Jeff Drobny

Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Drobny is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Garda, where he provides overall leadership for the firm.

Mr. Drobny launched the Fixed Income Relative Value Strategy at Black River in 2003, where he was also a Principal and served as the Global Head of the Relative Value and Commodity-Related hedge fund businesses. In 2016, Mr. Drobny co-founded Garda as CEO and CIO, to continue managing the Fixed Income Relative Value Strategy and has led the growth and development of the firm since inception. Prior to that, Mr. Drobny worked in Cargill's Financial Markets Group in London, before later returning to the U.S. to oversee trading management for Cargill's Fixed Income Arbitrage business.

Mr. Drobny graduated from Union College with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.