West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Gabrielle Guttman launched connext consulting inc. after leaving Southridge LLC, where she served as the vice president of business development and marketing of the firm and its hedge funds.

She left the company to pursue the business venture and to launch her own customer base. According to Guttman, who is president of the firm, the new firm will employ an integrated and customized approach to successfully elevate their clients’ businesses to the next level through strategic introductions, business development, marketing and public/ investor relations. Their target market will include financial institutions, professional services firms, minority-owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

At Southridge, Gabrielle was responsible for hedge fund marketing, public/investor relations and marketing financial products to global public companies. She previously held Business Development and Marketing roles at Kroll Inc. and Grey Group Inc. Gabrielle’s financial career began at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. as a Corporate Finance Analyst where she helped execute equity, debt and M&A transactions across a wide range of industries.

Gabrielle graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University. Since 2003 she has held Board and Advisory positions with Barnard Business and Professional Women, a not-for-profit alumnae organization. Throughout her career, Gabrielle has been an active volunteer and currently holds leadership positions with notable not-for-profit and philanthropic organizations focused on the financial services industry, women’s initiatives and children’s development.

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West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Encouraged by a promising investment environment and accelerated investment pace, New York-based special opportunities fund, Atalaya Capital Management LP, today announced that it has expanded its team, adding three investment professionals and a marketing professional. 

“Recent positive changes in our target investment markets have prompted Atalaya to bolster our professional platform in order to capitalize on market conditions and new opportunities,” said Ivan Q. Zinn, Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer.

Josh Ufberg joined as a Principal from Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Group, while Rana Mitra and Alex Wang have joined the team responsible for the sourcing and purchase of private credit assets as Senior Associate and Associate, respectively. Ashley Fochtman joined the Firm as a Vice President and will be working in a business development capacity.  Previously, Ms. Fochtman worked in hedge fund marketing and at Goldman Sachs as an energy derivatives analyst.

Founded by Mr. Zinn in 2006, Atalaya focuses on the opportunistic purchase of senior secured credit from forced sellers, failed financial institutions and sellers in need of liquidity such as banks, commercial finance companies, and other financial and investment institutions.

About Atalaya Capital Management

Atalaya Capital Management is an alternative investment firm focused on investing in small and middle market credit opportunities.  Since inception in early 2006, the Firm has successfully invested over $1 billion through (1) the opportunistic purchase of private, senior secured credit from forced sellers, failed financial institutions and sellers in need of liquidity, and (2) proprietary ‘new issue’ credit investments including DIP loans and other senior secured financings.

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