Hudson Bay Capital Management CEO and leadership

Sander Gerber is a Managing Partner and Hudson Bay's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He also functions as a Portfolio Manager who opportunistically invests in special situations in addition to monitoring and hedging tail risks. Mr. Gerber has more than 25 years of investing experience in multiple securities classes and derivatives across a broad range of strategies.

In 1991, he became a member of the American Stock Exchange, acting as an options market maker. In 1997, he founded Gerber Asset Management LLC (“GAM”) to develop and engage in proprietary investment strategies, many of which are utilized by Hudson Bay today. In 2005, assisted by key employees of GAM, Mr. Gerber founded Hudson Bay, which absorbed GAM’s business and 15 employees.

Prior to becoming a member of the American Stock Exchange, Mr. Gerber was an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company, a leading strategic management consulting firm, where he assisted the senior management of multinational corporations to identify and implement corporate growth opportunities.

Mr. Gerber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Economic Club of New York as well as a fellow and board member of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Mr. Gerber was formerly both the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the endowment investment committee of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, a public policy research center within the Smithsonian Institution.

Mr. Gerber graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, with a BSE in Finance from Wharton and a BA in Humanistic Philosophy from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Sargen is a Partner and the Chief Risk Officer at Hudson Bay Capital Management LP responsible for supporting Sander Gerber, Chief Investment Officer, in overseeing the risk management function across the portfolio. Prior to joining Hudson Bay, Mr. Sargen was a Director in the Quantitative Trading Group at Aristeia Capital, LLC, a convertible arbitrage, distressed debt, special situation/event-driven hedge fund manager. At Aristeia, Mr. Sargen was involved in all aspects of risk management, from risk identification and systems development to hedge selection and trading. His experience includes valuing and evaluating a variety of investment products covering most major asset classes, such as convertibles, bank capital, equity options, corporate bonds and preferreds, sovereign debt, CDS, interest rate swaps and futures, and FX forwards and futures.

Mr. Sargen received his BA in Economics with a Minor in Mathematics from Stanford University.

Charlie Winkler is a Managing Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of the Investment Manager. As Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for the management of the Investment Manager’s business functions, overseeing the firm’s administration, back office (accounting, operations and tax), compliance, human resources, legal, technology and treasury functions. Prior to joining the Investment Manager in 2007, Mr. Winkler was the Chief Operating Officer and a Senior Managing Director of Amaranth Group, Inc. from 2001 until 2006, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of that firm other than investments and risk management. From 1996 until 2001, Mr. Winkler was a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Citadel Investment Group L.L.C. and was a member of Citadel’s Management Committee, the Chairman of its Operations Committee and a director of various Citadel entities. Prior to joining Citadel in 1996, he was a Partner at the Chicago law firm of Neal Gerber & Eisenberg, where he concentrated his practice on tax and corporate counselling to investment advisers and private investment firms. Mr. Winkler graduated with Highest Distinction from Emory University with a BBA in Accounting and he received a JD degree from Northwestern University School of Law where he was the Managing Editor of the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business.

Sander Gerber is a Managing Partner and Hudson Bay's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He also functions as a Portfolio Manager who opportunistically invests in special situations in addition to monitoring and hedging tail risks. Mr. Gerber has more than 25 years of investing experience in multiple securities classes and derivatives across a broad range of strategies.

In 1991, he became a member of the American Stock Exchange, acting as an options market maker. In 1997, he founded Gerber Asset Management LLC (“GAM”) to develop and engage in proprietary investment strategies, many of which are utilized by Hudson Bay today. In 2005, assisted by key employees of GAM, Mr. Gerber founded Hudson Bay, which absorbed GAM’s business and 15 employees.

Prior to becoming a member of the American Stock Exchange, Mr. Gerber was an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company, a leading strategic management consulting firm, where he assisted the senior management of multinational corporations to identify and implement corporate growth opportunities.

Mr. Gerber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Economic Club of New York as well as a fellow and board member of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Mr. Gerber was formerly both the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the endowment investment committee of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, a public policy research center within the Smithsonian Institution.

Mr. Gerber graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, with a BSE in Finance from Wharton and a BA in Humanistic Philosophy from the College of Arts and Sciences.