CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Scott Kapnick
Chief Executive Officer, Highbridge Capital Management
Scott Kapnick is Chief Executive Officer of Highbridge Capital Management, a leading global alternative investment management organization founded in 1992.
Highbridge offers a wide range of investment solutions across multi-strategy and single strategy hedge funds and daily liquidity products, as well as public and private credit funds on the Highbridge Principal Strategies platform. The Firm manages $25 billion in capital for many of the world's most prominent investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, university endowments and family offices. Based in New York with offices in London and Hong Kong, Highbridge employs approximately 320 people, including 120 investment professionals.
Scott became CEO of Highbridge in 2013. He joined the Firm in 2007 as CEO of Highbridge Principal Strategies to establish and grow Highbridge's presence in public and private credit.
Before joining Highbridge, Scott was a Management Committee Member, Partner, and Co-Head of Global Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, positions he held from 2001 to 2006. He also served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs International from 2005 to 2006 and spent 12 out of his 21 years at the firm in Europe (London and Frankfurt). Scott was named Partner in 1994.
Scott Kapnick is a graduate of Williams College and holds a combined JD/MBA from the University of Chicago. He also studied at the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Scott is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Churchill Archives Centre Campaign Board and serves on the Board of Directors of the Naples Botanical Garden, Aileron Therapeutics and Room to Read.
He and his wife, Kathleen, have four children and reside in New York City.
