SEASPIRE ADVISORS, LLC
PRINCIPALS OF SEASPIRE ADVISORS
Jafer Hasnain // Gene Krinn // Mark Nichols
Jafer Hasnain
Mr. Hasnain's primary focus is renewable energy, grid infrastructure, dedicated power for mission critical infrastructure and related energy services. This includes over the past 15 years the deployment of utility-scale power plants and distributed power generation in solar, wind, storage, micro-hydro, and biomass energy as well as related technologies.
Mr. Hasnain has over 25 years experience as an institutional portfolio manager, analyst and strategist at various companies including AllianceBernstein, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs with direct responsibility for the performance of multi-billion dollar portfolios of large institutions such as sovereign wealth funds, public and private pension funds, mutual funds and alternative investment vehicles. At AllianceBernstein, his group of portfolio managers collectively managed over $40 billion in investments for multiple decades.
Mr. Hasnain has successfully managed real and financial assets globally across multiple strategies ... More>>
Gene Krinn, CFA
Mr. Krinn has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry, during which time he founded and led as Managing Director (for nearly 12 years) a 14-person single family office that served the various needs of a 32- member Chicago-based family spanning three generations.
Under Mr. Krinn’s leadership as CIO and COO, the family office team was responsible for structuring managing a multi-billion dollar portfolio with a wide range of investments including private equity, hedge funds, separate accounts, and cash management, and worked directly on seven major multi-million dollar construction projects ... More>>
Mark Nichols
Mr. Nichols has an extensive background in European affairs, energy, infrastructure, commodities, emerging markets and national security. During the Clinton Administration, Mr. Nichols was Senior Advisor at the State Department in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Europe. Nowadays, he is President of Seven Summits, LLC, a strategic advisory firm in Washington DC. He also serves as a Principal at SeaSpire Advisors. During the Clinton Administration, Mr. Nichols was Senior Advisor at the State Department in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Europe. He worked on the NATO 50th Anniversary Summit, the Sarajevo Summit and the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe ... More>>