Ms. Cooley joined Crestline in 1998 and is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of SummitTX Capital, L.P., Crestline’s public markets hedge fund subsidiary. She also serves on Crestline Investors, Inc.’s Management Committee. A veteran in the alternative investment industry, Ms. Cooley has experience as a portfolio manager, risk manager, and trader in equity, fixed income, and derivative markets. Ms. Cooley previously was the Chief Investment Officer of Crestline’s former Fund of Hedge Funds business, overseeing manager selection and portfolio management. From 1986 through 1997, Ms. Cooley was a derivatives trader and risk manager with Taylor and Company, an investment firm associated with the Bass Family of Fort Worth, TX (one of the earliest multi-asset, multi-strategy alternative asset managers). Ms. Cooley began her career in the investment industry at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (later merged into JP Morgan), specializing in futures markets in New York and Chicago after receiving her BA in Economics from The College of William & Mary in 1983. Ms. Cooley serves on the Advisory Board of Texas Wall Street Women and formerly served on the Texas Employee Retirement System Investment Advisory Committee.
SummitTX Capital Background
Founded in 2015, SummitTX Capital is an open architecture multi-manager, multi-strategy hedge fund manager. Summit manages approximately $3 billion across three investment solutions harnessing the same investment process and portfolio. Each solution has a unique risk/reward profile. SummitTX currently utilizes 1) Fundamental, 2) Tactical, 3) Quantitative, and 4) Capital Markets investment strategies.
