Marc Baum

Senior Advisor at Abra

Speaker

Marc Baum is currently a Senior Advisor to Nexo and Levered Capital Advisory Partners. Marc is also the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Aetos Alternatives Management.

Prior to these roles, Marc was a Senior Advisor to Abra and the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer at Pacific Road Capital Management after serving as a Senior Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and fund director at Serengeti Asset Management LP (“Serengeti”) from 2010 to 2020. Before Serengeti, Marc was the General Counsel and a Partner of Offit Capital Advisors and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. From 2005 to 2009, Marc was a Managing Director, the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Ramius LLC (now Cowen Inc.), which followed his role as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Seaport Global (“Seaport”). Seaport was formed from the broker-dealer subsidiary of the IPO Group where Marc served as the CEO, and which published the IPO.com web site. Previously, Marc served as the Chief Legal Officer and Managing Director for compliance at T.D. Securities/The Toronto-Dominion Bank (“T.D.”). Before T.D., Marc practiced capital markets law at J.P. Morgan Securities, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers. Marc began his legal career as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson.

Marc received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, earned his M.Sc. from The London School of Economics and received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.