Jamie Zimmerman

Firm: Litespeed Management (founder)

Title: CEO

Street Cred: Zimmerman began her career as a lawyer, but learned that wasn't what she really wanted to do. 

Zimmerman then got her experience in risk arbitrage doing stints at L.F. Rothschild, Dillon Read, Oppenheimer and Toronto Dominion Bank where she ran research for risk arbitrage. 

She launched her own event-driven fund in 2000, which has about $1.45 billion AUM today.

She's a graduate from Amherst College.

Source: Voice of Experience