Joe Hengener YellowBird Board of Directors

Joe Hegener

Joe is the CIO and founder of Asterozoa Capital Management, an alternatives investment manager and advisor. Asterozoa dedicates itself to differentiated products and strategies that are complementary to traditional portfolio investments. Previously, Joe was CIO of an event-driven hedge fund, where he developed and implemented fund strategy. Joe also worked on a high-discretion fixed income trading desk at PIMCO, in structuring trades for $125bn in assets under management (as of August 2018) across varying strategies, asset classes, and investment guidelines. Before PIMCO, Joe worked in portfolio analytics and advisory for institutional clients at BlackRock, serving as a key point of contact to the CIO and CRO of pension funds, central banks, and insurance companies as well as groups internally. Joe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics.