Cameron Rennie leads on the new manager research, due diligence, and supports these emerging managers in their marketing and fund raising projects through introductions to his client network. He has a masters degree in Chemical Engineering, and is also a holder of the Investment Management Certificate.
Before joining Rothschild, Shakil Riaz was a managing director and member of the investment committee at Arden Asset Management, from July 2009 to March 2015, where he was responsible for creating and managing customized portfolios for several state, corporate and union pension plans, an insurance company and institutional investors. Riaz also managed and led the investment process for Arden PropPartners funds.
Prior to Arden, Riaz was chief investment officer of JPMorgan PropPartners Management Corp formerly known as the Capital Markets Investment Program which since 1994 managed a portion of the bank’s proprietary capital in a diversified portfolio of global hedge funds. From 1983 to 1991, he was general manager of the predecessor Chemical Bank’s offices in Cairo, Bahrain and Singapore. He joined Chemical Bank in 1976 in the international operations group, transferring to the Middle east territory of the international division in 1980.
Riaz graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1973 with a BS in aerospace and mechanical engineering. He also holds a graduate diploma from the University of Stockholm and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he was the recipient of a faculty fellowship.
John A. Rogers is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the New York office. Rogers engages in a broad range of private equity, venture capital and hedge fund transactional matters, including acquisitions and divestitures, investments, joint ventures, financings, restructurings and CLOs.
He also serves as a primary corporate legal adviser to middle market companies. Acting as an outsourced general counsel or supplementing in-house capabilities, he handles a wide range of strategic and commercial legal matters, such as commercial agreements (including license agreements), resolution of commercial disputes and a wide variety of employment and compensation matters.
Rogers also has significant experience in several other corporate areas, such as fund formations, real estate joint ventures and business divorces.
Prior to joining Pepper, he was a partner at Herrick, Feinstein LLP in New York where he led their private equity efforts. He also helped co-found a premier Family Office Practice at Herrick and is an active participant in the family office community.
He began his legal career at Shearman & Sterling LLP as a member of their capital markets group, focusing on securities offerings and, subsequently, as a member of their M&A group. He also worked at Morrison & Foerster LLP, focusing on representation of venture capital firms and companies in the technology, media, life sciences and entertainment industries.
He received his BA cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany ad his JD from St John’s University School of Law.
Nicolas Rohatyn is a partner and serves as chief executive officer, overseeing the overall strategy and management of the firm. He is a member of TRG’s executive committee and is based in New York.
Prior to founding TRG in 2002, he spent 19 years at JP Morgan including five years as a member of JP Morgan’s executive management team, holding a variety of leadership positions in emerging markets, foreign exchange, commodities, credit markets and e-commerce functions. As managing director and head of emerging market sales, trading and research, he established offices in Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, Russia, Korea and India as part of the growth of JP Morgan’s efforts in those markets. He built and restructured the emerging market sales, trading and research area from a loan-based business to an integrated and diversifed sales, trading and capital markets effort while producing significant net income and winning numerous awards and industry-wide recognition. During his tenure, JP Morgan established its widely acknowledged leadership position in emerging markets securities distribution, trading and research.