About Us Board Member - Norman Hall
Norman Hall
Chief Executive Officer of Hall International Partners LLC, brings extensive experience in operational and organizational management, having successfully launched and operated three international financial services companies as their CEO and President. In 1990, he established Hall International Partners BV in The Netherlands, founding the first low cost peer-to-peer platform to execute securities trades globally. In 1995, Norman set up Hall International Advisors Far East in Hong Kong, an SFC registered investment advisory firm. Hall led delegations of pension fund trustees, state treasurers, consultants and fund management firms to Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore and other Far East destinations. Hall co-sponsored the California Pacific Rim Investment Summit in January of 1997 with Mansion House Securities and the State Treasurer of California's Office, He introduced Pension fund trustees and State Treasurer's representing over one trillion in assets under management to the region. Seminars and workshops were held in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore with business leaders, politicians and industry experts. Hall has served as strategic consultant for State Street Global Advisors, one of the world's largest fund management organizations to provide market, industry and political intelligence worldwide. He also piloted a successful start-up company, the Dutch pension-consulting group Hall/CEM with Canadian pension fund consultant Keith Ambachsheer of Cost Effective Measurement / KPA. Within a year, Hall/ CEM contributed to the doubling of CEM/KPA's assets under advisory from $1 trillion to $2 trillion in assets.
In 2005, Norman co-founded and built AlderTree Capital Partners, a hedge fund using credit default swaps to short the sub-prime mortgage asset class. Anticipating the impending shake up of the asset-backed credit and structured finance markets, he sold his interest and the intellectual property to Blue Mountain Capital Management in May 2007.
Norman has proven ability in managing the corporate development process and growth cycles with a core competence in identifying and cultivating strategic relationships that enhance profitability. He has prior experience as a senior investment banker with Drexel Burnham Lambert (Amsterdam), Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. and Kidder Peabody (USA)
