Mark Townsend Cox

Chief Investment Officer, New Energy Fund LP

Mark Townsend Cox is the founder, managing member and chief investment officer of New Energy Fund LP. The fund is a hedge fund format designed to invest in stocks that are focused on the emerging sustainable energy technology market. The fund launched in January 2005 after two years of preparation.

Mark came to the US in 1987 and worked on the international equity sell side as a salesman, analyst and head of desk for French and German equities for Dresdner Bank's ABD Securities, Credit Agricole, Swiss Bank, and Bankhaus Metzler. Since 1998, he has been a portfolio manager at Pinnacle International Management LLC, an employee owned money manager based in New York. Here he was part of an investment team that held the number 1 position for 5 year returns in both Nelson's "Worlds Best Money Managers" and in Money Manager Review's rankings up to the third quarter of 2002. Mark also raised $78 million in new assets for Pinnacle over the period of the most recent and significant bear market.

In 1982, he was a platoon commander in the Third Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, in the British Army and was awarded a Mention in Dispatches (MID) in the Falklands conflict for his role in the battle of Mt. Longdon. After working as a teacher and translator from 1983 to 1985, he joined de Zoete & Bevan, a stockbroker in the city of London, which subsequently became Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW) in 1985.

Mark is 48 years old and has over 20 years of investment experience in global equity markets. He has a Master's degree in French and English from the University of Dundee in Scotland and is fluent in French. He also holds an Executive MBA from Columbia University in New York, as well as the Series 7, 24, 63, and 65 NASD securities licenses.