Primary Job Title CEO and Co-Founder Primary Organization Exigent Capital
Location Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Male
Website exigent.capital/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Elie brings over twenty-five years of cross-asset investing and relationship management to his leadership role at the firm. He directs the firm’s investment focus and corporate strategy based on primary macro-drivers, investment themes and values. Elie began his career by obtaining his SEC/NASD Series 7, 63, 55 securities licenses at the age
of only 18. In 1999, Elie was recruited by JP Morgan Chase and completed the Global Markets Training and Trading Program which gave him a comprehensive background in “global macro” and thereafter joined the Spot-FX trading desk. In 2002, Elie expanded his experience into other primary asset classes by joining a boutique investment firm focused on commercial real estate where he was responsible for portfolio underwriting and loan origination. Soon after moving to Israel in 2007 Elie teamed up with his co-founder Eric Davis to start Exigent where he managed a number of credit arbitrage funds that returned in excess of 30% IRR’s by taking advantage of opportunities following the credit-crisis (including TALF 1.0, a program that has become a hallmark of successful Western-government intervention in capital markets), led private investments in banking and financial companies (including the early-stage investment in Cross River Bank), the restructuring of Insightec a global leader in non-invasive surgery that has achieved significant clinical and commercial milestones and the firm’s recent partnership with the Bezos and Moross families in their newly launched asset management firm HighPost Capital. Being mission driven and dedicated to purpose that is beyond financial gain, Elie is involved in a number of leadership initiatives focused on advancing Israel and humanity, including a keen focus on strong bi-lateral relations with Abraham Accords countries. At the time of his appointment, Elie was the youngest appointee to the Board of Governors, the Executive Committee and Investment Committees at Shalem College, an institution emerging as Israel's leading institution of higher education focused on advancing the next generation of political and social leaders, promoting universal principals of democracy and economic freedom and employing a rigorous study of history and philosophy. Elie serves as Advisory Board member of the Friedberg Economic Institute, which aims to reorient Israel’s post-graduate education model to a free-market perspective from its socialist roots, by bringing leading figures including central bankers to Israel for week-long seminars. Elie is an auto-didact in history, science, and economics. Elie attended Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business.
