Nolan Olsen has spent nearly 15 years providing strategic advisory, business development and capital raising solutions to alternative investment managers in the United States and Europe. Since 2004, Nolan has raised ~$4 billion of AUM for investment vehicles across real assets, private credit, private equity, infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds. The fundraising expertise and extensive institutional investor network that Nolan cultivated while tirelessly working for global asset managers laid the foundation to create an independent consulting and marketing firm. As the founding member of Langschiff Capital Partners, Nolan personally addresses the business development and asset gathering needs of each of the managers with whom he partners.
Previously, Nolan was a Director at Deutsche Asset Management focusing on Private Equity Strategies and before that, he led the fundraising efforts in North America for the Alternative Products Group at Van Eck Global. At Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Nolan spearheaded global asset raising for the equity long/short sector funds at FrontPoint Partners as well as the Traxis Global Macro Fund, which was managed by the global investment strategist, Barton Biggs. Nolan graduated from Saint Lawrence University with a BA in Economics and Government. He received the CAIA designation in 2004 and is Series 7, 63, and 24 registered with FINRA.
Tamara Fears has over 20 years of financial services experience including marketing, capital raising and institutional sales & trading. She began her career at Morgan Stanley in New York in 1996. In 2000 she moved to London to work with Bear Stearns where she was an international equities sales trader covering some of the firm’s largest institutional clients. In 2007, she returned to New York and to Morgan Stanley to work in their hedge fund division FrontPoint Partners, which had over $12bn in AUM at the time. At FrontPoint, she was responsible for marketing and raising capital for all their international equities strategies from institutional investors and family offices globally. Since then, she has worked with both other large, institutional alternative asset management firms as well as start-ups. She has extensive experience working with and advising emerging managers/smaller firms on how to effectively market their strategy and raise capital. With over ten years of marketing experience, Tamara possesses a significant and globally diverse network of relationships with institutions and consultants but she can also provide access to a substantial number of large and significant family offices that would be otherwise hard to reach. Tamara graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in International Studies and Languages. She is Series 7 and 63 registered with FINRA.
Anna’s background in institutional investing includes content writing, digital marketing and advanced project management. She specializes in the strategizing and execution of complex email marketing campaigns and lead-targeting specific to investor relations. Her digital marketing background includes the use of Salesforce, Pardot, Outreach.io, and search engine optimization through SEMrush. Anna is an award-winning filmmaker – her content has been selected at festivals worldwide (including Outfest, Newfest, Portland Film Festival, Seriesfest, T.O. Webfest, LA Comedy Film Festival, and may more). Anna received her MFA in Theatre Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School, and holds an Honours BA in Psychology and English Drama from McGill University.
After graduating from Harvard as a Premed and Biology Major, Kunle realized his parents’ dream for him to be a doctor was not his own. While exploring his options, he worked on large-scale data projects in healthcare research at Massachusetts General Hospital and, later, Columbia Medical Center. He pivoted into managing a national nonprofit where he was introduced to CRM platforms such as Salesforce and taught himself how to build on emerging technology to manage communications, sales processes, and analytics. He continues to learn, helping clients understand how to effectively use their tools and information to maximize impact.
Sherry’s experience includes roles at American Express in Human Resources, Global Advertising & Brand Management, World Service and Communications, and Business Intelligence specializing in operational analytics and data management. Sherry has consulted for Digital Lion Marketing, River East School, and several LA-based startups. Sherry received a BA in English from Wellesley College.
