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The New York-based hedge fund founder aims to take High Water Women to the next level.
By Vyvyan Tenorio
Queen Anne's Gate founder Kathleen Kelley
Commodities specialist Kathleen Kelley's path to the High Water Women Foundation, a volunteer organization in New York, seemed preordained by a series of events. Kelley had been an economic researcher at the New York Federal Reserve Bank for three years after college, aspiring to be an academic, when hedge fund magnate Paul Tudor Jones II hired her to work at Tudor Investment Corp. in 1990.
"I didn't know what a hedge fund was," admits the forty-something executive.
It wasn't long before a career managing macro portfolios took off -- first at Tudor, where Kelley worked for about a decade, then at Vantis Capital Management and at Kingdon Capital Management; she served as Kingdon's global macro portfolio manager for six years. Kelley went on her own in 2012,...