Mr. Tepper is co-founder and a Managing Partner of Angeleno Group. In addition to his firm management responsibilities, Mr. Tepper leads investments and serves on boards of multiple AG portfolio companies. Prior to the formation of AG in 2001, Mr. Tepper managed $2 billion in private and public equities and structured securities on behalf of institutional and mutual fund clients while at Aetna (now ING Investment Management). Under Mr. Tepper’s management, his funds grew from $150 million to $2 billion, consistently outperformed the funds’ benchmarks, and ranked in the top tier of their competitive universe. Earlier in his career, Mr. Tepper held various engineering R&D positions at Bechtel in San Francisco and at MIT’s Advanced Materials Lab in Cambridge under the Department of Energy. He has been a speaker and lecturer on topics including asset allocation, sector diversification, and alternatives investing and an author in major financial publications. Mr. Tepper holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, an MS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT and an MS in management from MIT.