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Management

Peter Levant, Principal

Levant Capital Management LLC’s Principal is Peter Levant, a Chicago native with 17 years of professional experience in trading and investment research. From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Levant executed client trades totaling more than $50 billion in cash, with a leveraged value of many times that amount.

In 1991, Mr. Levant earned his Series 7 and 63 licenses and began his career with Dean Witter Reynolds in Chicago. In 1993, he moved to Morgan Stanley where he executed trades in many different markets. In 1995, Mr. Levant joined Optima Investment Research, at that time the world’s largest independent futures research firm. While at Optima, he opened the account for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 1997, Mr. Levant managed a futures trading desk at Braymore Oak Brokerage Services, a guaranteed introducing broker for First American Discount which was later acquired by MAN Financial in Chicago.

In 1998, he founded Northern Advisors, his first independent investment research firm covering commodity futures markets. In 2007, he founded Levant Capital Management, a research and investment management firm.

Peter Levant holds a Masters of Business Administration degree, Summa Cum Laude, with honors from EDHEC Business School in France. He attended Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies, and majored in Economics. He has attended the Commodities Institute at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Professional Traders Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Mr. Levant holds a Commodity Trading Advisor designation and has held a Registered Investment Advisor designation. He has worked with handicapped children at the North Suburban Special Recreation Association in Northbrook, Illinois. Mr. Levant is a member of the Market Technicians Association, the Technical Securities Analysts Association and the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Mr. Levant also believes in bottom up research. While performing fundamental economic analysis, he traveled to more than 35 countries on four continents.