Mr. Stober joined Crawford Lake in 2018. Prior to joining Crawford Lake, from 2007 to 2018, Mr. Stober was a Managing Director of Investment Banking with Axiom Capital, where he focused on basic industries, tech, clean-tech, mining and health care. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Stober was the Director of Research with Dahlman Rose & Co., a maritime shipping and energy supply-chain focused investment bank. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Stober was a Senior Analyst with Goldsmith & Harris Inc., an investment boutique and broker-dealer. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Stober served as the President and Chief Investment Officer of Greystone Partners, a multi-strategy hedge fund. From 1986 to 1996, Mr. Stober was a WSJ All-Star analyst with Morgan Stanley (Dean Witter) covering the chemical industry where he participated in several billion dollars of financings and M&A transactions. Mr. Stober began his investment career in 1985 with Trust Company of The West in Los Angeles working for industry legend Howard Marks in the high yield debt group. Since 2005, Mr. Stober has served on the Board of directors of FilterSafe Ltd., a private company that is a world leader in self-cleaning mechanical filters. Mr. Stober received his M.B.A. from the Johnson School at Cornell University in 1985, and a B.A. degree from Queens College, City University of New York in 1982. Mr. Stober is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and has passed the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) examination.