Biographies of Partners
Hanover Square Associates, LLC

Joan Marsted has more than 25 years of experience in the securities industry. Ms. Marsted held senior positions with the West Coast offices of Drexel Burnham Lambert (1977-1980), Bear Stearns (1980-1986), and A.G. Edwards (1986-1991) as a sales executive for institutional research. She was an employee of Sutter Securities (1991-1995), an organization created by former Bear Stearns executives. In 1995, she came to the East Coast to form a women-owned brokerage and money management firm called Greenwich Global. Her broad contacts and successful sales experience led to her transition into manager representation and the formation of Hanover Square Associates. Hanover Square Associates was founded in 1997 to raise capital and create business for institutionally-oriented money management firms.

Ms. Marsted is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has a Series 7 and Series 63 registration.

Abigail E. Laufer began her career as a securities analyst with the National Bank of Detroit in 1981. In 1983, she was appointed Director of Mutual Fund Research for Merrill Lynch as the firm had just begun to venture into this area of research. In 1985, Ms. Laufer was recruited by the Frank Russell Company as a consultant working out of their New York office. She serviced Russell’s Fortune 500 clients providing strategy and conducting manager research for their pension funds and high net worth clients. She was the first consultant to work directly with George Russell in the formation of the high net worth effort at that firm. In 1990, she formed her own firm, Laufer Consulting to represent managers and provide marketing consulting services on a contractual basis. Among her manager clients were Equinox Capital Management (now a $14 billion money manager) and New Amsterdam Partners (a $1 billion woman-owned minority firm). She was also a partner of the Maud Group and constructed a domestic hedged fund-of-funds product to be sold to the high net worth marketplace. In 1997 she and Joan Marsted founded Hanover Square Associates.

Ms. Laufer has a B.A. from Princeton University (1978) and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan (1981). She is a member of the Financial Women’s Association and the National Association of Women Business Owners.