Mr. Lawrence is responsible for all operational and investment activities of the company and directs the company’s strategic initiatives. Immediately prior to founding Rosebrook in 2009, Mr. Lawrence was a partner at Pantera Capital Management and co-portfolio manager of the PCM Global Macro Fund. Mr. Lawrence has a long history of entrepreneurial financial activities and was the founder and CEO of Longitude, Inc. Longitude partnered with Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and other leading investment firms in pioneering markets for innovative derivatives. Mr. Lawrence completed a sale of Longitude to the International Securities Exchange in 2005. Prior to Longitude, Mr. Lawrence ran his own hedge fund as well as held a variety of market making positions on Wall Street in mortgage-backed securities and structured credit at Bankers Trust, Greenwich Capital, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Lawrence worked as a Certified Public Accountant at Price Waterhouse, with a specialty in the funds management business. He holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School and an M.S. in Management from MIT's Sloan School.

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Mr. Huber serves as both Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Rosebrook and has primary responsibility for Rosebrook internal operations, financial management, regulatory compliance, and relevant fund settlement and back-office oversight. Mr. Huber has extensive financial industry experience, including serving as Managing Director at Capstone Investments and Senior Vice-President at Longitude, Inc., a financial derivative technology firm that was sold to the International Securities Exchange in 2005. Mr. Huber began his career at PaineWebber, Inc. as a proprietary trader in equity derivatives. After transferring to London to manage the firm's over-the-counter options business, Mr. Huber later joined Smith New Court Plc. as a proprietary trader in European and African equities, and subsequently co-founded and managed a hedge fund for Standard Bank London Plc. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Colby College and an M.S. in Management from MIT's Sloan School.

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Mr. August is responsible for coordinating the company’s due diligence and valuation initiatives, with primary responsibility for establishment and execution of investment selection criteria. Mr. August joined Rosebrook in 2017; prior to his tenure at Rosebrook, Mr. August was a member of the investment team at Tradex Global Advisory Services – a securitized products hedge fund. Prior to Tradex, Mr. August was a Vice President on the Securitized Products Investment Team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”). While at MSIM, Mr. August specialized in credit sensitive and complex securities and held responsibilities including the due diligence, trading and portfolio management of both traditional and opportunistic client investment vehicles. He holds a B.S. in economics and biochemistry from Georgetown University.

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Mr. Gardner has had a long and distinguished career as a global macro strategist and hedge fund manager, most recently at UBS Securities in the Americas. Mr. Gardner was a founding member of Rubicon Capital Management, a global macro investment advisor based in New York, and a partner at North Asset Management a UK-based macro hedge fund manager where he was responsible for top down global macro strategy.

Mr. Gardner’s analysis and insights are framework-based isolating secular, cyclical and policy forces and impacts affecting global economies, markets and capital flows.

Mr. Gardner holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

James Shinn is CEO of Predata, a predictive analytics firm, Chairman of Teneo Intelligence, a business intelligence advisory firm, and a lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Jim worked as a general manager and then entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, first at Advanced Micro Devices, a Sunnyvale, California-based integrated circuit producer, and then at Dialogic, a Parsippany, New Jersey-based software firm, which he co-founded. Dialogic did an IPO in 1992. In the public sector, after posts in the U.S. Department of State, he served as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the Central Intelligence Agency. He became Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia at the Pentagon from 2006 – 2008, where his area of policy responsibility ranged from Herat to Honolulu and included, notably, the War in Afghanistan.

Jim currently serves on the advisory boards of CQS, a London-based hedge fund and Kenshō Financial, a Cambridge-based data analytics firm. He has a BA from Princeton, MBA from Harvard, and a PhD from Princeton.

Ethan Penner is a founder of Mosaic Real Estate Investors and its Managing Partner. He is a recognized pioneer in the fields of real estate and finance and is credited with being the primary driver in the creation of the Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities market for which he received broad recognition including being named one of the U.S. Real Estate Industry’s 100 icons of the 20th century. In 2011, Real Estate Forum voted him one of the Real Estate Industry’s 65 living legends in their 65th anniversary issue.

In 2008, Mr. Penner founded and served as President of CBRE Capital Partners, a real estate debt investment platform which successfully raised and managed over $600 million from institutional and high net worth investors.  CBRE Capital Partners exited all of its investments in 2014 and the beginning of 2015.

Mr. Penner is also an adjunct professor at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, and has been published in Wall Street Journal, the Wharton Real Estate Review and the Institutional Real Estate Investor.

Terry Marsh is the CEO and co-founder of Quantal International, an investment solutions provider specializing in advanced portfolio analytics and solutions to meet the needs of the investment management industry. Quantal maintains close ties with Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley amongst other world-renowned academic institutions. Dr. Marsh formerly served on the finance faculty at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and is presently Emeritus Professor of Finance at Haas.

Prior to joining Berkeley, Dr. Marsh was an Associate Professor of Finance at MIT. He is a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship and was a National Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He has consulted for the New York Stock Exchange, the Options Clearing Corporation, the Industrial Bank of Japan, New Japan Securities, and Banamex, and was a member of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms which investigated the 1987 stock market crash. Dr. Marsh was a Yamaichi Fellow and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo in 1993. Dr. Marsh received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He is an Associate Editor of the Institutional Investor Journal of Fixed Income and the Journal of Investing, and a member of the Advisory Board for Studies in Economics and Finance.