Mr. Hinkel is a principal and Director of Research. He supervises the analyst team, and also engages in credit analysis, due diligence and modeling of investment opportunities. Mr. Hinkel left the Master of Science in Finance Program at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management to join the Radcliffe Group as an analyst in 1998. He worked at the Radcliffe Group through 1999 and rejoined the firm in 2004. In 2003, Mr. Hinkel was a founding principal of Raven Investment Group, LLC, a convertible arbitrage investment manager that managed funds for Ritchie Capital Management, and immediately prior thereto worked directly at Ritchie Capital Management’s convertibles desk. Before joining Ritchie Capital Management in October 2001, he worked as Director of Business Development for Soltima, a wireless technology start-up in Silicon Valley, from 1999 through 2001. He also served as a commercial credit analyst for Fulton Financial Corporation from 1995-1997. Mr. Hinkel earned his B.S. in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Bloomsburg University in 1995.