Michael G. Messner is a Co-Founder of Seminole Management Co, Inc., an equity hedge fund, and has been Co-CEO since 1995. As the Chief Investment Officer Mike has successfully steered Seminole through both bull and bear markets, focusing on capital preservation during downturns. Since inception through August 2018, Seminole had gross annualized return of 19.5% before fees, including a +1.8% gross return in 2008 when the S&P 500 was down 37%. He led Seminole to positive gross returns in 21 out of 23 years. Seminole peak assets totaled over $3 billion.
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Michael Messner
Beth Reynolds
Beth Reynolds is a seasoned financial services professional with 30 plus years of analytical and portfolio management experience.
Early in Beth’s career she was at Moody’s Investors Service where she rated housing and student loan debt. In 2000, Beth joined Seminole Capital, a long - short hedge fund, under the leadership of Mike Messner, where she was until 2019. There she held numerous roles including Chief Compliance Officer and ending her career there as Portfolio Manager. Post Seminole Capital in 2018, Beth has supported Mike Messner with his teaching at the Scheller School of Business.
Beth earned her B.A. from Bates College and her M.B.A. from NYU's Stern Business School. In addition, Beth achieved her Chartered Financial Analyst distinction in 1998. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their two children and families.
Jonathan Clarke
Jonathan Clarke is the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor of Finance in the College of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. His undergraduate degrees are in Mathematics and Economics from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Dr. Clarke's work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Information Systems Research, Management Science, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Annals of Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. His paper titled "Long-Run Performance And Insider Trading In Completed And Canceled Seasoned Equity Offerings" won the 2001 William F. Sharpe award for best published paper in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Sudheer Chava
Sudheer Chava received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003. Prior to that he has an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore and worked as a fixed income analyst at a leading investment bank in India. He has held academic positions at University of Houston and Texas A&M University before joining Georgia Tech in 2010.
Dr. Chava has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and master’s level including Derivatives, Risk Management, Valuation, Cases in Financial Crisis and Credit Risk Analysis. He has also taught both theoretical and empirical finance courses at the doctoral level.
