Family Office & Limited Partner Series

Avery Sheffield is Managing Director and Co-Founder, Chief Investment Officer & Senior Portfolio Manager of VantageRock, Rockefeller’s long/short equity hedge fund.  Prior to joining Rockefeller in February 2020, Ms. Sheffield served as Portfolio Manager for MSD Capital, a private investment firm that manages the capital of Michael Dell and his family.  Prior to MSD Capital, Ms. Sheffield spent over 6 years at Brandywine Global, where she was Portfolio Manager of the 30th Street Fund, a long/short equity hedge fund, and a Senior Equity Analyst on the US Large Cap Value Fund.  Ms. Sheffield began her investment career as a Senior Research Associate on the US Hardlines Retail Team at Sanford Bernstein.  Additionally, Ms. Sheffield previously worked primarily in the wireless industry in Silicon Valley.  

Ms. Sheffield received a B.A. in Neuroscience from Pomona College where she graduated summa cum laude, and an M.B.A from the Wharton School where she graduated as a Palmer Scholar (top 5% of the class).

Simeon Schnapper is the Founding Partner of JLS, a plant medicine fund. His introduction to psychedelics came 30+ years ago in Chicago where he studied with Dr. Robert E.L. Masters and Jean Huston Ph.D. who authored the seminal book The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche. As a curious teenager entering the space, searching for greater meaning in life he quickly learned about all the mental health indications that could be alleviated by coupling these molecules with psychotherapy or protocols millennia old from indigenous cultures. Later, he immersed himself in the Amazon with various ayahuasqueros and syncretic churches which showed him the power and efficacy of plant medicines; now becoming mainstreamed and medicalized. As a life-long student of Psychedelics he has a keen awareness of the cultural, regulatory and the nascent venture landscape of the mushrooming industry. As the president of the Hinman Foundation he formulated the vision and led all efforts on the ground in Tibet, Nepal, Myanmar, India, Mongolia and Bhutan. The foundation was able to support community-based organizations in several forest cultures where plant medicines are inseparable from everyday life and also oversaw grants which included a study on the Psychological and Cognitive Effects of Long-Term Peyote Use and the efficacy of hallucinogens for treating substance dependence. Simeon co-founded the High Art Collective in 2008 the world’s first Psychedelic Art Gallery and Marijuana Dispensary praised as a paradigm shift at the very beginning of the end of prohibition. Simeon advises several psychedelic and impact startups, is an Aspen Institute Fellow and a member of the New York Mycology Society. Born into a Peace Corps family, his early life was spent on assignment overseas where the ethos of exploration and helping others became deeply ingrained in his belief system.

Madelaine D’Angelo is a leader in the application of quantitative pricing methodologies to the art market. A specialist in the intersection of fine art and technology, Madelaine founded Arthena to establish pricing transparency for the art market, and in the process, created a platform for new financial products. Madelaine holds a BA in Finance and a Master’s Degree from Harvard, where she collaborated on her thesis with the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As a certified appraiser, she is experienced in art valuation, collector behavior, and analysis of global art market dynamics, and she has worked with the Directors of the Guggenheim, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Sebastian Corrochano is Head of Capital Formation & Strategy and member of the investment team at Galaxy Vision Hill. He is responsible for leading investment due diligence discussions with investors on portfolio and product strategy matters, performance, and reporting. Sebastian has over five years of experience in the digital asset space, with most of that time spent in financial services. Prior to Galaxy Vision Hill, Sebastian was one of the first hires to help build out Galaxy Digital’s asset management business, Galaxy Fund Management, growing assets to over $3B during his tenure. Prior to Galaxy Digital, Sebastian was an investment banking analyst at Evercore and previously founded a media business dedicated to the digital asset space. He graduated with honors from Emory University with a degree in Economics.

Sasha Bernier is a Managing Director of Cheltenham Enterprises, a single family office focused on investing in both debt and equity primarily in real estate opportunities and lower middle market companies.

Mr. Bernier formerly served as a Vice President of Revere Capital, a real estate debt fund with the responsibility for underwriting and structuring new investment opportunities in the real estate debt space.

Sasha Bernier has also worked at investment funds GSC Group, a credit focused hedge fund, and Barrington Capital, a debt and equity event driven hedge fund.

Mr. Bernier graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BS in Business Administration and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.