Team

Alexander L. Lemond (Alex) is the Founder and President of Rochefort Asset Management. He has over 25 years of investment and management experience and has served as a board member of numerous companies, including regulated institutions.

Since 2011, Mr. Lemond has been the principal of the Shelter Point Group. During this time, he made investments in private and public companies, including the formation of direct lending and distressed investing businesses.

From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Lemond was a co-founding partner of Serengeti Asset Management. From 2005 to 2006, he invested in and served on the boards of public and private companies. From 1997 to 2004, he served as vice president of Triarc Companies (NYSE: TRY). From 1996 to 1997, he was an analyst in the mergers & acquisitions department of predecessors to Citigroup.

Mr. Lemond graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Joseph A. LaNasa III (Jody) is the Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Rochefort Asset Management. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Serengeti Asset Management, a value-driven opportunistic investment firm that provides sophisticated financing solutions to innovative private companies and their shareholders.

Prior to launching Serengeti in 2007, Mr. LaNasa was a partner at Goldman Sachs. He headed the Multi-Strategy Investing Business (MSI) in the Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group from 2002 – 2006. MSI was a multi-billion dollar proprietary investment business focused on similar opportunities.

Mr. LaNasa graduated from Harvard Law School (J.D. magna cum laude) and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S. summa cum laude).

He was an attorney at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and clerked for Judge Adrian G. Duplantier of the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans). He serves on the Harvard Law School Dean’s Advisory Board and on the Advisory Board for Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and previously served on Georgetown University’s Board of Regents.

J Kyle Bass (Kyle) is the Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Rochefort Asset Management. He is also President of Al Majlis, a Dubai-based professional firm founded to bridge global organizations into success in the Middle East and Gulf regions. Mr. Bass is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Conservation Equity Management, an environmentally focused private equity firm.

Mr. Bass serves as an Adjunct Economic Advisor to the RAND Corporation, a global nonprofit research institution. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the recipient of the 2019 Foreign Policy Association Medal for his responsible internationalism. He has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

Mr. Bass has lectured on global economics, national security, geopolitics, and the architecture of the Chinese financial system at various universities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Texas, and the University of Virginia. He is the former Chair of the Risk and Compensation Committees of the Board of Directors of the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), which manages approximately $80 billion.

Formerly, he was a Managing Director at Legg Mason and a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns. He graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in finance. Bass is an Advisory Board member of the Hudson Institute’s China Center, an Executive Advisory Board member of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, and an Investment Advisory Board member to RIA NewEdge Wealth. He also serves on the boards of the Texas Wildlife Association Foundation, Texas Department of Public Safety Foundation, Melinda’s Foods (https://www.melindas.com) and Culper (https://culperconnect.org), and is a board observer at Divergent (https://www.divergent3d.com) and Shield AI (https://shield.ai).