Stephen Kahn

Stephen Kahn joined Talpion Fund Management in April 2010 where he is the head of operations.  Talpion is a single family office but also previously launched a hedge fund in 2011.  Talpion has also seeded a hedge fund in March of 2013.  As part of that seed arrangement, Talpion provided all the operational support and infrastructure for the fund for 24 months.  The family office manages its own assets in house and allocates to other hedge funds as well.

His experience working with Hedge Funds started in 2000 at DLJ/Pershing, holding positions in Sales, Relationship Management and eventually responsible for Operations.  In 2003 he moved to Barclays Capital to manage the Equity Prime Brokerage Operations group.  In 2007, he joined Carlyle Blue-Wave as the manager of operations, a multi-strategy start-up hedge fund in New York, and then in November of 2008, joined Raptor Capital Management, a hedge fund spin out from under Tudor Management, where he was the Director of Operations.

 

Steve graduated Emory University in 1989 with a BBA in Management and received his MBA in Finance from Emory’s Business School in 1993

William J. Kambas is a partner at Withers Bergman LLP, in the firm’s Greenwich and New Haven offices and is often in its Manhattan office. He serves as Regional Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Personal Income Tax Practice Group and co-chair of its family enterprise interest group. He is a tax lawyer who represents a wide variety of private and public businesses – including family owned, start-up, and multi-million dollar enterprises on purely domestic and multi-state matters as well as inbound and outbound business transactions, cross border investments (whether made directly or through investment funds or joint ventures), and qualification for US tax treaty benefits.  A substantial part of Bill’s practice involves work with families and family offices on the centralized control and management of their assets, including commercial and residential real estate investments.   Bill has published articles in publications that include Trusts & Estates, Estate Planning Journal, FFI Practitioner, the STEP Journal and various LexisNexis® publications. Bill has also co-authored the chapter “Establishing and Structuring Family Offices” in The Complete Family Office Handbook by Dr. Kirby Rosplock as well as the chapter “Corporation Business Tax” in the 2017 Guidebook to Connecticut Taxes by Ricard D. Pomp.  Bill has given presentations for a number of private groups and organizations including leading private banks and the International Fiscal Association (IFA), as well as being a guest lecturer at Yale University, Columbia Business School, the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business. Bill is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and New York as well as in front of the U.S. Tax Court. He received a B.A. in American Studies from Skidmore College and received a J.D. (including a Certificate in Taxation) and M.B.A. (concentration in accounting) from the University of Connecticut.

 

Aidan Kelleher is the Head of Research and Analytics of the Firm.  His responsibilities include the development of complex purchasing, portfolio building, and valuation models for investments. Mr. Kelleher works with the firm’s senior management to develop financial models to predict the quality and performance of new Loans while identifying an optimized portfolio for investors. Previously, Mr. Kelleher worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of Israel’s most prestigious universities, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Kelleher has a PhD in Physics from the College of William & Mary and B.A. from St. John’s College.

 

Managing Director, Head of Commercial Real Estate Lending
Christopher T. Kelly is a Managing Director and Head of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Lending at Amherst Capital. In this role, Chris is responsible for all facets of Amherst Capital’s CRE middle-market lending business, targeting senior mortgage investments in all types of commercial and for-rent residential real estate assets.

A 30-year commercial real estate professional, Chris has extensive experience in real estate debt, mezzanine and equity markets. Prior to joining Amherst Capital,        Chris was a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate at CapitalSource, a division of Pacific Western Bank, responsible for all facets of the national real estate lending business. Previously, he was a Managing Director and founding member of Natixis (formerly known as CDC Mortgage Capital), responsible for the origination of senior and mezzanine loans. Prior to this, Chris was with Lehman Brothers where he originated interim and permanent debt for the Fixed Income Group.

Chris spent more than eight years at Heller Financial in the real estate division, where he was involved in the origination of a wide array of senior and mezzanine debt for all types of commercial real estate. Additional roles during his tenure at Heller Financial included the origination of equity investments in single family and multi-family developments, and construction asset management for several high profile New York City commercial and mixed-use developments.

Chris holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.