Jack Hattem

Jack Hattem, CFA, Managing Director, is the Deputy CIO of BlackRock’s Obsidian platform which includes The BlackRock Obsidian Fund, a global fixed income multi-strategy hedge fund, and The Obsidian Relative Value Strategy.  Mr. Hattem has oversight of the Derivatives Alpha platform within the Fundamental Fixed Income group and is a co-Chair of the firm’s Steering Committee on LIBOR transition.

Previously, he was the head of interest rate derivatives strategies within BlackRock Fixed Income. He began his investment career as an analyst in BlackRock’s Portfolio Analytics Group in 2000, where he was responsible for analytics and risk management for BlackRock’s alternative investment products, before joining the Portfolio Management Group in 2003.

Mr. Hattem serves on the Board of Directors of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and is a member of the Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC).  He is a regular guest lecturer at Columbia Business School.  He earned a BA degree, cum laude, in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000.