Lance Babbit
Lance Babbit is a Director in Credit Suisse’s Asset Management division and is Head Portfolio Manager for the Americas within Alpha Strategies, based in New York. In this role, Mr. Babbit oversees the Private and Institutional mandates for the Americas.
Prior to his role, Mr. Babbit was a senior member of Portfolio Manager team for Multi-strategy Portfolio (MMP). He was responsible for the Americas and Japan Multi-Strategy Portfolios. Mr. Babbit joins Credit Suisse from the Focus Investment Group where he was a Managing Director and the senior Portfolio Manager for their Multi-Strategies and Customized Solutions Portfolios. Prior to joining Focus in 2005, he spent four years at Deutsche Bank as a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for both multi-strategy funds of hedge funds and research for Event Driven and Short Seller managers. Mr. Babbit has also worked at Banc of America in hedge fund capital introductions, and as a hedge fund analyst at both JP Morgan Chase and Weiss, Peck and Greer. Prior to his career in fund of hedge funds, he was a corporate attorney for Gersten, Savage where he advised on bankruptcy, public offerings and private placements.
Mr. Babbit earned a B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College in 1987, a J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1990. Mr. Babbit also holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Economics from the New York University, Leonard Stern School of Business in 1996.
