Bio

Tom Mahoney has over 30 years of experience in the alternative investments industry and has raised over $7 billion for hedge funds, private equity funds and corporate private equity financings since 1985. In addition to leading several global hedge fund and private equity investment banking teams at major Wall Street firms, most recently Tom served as Managing Director with Compass Advisers Group, LLC and earlier served as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Head of Alternative Investments with Gabelli & Partners, a subsidiary of Gabelli Asset Management. At Gabelli, he was instrumental in the launch of several new hedge funds with global institutional investors (proprietary single and multi-strategy funds, separate accounts and offshore fund of funds) as well as a doubling of alternative assets under management to over $1 billion. Prior to Gabelli, during a ten-year tenure with Merrill Lynch, Tom created the firm's global hedge fund capital raising business as well as the industry-leading preferred stock capital markets franchise. Tom subsequently led Deutsche Bank’s industry pre-eminent technology private equity financing business, while also raising private equity funds and structuring strategy-diversified hedge fund portfolios for non-U.S. institutional investors. Tom also founded PaineWebber’s Private Equity Group and was a member of the Investment Committee for an investment partnership for Investment Banking Division employees. He started his career in international M&A at Dillon Read. Tom is an Advisory Board member of StratiFi Technologies Inc., a financial services focused software developer. Mr. Mahoney earned an A.B. degree in chemistry from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Research Fellow in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at MIT. He holds Series 7, 24, 63 and 79 FINRA securities licenses. Check the background of this investment professional on FINRA’s BrokerCheck.