CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Jane Buchan
CEO, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC
Jane is a Managing Director and the firm’s Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Jane is responsible for overall business strategy and firm direction. In addition, she is a Sector Specialist responsible for the evaluation and management of fixed income relative value hedge funds in the various PAAMCO portfolios. Jane is also a member of the Investment Oversight Committee. Prior to forming PAAMCO, Jane held various positions ranging from Director of Quantitative Analysis to CIO of non-directional strategies at Collins Associates, an institutional fund of funds and consulting firm. She began her career at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in the Capital Markets Group and has numerous professional publications in the field of market neutral and alternative investments strategies. She was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She is currently serving as chairwoman of the board for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). Jane is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Jane holds both a PhD and an MA in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. She earned a BA in Economics from Yale University. Jane has twenty-seven years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.
