David Belmont

Mr. David Belmont, CFA MBA, is Chief Risk Officer at Commonfund Capital, Inc. Prior to joining Commonfund in 2011, Mr. Belmont was Global Head of Hedge Fund Credit for UBS Investment Bank where he led a global team of 45 risk managers and analysts responsible for the risk management of hedge fund and managed fund exposures in the Investment Bank globally.
In addition, he was the Head of Risk Management for UBS Prime Services where he led a team of eight risk managers responsible for the market, credit and operational risk of the Prime Brokerage in the Americas.
He was a member of the UBS Prime Brokerage Executive Committee, the Exchange Traded Derivatives Risk Committee, the Prime Services Risk Committee and Prime Services Risk Board.
Prior to UBS, Mr. Belmont spent 10 years in Asia, 6 of which were in Singapore with Temasek Holdings, Singapore, most recently as its Chief Risk Officer from 2004-2007.
In addition, he was a Director with Anderson LLP and founded their Asia Financial and Commodity Risk Consulting practice in Singapore, managing a team of 17 professionals across Asia.
Mr. Belmont was also a Regional Risk Manager with Black River Asset Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund, and was a sovereign risk underwriter with Citicorp.
Mr. Belmont is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
He earned a B.A.
from Bowdoin College cum laude and an M.B.A.
and a M.S.
from Yale University