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H. Scott Silverman is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Agman Partners (Agman) and has responsibility across all investment and philanthropic activities of the firm.
Agman practices an opportunistic value approach to investing, with an emphasis on high conviction and long duration positions. The firm applies the same principles to its philanthropic activities.
Under Scott’s leadership, Agman has established a substantial portfolio of real estate in the central US, through the development, acquisition and management of numerous residential and commercial properties. Recent high profile investments include conversion of the nearly 125 year old Chicago Athletic Association into a luxury hotel adjacent to Millennium Park, and acquisition of West Glen Town Center, a Class A lifestyle mall in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Agman oversees a concentrated portfolio of hedge fund and private equity managers, focused on traditional value and distress investment opportunities, and have been an early investor in several funds. Agman has also played a significant role in a number of private investments, including supporting the formation and financing of numerous venture and growth stage finance, technology and life science companies.
Scott serves on the Board of Directors of Seldin Company and various affiliates; and the Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Research Center. He is also a member of YPO (Chicago).
Prior to Agman, Scott worked at Atlas Venture and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). 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. He graduated first in his class from The Latin School of Chicago.
Jeff Silverman is a co-founder and Chairman 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".
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, envisioning peace.. . Jeffrey is especially proud of an effort he spearheaded to enhance global energy savings through the Silverman Evergreen Energy Fund which he founded at MIT. That fund has influenced a projected 10 year savings for just MIT of $50 million. For his many contributions, to Israel and the Friends of the IDF, Jeff was recognized as the Chicago FIDF "Man-of-the-Year" with the 2009 Binyamin Netanyahu Award.
Recently, Jeffrey was asked to be Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Israel's premier think tank, the Institute for National Securities Studies (INSS).
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