Ronald Albert Santella

Mr. Ronald A.
Santella is a Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer at Teramo Advisors LLC.
He has over 30 years of experience trading derivatives, managing hedge fund strategies, and building an institutional brokerage business.
He started his career in 1985 at O’Connor and Associates in Chicago as a Listed Options Trader.
Following a one year stint at O’Connor, Mr. Santella joined Grace Brothers as the Head Trader and Portfolio Manager for arbitrage strategies.
In 1990, he founded and managed a hedge fund primarily focused on convertible bond and volatility arbitrage strategies.
He established a family office in 2005 to invest his own capital, along with a limited number of partners’ capital, in alternative investment strategies.
In 2008, Mr. Santella took the helm as Chief Executive Officer of Fox River Execution, an institutional brokerage firm, based in Geneva, Illinois.
Since leaving SunGard in 2011, he has consulted with Woori Bank of Korea, SkyBridge Capital and ED&F Man Capital Markets to provide solutions and create products in alternatives, mutual funds and execution services for UIT sponsors.
Mr. Santella received his Bachelor of Science in Economics, Finance and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.