Philip Reade

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Biography

Mr. Philip Reade is a Co-Founder and serves as Portfolio Manager and Managing Partner at Helm Investment Partners. From 2009-2016 He was Partner, Co-Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of the Investment Team at Tarpon Investimentos, Brazil's largest independent equities manager with over US$ 3 billion in AUM. At Tarpon, he led many of the firm's successful investments across the Materials, Consumer, Healthcare and Energy sectors. He also served on numerous public company boards including Omega Energy (Renewables, Chairman), Cremer (Healthcare, Chairman), Somos (Education, Chairman), Metalúrgica Gerdau (Steel) and Tempo Participações (Services). Prior to Tarpon, he led the Brazilian operations of New York based hedge fund, Marathon Asset Management, focused on equities (private and public) and structured credit. Prior to that, he worked for Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking division in Sao Paulo. He began his investment career at Banco Garantia (founded by Brazilian entrepreneur and 3G founder Jorge Paulo Lemann) where he invested in distresses fixed income through numerous crises across Latam and Asia. He also worked as an Analyst at McKinsey & Co. Philip holds an Economics Degree from the University of Sao Paulo (top ranked in class) and an MBA from Stanford Business School.