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Austin Root is the Chief Investment Officer of Stansberry Asset Management (or SAM) and is responsible for the development and management of investment strategies across all SAM portfolios. Prior to joining SAM, Austin was the Director of Research at Stansberry Research and the portfolio manager for the company’s flagship portfolio products, Stansberry Portfolio Solutions.

Austin co-founded and ran North Oak Capital, a New York-based hedge fund that received a strategic investment from Julian Robertson and Tiger Management. He also held senior investment positions at SAC Capital Advisors and D.F. Dent & Company. Austin began his career at the Blackstone Group.

Austin has experience investing across asset classes, including public equities, derivatives, venture capital, private equity, real estate, and fixed-income securities.  He earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia.

Mario is a Portfolio Manager and Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Stansberry Asset Management (SAM). He is responsible for sourcing and monitoring positions across the firm’s strategies, while also serving as a principal spokesperson for the team’s investment philosophy with clients.

Prior to joining SAM, Mario was the Director of Investment Grade Research at Zazove Associates, a multi-billion dollar investment firm specializing in convertible securities management. He was previously a Senior Credit Analyst at Sandelman Partners, a multi-strategy hedge fund focused on fixed income relative-value investing. Mario started his buy-side asset management career with Citadel in 2001, where he was one of the first credit research analysts hired into the Convertible Arbitrage group.

Mario holds a BA from Stanford University where he majored in Economics. He has also completed graduate-level coursework in Statistics & Data Science at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mario earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter in 2011, and currently serves on the Board for the CFA Society of San Francisco.

Vincent is a Trader and Senior Analyst at SAM. His duties include executing trades for SAM portfolios, providing research support to the CIO, and monitoring the market as well as portfolio positions.

Prior to joining SAM, Vincent was a Data Analyst at Sculptor Capital Management (F.K.A. Och-Ziff Capital Management). Vincent began his career as an Asset Servicing Analyst at Goldman Sachs.

He earned a BS in Business Management, concentrating in Finance, from Babson College. He lives and works in New York City.

Jacob is a Senior Investment Analyst at SAM. He is responsible for sourcing investment opportunities through fundamental research and analysis, as well as monitoring existing investments across SAM’s portfolios.

Prior to joining SAM, Jacob was an Analyst at Stansberry Research, primarily specializing in small and mid-cap growth opportunities and contributing to a range of products including Stansberry Venture Value and Stansberry's Investment Advisory. He was previously an Analyst with the Special Situations & Risk Arbitrage group at Berenberg Capital Markets. Jacob holds a BS in Management and a Master of Finance degree, both from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

As a founding member of SAM, Eamonn joined as COO prior to launch and oversees most aspects of SAM’s day-to-day operations including the trading of client portfolios. 

Prior to joining SAM, Eamonn was a head trader for multiple early stage hedge funds, most notably Sabretooth Capital which was an event-driven fund that grew to manage $1 billion in assets. He was responsible for all trading and built the operations to support portfolios that invested in asset classes including equities, derivatives, credit, commodities, and interest rates.

He began his career at Deutsche Bank in the sales and trading operations group on the distressed credit desk and earned a BS in Finance from Boston College.

When not working, Eamonn can be found at home in suburban New York with his wife and two young daughters or on the golf course practicing for an amateur competition.