Contour Asset

Management

Contour aims to exploit rapidly evolving trends within TMT in order to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns independent of market direction.

Contour Asset Management LLC is a long/short equity manager focused solely on investing in the technology, media and telecommunications (“TMT”) sectors. Brummer & Partners, a multi-billion AUM Swedish alternative investment management firm, holds a minority ownership stake in the business.

We seek to leverage industry specific expertise and disciplined portfolio management to target attractive absolute risk-adjusted returns. This is accomplished through long and short investments in equities and derivatives, with a focus on the global technology, media, and telecommunications (“TMT”) sectors.

TMT is defined to be inclusive of all related services, distribution channels (commercial & retail) and/or businesses whose main infrastructure process is IT enabled. While the TMT industry has a long history of innovation and disruption, we believe that the current pace of change is the fastest it has been since at least the late 1990s. In our view, this change can create great opportunity for those companies that can spearhead or quickly adapt to the changing landscape and great risk to those companies who are hindered by their technological or financial legacy.

Contour’s in-depth analysis of industries from a top-down perspective, combined with deep rooted bottom-up company specific analysis, should allow for a greater understanding of changes within the industry over a longer-term horizon. When this level of analysis is applied to both long and short investments, we expect to produce a portfolio that derives the majority of its performance from alpha rather than beta.

We strongly believe that whether the global economy is growing or shrinking, there will be ample opportunity for alpha generation brought about by the on-going disruptive change within the TMT industry.

David Meyer, CFA
Principal & Portfolio Manager

Prior to the inception of Contour in 2010, David Meyer joined Brummer & Partners in 2004 as a technology analyst covering software and information technology (“IT”) services for Brummer & Partners’ Zenit Fund. In 2005, Mr. Meyer transitioned to Manticore Capital as a senior member of the investment team, which is now solely managed by Contour. Before joining Brummer & Partners, Mr. Meyer was an equity analyst within Morgan Stanley’s Investment Management Group from 1998 – 2004, where he was responsible for covering software, IT services, and IT hardware companies. Mr. Meyer holds a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University.

Julio Garcia, CPA
President, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

Jennifer Brokaw,
Director of Marketing

Tom Cahill,
Director of Marketing

Julio Garcia joined Contour Asset Management in September 2012. Prior to joining Contour, Mr. Garcia was a Partner, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Massif Partners. Prior to joining Massif Partners, from 2006 to 2010, Mr. Garcia was a Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP. Before joining Perella Weinberg Partners, Mr. Garcia was a Partner and Chief Financial Officer at FrontPoint Partners LLC. Formerly, Mr. Garcia also held executive positions at Credit Suisse Asset Management, DLJ Merchant Banking's Controllers' Group, Chancellor LGT Capital Management and Ernst & Young. Mr. Garcia received a B.S. in Accounting from Mercy College and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Jennifer Brokaw joined Contour Asset Management in February 2013. Before joining Contour, she held positions in Marketing and Investor Relations between 2008-2012 at Ospraie Management, C2J Investments and most recently, Millennium Management. Prior to that, Ms. Brokaw was an investment professional in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs from 2004-2008 and before then a consultant in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Financial Risk Management Group. Ms. Brokaw graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and received an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Tom Cahill joined Contour in March 2018. Before joining Contour, he was a Partner and Head of Business Development for ShearLink Capital, a NY based low-net growth equity fund. Prior to ShearLink, Mr. Cahill spent five years as a Director of Marketing for Visium Asset Management, a $7B diversified asset manager. Before Visium, he spent 16 years as a reporter for Bloomberg, covering various areas such as the Bond Market, the Securities industry, Energy and Commodities and Hedge Funds. Mr. Cahill graduated with a B.A. in American Studies from Colby College.

Michael Doody,
Director of Operations

Ryan Fiftal,
Sector Head

Joshua Goldberg,
Head Trader

Michael Doody joined Contour Asset Management in January 2013. Before joining Contour, he served as Vice President in Client Service and Business Consulting with Morgan Stanley’s Prime Brokerage group, from 2005 to 2012. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley’s Prime Brokerage group, from 2003 to 2005, Mr. Doody was an equity Research Analyst in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Research Sales group focusing on Technology stocks. Prior to Equity Research Sales, from 1999 to 2002, Mr. Doody was an Associate in the Technology/Internet Group for Morgan Stanley. Mr. Doody graduated with a B.S. in Marketing from Georgetown University.

Ryan Fiftal joined Contour in April 2017. Before joining Contour, he spent nine years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as an Executive Director in equity research covering U.S. Media/Cable/Satellite as part of a #1 II-ranked team. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Fiftal was an Associate at Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management Consulting). Mr. Fiftal received a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Joshua Goldberg joined Contour Asset Management in August 2010. Before joining Contour, he served as the head trader for an event-driven fund within JANA Partners, LLC., from 2005 to 2010. Beginning in 2002, Mr. Goldberg was employed at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. as an equity derivatives trader and quantitative analyst. Mr. Goldberg graduated with a B.S. in Finance from Bentley College.

Alpa Rana, CPA
Chief Financial Officer

David Reison,
Analyst

Mit Shah,
Sector Head

Alpa Rana joined Contour Asset Management in July 2013. Before joining Contour, she spent five years at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management on the operational due diligence team. Prior to MSWM, Ms. Rana spent her career at Natixis Alternative Investment, Celestar Capital Advisors, and AXA Alternative Advisors, managing both the fund and corporate related aspects of the entities. Ms. Rana began her career at Rothstein Kass. She has a B.S. from Montclair State University, an MBA from Rutgers University and is a licensed CPA.

David Reison joined Contour in May 2014. Before joining Contour, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in the Diversified Finance Group. Mr. Reison graduated with a BA in Economics and History from Williams College.

Mit Shah joined Contour Asset Management in July 2012. From 2009 to 2012 he worked at Sanford C. Bernstein, where he was a member of the II-ranked #1 research team covering IT hardware companies. From 2000 - 2007, Mr. Shah held software engineering and management roles at Opsware, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. Mr. Shah received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Tabaksblat,
Trader

Brian Thackray,
Sector Head

Lita Yu,
Office Administrator

Michael Tabaksblat joined Contour in March 2014. Before joining Contour, he served as an analyst at PAMLI Capital Management. Prior to PAMLI, he was an assistant trader for Ionic Capital Management, a relative value multi-strategy fund, from 2007 to 2012. Mr. Tabaksblat graduated with a B.A. in Pre Med and History, Minor in Business from the Macaulay/CUNY Honors College at Queens College.

Brian Thackray joined Contour in February 2018. Before joining Contour, he was a Sector Head at Blackrock, where he spent four years leading coverage of the information technology sector for their U.S. Growth funds. Prior to Blackrock, Mr. Thackray was a senior investment analyst at Citadel focused on the tech, media and telecom sector. From 2004 – 2011, Mr. Thackray was a senior equity analyst at Deutsche Bank following four years at Credit Suisse in an equity research and institutional sales capacity. Mr. Thackray graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration (concentration in Finance) and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Richmond.

Lita Yu joined Contour in May 2013. Before joining Contour, she was an Associate in the Finance Group at Massif Partners. Prior to Massif, Ms. Yu was a Manager in the Financial Controllers Group at FrontPoint Partners for seven years and an Account Manager at CDC Management for five years. Ms. Yu attended Norwalk Community College.

Contour Asset Management

Address:
99 Park Avenue
Suite 1540
New York, NY 10016

T: 646.553.2489
E: jennifer.brokaw@contourasset.com

Get in touch

Contour Asset

Management

David Meyer, CFAPrincipal & Portfolio Manager

Julio Garcia, CPAPresident, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

Jennifer Brokaw, Director of Marketing

Tom Cahill, Director of Marketing

Michael Doody, Director of Operations

Ryan Fiftal, Sector Head

Joshua Goldberg, Head Trader

Alpa Rana, CPAChief Financial Officer

David Reison, Analyst

Mit Shah, Sector Head

Michael Tabaksblat, Trader

Brian Thackray, Sector Head

Lita Yu, Office Administrator