Brian Hennessey, CFA

Partner, Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager
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Brian Hennessey, CFA

Biography

Mr. Hennessey is an Alpine Saxon Woods Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer, responsible for overseeing the investment process, strategy, performance analytics, and risk management across portfolios. Before launching Alpine Saxon Woods, Mr. Hennessey was Co-Chief Investment Officer at Alpine Woods Capital Investors, as well as Portfolio Manager of the Alpine Dynamic Dividend Fund, Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund, and Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund, along with the Alpine Woods Momentum long-only and long-short products.

Before that, Mr. Hennessey was at Litespeed Partners as a member of the $1B event-driven, distressed hedge fund. Prior to that, he worked at Tribeca Global Investments, a unit of Citigroup, as a member of the merger arbitrage hedge fund team, where he contributed a significant portion of the fund’s alpha generation. Mr. Hennessey also spent time at PartnerRe Asset Management as a member of the U.S. Investment Grade Fixed Income team, covering health care, REITs, consumer products, and insurance. He started his career as an analyst on Putnam Investments’ High Yield Fixed Income team, covering homebuilding, paper, energy, and chemicals.

Mr. Hennessey received a degree in Biology and Economics from Williams College, an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.