Tim is a co-founder and CEO of BattleFin Group, Inc. He is CIO of the BattleFin Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Fund. He is also responsible for strategy selection and allocations. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Most recently Tim was the President and a Partner at Lion’s Path Capital, a hedge fund strategy incubator. He sat on the Lion’s Path Investment Committee and identified and on boarded 30 fundamental portfolio managers since the launch in 2009. From January 2006 until 2009, Mr. Harrington was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan Ventures where he was in charge of Global Technology, Media & Telecom Investments and served as a Portfolio Manager. From February 2002 until January 2006 he was a Telecom & Media Portfolio Manager at Sigma Capital, a subsidiary of SAC Capital and managed a team of four investment professionals. Mr. Harrington graduated from Columbia College in 1998. He was a member of the Columbia University Judiciary Board as well as a member of the varsity crew team.
Kevin Heaton is the principal and founder of i3, LLC, a real estate family office. Kevin has twenty (20) years of experience providing counsel to families and privately-held companies invested in both public and private assets with a concentration in commercial real estate. Most recently his efforts have been focused on acquisition, re-development, management and disposition of commercial real estate assets for families using both pooled (funds) and managed (direct) investment vehicles. Kevin’s efforts involve managing the intricacies of complex 1031 Exchange transactions as well as the acquisition and “turn-around” of underperforming real estate assets. Starting his career at Merrill Lynch in 1996 as a wealth management advisor where he coordinated effective wealth management strategies for high net worth families and closely-held private companies, including structuring credit facilities, multi-generational planning and transactional advice to families, investors and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). After serving to on-shore a hedge fund of funds based in Geneva Switzerland and serving as the CFO of a private company Kevin founded i3, LLC in December of 2007.
Napoleon Hernandez is the Chief Data Scientist & COO of Data Capital Management, the machine learning hedge fund based on novel “Big Data” technologies and data feeds. He is passionate about bringing new technologies and processes from “Silicon Valley” to “Wall Street”, thereby pushing the boundaries of analytics for financial markets. Napoleon earned a PhD in Physics from the University of Utah with a specialty in Relativity.
Frank Hettig is Heritage Auction’s Director of Modern & Contemporary Art. In addition to more than 12 years of auction experience, Frank has a well-regarded reputation as a curator, critic and connoisseur of contemporary art. Trained as an art historian at the University of Amsterdam, Frank advised on exhibitions and museum catalogues and has lectured at a number of colleges and universities both in the US and overseas. At both the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (German Cultural Institute) and the Consulate General of the Netherlands, he conceptualized and coordinated a variety of international cultural events including lectures and symposia, guest artist exhibitions and performing arts programs.
As an independent art critic he has written reviews and features in English, German and Dutch for publications such as Archis, Art/Text, Artforum, Bauwelt, Forum International, das Kunstwerk, Kunstforum and Metropolis, among others.
Frank has handled auctions of many private collections, corporate art collections including a Fortune 100 Company, the Estate of Dr. Edmund Pillsbury among others; and is also overseeing Heritage’s growth in Latin-American Art and Chinese Art.
Frank Hettig is Heritage Auction’s Director of Modern & Contemporary Art. In addition to more than 12 years of auction experience, Frank has a well-regarded reputation as a curator, critic and connoisseur of contemporary art. Trained as an art historian at the University of Amsterdam, Frank advised on exhibitions and museum catalogues and has lectured at a number of colleges and universities both in the US and overseas. At both the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (German Cultural Institute) and the Consulate General of the Netherlands, he conceptualized and coordinated a variety of international cultural events including lectures and symposia, guest artist exhibitions and performing arts programs.
As an independent art critic he has written reviews and features in English, German and Dutch for publications such as Archis, Art/Text, Artforum, Bauwelt, Forum International, das Kunstwerk, Kunstforum and Metropolis, among others.
Frank has handled auctions of many private collections, corporate art collections including a Fortune 100 Company, the Estate of Dr. Edmund Pillsbury among others; and is also overseeing Heritage’s growth in Latin-American Art and Chinese Art.