Mr. Haupt (Wh’77) retired from Soros Fund Management where he served for six years as Portfolio Manager of a Structured Products Fund. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager with Five Mile Capital Partners, an alternative investment and asset management company established in 2003. At Five Mile Partners, Mr. Haupt managed a relative value portfolio that arbitraged the Mortgage, Government, and Derivative fixed-income markets. Mr. Haupt retired in 1994 from a position as Managing Director of Salomon Brothers after serving for seven years as the Head of Salomon’s mortgage-backed securities department. He was responsible for all aspects of the mortgage business, including trading, sales, finance, research, and operations.
Mr. Haupt is a long-time board member of PennPraxis and the seed funder of the Praxis Design Fellows Program. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors to the Weitzman School and has significant interest in Architecture and Design and Public School education policy. He has served as Penn’s Alumni Secondary School Committee Chair for Manhattan and the Bronx non-magnet public schools for over twenty years. He serves on the board of the Cahn Fellows Program, a principal leadership program.
