{"id":28400,"date":"2012-04-11T09:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28400"},"modified":"2012-04-11T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:20:42","slug":"hedge-fund-launch-espial-capital-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2012\/hedge-fund-launch-espial-capital-management.html","title":{"rendered":"Telecom Hedge Fund Launch: Espial Capital Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26939\" title=\"hedge fund launch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) Adam Gold, a former portfolio manager at Gilder Gagnon Howe &amp; Co (GGHC), has launched Espial Capital Management, a Long\/Shorty Equity Hedge Fund focused on identifying innovation and disruption in the global technology, media and telecommunication universe.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy recognizes powerful tailwinds and headwinds that capitalize on tectonic shifts in consumption, distribution, retailing, and computing, across dozens of electronics, services, and digital and physical product categories. The new hedge fund was launched on\u00a0on March 15 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gold is Espial\u2019s Portfolio Manager. While at GGHC, he managed a portfolio of separately managed accounts. Prior to that, he was a research analyst at Coatue Management, which he joined in December 2007, and at EnTrust Capital, where, from 2005 onwards, Adam covered EnTrust\u2019s technology, media and telecommunication investments.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Gold is Alex Schecter, Espial\u2019s COO. Prior to Espial, he was COO at Roaring Brook Capital where he was responsible for the fund\u2019s core operational infrastructure and processes. Prior to Roaring Brook, he worked for ten years at Merrill Lynch\u2019s equity research department.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson <br \/> for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) Adam Gold, a former portfolio manager at Gilder Gagnon Howe &amp; Co (GGHC), has launched Espial Capital Management, a Long\/Shorty Equity Hedge Fund focused on identifying innovation and disruption in the global technology, media and telecommunication universe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28402,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions\/28402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}