Aventis Names Head of Business Development

New York (HedgeCo.net) Aventis Asset Management, LLC (Aventis), a Chicago-based commodity hedge fund, has hired Keith Byers as Managing Director Business Development. Byers will responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of all Business Development efforts for Aventis. Byers brings twenty years of sales, marketing and client servicing experience in the Managed Futures Industry to his role at Aventis. Prior to joining Aventis, Byers was a Managing Director at Trigon Investment Advisors and Chesapeake Capital Corporation.

About Aventis
Aventis employs a fundamental, discretionary trading strategy focused on trading approximately twenty commodity markets across five commodity sectors (Energies, Grains, Softs, Metals and Meats).

Aventis was founded in 2006 by Paul Kim (CEO/Head Trader) who has over thirty years of experience in the commercial and cash commodity business – first with Cargill as a cash grain trader for seven years, then as an independent floor trader on the CBOT for eleven years, and as a money manager since 2001. Aventis is comprised of a diverse staff of thirteen professionals in offices in Chicago and New York and currently manages approximately $350 million in client assets.

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