Jeff Joseph

Current

Director at Empower Campaigns
Director at WONDER, LLC
Managing Director at Prescient Advisors

Managing Partner at Prescient Capital Partners

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Past

Managing Director of Alternative Strategies at Rydex Investments

Education

Northwestern University

Connections

371 connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

Jeff Joseph’s Summary

Private Venture Investment and Finance

I have been a managing partner of Prescient Capital Partners since co-founding the firm in 1999. We specialize in direct venture, early and mezzanine-stage investments in emerging healthcare, lifesciences, technology, entertainment/media and hospitality companies. The firm has participated in a number of highly visible and profitable liquidity events. In 2007, I founded Prescient Advisors to provide strategic banking and finance consulting services to entrepreneurs and CEOs of start-up, emerging and established companies across a specific range of selected investment sectors and themes.

My blog is www.venturepopulist.com.

Alternative Investments

In addition to private venture investing, I am compelled by non-traditional and forward-thinking investment opportunities and asset classes. This has resulted in achieving peer visibility among investment advisors as an authority and resource with respect to alternative strategies such as hedge funds, managed futures and other vehicles that seek asymmetric investment outcomes. Until 2007, I was the managing director of Alternative Strategies for Rydex Investments, and was responsible for investment product origination, development and investment management of the firm’s proprietary institutional alternative trading strategies. The alternative investment products that my team developed included the mutual fund industry’s first multi-strategy absolute return fund and the first managed futures fund offering daily liquidity. Our new product slate attracted billions in new assets. Prior to Rydex, I held managing director positions at Hedgeworld Capital Markets in Rye, NY and Hedge Fund Research in Chicago, IL.

Private Wealth Management

Earlier in my 25 year investment and finance career, I was a principle of a registered investment advisory firm that subsequently merged into a larger private wealth management firm.

Jeff Joseph’s Specialties:

Investor Advocate, Advisor Partner and Industry Commentator

I enjoy meeting, partnering with and learning from responsible and forward-thinking investment advisors. I have been a frequent keynote speaker and educator at investment advisor conferences and my industry commentaries have appeared on CNBC, the usual suspect industry publications and in a monthly alternative investment column that I have been writing for Investment Advisor magazine for the past 7 years.

Jeff Joseph’s Experience

Director

Empower Campaigns

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Empower Campaigns is a Silicon Valley technology company – founded and operated by leaders of Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign--delivering cloud-based enterprise software that integrates multiple data sources, leverages the power of social networks, and creates actionable intelligence for targeting, engaging, and mobilizing constituents in winning political, corporate, and nonprofit campaigns.
Director

WONDER, LLC

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

June 2009 — Present (7 months)

WONDER is the first of its kind children's retail warehouse. WONDER's stores will become the preeminent destinations for families and children from birth to seven and will provide an extensive assortment of products and services unmatched by current industry players.
Managing Director

Prescient Advisors

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )
Managing Partner

Prescient Capital Partners

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )
Managing Director of Alternative Strategies

Rydex Investments

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years )