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Kurt Nelson

Partner

Kurt Nelson is a partner at SummerHaven Investment Management where he manages investor relations and product structuring. He was a managing director for UBS until July 2009, where he recently led the successful effort to acquire and integrate AIG’s commodity index business. Kurt was a supervisory committee member for both the Dow-Jones UBS Commodity Index and the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Index. In April 2008, he led the effort to launch the UBS exchange traded note platform (E-TRACS). Prior to joining UBS in 2007, Kurt worked for 10 years at AIG Financial Products, and his responsibilities included provided commodity index investment solutions for institutional investors, U.S. corporations, principal dealers and private banking clients. Kurt earned his B.S. in Mathematics from The College of William & Mary.