Scot Ruhlander
Scot is managing partner of One Design Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS). One Design AIS raises capital for alternative investment managers and facilitates secondary market transactions in private, late stage, pre-IPO companies. Prior to founding One Design AIS he worked with SG Capital Management, a Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund since May of 2011 as Managing Director, responsible for all business development activities for the firm. He joined from The Endowment Office, an outsourced CIO service provider to endowments and foundations where he was responsible for global business development. Scot was a Principal and Managing Director of Genesee Investments, a family office and investment boutique specializing in hedge fund products. He was responsible for Global Business Development from 2002 to 2009. He spent one year with a San Francisco based hedge fund, responsible for marketing activities in the US, Europe and the Middle East. He worked for five years with Deutsche Bank in Chicago and London as Director of Sales and Marketing of derivative products in the US, Europe and the Middle East, two years as VP Institutional Sales of derivative products with Bear Stearns and five years with Bank of America as an account manager. Past professional affiliations include IMM and IOM Membership of the CME from 1993-1999. He was a member of the Commodity Representative/Customer Complaint, Floor Practices Financial Division and Arbitration Committees at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1994-2000. He currently holds FINRA series 7, 63, and 65 licenses.