Mr. Hagen is the Senior Resident Officer of the San Francisco office. He is responsible for business development and client account management throughout northern California and the Pacific Northwest. He has 15 years in the financial services industry.

Prior to joining Bessemer Trust, Mr. Hagen worked as an advisor to private equity firms and as the founder and managing partner of Lakeside Capital, an event driven hedge fund. He also worked as a senior executive at a public telecommunications company and oversaw its growth through $15b worth of mergers and acquisitions. From 1996 to 1999, he was an investment banker at Montgomery Securities and then at Robertson Stephens.

Prior to his career in finance, Mr. Hagen was a partner at the San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop (formerly Pillsbury Madison & Sutro) from 1983 to 1996, where he co-headed the firm’s securities litigation practice.

Mr. Hagen is on the Executive Committee of the Board of the William H. Adams Foundation for ALS Research and was instrumental in creating the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Hagen holds a B.A. in Economics from U.C. Berkeley (1980) and a J.D. from the Harvard Law School (1983). He is admitted to practice law in California and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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