Acceleration Capital Group, LLC Management Team

Alexis Graham , Founding Partner

Mr. Graham has over 15 years of experience working in the hedge fund industry, most recently as head of the capital raising program at VanthedgePoint Securities.
Prior to starting Acceleration Capital Group, Mr. Graham’s experience included building the hedge fund information company HedgeWorld.com, where he served as Managing Director of Sales and worked as part of the team responsible for HedgeWorld Markets, a hedge fund capital raising platform. He also held positions at Optima Fund Management, a New York-based fund of hedge funds, and Gruss & Co. as a merger arbitrage analyst.
Mr. Graham graduated from Hamilton College with a Bachelor of Arts. He earned his MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Mr. Graham holds the FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Ian P. Tracy , Founding Partner

Prior to starting Acceleration Capital Group, Mr. Tracy worked as a Senior Associate at VanthedgePoint Securities. He was responsible for building and implementing the Capital Introductions Program, orchestrating emerging hedge fund manager round table events and spearheading research initiatives.
Mr. Tracy started his career as a Practice Support Specialist at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He co-chairs the Junior Committee of Hearts for Hedge Funds Care; is on the Junior Board for the Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers Organization; and is the youngest manager on the Board of Managers for the St. Andrews Society of the State of New York, the oldest charitable society in the state. Mr. Tracy holds the FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.
Mr. Tracy received a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College. He is married and has a daughter.

John R. Halasz, Partner

Mr. Halasz has worked in the financial services industry since 1997. He has 11 years of experience marketing multiple alternative investments and long only products to family offices, institutions and ultra high net worth families globally. He has raised over $300m for hedge funds, started and ran 2 companies and is actively involved in the alternative investments industry.

Mr. Halasz graduated from Northeastern University with a BS in Business and was a Division 1 varsity Soccer Player. He is married and has two sons and a daughter.

Michael Fitzsimmons, Partner

Mr. Fitzsimmons has worked in the financial service industry sine 1986. For the past 13 years he has been marketing alternative investment products, primarily emerging managers, beginning with his own fund Lodestone Capital in 1996. Prior to Lodestone Mr. Fitzsimmons worked as a Managing Director in Institutional Sales for Volpe ,Welty covering hedge funds. Mr. Fitzsimmons started his career in 1986 at Shearson Lehman as a financial consultant, after graduating from Clarkson University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering . Mr. Fitzsimmons runs the San Francisco office for Acceleration Capital Group. He has a daughter.