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Q&A with David Sobotka YC '78

Tuesday, Feb 23 2021 at 7:00 - 8:00 pm EST

Please join us on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 7:00pm for a Q&A session with David Sobotka YC ‘78. David has enjoyed a 40+ year career in finance and his most recent role was as a partner in the $18 billion hedge fund Capula Investments in charge of macro and credit trading. He is also the former Head of Fixed Income at Merrill Lynch. (See David’s bio below for more information).

David Sobotka will speak to Yale SOM students about his career and industry.  He will end the talk with an interactive Q&A session with the audience.

Register to attend. This event is open to the Yale community.

Speakers

  • David Sobotka

    Former Partner, Capula Investments

    David Sobotka has enjoyed a 40+ year career in finance. His most recent role was as a partner in the $18 billion hedge fund Capula Investments in charge of macro and credit trading. Previously, David was head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, responsible for a global trading operation across the credit, emerging market, interest rate, municipal bond, foreign currency, distressed debt and energy and metal commodities asset classes serving institutional, hedge fund and official sector clients. Previously, David ran commodity trading operations at a number of financial and private firms, including Entergy-Koch, Lehman Brothers, Citibank and UBS. He began his career after graduating from Yale with a degree in economics as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Currently, David is a director on the board of BWC Terminals, a portfolio company of the JP Morgan Infrastructure Fund. David is treasurer of the board of DREAM, an organization serving 2500 youth in the communities of East Harlem, the South Bronx and Newark through charter schools and out-of-school programming. At Yale, he is a member of the Dean of the School of Environment’s Steering Committee and the Advisory Boards of the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and the Center For Business and Environment at Yale.

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