Jeff Baehr
Founder of Praxis Rock Advisors
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2023 - Current
At Praxis Rock, we work with investment management firms, corporates, and intermediaries to adopt cutting-edge AI, data, and automation technologies for various applications, including proprietary deal origination, fundraising, M&A, relationship management, and business development. We partner with our clients to establish this state-of-the-art infrastructure, which they own, and provide ongoing support in its operation, ensuring seamless integration and long-term success.
Founder & CEO
2015
We are a next generation private investment firm with a unique model for our investors to access the private markets. In addition to making principal investments in venture to growth stage companies, we offer our family office, institutional, and strategic investors access to vetted direct and co-investment opportunities. RueOne supplements the traditional fund structure by allowing our investors to participate in individual venture capital and private equity transactions with the benefit of our sourcing, structuring, due diligence, domain expertise, and professional management.
Founder & CIO
2007 - 2014
I was the Founder & CIO of Empiric Asset Management, a quantitative based hedge fund I founded in 2007. The Empiric Strategic Income Funds & Empiric Market Neutral Funds outperformed equity indices.
Director of Research
2004 - 2007
ARIS Capital Management is a fund of funds that employs a global multi-strategy investment approach. During my tenure at ARIS, I was responsible for sourcing new managers in addition to conducting investment and operational due diligence on potential fund investments. I had experience with all of the investment strategies while specializing in energy and special situations. I also built a suite of proprietary tools designed to quantitatively analyze the performance of funds and portfolios. Finally, I sat on the investment committee and had direct input in all investment decisions.
Analyst
2003 - 2004
Alternative Investment Group in the World Bank's Pension Fund. Conducted all aspects of the investment process, from initial manager screening to strategy analysis, due diligence, investment recommendation, term negotiation and portfolio allocation.
The World Bank Group provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries.
Raised $81,000,000.00 from Northern Trust, QBE Insurance Group, NSW Treasury Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, SAFA, Aware Super and Treasury Corporation of Victoria.
Analyst
2003 - 2003
Deutsche Bank Advisors
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.
Analyst (part time)
2001 - 2003
The Carlyle Group's former fund of funds unit now The Rock Creek Group.
Carlyle Global Partners (CGP), the firm’s first long-dated private equity fund.
Analyst
1998 - 2000
PerTrac Financial Solutions provides analytic and workflow solutions and analytical platforms for investment professionals.
Raised $63,000,000.00 from Insight Partners.