Rupal Jayesh Bhansali

100 Women In Hedge Funds is an association of women from finance and alternative investments industries. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2001 by Dana Hall, Sarah Dyer Dana. The CEO is Amanda Pullinger.

Ariel Investments LLC (Ariel) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by John W. Rogers, Jr. in 1983 and is a subsidiary of ACMI, Inc. Ariel provides investment management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients in the US. The firm also serves institutional separate account clients in Canada and offers certain separate account products to professional investors in Australia and Asia.

MacKay Shields LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The original predecessor to the firm, MacKay-Shields Economics, was founded in 1938 as an economic consulting firm and it became MacKay Shields Financial Corp. (MSFC) in 1969. In 1984, MSFC was purchased by New York Life Insurance Co. (NYLIC). NYLIC established New York Life Investment Management Holdings LLC (NYLIM Holdings) in 1999 and transferred ownership of MSFC to NYLIM Holdings. In 1999, MSFC was converted to MacKay Shields LLC. The ownership, control and management of MacKay Shields did not change as a result of this conversion. The firm is wholly owned by NYLIM Holdings, which is wholly-owned by NYLIC. MacKay Shields provides discretionary investment management services primarily to institutional clients. The firm is a signatory of the United Nation Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Founded in 1969, Oppenheimer Capital is an investment advisor firm located in New York City with an additional office in Newport Beach,, California. Oppenheimer Capital is wholly-owned by Allianz Dresdner Asset Management of America LP (formerly PIMCO Advisors LP), which is a subsidiary of Allianz AG (NYSE: AG). The firm is unrelated to OppenheimerFunds and the brokerage firm CIBC Oppenheimer.

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a privately-held investment management firm now structured as a family office, but which was once a hedge fund manager. The firm was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in New York City. SFM serves as principal investment adviser to a group of funds managed for the benefit of Soros family cl fsients.