Emma Sugarman  

Managing Director: Global Head of Capital Introduction, BNP Paribas

 

Emma is the Global Head of BNP Paribas Capital Introduction team. She joined BNP Paribas in 2008 as the Head of the Americas Capital Introduction team, when BNP Paribas acquired the Prime Brokerage Business of Banc of America Securities (BofA). Prior to joining BNP Paribas Emma was the Head of Capital Introduction for the Western Region for BofA.

 

Before joining BofA in 2005, Emma launched the San Francisco office of BISYS Hedge Fund Services, a Bermuda based fund administrator. Prior to that Emma worked as a Managing Director at Olympus Capital, a hedge fund-of-funds founded by the principals of HRJ Capital (Champion Ventures). Earlier in her carreer, she was a Partner with Cap Rock Services, a hedge fund consulting services firm founded by the former COO of Bowman Capital Management, and was Vice President of Investor Relations at Bowman, where she implemented an institutionalized investor relations practice. Prior to Bowman, Emma was Vice President of Client Services with HCM, a long-only and hedge fund manager.

 

Emma is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Women in Alternative Investing. She is a former Board Member of the Northwest Hedge Fund Society and a former Committee member for 100 Women in Hedge Funds.

 

A recognized leader in the Hedge Fund Industry, Emma is regularly featured in the press, and in 2009 was named one of Institutional Investor News Rising Stars of Hedge Funds.

 

Emma is a 1988 Business Administration graduate of The Royal Society of Arts, London - DipRSA, and has attained Series 3, 7, 22, 24 and 63 licenses.