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Mr. Maounis serves as Principal and Chief Executive Officer at Verition, overseeing the investment activities of the firm, including the allocation of capital across strategies. He has also been the President and Chief Investment Officer of Amaranth Advisors LLC and related advisory entities (ā€œAmaranthā€). Prior to that, Mr. Maounis spent over a decade as a Portfolio Manager for Paloma Partners Management Company and affiliated entities (ā€œPPMCā€). In this role Mr. Maounis was personally responsible for trading a large convertible-arbitrage portfolio and for managing up to 25 traders and assistants employing a variety of investment strategies. Previously, Mr. Maounis managed U.S. convertible-arbitrage portfolios for Angelo Gordon & Co. and LF Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, where he was a Senior Vice President in charge of all convertible-arbitrage trading. Mr. Maounis graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.