Boothbay Fund Management strives to integrate non-correlated positive expectancy strategies into a unified portfolio that creates value for our investors.

Ari Glass

Ari is the Founder, CIO and CEO of Boothbay and serves as the Head of the Investment Committee. He manages the investment team, oversees the manager sourcing, monitoring, and selection process, and is ultimately responsible for all allocation and portfolio construction decisions.

Before founding Boothbay, Ari was the President of Paine Heights Management, where he managed a special opportunity hedge fund. From 2007 to 2009, he served as the President of Platinum Management, and was responsible for selecting liquid portfolio managers for Platinum’s Multi-Manager private investment funds, which won two industry awards for Multi-Strategy Fund of the Year.

From 2000 to 2007, Ari was the Chief Operating Officer of Intrepid Capital Management, a $2.5 billion hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management and spun out of Tiger Management. He oversaw all business related activities and, in 2004, launched Intrepid Associates an affiliated entity focused on adding fund managers to Intrepid’s platform. From April 1998 to August 2000, Ari was the Chief Financial Officer at Vector Capital Management, a statistical arbitrage hedge fund.

Ari graduated with honors from Queens College with a B.A. in Accounting and Information Systems.

Michael Weaver

Michael joined Boothbay as Chief Operating Officer in July 2023. Before joining Boothbay, he was the Director of Business Strategy for Voloridge Investment Management, overseeing the strategic growth and development of new business opportunities. He also served as a consultant to ALK Capital Partners, advising on their acquisition of Burnley Football Club.

Prior to ALK, Michael was the Chief Operating Officer of Surveyor Capital at Citadel, with direct oversight of business strategy and management. He spent seven years at BlackRock as a Managing Director and was the CFO and a Founding Senior Partner for R3 Capital Partners, a global multi-strategy credit investment firm. His earlier experience includes seven years at Lehman Brothers in fixed income trading and proprietary trading roles.

Michael earned B.A.s in Economics and Political Science with High Honors from Kenyon College, graduating Magna Cum Laude and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds an M.B.A. with distinction from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Freddie Richardson

Freddie joined Boothbay in July 2013, prior to the launch of Boothbay Absolute Return Strategies. Throughout his tenure, he has worked in multiple areas of the firm, including manager sourcing, onboarding, and counterparty relationships. Since 2019 he has served as Chief Marketing Officer where he oversees investor relations and capital raising, and maintains institutional relationships for the firm. Prior to joining Boothbay, Freddie worked as an underwriting associate for Atrium Underwriters Ltd. and a risk associate for XL Group in the UK.

Freddie received his BSc in Biochemistry from The University of Leeds, England, and holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in New York.

Justin Joo

Justin joined Boothbay in 2019 and serves as the Investment Director for Equities. From 2015 to 2019, Justin was a Senior Associate at EnTrustPermal focused on Investment Research. Prior to EnTrustPermal, he was an Analyst at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and a hedge fund Research Associate at Cambridge Associates.

Justin holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Psychology from Boston College. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, the CFA Institute, and the CAIA Association and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.

Peter Richards

Peter joined Boothbay in May 2021 as the Investment Director for Fixed Income. He oversees manager research, capital allocation, co-investments, primarily focusing on cross-asset arbitrage and relative value strategies. Prior to joining Boothbay, Peter was an Associate Director in Portfolio Management at PAAMCO Prisma from 2015 to 2021, focusing on cross-asset relative value hedge fund investments, emerging managers, and customized separately managed accounts.

From 2010 to 2013, Peter worked at Raymond James Argentina as a sell-side Equity Research Analyst covering the Natural Resources industry for Latin America. From 2008 to 2010, he worked at NFD Agro as a Private Equity Analyst focused on agribusiness investments in Latin America.

Peter graduated from Universidad Católica Argentina with a B.S. in Economics. He earned an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He holds the CQF designation and is a CFA charterholder.

Ryan Nelson 

Ryan joined Boothbay in January 2024 as the Head of EMEA. Before joining Boothbay, Ryan was Managing Director and Head of EMEA Equities and Co-head of Global Prime Services at Credit Suisse, responsible for all market risk in the EMEA region. He also served as the UK Senior Manager (SMCR) for the Equity Research, Equity Capital Markets, and Global Equities business, and was a member of the Investment Bank’s Executive and Risk Committees. Prior to Credit Suisse, Ryan worked at UBS, where he was Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Equity Finance based in New York. He started his career at MSCI Barra as an equity risk model consultant.

Ryan has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Union College. He is also a United States Federal Aviation Administration Private and Instrument Rated Single Engine Airline Pilot.

Curtis Man

Curtis joined Boothbay as a consultant in October 2021, and is responsible for manager research and sourcing in the region. From 2016 to 2020, Curtis was an Executive Director at Pinpoint Asset Management, an Asia multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to Pinpoint, Curtis was the Chief Investment Officer for a Hong Kong based single family office, LFCC. Before LFCC, Curtis was at UBS for seven years, most recently as a Director covering Asian Equities. He started his career at Goldman Sachs.

Curtis has a degree in Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.