Experienced. Discriminating. Principled.

Harvest Fund's team, which includes an expert alternatives Advisory Board, has extensive experience in private equity and hedge fund seeding with special emphasis on identifying and seeding talent in a robust, highly disciplined structure focused on multiple layers of value creation. The team has excellent relationships up and down the industry chain that impact the seeding business, including manager sourcing, institutional funding, legal and exit financing as well as detailed knowledge of historical hedge fund transactions and the players involved.

The founders of Harvest Fund have a long history of entrepreneurship and have started and/or seeded numerous investment firms and strategies, including acquiring majority interest in premier investment firms and building a top hedge fund seeding platform at a previous firm. A proven record of marketing success and well established relationships with institutional and high

net worth gatekeepers and clients inform an experienced approach to help hedge firms grow post incubation.

The team is supported by the staff and resources of Wilshire Associates. Wilshire has extensive manager research capabilities based on 30 years of experience developing capital market assumptions, evaluating risk and constructing diversified portfolios of alpha generating managers. The firm possesses extensive hedge fund expertise in a wide variety of complex strategies and has a deep understanding of derivatives.

Management Team

William B. Moody, CFA

Co-Founder, Chairman and Senior Managing Partner

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Bill is a founding partner of Moody Aldrich & Sullivan which was established in 1988 and later became Moody Aldrich Partners the parent company to Harvest Funds Management. Bill leads the firm's management team and business strategy and oversees the firm's investment activities, including its hedge fund seeding business. Bill is a founding partner of Harvest Funds Management where he is involved in all aspects of Harvest Fund's business strategy. He has seeded several internal strategies and led the joint venture acquisition of the Pierre & Co. All Cap strategy and oversaw its rebranding and $2 billion capital raise. The Pierre & Co. business unit, which was branded Moody Aldrich Focused Value, was sold to Anchor Capital in 2012. Previously, he was co-founder, President and Chief Investment Officer at Dewey Square Investors, a multi-billion dollar diverse strategy firm that was sold to United Asset Management. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Institutional Investment Management at Bank Boston for fourteen years. Bill is a Chartered Financial Analyst and earned a B.S. in Economics from Syracuse University.

Christopher Kelley

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

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Chris is a Founding Partner of Harvest Funds Management, where he develops and executes its business strategy, including: sourcing and vetting seed candidates, structuring deals, cultivating relationships with strategic partners and service providers and raising capital. From 2002-08, he was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Weston Capital Management's hedge fund seeding business, where he incubated over ten firms and grew the platform to $1.2 billion. From 1995-2002, he was a Founder and President of Value Asset Management (VAM), a private equity holding company that took majority interests in premier investment firms. His resume includes the 1998 acquisition of Grosvenor Capital Management, a major fund of hedge funds firm, which was later sold to Hellman & Friedman. From 1990-95, Chris was a General Partner at Olympus, L.P., a $100 million mezzanine/equity private equity fund, co-sponsored by Odyssey Partners. Formerly, he sourced and structured LBOs and other acquisition finance transactions at GE Capital. Chris earned an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth and a B.A. from UMASS Amherst.

Eli Kent, CIMA

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

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Eli is a founding partner of Harvest Funds Management where he develops and executes Harvest Fund's business strategy including vetting manager candidates, structuring investments, cultivating relationships with strategic partners and advising the management teams of Harvest Fund's portfolio companies. Eli joined Harvest Fund's parent company, Moody Aldrich Partners (MAP), in 2002 and assisted in the 2003 joint venture acquisition of the Pierre & Co. All Cap strategy, rebranded as Moody Aldrich Focused Value. As a partner of MAP, Eli led the sales and marketing effort for the Focused Value strategy that resulted in over $2 billion in new assets from consultants, large financial institutions and direct clients. The Focused Value business was sold to Anchor Capital in 2012. Prior to joining MAP, Eli earned an MBA, Magna Cum Laude, from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Finance. Previously, he worked at MFS Investment Management in institutional sales and at Fidelity Investments in institutional client management. He attended The Wharton School for Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania and received the Certified Investment Management Analyst designation and earned a BA in Government and History from St. Lawrence University.

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