Alex Gildengers, CFA has extensive experience in investment management. He started his career in 1997 as a securities analyst at Franklin Mutual Series. In 2002, he joined Sierra Global Management, a global long/short equity fund with a focus on European securities, as a Managing Director where he worked with Craig Peretz and helped manage the fund’s investments in a handful of sectors. In 2005, he joined four other partners to found Savannah-Baltimore Capital Management, a global long/short equity manager. He was a member of the firm’s portfolio management team.

In 2009, he founded Arga Capital to invest in and advise financial services startups. Investments included Evermore Global Capital Management, a long-only investment manager, Online Mortgage Group, an Internet-based mortgage lender, where he served as Executive Chairman, and Rowboat Advisors, a financial technology company with a state-of-the-art portfolio optimizer, where he served as head of business development.