ND Women Connect – Chicago invites all Notre Dame Alumni, Students, Parents & Friends to…
A Notre Dame Alumna’s Journey from Accountant to Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager
Partner, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Portfolio Manager of Aurora Investment Management L.L.C
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Join us as Roxanne Martino shares her professional path from public accounting to serving as President and CEO of a $10 billion hedge fund of funds. Ms. Martino’s story is an inspiring example of an entrepreneur who worked her way from the bottom to the top.
Event Pricing
Includes 2 drink tickets and chef selection of appetizers
- ND Club of Chicago Member (Dues-Payer): $40
- ND Club of Chicago Young Alumni (Dues-Payer &Undergrad ’06-’12): $35
- Non-Members: $50
ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
PLEASE CONTACT THE CLUB OFFICE (312-922-4663) REGARDING AVAILABILITY.
Event Schedule
- 5:30PM: Registration Opens, Open Networking
- 6:00PM: Presentation begins
- 7:00-7:30PM: Room open for networking
Biography
Roxanne M. Martino is President and Chief Executive Officer of Aurora Investment Management L.L.C. Aurora manages over $10 billion in fund of hedge funds assets for onshore and offshore entities as well as separately managed accounts. The Firm’s fund of funds business was established in January 1988 with the launch of Aurora Limited Partnership, which was developed by Ms. Martino.
Ms. Martino oversees all investment and non-investment operations of Aurora, including evaluating and analyzing both existing and prospective managers, their investment strategies and their risk controls. Ms. Martino also is responsible, as a voting member of the Firm’s Investment Committee, for the investment management of all fund of funds products which Aurora privately offers both domestically and offshore, and for providing investment services to private account portfolios of hedge funds.
Ms. Martino spent the first seven years of her career at Coopers & Lybrand where she was a Senior Manager focusing on the commodities and securities area. She then spent over six years at an alternative investment firm, where she was a general partner.
Ms. Martino is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, the Business Advisory Council (past chairperson) of the Mendoza College of Business of the University of Notre Dame and has served as a Director of The Investment Analysts Society of Chicago. She is also Director of Thresholds, a Chicago based not-for-profit psychiatric rehabilitation organization, serves on the Investment Subcommittee of the Board of Directors of Catholic Relief Services, the international relief and development agency of the United States Catholic Church, on the board of Children’s Memorial Hospital and The Arthur Foundation, as a Life Trustee of the Board of Fenwick High School, and served as a member of the Board of Guerin Prep High School. Her memberships include The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Illinois CPA Society. She is also a contributing author of a chapter titled ‘The Due Diligence Process’ in the book, Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies: The Experience of Managers and Investors, Third Edition, and has been profiled and quoted in leading industry publications.
Ms. Martino received a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Notre Dame in 1977 and a Masters of Business Administration from The University of Chicago in 1988.
