Mark Nordlicht

Mark Nordlicht, Chief Investment Officer of Platinum Partners Hedge Fund, brings over 20 years of experience to the fund. The Platinum Partners Hedge Fund, which Mr. Nordlicht founded in 2003, is a multi-strategy hedge fund seeking to deliver risk adjusted returns uncorrelated to any broader market activity. Mr. Nordlicht is responsible for oversight of all trading, asset allocation and risk management for the company, which is headquartered in New York. Mr. Nordlicht started his career as the youngest trader in the pits of the New York Cotton Exchange; he was 22 at the time. In 1991, Mark Nordlicht founded Northern Lights Trading and was its general partner until 2000. Northern Lights Trading was a proprietary options firm based in New York which employed traders in cotton, coffee, natural gas, crude oil, gold and silver. From 1997 to 2001, partially overlapping his time at Northern Lights, Mark Nordlicht was a founder and managing partner of West End Capital, a New York-based money management firm.