our team
The Crawford Lake Capital team members are seasoned professionals with significant combined industry experience. We pride ourselves on cultivating a strong, values-oriented culture and advancing personal and professional growth of employees in a cordial environment, while remaining focused on providing an excellent investor experience.
Jeff Schachter
President & Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Schachter joined Crawford Lake as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2015. Prior to joining
Crawford Lake, from 2011 to 2015, Mr. Schachter was the co-founder and Managing Partner of Avet
Capital Management, a long/short biotech equity hedge fund partially seeded by Julian Robertson of
Tiger Management. From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Schachter was a Managing Director at Helios Advisors LLC,
a $580 million New York based multi-strategy hedge fund. From 2009 to 2010, Mr. Schachter was Head
of Marketing for Greystone, Inc., a real estate company with approximately $10 billion in assets. From
2004 to 2009, Mr. Schachter co-founded and built Cedarview Capital Management into a $680 million
alternative asset manager focusing in the high yield bond and leverage loan markets. Mr. Schachter
began his Wall Street career in 1995 at Jefferies & Company in high yield sales and trading and spent 9
years on the sell-side at various investment banks. Mr. Schachter received a Juris Doctor degree from
Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1990, and a B.A. degree in
Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986, where he graduated with Phi Beta
Kappa honors.