Sameer Jain

Sameer Jain is founder of ActiveAllocator Activist Capital Advisors, an investment firm bringing private equity and hedge fund convergence around activist events. His 25-year career includes investment banking, asset management, alternative investments, and entrepreneurial fintech. He has provided critical advice, formulated white papers and analysis for activist sponsors, as well as provided defense feedback to target public companies. His banking experience includes shareholder advisory, shareholder activism and raid defense, contested and hostile M&A. As a portfolio manager he devised and implemented trading strategies which harvested volatility and excess abnormal returns surrounding activists’ actions. He is fluent with issues, activity and case studies arising from exerting shareholder rights to influence board-level corporate governance, executive compensation, reforming business strategy, optimizing capital structure, improving financials, spin-offs & divestiture, as well as rationale for supporting/ blocking M&A. He also created and operated fintech ActiveAllocator.com, the world’s first system that seamlessly integrates traditional, illiquid, and alternative investments within portfolios.

Prior, he was Managing Director across six AR Capital publicly listed companies (NYSE and NASDAQ) and brokerage firm RCS Capital Corporation (NYSE: RCAP). Before that he headed Investment Content & Strategy, as well as all illiquid investing at UBS Alternative Investments (NYSE: UBS) in New York. Preceding this he was at Citigroup (NYSE: C) within the ICG and Alternative Investments groups in New York. His early career was at Cambridge Alternative Investments and SunGard System Access (formerly NYSE: SDS) in Dubai and New York.

He has written ~30 Wall Street research reports and academic papers, book chapters on investments, presented at over hundred industry conferences, visited ~80 countries for business and has coauthored an investments book, Active Equity Management.

Mr. Jain has graduate degrees in engineering, business administration, public administration and is an alum of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He was also a resident Fellow of Public Policy & Management at Harvard Kennedy School for a year. Series 7/66 securities licenses.