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Jeremy Tennenbaum is a Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor of Saber Partners, LLC.
Mr. Tennenbaum supports Saber Partners' clients through a unique blend of corporate
development, investment banking, and research experience. He has a successful track record of
identifying, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies of all sizes and in all
geographies (with a particular focus on Europe and North Asia).
He is a strong analyst with deep company knowledge, extending well beyond the numbers to
their cultures, histories, management style, and core competencies. He is also skilled at thinking
about industry dynamics: the basis for competition, the impact of market share changes, relations
among players, and the likely impact of structural change. Mr. Tennenbaum also spends
significant time thinking about long-term trends and the implications of changes in technology,
regulation, or competitive dynamicsgovernment policy. Lastly, he is as adept at the human side
of negotiation and deal-making as at working the numbers. He has successfully mapped out
targets, figured out how the other company is organized, how decisions are made, looking at
interactions among people with whom one is negotiating, moving the ball forward.
Mr. Tennenbaum was most recently chief investment officer of Arlon Group, the investment arm of Continental Grain, and head of Arlon Asset Management. Mr. Tennenbaum joined Conti, a privately-held agribusiness concern controlled by the Fribourg family, as head of investments in 2005. He initially focused on creating an asset allocation strategy, followed by the creation and deployment of the legal entities needed to support three investment "pools":
-- Monies placed with outside managers of marketable (stocks, bonds, futures, etc.) and non-marketable (buy-out and venture capital funds) assets.
-- Shorter-term trading in equities, options, and futures (both long and short).
-- Direct investments, both control and non-control stakes.
Mr. Tennenbaum is a former Executive Vice President of Seagate Technology, where he was
responsible for a number of functions including: mergers and acquisitions, new business
development, strategic planning, and running the firm's venture capital portfolio. Mr.
Tennenbaum achieved four key goals during his tenure at Seagate: sharpening the company's
focus on entering new markets, establishing a robust, cross-functional strategic planning process,
identifying targets for corporate development initiatives, and rationalizing the company's venture
fund and new business initiatives.
He spent much of his time initiating strategic dialogues with prospective customers in new markets and worked extensively with marketing and sales to sharpen Seagate's focus on emerging applications. He also implemented a process to devote a significant portion of the R&D budget to new concepts, played a key role in determining future product strategy as one of the EVPs serving on the committee that approved and funded Seagate's product portfolio, drove structural changes as a member of the Technology Steering Council and the Corporate Management Committee, and helped increase employee choices and reduce expenses as a member of the Benefits Committee.
Prior to Seagate, Mr. Tennenbaum worked for close to a decade in the asset management business as a senior research analyst at Wellington Management Company, LLC, where he pioneered global coverage of the automotive, capital goods, multi-industry, and imaging sectors, mastering a variety of accounting standards and traveling extensively around the world.
He advised portfolio managers on stock recommendations and managed an $850 million portion of the firm's research portfolio. Mr. Tennenbaum was recognized for his achievements by being twice named to Institutional Investor magazine's "Best of the Buy Side" list and by being recognized four years in a row by Reuters as one of the top analysts/portfolio managers in three of its surveys: large U.S., medium/small U.S., and large international companies.
Before coming to Wellington, he worked for half a dozen years at Salomon Brothers Inc, first as a
sell-side analyst covering the defense electronics and computer services sectors, and then as a new
business specialist for the mergers and acquisitions department. He generated $15 million in fees
from a dozen assignments secured through two master "pitch books" authored about the coming
consolidation in the aerospace and auto parts industries.
Mr. Tennenbaum earned his SM in finance (the equivalent of an MBA) from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and has a bachelor's degree in politics from Princeton University.
April, 2009
 Jeremy Tennenbaum profile in Institutional Investor magazine
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