Key Personnel

Key Personnel

  • KURT J. NELSON

    Kurt manages investor relations for SummerHaven. He previously ran the commodity index business for UBS and led the successful effort to acquire and integrate AIG’s commodity index business. Prior to joining UBS, Kurt structured commodity index and equity derivative solutions for clients of AIG Financial Products.

  • K. GEERT ROUWENHORST, PH.D.

    Geert leads our research effort and has developed the pioneering research and theories that underpin SummerHaven’s investment strategy. He is known worldwide for his research on commodity futures returns, and is co-author of Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures (2004) and The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns (2007).

    He is the Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor of Corporate Finance & Deputy Director of the International Center for Finance at Yale University.