Thomas Mahoney

New York
[ thomas.mahoney@ca-llp.com ]

Mr. Mahoney is a Senior Advisory Director to Compass Advisers.  He joined Compass as a Managing Director in 2005, providing strategic advice to clients who sponsor as well as invest in alternative investment categories.  He has been responsible for raising over $5 billion for leading hedge funds, private equity funds and corporate private equity financings since 1990, including a $2.5 billion global marketing campaign for a single manager, one of the hedge fund industry's largest ever.

      Prior to 2005, Mr. Mahoney was Chief Operating Officer and Head of Alternative Investments and Risk Management at Gabelli & Partners, a subsidiary of Gabelli Asset Management.  During Mr. Mahoney's tenure, hedge fund assets under management doubled to $1.1 billion and several proprietary new single and multi-strategy funds, separate accounts, and a highly ranked offshore fund of funds were launched with global institutional investors.

      Before joining Gabelli in 2003, Mr. Mahoney led top ranked global hedge fund and private equity investment banking teams for several major Wall Street firms.  At Merrill Lynch, from 1986 to 1996, he created the industry's leading preferred stock capital markets franchise as well as the firm's global hedge fund capital raising business.  At Deutsche Bank, Mr. Mahoney headed the industry's pre-eminent technology private equity financing business, while also raising private equity funds and structuring strategy-diversified hedge fund portfolios for large non-U.S. institutional investors.  At PaineWebber, Mr. Mahoney founded the firm's Private Equity Group, responsible for raising capital for both private equity fund sponsors and public and private corporate issuers.

      Mr. Mahoney currently serves as a member of the Investment Committee of the New York City Opera, and is a member of the Board of Overseers of Mount Auburn Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.  Mr. Mahoney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Association of Corporate Directors, New York Chapter.

      Mr. Mahoney received an A.B. in chemistry from Harvard College and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a registered Principal of FINRA and holds securities licenses pursuant to Series 7, 24 and 63.