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Mr. Callegari earned a BS degree from SUNY and an MBA in finance from Pace University in 1982. In 1983 he was hired by Hong Kong Shanghai Securities and started in their credit training program. After the training program he moved on the trading side of the business as a counterparty analyst where he was responsible for evaluating hedge fund counterparty risk for the bank. In 1987 Mr. Callegari left to join Barclays Capital as vice president of Credit and Market risk for capital markets.

In 1991 Mr. Callegari established an allocation program at Barclays where capital was allocated to specific hedge funds. In 1995 Mr. Callegari was promoted to Head of Credit and Counterparty Risk and relocated to London where a number of different groups with Global responsibilities fell under his responsibility. This included proprietary trading, global currency options and counterparty risk. In 1997 Barclays had allocated to over 80 different hedge funds and Mr. Callegari had established several different hedge fund allocation portfolios designed specifically for Commodity trading advisors or black box programs and discretionary hedge funds.

In 1997, after almost 10 years at Barclays, Mr. Callegari joined ABN AMRO in Chicago to begin their fund of hedge fund program and run proprietary trading. He was later ran Global options trading and hedge fund relationship sales. Mr. Callegari began ABN’s first hedge fund of funds and grew this from inception to over $350 million in assets. His performance exceeded the relevant benchmarks each year and in 2001 he decided to begin a new career in consulting.

Since 2001, Mr. Callegari has owned and operated his own consulting firm which provides analysis and advice to financial institutions, start-ups and financial advisory firms. He has actively been involved in mortgage financing, fund of hedge fund analysis and performance reviews, and has fulfilled CFO roles for startups and technology companies.

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