Doug Garber
Host of Pitch The PM and
Chief Investment Officer at Westport Alpha Group

Pitch the PM is hosted by Doug Garber, a former Citadel Analyst and Millennium Senior Portfolio Manager. Doug was initially trained at Citadel by a former SAC/Point 72 Analyst who worked directly for Steve Cohen before becoming a PM at Citadel. Doug was ranked as a top five analyst while at Citadel’s Surveyor Capital and was the only one to receive that designation twice during his tenure. He managed a multi-sector, multi-strategy team at Millennium under Katahdin Capital. Prior to his buy-side career, Doug worked in sell-side equity research honing modeling and primary research skills.Doug is currently the CIO and DoR at the Westport Alpha Group.

Doug graduated from Tulane University with a BSM and Master of Finance. He was selected to participate in the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Endowment Fund that utilized quantitative factors to outperform its benchmark and be an Investment Research Manager in the Burkenroad Reports “Stocks Under Rocks” equity research program. Doug has a passion for iterating on the investment process and a quirky sense of humor. He lives in Westport, CT with his wife, Lexi, and three kids. When he is not reading a 10-K, you can find him coaching youth soccer, inverted on his yoga mat or on an eFoil looking for Zuck.

Aaron Ginn
CEO and Co-Founder
Hydra Host

Aaron Ginn is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hydra Host, a company dedicated to becoming the leading GPU management provider globally. At Hydra Host, he has spearheaded the development of a premier data center platform for high-performance computing, offering a fast, user-friendly, and API-driven solution for building, managing, and renting bare metal resources. This platform fully automates the rental lifecycle, providing companies with easy access to GPUs and CPUs at wholesale rates.

With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, Ginn has a proven track record as a successful co-founder. His previous ventures include Lincoln Network (now Foundation for American Innovation), which bridges the gap between technology and policymaking, and Fabius Labs, a digital marketing agency focused on product growth. His expertise spans product design, economics, finance, philosophy, and engineering, and his work has been recognized by prominent media outlets such as Forbes, TechCrunch, and The Wall Street Journal.

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