Steven Solmonson - President
Mr. Solmonson served as a non-executive advisory director of Park Place from 1994 to 1999. In Jan. 2000, he joined the firm and is responsible the firm’s business operations, including risk management and portfolio reporting, client services, business development and operations. Previously, he was the President of Value Investing Partners Inc. (1995-1999) and earlier, he was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, Smith Barney and Drexel Burnham Lambert. As co-director of the futures and derivatives division at Drexel, Mr. Solmonson was responsible for risk management, business development, international sales and trading and fund products. He served as a director of DBL’s Winchester Fund of Funds as well as DBL in-house Hedge Fund Advisory Corp. At Lehman, he managed the international branch offices, where he launched the Global Advisory Fund of Fund, and subsequently, served as a director of the Edgehill Select Umbrella Fund. He received a BA from Columbia College in New York and completed a postgraduate program at the London School of Economics. He received a JD from Brooklyn Law School and was admitted to the Bar of New York in 1980.