Todd Wood
Managing Director
todd@wazeestreetcapital.com
Todd is a Managing Director on the investment team at Wazee Street. Todd sources new investment opportunities, conducts investment due diligence, hedges investments and actively manages the portfolio to maximize value.
Prior to joining Wazee Street, Todd worked at numerous blue chip special situations investment firms. Todd began his career as an investment analyst at Bridgewater Associates. Subsequently, Todd joined The Blackstone Group’s special situations co-investment group. Todd was the first analyst hire in this newly formed group in 2007 and was responsible for conducting due diligence on investments introduced to The Blackstone Group by third-party hedge funds and private equity firms. Todd then joined Aurelius Capital Management, a distressed debt investment firm as a trader and research analyst. At Aurelius, Todd was focused on idea generation and trade modeling, and worked on a diverse set of asset classes including fixed income, equities, credit default swaps, and option strategies. In addition, he developed a set of robust scenario models that were used to quantify and hedge overall portfolio and position level risk exposures. Subsequently, Todd moved to Denver to join Independence Capital Asset Partners, a long-short hedge fund manager, as an equity analyst where he covered the technology sector.
Todd graduated from Dartmouth Cum Laude with a degree in economics and a focus in engineering. Todd was Captain of the Dartmouth squash team and the seventh ranked American in the country.