Nate joined Blue Heron in 2025 as Chairman. He brings two decades of experience in investment research and business leadership. Before joining Blue Heron, Nate spent over eight years at Mission Holdings, where he built the firm’s investment research team overseeing liquid capital investments across public and private markets. He previously was the Chief Investment Officer at Angel Island Partners, a hedge fund. Earlier in his career, he was an analyst at Farallon Capital affiliate Noonday Asset Management, and an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company. Nate received an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he was valedictorian of the mathematics department.