Dr. Hohns serves as a Managing Director at Mariner Investment Group and as Lead Portfolio Manager for IIFC. Prior to joining Mariner, Dr. Hohns was a Managing Director at Institutional Financial Markets, Inc., which he joined at its inception in 2001. At IFMI, Dr. Hohns developed and managed the firm’s municipal securities platform and executed capital market strategies for structured credit products and other managed funds. Among these, Dr. Hohns developed Non-Profit Preferred Funding, the first institutional-scale fixed-income impact investment product, and the recipient of the 2006 Deal of the Year from Total Securitization magazine. Dr. Hohns holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in Liberal Arts from the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Applied Economics and Managerial Sciences from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hohns also serves as a Visiting Scholar at New York University and a Research Fellow at NYU-Stern for the 2012-2013 Academic Year.