Cynthia J. Nicoll
Chief Investment Officer
Tremont Capital Management

As Chief Investment Officer, Chairman of the Investment Committee, and head of the firm’s Investment Management Group, Cynthia Nicoll is responsible for Tremont’s global investment activities.  This includes establishment of investment guidelines and asset allocation policies, manager sourcing and monitoring, portfolio construction and monitoring, and risk management.   Previously Ms. Nicoll was the Director of Manager Research and Director of Risk Management.  She is a member of the Tremont Executive Committee. 

Ms. Nicoll joined Tremont in 2000 from Parker Global Strategies where she worked with Japanese hedge fund of funds investors.  For nine years, she was Vice President, Greenwich Capital/NatWest, where she developed hedge fund indexed structured products primarily for Asian clients, and structured fixed income derivatives and foreign exchange solutions.  During her twelve years at Manufacturers Hanover/Chemical Bank, Ms. Nicoll focused on global corporate finance, including lending, to companies ranging from middle market to Fortune 100 companies.

Ms. Nicoll holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and International Business from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale.  She is a member of the International Association of Financial Engineers, and its Investor Risk Committee, the Society of Quantitative Analysts, Global Association of Risk Professionals, and the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association. (26 years Capital Market experience).

Jacob Navon
Partner
Westwood Partners LLC

Jacob has more than twenty years of financial services experience as an investment manager and an executive search professional. Specializing in senior level search in all relevant job functions within the asset management industry, Jacob has successfully executed a full spectrum of assignments on behalf of clients ranging from small investment boutiques and hedge funds to large, globally integrated asset management companies. Jacob’s particular expertise is in asset management team lift-outs.

Before joining Westwood, Jacob was a Managing Director at Warren International, a boutique search firm exclusively serving the asset management industry. Prior to entering search, Jacob spent more than fifteen years in the asset management industry including positions at Paloma Partners, Columbus Circle and The Boston Company.  He began his career in fixed income sales and trading at Salomon Brothers Inc. Outside of his professional life Jacob has served as the Treasurer of the Harvard Business School Club of Connecticut since 2004.  He is very active with Temple Israel of Westport, CT having served on its finance committee since 1999 (serving as Chair, a Board level position, between 2002 and 2004).

Jacob holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Natural Science from the University of Cambridge.