Hurricane Portfolio Solutions: Global Head of Solutions Advisory

David Allen, CFA, holds the role of Hurricane Portfolio Solutions: Head of Solutions Advisory at Hurricane Capital. He is the Vice Chair of the Board of the CFA Society of New York and former Managing Director at Octane Investments, a firm he founded to invest in traditional energy companies. Prior to this, he served large institutions at Schroders and served in a similar position at AB, for nearly a decade at each of those firms. He also has founded and ran two FinTech startups and he traded FX in the 1990s. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Economics and completed the Value Investing executive education curriculum at Columbia University. Allen is Chair of the NY Society’s Programming Committee and recently passed the CFA Institute’s ESG certification.