Alan Benaim is a vice president at Midsummer Capital a New York City based Hedge Fund group that acts as a fundamental investor with a medium-term horizon in exchange-listed small to mid-size growth companies. Mr. Benaim has over nine years experience in investment banking corporate finance and principal investing. At Midsummer Mr. Benaim is involved in the evaluation due diligence and execution of investments.

Prior to Midsummer Mr. Benaim spent seven years in various roles at JPMorgan Chase based in London and New York executing a wide spectrum of transactions in mergers and acquisitions advisory structured finance bank financing bond issuance equity issuance and financial derivatives across more than 20 countries in the US Europe Middle East Africa and Asia. Mr. Benaim was promoted to Vice President at JPMorgan Chase and is credited with helping build and develop the European Metals & Mining industry group from the bottom up into the top league table ranked industry group.

Following JPMorgan Chase Mr. Benaim gained investment experience in both early stage venture capital and middle market private equity having evaluated and executed investments in companies within the technology healthcare security and manufacturing and engineering industries. Mr. Benaim has an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.