Founding Board Member & Co-chair Clayton Jue

AAAIM

Mr. Jue has a successful career of founding investment groups and serving as the CIO. He founded Leading Edge in August 2005 with the objective of bringing new and emerging investment strategies and managers to institutional investors.

He was formerly Managing Director and Executive Vice President at Northern Trust Global Advisors, a subsidiary of the Northern Trust Company (Northern), where he managed the San Francisco office and the $3 billion emerging manager business. Mr. Jue was also a member of Northern's Hedge Fund Investment Committee and the Trust Investment Committee which oversaw all of the firm's $25 billion in manager of manager assets.

Prior to joining Northern in 2002, Mr. Jue was a co-founder of Progress Investment Management and Chief Investment Officer there for just over 11 years. During his tenure, Progress grew from 3 employees and $45 million in assets under management to 26 employees and $4.5 billion in assets across several asset categories, including domestic equity and fixed-income, international equity, private equity and hedge funds. As a hallmark of success, the firm was sold to Liberty Financial Company, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance, in 1998.

Mr. Jue began his investment career at Callan Associates in 1986 and co-founded Callan's International Consulting group in 1989. He is a member of the Security Analysts of San Francisco, Chartered Financial Analyst® Institute, National Association of Securities Professionals and New America Alliance.

Mr. Jue holds dual BA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from San Francisco State University. As a leader in the private equity field, Mr. Jue has seen the power of professional alliances and helped to found AAAIM.