Brody Howatt

Investment professional and former portfolio manager with 20+ years spanning multi-strategy hedge funds, family office capital raising, proprietary deal sourcing, and early-stage venture. Track record of generating strong absolute returns, building institutional and family office relationships, leading investment teams, and raising capital. West Point graduate and U.S. Army combat veteran (Bronze Star).

Advisor at MyHockeyIQ (2025-01 – Present)

• Helped develop a software platform enabling youth hockey organizations and players to accelerate skill acquisition and game intelligence.
• Led capital-raising efforts to fund accelerated software development and rollout for the 2025–26 season.
• Designed the sales framework and coached founders through the full sales cycle, resulting in successful closes with multiple organizations.

Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual (2024-07 – 2025-01)

• Built comprehensive, individualized financial plans focused on protecting and growing client assets.
• Collaborated with senior advisors to design portfolio strategies that reduced risk while improving alpha generation.
• Created and implemented new client onboarding processes that streamlined operations and raised client satisfaction.

Business Development at Disruptive (2023-05 – 2024-06)

• Raised over $100 million from family offices, institutions, and foundations into two special purpose vehicles.
• Sourced dual-use technology companies through established relationships across venture capital and private equity networks.
• Co-led due diligence on dual-use technology investments within the Disruptive portfolio.

Head Trader at Atika Capital Management LLC (2021-11 – 2023-05)

• Executed all equity and derivative trading for a $1.2 billion multi-strategy fund focused on TMT, Healthcare, Biotech, Industrials/Materials, and Consumer.
• Built and maintained relationships across high-touch, low-touch, options, and equity capital markets desks.
• Developed a proprietary risk-management tool integrating S3 Data, Demark Signals, and prime-broker positioning data to guide Beta vs. Alpha allocation decisions.

Chief Investment Officer at Bellator Asset Management LLC (2018-07 – 2021-10)

• Founded and led an asset management firm staffed exclusively by combat veterans; personally raised all AUM from family offices and institutions.
• Sole portfolio decision-maker for a $110 million syndicate-based strategy that delivered +52% net in 2019 and +16% net in 2020.
• Established relationships with equity capital markets and private equity syndicate desks; oversaw all trading and operational functions.

Head Industrial & Materials Trader at Point72 Asset Management LP (2014-01 – 2018-07)

• Determined position sizing and hedging strategy (options and intra-sector/factor hedges) for all events in the Industrials & Materials book.
• Held full discretion over portfolio-level risk parameters and timing of Beta exposures.
• Led the entry/exit framework using fundamental analysis combined with Demark technical overlays, producing the team's strongest results in slippage reduction.

Head Consumer Trader at S.A.C. Capital Advisors (2004-08 – 2013-12)

• Established standard operating procedures for every facet of the portfolio team's operations.
• Controlled portfolio risk measures that enabled the team to be among the few internal portfolios to generate positive returns in 2008.
• Designed and implemented an options overlay system to maximize alpha generation on individual positions.

Captain at United States Army (1999-05 – 2004-05)

• Served as Battery XO, Combat Observation Lasing Team Platoon Leader, Company Fire Support Officer, and Battery Fire Direction Officer.
• Consistently top-rated officer in peer group; awarded the Bronze Star for service during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

B.S. in Systems Engineering – United States Military Academy at West Point (1995 – 1999-05)

– Choate Rosemary Hall (1995-05)