Wainscott Capital’s Founder Thomas Gilbert Killed; Son Charged With Murder

The elder Gilbert spent decades investing in stocks, as well as private-equity, real estate and fixed-income markets, before starting his fund in 2011, according to Wainscott's website. It focuses on biotechnology and health-care investments.

Wainscott reported assets of $7.3 million and returns of 10.6 percent through November, according to an investor who has seen the fund's performance and asset data. It had three-year annualized returns of 22.5 percent, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.

The elder Gilbert previously co-founded Syzygy Therapeutics, a biotech private-equity firm, where he stayed for a little more than a year, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before that, he was founder and chief executive officer of Knowledge Delivery Systems Inc., a provider of online teacher education where he worked for a decade. He also had worked as a managing director at Loeb Partners Corp., where he spent seven years in its private-equity group.

The investor was a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Princeton University and Harvard Business School, according to his profile.

The son, a graduate of Deerfield Academy and Princeton University, according to his Facebook page, had made preparations to follow in his father's money-management footsteps. In May of last year he filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise money for a hedge fund, Mameluke Capital. The address for the fund was the same as an address listed for Gilbert Jr. in public records.