Hans Humes
Hans Humes is the Chairman, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer of Greylock Capital Management, a leading global alternative asset manager and advisor. Humes has over three decades of experience working in emerging markets. Previously, he was a key member of the Lehman Brothers emerging markets debt trading team, co-developing the desk and managing over $500 million in investments. He also traded a proprietary debt portfolio at Banco Santander and engineered several debt/debt and debt/equity swaps in Latin America. In addition to Greylock, he has served on numerous sovereign debt restructuring committees and has been active in policy and regulatory initiatives affecting creditors globally.
Hans Humes Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founding Partner, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer
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Vice President
Academic History
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B.A., Spanish Language and Literature
Humes founded Greylock as a joint venture with VanEck Global in 1995.
He was a Managing Partner of VanEck Absolute Return Advisors, when he launched the fund which became the Greylock Global Opportunity Master Fund in 1997.
He is a member of the market monitoring group and of the joint committee on strengthening the framework for sovereign debt crisis prevention and resolution.
EARLY CAREER
Humes began his career at Manufacturers Hanover, where he worked on the sovereign debt restructurings for the Philippines and Yugoslavia.
He was one of the organizers of the Argentina Creditor Committee (ACC), one of the three main groups negotiating with the government to swap bonds under foreign jurisdiction.
He has lectured at Columbia Business School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Center for Development Economics at Williams College, and the Stern School of Business at New York University, among other institutions.
He has lived and studied in Nigeria, Morocco, Canada, Netherlands, Chile, Mexico, and Belgium and is fluent in Spanish.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Board of Director, MacDella Cooper Foundation
Board of Director, Georgie Badiel Foundation
Board of Director, Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation
Co-Chair, IIF Committee of Sovereign Risk Management
Trustee, IIF’s Principles Consultative Group
Member, IIF Working Group on Reconciliation of Past Due Sovereign Debt
Board Member, World Policy Institute
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Humes is a frequent commentator on markets at Bloomberg, CNBC, and CNN.
He has also appeared or been quoted in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and Institutional Investor.