Anthony Zanolla, CFA serves in an advisory capacity to Strom Capital Management LLC and brings with him over three decades of experience across a wide range of roles within the asset management industry. Given his expertise in risk management, asset allocation, as well as business operations, we believe Mr. Zanolla is well suited to assist with the growth and maturation of our firm.

Anthony Zanolla, CFA previously worked at K2 Advisors, a hedge fund of funds subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments. He was most recently the Co-Head of Institutional Portfolio Management and a member of the Investment Committee. Anthony began his investment career in 1994 at Bankers Trust where he worked on the Business Risk team, executing risk management and business process reengineering projects for senior management and the board of directors. Mr. Zanolla joined Citibank in 1996 as a portfolio manager, managing global equity and balanced investment mandates for institutions, non-profit entities, and ultra-high net worth individuals. In 2000, he was recruited to join Scudder Kemper Investments as a Vice President in the Venture Capital unit, working on the development of a private client asset management and advisory platform. In 2001, Mr. Zanolla left Scudder to join former Citibank colleagues as a Founding partner and Equity Analyst at Norquest Capital, a Global Equity L/S hedge fund, where he was responsible for investments in the TMT, Industrials, Transporation, and Services sectors.

He joined Allianz Hedge Fund Partners in 2002 where he was a member of the investment committee and strategy head of global long/short equity, event driven, distressed and commodity trading advisors. He was also responsible for top-down analysis and development of the firm’s global equity outlook. Mr. Zanolla left Alliance in October 2005 to join Northern Trust as Co-Portfolio Manager of the Hedge Fund Group. In 2007, he was promoted to SVP and Portfolio Manager, responsible for manager identification, research and selection, monitoring, and was lead portfolio manager on all fund of funds and custom portfolios.

Mr. Zanolla graduated from Bernard M Baruch College in January 1994 with a B.B.A. in Accounting. He earned the CFA designation in 1999 and holds a NFA Series 3 license.