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Todd Groome
Todd Groome is a senior advisor to AmeriCatalyst. With more than 25 years of international financial experience, he brings a wealth of knowledge and strategic abilities to AmeriCatalyst, guiding the company in its relationships with national, international, and supranational organizations.
Additionally, Todd also serves as the chairman of the Alternative Investment Management Association, a global organization of the hedge fund industry with more than 1,100 members worldwide in over 40 countries. AIMA is an active participant in discussions regarding potential supervisory frameworks for hedge funds, and issues related to financial stability with the G20, IOSCO, the Financial Stability Board, and numerous national supervisory authorities. Todd was appointed chairman of AIMA in January 2009.
Todd, a former advisor in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department for the International Monetary Fund, has significant financial markets experience developed over an extensive career in capital markets, in both the public and private sectors.
At the IMF, he was responsible for multilateral financial and capital markets surveillance activities, including the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report. Most recently, he advised the Mosaic multi-strategy hedge fund regarding macroeconomic and market issues. Before joining the IMF, Todd served as managing director and head of the Financial Institutions groups of Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse in London, focusing primarily on debt capital markets, and capital and balance sheet management for banks and insurance companies. Prior to that, he worked with Merrill Lynch in London and New York as part of the Financial Institutions Corporate Finance Group working on M&A, advisory, and debt and equity financing for banks and insurers. Before moving to London in 1989, he worked as an attorney with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C., as part of the Financial Institutions Group.
Todd is also a senior advisor to Albourne Partners, providing insights with regard to legislative and regulatory developments related to financial markets and services, including hedge funds and other sectors. Albourne Partners is a global consulting firm, advising pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors with regard to hedge fund and private equity investments, including portfolio construction and risk management.
He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania in the areas of pensions, insurance, and risk management.
Todd holds an MBA from the London Business School, a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, and a BA in Economics from Randolph-Macon College, where he was awarded the Wade C. Temple Scholarship for Economics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.