White Oak Equity Partners Team

Bruce Wilson is a founding member of White Oak and previously founded North Creek Advisors, a strategic advisory firm focused on partnering with and growing emerging hedge fund managers. Prior to North Creek, he was Chief Operating Officer at Third Point, a multi-billion dollar event driven hedge fund, where he managed finance, operations, technology, marketing, investor relations, legal, compliance, administration, and business risk management, including all aspects of counterparty credit, financing and liquidity risk. Prior to Third Point, he was President and Chief Operating Officer at Quantitative Financial Strategies a $5B multi-product quantitative strategy hedge fund complex. Bruce was responsible for managing the ongoing business, as well as launching new products and negotiating investor managed account agreements, side letters, and third-party agreements with counterparties, custodians, and broker-dealers. Prior to Quantitative Financial Strategies, he was the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and a member of the Executive Committee of The Madison Avenue Capital Group, a boutique alternative asset management firm. Before Madison, he was the Controller and one of the first employees of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), where he played a central role in building from inception, the firm’s operational infrastructure, and subsequently managed certain financial and operational functions of the firm. Bruce graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree, magna cum laude.