Investment Team

Ken Minklei is Whitney Peak’s founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. With more than three decades of financial industry experience, Ken works with clients to understand their investment objectives and construct and manage their portfolios. Ken has developed a global perspective and deep network of industry contacts, having served clients in North America, Europe and Asia.

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Ken previously served as Co-CIO and Head of Hedge Fund Investing at SCS Financial. He was co-chair of the firm’s investment committee and directed research and portfolio management for its hedge fund and special situations strategies.

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Prior to SCS, Ken was a Managing Director at Cambridge Associates, where he managed customized alternatives portfolios for institutional investors. He was previously Executive Director and Global Head of US Interest Rate Derivatives at CIBC Oppenheimer. Before that as a Vice President at J.P.Morgan, he was a market-maker and proprietary trader in emerging market sovereign debt and later in interest rate options. 

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Business Management and Operations

Greg Brecht is Whitney Peak’s Investment Operations and Compliance Manager, managing the day-to-day operations of the firm. Greg has over 20 years’ experience across the investment servicing, banking, and investment consulting arenas.  

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Prior to joining Whitney Peak Capital, Greg was responsible for creating, managing, and implementing BNY Mellon’s product strategy for the US Institutional Asset Owner Segment.  Greg spent the majority of his career at Cambridge Associates where he created, built and led a Global Client Operations division which provided implementation, administration, and reporting services to institutional clients with multi-asset class portfolios.  Additionally, Greg was also responsible for researching and monitoring the leading custody bank providers within the US and EMEA.  

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Greg holds an M.B.A. and a B.S., both in Finance, from Fordham University.

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