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Mr. Besaw is responsible for the oversight, selection and management of all investment-related activity across all strategies and portfolios, as well as the development of all new investment strategies and GenTrust products. Prior to co-founding GenTrust, Mr. Besaw worked at Element Capital (which managed a fund that was ranked 4th on Barron’s Top 100 hedge funds in 2010) as Head of Business Development. Mr. Besaw was responsible for marketing, investor relations, recruiting, asset class expansion, new business development, and evaluation of private investment opportunities. Mr. Besaw served on the firm’s risk committee and spent extensive time discussing macroeconomic strategy, positioning and portfolio hedging with sovereign wealth funds, pensions, insurance companies, fund of funds and family offices. Prior to Element, Mr. Besaw was a Managing Director at Barclays Capital, where he was the Head of USD Fixed Income Options Trading. Mr. Besaw managed a team of 12 traders across 3 ti
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 7 investors at GenTrust are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Principal and Chief Investment Officer role in VCSift. Jim Besaw is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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