Art Vinokur

Managing Director
Head of Credit, Relative Value, and Event Driven Strategies

K2 Advisors

Art Vinokur is a managing director and portfolio manager at K2 Advisors, overseeing the firm's investments in Corporate and Structured Credit, Relative Value, and Event Driven strategies on the Investment Management (IM) team. Most recently Mr. Vinokur served as K2's Head of Global Macro, overseeing the firm's investments in discretionary and systematic macro strategies.

Mr. Vinokur has been with K2 Advisors since October 2004, in that time focusing on a variety of strategies including public and private corporate and structured credit; global macro; equity, activist, and event-driven; fixed income arbitrage, volatility, convertible arbitrage, and other relative value strategies.

Prior to joining K2 Mr. Vinokur interned as a research associate at the University of Maryland Foundation, where he assisted in manager selection and evaluation of the endowment's alternative investment portfolio. In 2003 he worked on a consulting project for K2 Advisors, evaluating the effects of hedge funds' size and age on their performance.

Mr. Vinokur received an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from McDaniel College with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Business Administration. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder.