A senior financial executive with 43 years of entrepreneurial experience across investment management, alternative investments, brokerage and the marketing of financial services, Mr. Gordon serves as Senior Advisor to a rapidly growing RIA regarding marketing strategies and strategic positioning. He is directly involved in their effort to expand client exposure to innovative investment options, including emerging technology and alternative investments. He also works with several RIAs, family offices and institutions regarding emerging technology investments through Globalis Partners (Butler Capital). In those instances, he sources and distributes differentiated alternative investments for RIAs, family offices and institutions. .
Prior to Globalis, he founded and served for 15 years as CEO and CCO of Dix Hills Partners, LLC (DHP), a $1.2 billion quantitative fixed income hedge fund executing a global interest rate strategy and selling it back to his partner in 2017. Under his direction, DHP grew from $1 million to $1.2 billion in 7 years, orchestrated a partial sale to both a family office and NYSE-listed Federated Investors, Inc. During this period, DHP received several performance awards in fixed income, delivering over 600 basis points of excess return over 15 years.
From 1996-2001 he served as Managing Director, Institutional Division of Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management (PaineWebber) with over $6 billion of AUM growth, which included both quantitative and derivative strategies. Prior to PaineWebber, Mr. Gordon served as Merrill Lynch Capital Markets’ Directors of Institutional and Prime Brokerage Marketing after entering Merrill’s first MBA Institutional Capital Markets program where he focused on pension consulting to Fortune 500 corporations and other non-financial institutions on private equity and hedge funds.
Mr. Gordon holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He holds his Series 3, 7, 63 & 24 securities licenses. He serves as a Member of the MS Alumni Advisory Board to the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In that role, he devoted over a year assisting in the Lally School successfully garnering a NSF grant to co-found the Center for Research Toward advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT), an NSF-funded IUCRC focused on the needs of the financial services industry CRAFT – Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies