Exchange.

Mr. Kooyker has been active in hedge fund, futures and commodity industries for over 40 years, both as an investor and an entrepreneur, and has founded or participated in successful ventures, including Tricon Holding Company and Derivatives Portfolio Management which was later sold to Mellon Financial Corporation to become DPM Mellon, LLC.

Mr. Kooyker has a B.A. cum laude in Economics from Baruch College in New York and an MBA in International Finance and Economics from New York University.

Erik Banks

Risk Advisor

Mr. Banks serves as an independent risk advisor and member of the Almanac Advisory Board, alongside his employment as Head of Risk Management for the investment banking group of a large European universal bank. Mr. Banks will be available for independent risk reviews, and will oversee the Firms quantitative methodologies with Investor Analytics. Previously, Mr. Banks was the Chief Risk Officer for Trigram Capital Management and XL Capital where he developed the fund's risk infrastructure and chaired the investment and risk committees. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Banks helped develop Merrill Lynch's risk analytics in New York, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Mr. Banks has authored over 20 books on risk management, derivatives, alternative risk, and emerging markets.

Owen Anastasia

Chief Operations Officer

Mr. Anastasia is responsible for firm and fund infrastructure. Most recently, Mr. Anastasia helped create the operations infrastructure for State Street Global Advisor's hedge fund unit, including global macro fund and credit derivatives funds. He has extensive experience creating and maintaining accounting systems for a variety of derivative instruments across asset classes. Owen manages Almanac Capital's relationships with its administrator and service providers and assists in the quantitative and principal factor analysis used for investment research and risk management.

Mr. Anastasia is a graduate of Babson College with a degree in Business Management. He is a Financial Risk Manager - certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, where he is a fellow member. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Bill Cummings

Head of Business Development

Mr. Cummings is responsible for business development and investor relations at Almanac Capital.

Prior to joining Almanac, Mr. Cummings worked at Permal Asset Management as a member of the investment management group, covering 200+ managers with firm assets under management in excess of $20 billion. His responsibilities at Permal included hedge fund manager due diligence and new manager sourcing for Permal's various fund of hedge fund portfolios including; long/short equity, event driven, global macro and commodities. He also performed market research and was a frequent contributor to the investment committee.

Mr. Cummings has a B.A. in Economics from St. Lawrence University.