Northcross Capital LLP

Jason Van Praagh co-founded Northcross Capital Management Limited and Northcross Capital LLP in 2005 and has over 15 years of experience in the global short-term interest rate markets.  Prior to Northcross Capital he was Managing Director, Global Head of Treasury Sales with Rabobank International.  Jason’s role encompassed global responsibility for customer relationship management, product distribution, research and client advisory services.  Prior to this, Jason was the Head of Short-term Interest Rate Markets for Rabobank International – London branch.  His responsibilities included trading, product management and sales in money markets, repo, securities lending, interest rate derivatives, FX forwards and precious metals. Jason also represented Rabobank on a variety of industry bodies during his 7 years with the firm. Before joining Rabobank Jason spent 4 years in the Money Market/Repo division of Deutsche Bank AG.  This included postings in Singapore as Head of Money Market/Repo, Tokyo as Co-head of Repo and London as Repo dealer.  Prior to this he worked for the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group in his home city of Melbourne, Australia.

David Vriesenga co-founded Northcross Capital Management Limited and Northcross Capital LLP in 2005 and has over 20 years of experience in the investment management industry.  From 2004 Mr Vriesenga was a senior partner of VriesPort Consulting, a firm specialising in risk management control for asset managers and administrators.  Prior to that, he spent 11 years with Moody’s Investors Service.  During his last 8 years with Moody’s he was responsible for the development of their European and Asian Managed Funds Group.  David spent 7 years with Fidelity Investments; first as director of operations in their fixed-income mutual fund back office and then moving on to FMR, the asset management arm of Fidelity, as a money market analyst.  David serves on the advisory board of IMMFA, the trade association for institutional money market funds.  In 2005, he wrote and published, in association with IMMFA, a best practice guide for European money market funds.  David is a CPA, spending 7 years with Coopers & Lybrand.  He holds a B.A. in economics and finance from Calvin College and a Masters in Accounting Science from Northern Illinois University.