Meet The Team
    Rob Albright

    From 1989-1990, Mr. Albright was an associate in the Boston office of the LEK Partnership, a strategy consulting firm. In 1991, Mr. Albright joined Cargill, where he held a number of management positions. He joined Cargill's equity arbitrage desk in 1991. His experience there included index arbitrage globally, convertible bond arbitrage and "pairs trading". From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Albright was the senior trader and systems architect on the municipal bond arbitrage desk before moving to Geneva and then London to develop and manage Cargill's emerging Europe/Africa equity operations. After returning to the United States, Mr. Albright managed the North American equity arbitrage desk at Cargill until his departure in 1998. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Albright was the Chief Investment Officer of EW Blanch Asset Management, an alternative investment business focused on the insurance industry. In early 2001, Mr. Albright became a founding Principal of Alternative Strategy Advisers, which manages hedge funds and managed accounts for institutions and high net worth individuals. Mr. Albright received a B.A. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College in 1989 and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2001. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and completing a Masters in Applied Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.  Outside of work, Mr. Albright has two young children and is active in his church, kids’ schools, and in philanthropic efforts addressing education quality, veterans affairs, and health and human services in the Twin Cities.
    Randy Jacobus

    From 1988-1992, Mr. Jacobus was employed by Cargill Financial Services Corporation ("Cargill") as a trader on the fixed income desk. While at Cargill, he played an integral part in the development of and trading of the Non-Dollar Bond and Municipal books. Mr. Jacobus joined Eagle Capital Management, Inc. ("Eagle") as Global Fixed Income Manager and Principal in 1992. In 1994, he became Vice President/Treasurer and a shareholder of Eagle. While at Eagle, Mr. Jacobus managed the Global Sovereign Debt desk as well as the Municipal Arbitrage Desk. From 1998 until June 2001, Mr. Jacobus was employed by Delphi Financial Group as a Senior Investment Officer overseeing approximately $3 billion in assets while actively trading the Municipal position. In early 2001, Mr. Jacobus became a founding Principal of Alternative Strategy Advisers LLC. Mr. Jacobus also has experience as a floor trader on the New York Futures Exchange. Mr. Jacobus graduated from Dartmouth College in 1987 with a B. A. in Economics and Mathematics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and has completed a Masters in Applied Mathematics (M.S.) from the University of Minnesota.
    Tim Stevens

    Tim Stevens is Chief Financial Officer of ASA and its affiliates. From 1989-1993, Mr. Stevens was an auditor at Price Waterhouse in New York, working primarily with financial service clients such as mutual funds, employee benefit plans, pension trusts, and transfer agents. In 1993, he joined Lehman Brothers in New York where his experiences included performing various middle office financial control and risk management functions with the proprietary trading and international equity desks. In 1995, Mr. Stevens moved to the London office of Lehman Brothers to perform the same functions for the international fixed income desk. After returning to the U.S. in 1995, Mr. Stevens joined Jeffery Slocum & Associates, Inc. in Minneapolis as a Consultant and Director of Finance and Operations. As a Consultant, Mr. Stevens provided strategic investment advice on investment policy, asset allocation, and investment manger selection decisions for traditional and alternative investments. Institutional clients included corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, insurance trusts and family offices. As Director of Finance and Operations, Mr. Stevens was responsible for all aspects of the financial management of the firm, human resources, and SEC compliance. From 2003-2004, Mr. Stevens was the Chief Financial Officer of Highbar Capital Management LLC, a statistical arbitrage private investment fund, where he was responsible for all aspects of the firm's financial, administrative, compliance, and client service operations. Mr. Stevens joined Alternative Strategy Advisers LLC in 2005 and became a partner in 2015. Mr. Stevens received his B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
    Susan Peters

    Susan Peters is Chief Technology Officer for ASA. She has also been very active in the financing of ASA's positions as required. Ms. Peters joined ASA in 2004 and became a partner in 2018.  She attended the University of Minnesota where she graduated first in her class from the Department of Computer Science in 2004 and went on to complete a Masters of Financial Math at the University of Minnesota in 2013.