One of the most senior women in the hedge fund industry has made a big hire

Greenberg is one of the industry’s rare female hedge fund managers. Some estimates put the number of hedge funds led by women at less than 2% of the industry total.

She is also one of the industry’s most senior women, and held a partner position at Paulson & Co. where she headed the group that invests in the media/cable/satellite and consumer sector.

Her new stock-focused firm nabbed a $130 million seed investment from Ramius earlier this year. Ramius also backed another woman hedge fund manager, Nancy Davis’ Quadratic Capital, whose macro fund just had its best day ever after Brexit.

Other anticipated hedge fund launches this year include ones by:

• Ravi Chopra, who is in the early stages of starting a long/short equity fund, according to people familiar with the matter. Chopra, who focuses on financial stocks, previously worked for multi-billion Samlyn Capital until this year and a SAC Capital subsidiary, Sigma Capital, from 2003 to 2006. The firm has yet to be named.
• Ben Melkman, a former Brevan Howard partner, whose nascent New York macro fund is planning to bring on a Goldman Sachs partner.
• Josh Dornfeld and Dave Rogers, who worked at George Soros’s family office and are backed by legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller.