Corey Ribotsky Info

For those in the hedge fund industry like Corey Ribotsky, the LSE Alternative Investments Conference was the right venue to learn more this week. Conducted by the LSE SU Alternative Investments Society, the full day conference on January 23rd included a line-up to rival any. Keynotes were given by Gillian Tett, Peter Clarke and Randall Dillard. In the afternoon, four top global macro managers judged the LSE AIC Best Trade Idea Segment.

January 24th was then the Private Equity Day and focused on global macroeconomic environment issues with the keynote by Glenn Hutchins. The day was filled with discussions from Lord Stanley Fink, David Novak, Vindi Banga, High Langmuir and others. In the afternoon, they showcased two interactive segments. One, entitled “Behind the Blue” included Willy Burkhardt.

Sometimes, all it takes is one person and an idea. In early 1988, Bruce Cleland of Towson, Maryland gathered friends together to train for the New York City marathon – and to do so while raising funds for blood cancer research. His daughter, who was five at the time, was battling leukemia. Cleland and his friends ended up donating $320,000 that year to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, where so many donors, like Corey Ribotsky, help to make a difference.

And with ihs efforts, the Team In Training program was born. LLS asked Cleland to replicate the idea that he had in 1988 in other locations, and he slowly created the Team In Training model.

Now, Georgia Cleland, that little girl who was given a 55% chance of survival, just finished her first half-marathon with Team In Training. And, thanks to her father’s idea, the Team In Training program has reached over half a million people who have trained in the last 23 years and has raised more than $1.2 billion in research.