2016 Executive of the Year Award Dinner

HABA

The Hellenic-American Association for Professionals in Finance

requests the honor of your presence

for our 34th Anniversary

honoring

Dr. Maria Vassalou

Partner & Portfolio Manager, Perella Weinberg Partners

at the

2016 Executive of the Year Award Dinner

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

Reception 6:00pm Dinner 7:00pm

The Union League Club of New York

38 East 37th Street

New York, NY 10016

Admission is by prepaid reservation only.

(We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express & PayPal online.)

Maria Vassalou is Partner and Portfolio Manager for the PWP Global Macro strategy. Dr. Vassalou joined Perella Weinberg Partners from MIO Partners, a subsidiary of McKinsey & Company, where as a Portfolio Manager she managed a similar global macro investment strategy in a dedicated legal entity, and as Head of Asset Allocation she provided counsel on allocation for liquid assets within MIO’s portfolio. Prior to joining MIO, Dr. Vassalou was a Global Macro Portfolio Manager at SAC Capital Advisors, LP. She joined SAC from Soros Fund Management where she was responsible for global quantitative research, as well as the development and management of global quantitative trading strategies.

Prior to her career in asset management, Dr. Vassalou was an Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School which she joined in 1995. Dr. Vassalou is a Past President of the European Finance Association and was the Chair of the 2008 European Finance Association Meetings. A Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London for many years, Dr. Vassalou is a past member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Vienna-based Guttmann Center of Competence in Portfolio Management. A frequent speaker to both academic and practitioner-oriented seminars and conferences and a recipient of several awards, Vassalou has published in leading academic journals and she is a member of the Editorial Board of the Financial Analysts Journal. While she was on the faculty of Columbia University, she also served as a consultant to many premier hedge funds and asset management institutions in the U.S. and Europe.

Dr. Vassalou received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Athens and she holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from London Business School.