Hatteras Funds, an asset management firm that specializes in making alternative investing strategies available in mutual fund formats, as well as other products, to advisors, named Brian Jacobs as CEO on Wednesday, April 28. Jacobs will take on the chief executive duties at Hatteras, which manages $1.8 billion in assets, currently held by its founder David Perkins, who remains chairman of the Raleigh, North Carolina-based firm.
Most recently, Jacobs was chief distribution officer at Baron Capital. Before that, he was a managing director in charge of sales and distribution at Allianz Global Investors/PIMCO, where he spent eight years (2000-2008); prior to that position, he was director of sales at Eaton Vance.