Hilary Kramer is an investment specialist and market strategist with more than 20 years of experience in equity research, asset allocation, risk management, trading, and portfolio management. She is currently the President and Chief Investment Officer of A&G Capital Research and Senior Advisor to Aravaipa LLC, a cleantech private equity and venture capital fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

Hilary Kramer appears weekly on PBS’s Nightly Business Report as the “Street Critique” host. She can also be seen on ABC, CNN and Bloomberg where she commentates on the equities and debt markets as well as the global economy. She is the author of “Ahead of the Curve” (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and was a founding board member serving on the Wall Street Journal Women in Business Board.

Ms. Kramer has testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and is often asked to lecture to trustees, boards and corporate investment professionals on investment allocation and risk management.

Ms. Kramer received her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and a BA with honors from Wellesley College in 1986.
From 1986 to 1989, Ms Kramer was an analyst at Morgan Stanley covering industrials, natural resources and energy companies. After completing her Wharton MBA program in 1991, Ms. Kramer worked at Lehman Brothers in the structured finance division specializing in mortgage-backed securitization. She also worked on equities and debt financings and M&A transactions in investment banking.

From 1994 to 2003, she was senior managing director of a family office with over $5.6 billion fund of private equity and publicly-traded securities. During her tenure, Ms. Kramer held the title of co-vice chairman of the $500 million Ibero-American Partners Fund (1997 to 2003), an investment vehicle which was also jointly owned by Hicks Muse Tate & Furst.
From 2003 to 2005, Ms. Kramer was a consultant to financial institutions. This included her role as senior strategist at Montgomery Asset Management (assets under management of $2.4 billion) and Montgomery Partners (the hedge fund division).

During this time she also worked at Freddie Mac providing consulting services regarding their retained portfolio and public affairs lending programs.

In 2005, Ms. Kramer founded GreenTech Research LLC, an equity long short global fund specializing in alternative energy, clean technologies, agriculture and environmental products and services.

She served as a Trustee of the Hewitt School (1998 to 2005) and held directorships in the following NYSE and NASDAQ traded companies: RSL Communications Ltd, Deltathree, El Sitio, Inc., and Claxson Interactive Group.

Ms. Kramer currently resides in New York City with her family.

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