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H. Scott Silverman is a co-founder and Managing Director of Agman Partners and has responsibility across all investment and philanthropic activities of the firm.
Prior to Agman Partners, Scott was a principal at Atlas Venture and a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He has played a significant role in a number of private investments, including supporting the formation and financing of numerous successful life science and technology companies. To date, these investments have generated several hundred million dollars in returns for investors.
Currently, Scott serves on the Board of Directors of Seldin Company and various affiliates; PhoneFive, a social networking start-up; and the Children’s Hospital of Chicago Research Center.
As a Keasbey Memorial Scholar, Scott received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and was awarded an Extraordinary Full Blue in water polo. Scott also graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with High Honors from Dartmouth College, where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Intern.
Scott can most often be found in Chicago or Miami Beach on a long walk with his wife, daughter, son and mini-dachshund.
Jeff Silverman is a co-founder and Managing Director of Agman Partners where he serves as Chief Investment Strategist. In the more than 40 years since graduating from MIT with a BS in Management, Jeff has applied value-investing principles to a narrow circle of commodity futures.
Highly pragmatic and a textbook Myers Briggs INTJ, Jeff was inspired by his uncle's constant questioning to become an investor. At the age of 12, after reading all the biographies he recognized, Jeff went to the library and started over at ‘A’. He did not make it very far, before discovering Bernard Baruch “a financier, arbitrageur and advisor to Presidents”. Jeff also admires the trading prowess of Jay Gould as depicted in Edward J. Renehan's "The Dark Genius of Wall Street".
As a trader, Jeff is always viewing the world a little differently than conventional wisdom would suggest. In his own words, “Sometimes you make money, and other times you contribute to liquidity”.
Jeff applies the same intensity and creative synthesis to his other interests. Previously, Jeff served on the Board of Directors of the CME (Nasdaq: CME) as a popularly elected Director from the Exchange Community and also chaired various committees, including Technology Oversight and Strategic Planning. He recently joined the Advisory Committee for MIT's Center for International Studies, chaired by Admiral William Fallon (retired) and is a member of both the Political Science and Economics Visiting Committees at MIT. Jeff also supported an international competition at MIT: The Jerusalem 2050 Project. More details regarding this unique scholarship program are available at envisioningpeace.org. More recently, Jeff supports Israel in various ways. He was instrumental in re-designing the FIDF's underperforming "Adopt a Battalion" program. Today, the program is fully subscribed and raises more than $4M USD annually. For his many contributions, Jeff was recognized as FIDF "Man-of-the-Year" with the 2009 Binyamin Netanyahu Award.
Jeff lives in Chicago and Miami and travels the world regularly in search of inspiration and opportunity.
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