Novus Appoints John Trammell as Managing Director in New York

Trammell Will Assist Novus' Leadership Team with Wide-Ranging Responsibilities

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Dec 04, 2014, 01:15 ET

NEW YORK, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Novus, a New York-based portfolio analytics platform for investment managers and investors, announced today that John Trammell has joined the company as Managing Director in its New York office. An experienced hedge fund industry executive, John was recently the Co-Head of Global Asset Management at Cantor-Fitzgerald. Before that, he was the CEO of Cadogan Asset Management. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis John negotiated with and was able to buy Cadogan Management away from BNP Paribas, which acquired certain divisions of Fortis. Before Cadogan, John was President of Investor Select Advisors, a Fund of Hedge Funds active throughout Asia. Prior to this, Trammell served as COO of Argonaut Capital, a global macro hedge fund run by David Gerstenhaber. He also served as a portfolio manager and trader for A. Gary Shilling & Co.

"John's breadth of experience in the global hedge fund industry is unparalleled, and his tremendous energy and wealth of knowledge will bring new strengths to Novus in both strategic and tactical situations," said Basil Qunibi, CEO and Founder of Novus. "John's addition to Novus will help us continue to expand and build our reach in the investment management industry. We look forward to integrating John into our team and working closely with him."

Trammell will join Novus as Managing Director this month, providing support in a wide array of business matters including business development, management, strategy, organizational development and talent acquisition.

About Novus:

Novus is a portfolio analytics and intelligence platform for institutional investors. The platform is used by many of the top hedge funds, fund of funds, pensions, sovereign wealth funds and endowments to analyze their risk, performance and attribution across aggregated and historical data sets.

Portfolio managers, investor relations teams and operations teams use the Novus Platform in different ways, but ultimately to generate more alpha, analyze and manage their data, report to their investors and become more efficient with resources.

Novus is based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Zurich, Switzerland. For more information, please visit http://www.novus.com.

Media Contacts:

Farris Qunibi, Novus, (212) 586-3030 x1022, [email protected]

Devon Guralnick, Novus, (212) 586-3030 x1097, [email protected]

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