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As of September 2014, Christine Woodhouse joins Beachhead as its President and General Counsel, and Robert Discolo joins the firm as a member of its Advisory Board. Bob and Christine each bring a wealth of professional experience to Beachhead and share the firm's commitment to providing innovative investment solutions to its clients and partners.

Christine Woodhouse, Esq

Christine is an attorney with 15+ years’ experience in investment management, and a frequent speaker on issues involving the hedge fund industry and investing via private placement life insurance and annuities. Prior to joining Beachhead, she was General Counsel to Taylor Investment Advisors, a boutique investment firm with offices in Dallas, Texas and Old Greenwich, Connecticut. As a senior attorney with the law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Christine represented the Airline Transportation Stabilization Board in designing and implementing its emergency loan guarantee program for the U.S. airline industry following September 11, 2001.

>From 1996 to 2000 Christine served as Attorney-Advisor at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, where she structured complex project and asset-backed financings, long-term aircraft leases and securitized credit facilities involving both sovereign and private borrowers. She began her career as an associate at the law firm Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy in Washington D.C. where she handled an array of federal regulatory and litigation matters.

Christine has served as a guest lecturer and adjunct professor of law at the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University. She received her AB with honors from Stanford University and MA and JD from the University of Virginia. Christine is admitted to practice law in New York.

Robert T. Discolo, CFA

Robert Discolo has over 25 years’ experience with major financial institutions in various capacities relating to investment products, primarily managing hedge fund and private equity portfolios.

Mr. Discolo was most recently Managing Director of Alternative Investments and Head of Hedge Fund Strategies at PineBridge Investments LLC, the former asset management arm of AIG Investments. Mr. Discolo held a similar position at AIG Investments from 1999 to 2010 when the asset management business was sold and Pinebridge Investments was formed. At its peak, Mr. Discolo and his team managed over $10 billion in 40+ portfolios for over 100 institutional and high net worth clients as well as AIG’s proprietary accounts.

Previously, he held positions at PaineWebber Inc., Bank Julius Baer, and Merrill Lynch & Co, where his responsibilities included creating portfolios of hedge funds for private and institutional clients, development of hedge fund and private equity products, oversight of business structure and development for hedge funds and hedge fund of funds, and managing the evaluation and selection process of hedge funds for both discretionary and advisory clients. Mr. Discolo also was President of the European Warrant Fund and Julius Baer International Equity Fund. Mr. Discolo holds an MBA from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University and a BS degree in Accounting from St. John's University. He holds Series 7 and Series 24 licenses and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations. Mr. Discolo is a member of the CFA Institute and NY State Society of Security Analysts.

Mr. Discolo is a frequent speaker at hedge fund industry conferences and has been quoted/profiled in major publications. He has also authored or co-authored various white papers on hedge fund and alternative investments.

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