PARTICIPANTS

Seema Hingorani

Seema Hingorani currently serves as the Head of Public Equities & Hedge Funds with the Bureau of Asset Management in the New York City Comptroller's Office, which manages NYC's pension fund assets of over $120BN. Ms. Hingorani is a veteran investor and asset manager with nearly 20 years of U.S. and global public market investment experience. Ms. Hingorani has served as the Global Director of Fundamental Research at Pyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investments Company in Boston with $150BN in institutional assets under management; as a Portfolio Manager and Senior Equity Analyst with Andor Capital Management, a Hedge Fund; a Senior Equity Analyst at Pequot Capital Management, a Hedge Fund; and as an Equity Analyst with the T. Rowe Price Group. Ms. Hingorani has also had significant entrepreneurial experience having co-founded Mirador Capital Management, a Hedge Fund and a start-up Internet media company as its Chief Financial Officer earlier in her career.

Ms. Hingorani is an active member of the Board of Directors of Project Enterprise, a non-profit microfinance organization dedicated to supporting and to developing entrepreneurs and small businesses (most of which are Women and Women-owned) in under-resourced communities in New York City. Ms. Hingorani has worked with several organizations focused on issues concerning Women and Girls and is a prolific speaker on the topic of a more robust inclusion of Women in the corporate sector. She has also served as a member of the National Finance Committee of Secretary Clinton's Presidential Campaign. Ms. Hingorani is also a member of the Managed Funds Association's Institutional Investor Advisory Council and a member of the Economic Club of New York.

Ms. Hingorani earned her BA in Psychology/Philosophy from Yale College and her MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.