2026 North American Stakeholder Forum

Jane Buchan

SBAI Chair; CEO, Martlet Asset Management

Jane is Chief Executive Officer of Martlet Asset Management responsible for firm strategy, organization and performance. Martlet is based in Newport Beach, CA and was founded in July 2018. The firm’s strategies include alternative risk premia and developing liquid strategies with a focus on fixed income.

Prior to this, Ms. Buchan co-founded and led Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), a Fund of Hedge Funds focused on institutional investors for 18 years. Under her leadership first as CEO of PAAMCO and then co-CEO of PAAMCO Prisma, the firm grew to $32 billion AUM placing it third globally in the league tables by the time of her retirement in July 2018 (HFM InvestHedge Billion Dollar Club).

Jane began her career at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in the Capital Markets Group where she was trained in quantitative fixed income portfolio management. She has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She recently served as chairwoman of the board for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Jane holds both a PhD and an MA in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. She earned a BA in Economics from Yale University. Jane has thirty-three years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Keith Kellogg

Advisory Board Member at BGR Group; Former Assistant to the President & Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine

Lieutenant General Joseph “Keith” Kellogg, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a highly decorated Army General who served as an Assistant to the President and Senior National Security Advisor to President Trump during his first term as well as National Security Advisor to Vice President Pence and until December 2025 as Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine during his second term.

General Kellogg’s career spans combat operations, senior White House leadership, and executive roles in the defense and international business sectors. A longtime national-security advisor to President Trump, he most recently served as Assistant to the President and Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine, appointed in November 2024.

During President Trump’s first term, Gen. Kellogg served as Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, Acting National Security Advisor in 2017, National Security Advisor the Vice President and senior foreign-policy advisor to the 2016 presidential campaign. His White House service built upon a long military career marked by operational command, strategic leadership, and technical expertise.

Kellogg served two combat tours in Vietnam. Over a 36-year military career, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and held critical positions including Commander, 82nd Airborne Division and J-6, Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) for U.S. forces under the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, and multiple Bronze Stars.

In the private sector, he served on the board of GTSI, held senior roles at Oracle Corporation—including a period on leave during which he served as Chief Operations Officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq—and received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for his contributions to Iraq’s post-war stabilization. He later served as Executive Vice President for Mission Systems at CACI International and held several senior positions at Cubic Defense Applications.

Samantha DeZur

Head of Public Policy, Millennium Management

Samantha DeZur serves as Head of Public Policy for Millennium Management. In this capacity, she plays a leading role in developing and coordinating the firm’s policymaker and political engagement, advocacy efforts, and trade association participation.

Previously, Samantha served in various leadership roles at BlackRock in the US Government Affairs and Public Policy group, including most recently as Managing Director and Head of Regulatory Affairs & Capital Markets Policy. At BlackRock, she focused on a variety of policy issues, including issues related to financial stability, CCP resilience, derivatives, equity market structure, fixed income market structure, digital assets and ‘40 Act funds.

Prior to BlackRock, Samantha served as the Executive Director of the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she led advocacy efforts on regulatory and legislative issues regarding market structure, asset management and cross-border capital markets issues. Before joining the Chamber, Samantha worked in government relations at the CME Group in Chicago, where she covered policy issues impacting the derivatives market at the state, federal and international levels. Prior to CME Group, Samantha worked at various trade associations in Washington, DC advocating on fixed income and structured finance policy issues.

Samantha holds a Master's degree from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jens Foehrenbach

President & Chief Investment Officer, Graham Capital Management

Jens Foehrenbach, CFA, is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Graham Capital Management, L.P. (“Graham”), an alternative investment manager with approximately $22.2B AUM as of May 1, 2026. Mr. Foehrenbach oversees and supervises Graham’s discretionary and systematic portfolio manager teams, trading, and research. Mr. Foehrenbach is also a member of the firm’s Executive, Investment, and Risk committees.

Prior to joining Graham, he worked at Man Group from September 2008 to February 2025, most recently as Head of Public Markets within Discretionary Investments at Man Group. Mr. Foehrenbach has served in several capacities for the Man Group during his tenure at the firm, including Chief Investment Officer of Man Solutions and Chief Investment Officer of Man FRM. Prior to joining Man Group, Mr. Foehrenbach worked at Harcourt Investment Consulting AG as Senior Analyst and Head of Relative Value. Prior to Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, he was employed by UBS AG, where he worked on the bank’s fixed income derivatives trading desk in Switzerland and London.

Jens Foehrenbach received a Master’s degree in Business Economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2001.

Shikha Gupta

SBAI Trustee; Executive Director, Alternatives, Future Fund

Shikha Gupta is the Executive Director, Alternatives, at the Future Fund, where she brings over a decade of experience in investment management. In her current role, she oversees the fund’s diverse alternative investment strategies and previously focussed on the portfolio’s Credit exposures.

Shikha serves as a member of the Investment Committee and the Manager Review Committee. Before joining the Future Fund, Shikha was a Principal at Partners Capital in London, where she led public equities research and provided strategic investment advice to institutional and high-net-worth clients. Her career began at the Boston Consulting Group, where she gained extensive experience in management consulting, delivering impactful solutions across various industries.

Shikha holds a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours in Actuarial Studies (Dean’s List) from the University of Melbourne and an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD. She is also a member of SBAI’s Oceania Committee.

Steve Secundo

Senior Portfolio Strategist, Bridgewater Associates

Steve joined Bridgewater in 2008 and is a Senior Portfolio Strategist in Bridgewater’s Alpha Engine, working closely with Bridgewater's Co-CIOs and partnering directly with some of the world’s most sophisticated pools of capital on their most complex, high-impact investment priorities.

Previously, he was a Senior Investor in Bridgewater’s Global Currencies group, developing insights across developed and emerging markets. He brings deep expertise across global macroeconomics, portfolio structuring, and asset-class research—including currencies, interest rates, commodities, and equities. He is also a contributor and editor for Bridgewater's Daily Observations. In 2025, he was recognized by Institutional Investor as a "Rising Star" in the hedge fund industry.

Steve received a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Wesleyan University and an M.S. in Quantitative Finance from Fordham University.

Mario Therrien

SBAI Trustee; Head of Investment Funds and External Management, La Caisse

Mario Therrien leads CDPQ’s investment funds activities. The teams he oversees invest in private investment funds and credit in private markets, as well as in venture capital in Québec and internationally. They are also responsible for external management in equity markets, as well as developing and managing strategic and institutional relationships. His mandate consists of adding value by building portfolios with the best external managers, while improving in-house management through the sharing of knowledge and expertise. He sits on the Investment-Risk Committee.

Prior to this role, Mr. Therrien was Senior Vice-President and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Developed Markets. He joined CDPQ in 1993 as an Analyst before taking on the role of Portfolio Manager in the group responsible for absolute return activities. Subsequently, he was mandated to develop external management activities in liquid-asset classes.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Finance from Université de Sherbrooke. He has also completed the Canadian Securities Course given by the Canadian Securities Institute, and is a CFA charter holder.

Stuart Fiertz

SBAI Trustee; Co-Founder, President and Director of Research, Cheyne Capital Management

Stuart Fiertz is the Co-Founder, President and Director of Research of Cheyne Capital. From 1991 to June 2000, and prior to establishing Cheyne Capital, Stuart worked for Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for the development and implementation of customised portfolio strategies and for credit research in the convertible bond management practice.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Stuart was an equity research analyst for the Value Line Investment Survey, and a high yield credit analyst in Boston at Merrill Lynch and in New York at Lehman Brothers. Stuart is a CFA® charterholder and a CAIA designee. He is chairman of the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) and a Founder & Trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI). From 2014 until 2020, Stuart was also a council director of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) board.

Stuart has been awarded the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing. Stuart was educated at the International School of Geneva and at Dartmouth College where he was awarded a BA degree in Political Science and Economics.