NEW! Early Start Time for EXTRA connecting opportunities.
Feel free to arrive as early as 11:00 am.
Be ready to interact with our featured speaker, Tom Rutledge, and your fellow participants.
Eat. Mingle. Make new friends.
In this TIGER Talk, Tom Rutledge – a 30-year veteran of the institutional debt markets on Wall Street and active advisor/investor to start-ups – will discuss the value of using decision-making tactics borrowed from the financial markets. He will cover:
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The mindset and thought processes that result from years of analyzing and structuring investment products (a.k.a. “Finance City.”)
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A handful of basic tactics that can be applied to a wide range of decision-making challenges, including some problems far beyond the city limits of the investment world
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Examples of how to financialize career decisions, household decisions, business decisions outside of finance, and how financialization can spur innovation in a host of other industries.
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Trends in financial deal-making that are emerging from today’s headlines, such as opinion polling, digital currencies, increasing energy demand, retirement savings, and multiple applications of AI.
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Tom Rutledge‘s Wall Street career spans thirty years of debt markets roles at Merrill Lynch, Deutschebank, and JP Morgan, as well private credit fund management at Magnetar Capital and his current position on the Executive Committee at Jade Mountain Partners. He has also been an active angel investor, with a portfolio of investments that includes two Columbus-based companies: HonestJobs and Aunt Flow.
At Magnetar, Tom authored a whitepaper examining how the interaction between start-ups and the private credit industry has become an engine for innovation: Assets as a Service: Credit Investors and the Tech Economy.
Tom grew up in Clintonville, graduated from Whetstone High School, earned his BA at Amherst College and his MBA at MIT. He was also board chair of charity evaluator GiveWell.org from its early years in 2008. Finally, he was a one-day champion on the TV show Jeopardy!.
Tom currently lives in Boston, but frequently returns home to visit Columbus.
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Like all TIGER Events, this talk is FREE.
Timeline:
11:00 am – Coffee, Snacks, & Socializing.
11:30 am – Lunch & More Socializing
11:50 am – Introduce yourself to our crowd (your “15 Seconds of Fame”)
12:05 pm – Hand-off to Tom
1:00 pm – Wrap & Resume Socializing
