Marianne O.

Ms. Marianne O, CFA MBA, is Co-founder, Principal & Portfolio Manager at Lumen Advisors LLC.
She has over twenty years of experience in researching and investing in emerging markets debt, stocks and currencies.
She co-chairs the 100 Women in Hedge Funds, Northern California chapter where she also leads the Senior Practitioner Outreach effort.
Prior to co-founding Lumen in 2002, Ms. O has been the Assistant Director and fixed income analyst for emerging markets debt at Dresdner RCM Global Investors from January 1999 to January 2002.
At DRCM, she was responsible for analyzing and investing in emerging countries sovereign bonds, currencies and corporates, with focus on Asia.
Prior to joining Dresdner RCM, she was working at Tradewinds Financial Corporation as an emerging market analyst in 1998.
Previously, she worked with Simon Nocera at LGT from 1994 to 1997 as part of the team responsible for sovereign, currency and corporate analyses and investments in emerging markets.
Before joining LGT, she was an Assistant Vice President at Citicorp International Limited in Hong Kong where she was involved in loan origination and syndication in Asian capital markets from 1987 to 1992.
She holds a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from University of California, Berkeley, a Masters of Arts Degree and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Hons) from the University of Cambridge in England and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.