Yusef Kassim

Yusef Kassim is a senior member of the Investor Relations group at Eton Park Capital Management, a $13 billion multi-disciplinary investment firm.  He shares responsibility for the global marketing and client service aspects of the fund.  Prior to joining Eton Park, he was a Partner and Head of Marketing & Investor Relations for R6 Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund with a focus on corporate and asset-based investing. Prior to joining R6 Capital, Mr. Kassim served in various capacities at Gerson Lehrman Group (“GLG”) from 2001-2007, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in the Sales Division, where, he developed and managed the firm’s relationships with hedge funds, proprietary trading desks, private equity firms, mutual funds and investment banks.

Prior to his role in the Sales Division, Mr. Kassim served as co-head of the Technology, Media & Telecom research practice, where, from 2001-2004, he broadened the firm’s research coverage to encompass all publicly traded technology, telecom and media companies throughout the US, Europe and Asia. Throughout his tenure there, Mr. Kassim played an instrumental role in growing GLG's client base to include over 400 of the leading buyside investment institutions. Prior to joining GLG in 2001, Mr. Kassim worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Prime Brokerage Sales Group, specializing in Merger- and Convertible Arbitrage-focused hedge funds. Mr. Kassim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering and a minor in Mathematics from the College of Arts and Sciences.