About – HFA Group

Company

HFA Group is a consultancy specializing in designing and delivering technology, analytics, and business processing solutions for the investment management industry.

Our assets are that we have worked as hands on technology executives in most aspects of the alternative asset management industry and have built numerous solutions for asset management firms at all stages of maturity. We understand Front, Middle, and Back Office needs and are relentless in the pursuit of elegant and institutional quality solutions.

LEN MAZUR

Founding Managing Partner

For the past fifteen years, Mr. Mazur has served as CEO of HFA Group, an outsourced CTO/CIO and software provider whose clients have ranged from the largest funds in the world to startup funds. Previously, he oversaw trading and risk technology for Reservoir Capital for four years- a $4.5 Billion hybrid private equity, hedge fund, and fund seeding platform. He built out Reservoir’s Dallas trading and risk department from scratch which serviced several multi-strategy hedge funds’ trading operations. The team was processing transactions across 18 currencies and 11 asset classes for the core hedge fund as well as two seed funds which grew to over $1B in assets. He was responsible for deploying and integrating various foundational systems, and he developed a proprietary risk reporting framework within the firm. He also developed trading screen applications used in executing a $30MM quantitative trading strategy. Mr. Mazur also provided CIO technology advisory and implementation/development services to seeded funds at various stages of maturity.

Prior to his role at Reservoir, Mr. Mazur was the Vice President of Technology/Operations at Laurel Ridge in New York City, a volatility arbitrage fund, where he led the development team in developing the firm’s proprietary systems. Before that, he served as a business analyst at Deutsche Bank’s global equity team. Prior to that, he developed software simulators for Lockheed Martin to test GPS flight navigational systems, and later worked at Soliloquy, an NYC-based startup and ChatGPT predecessor that used NLP to provided online sales agents.

Mr. Mazur holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland Honors Program. He is also an investor with interests in financial product management, analytics technologies, real estate, and focused on under-served niches. He is the General Partner of Pi Zero One Ventures, an early stage seed fund focused on technology companies building on blockchain technologies. In his free time, he enjoys playing soccer, reading historical nonfiction, and spending time with his wife and children.

BEN CHATRAW

Founding Partner & CEO of North Avenue Capital

Ben Chatraw is the CEO and Chairman of South Rose Capital, a Fin Tech private equity firm. Prior to this, Ben co-founded and sold North Avenue Capital (NAC) to Veritex Bank (VBTX). NAC was America’s largest producer of Business & Industry (“B&I”) loans. He was responsible for driving the overall vision and strategy of North Avenue Investments. A serial entrepreneur, Ben has founded multiple companies and non-profit organizations. Prior to launching North Avenue Investments, Ben was the COO of Vision Capital, a Dallas based hedge fund focused on small cap investments which he co-founded and ran from 2006 to 2012. Ben specializes in entrepreneurialism, operations, strategy, and deal structuring. He completed his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Georgia Tech and holds a MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with distinction.