Mr. Bennington has over twenty years of international experience originating, structuring, and placing interests in hedge funds, private equity funds, and corporates. He has placed funds with public pension plans, corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, fund of funds, banks, insurance companies, and governments in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

Prior to founding Bridgewater James Limited, Mr. Bennington was a partner and helped found Pantera Global Macro Fund, a global macro hedge fund managed by the former head of macro trading at Tiger Management Corp. Mr. Bennington was responsible for raising assets domestically and internationally, totaling over $300 million.

Previously, Mr. Bennington was a Managing Director at J.H. Whitney & Co., a diversified global manager of alternative assets with over $5 billion invested in private and public equity and debt. Based in London, Mr. Bennington was responsible for institutional fundraising in Europe and the Middle East for J.H. Whitney & Co.'s hedge funds and private equity funds. Together with his fundraising colleagues, Mr. Bennington helped raise over $2 billion for J.H. Whitney's alternative asset class funds, including: Whitney New Japan Fund ($500 million Japan long/short equity hedge fund); Green River Fund ($400 million U.S. long/short equity hedge fund); several Whitney CDOs; and Whitney V ($1.1 billion U.S. private equity fund).

Prior to joining J.H. Whitney & Co., Mr. Bennington was a Director in Deutsche Bank's investment banking subsidiary, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown (together with predecessor entities 'Alex. Brown'). As a Director of Alex. Brown & Sons Investments Limited in the firm's London office, Mr. Bennington originated, structured, and placed private equity funds with institutional investors in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

Mr. Bennington was a member and then head of Alex. Brown's Principal Investing group that originated, structured, invested in, and raised capital for hedge funds, private equity funds, and other alternative asset class vehicles. Alex. Brown committed its own capital to these investments with the goal of obtaining a leveraged return. Mr. Bennington became responsible for the five-person team managing Alex. Brown's related capital and fund management commitments, involving over $135 million committed to 29 funds. Mr. Bennington was involved in identifying new investments, proposing capital commitments to Alex. Brown's investment committee, structuring partnerships, and serving on a number of fund investment committees and fund boards.

Subsequently, Mr. Bennington established Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown's West Coast private equity fundraising office in San Francisco. This assignment included origination and building relationships with large institutional investors such as the major state and corporate pension plans in California, Oregon, and Washington.

Mr. Bennington holds the following FINRA licenses:

1. General Securities Principal (S24);
2. Full Registration/General Securities Representative (S7);
3. Investment Banking Representative (S79); and
4. Securities Agent (S63).

Mr. Bennington graduated from St. Paul's School and Princeton University with an A.B. in Politics. He holds dual U.S. and U.K. citizenships.