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'''Jeffrey Tarrant''' is an American investor. He is the founder, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Protégé Partners, a firm specializing in [[Seed money|seeding]] and early stage investing in [[hedge funds]]. He is also a founding partner of film production company [[Candescent Films]].

==Education==
Tarrant received a BA in economics from the [[University of California, Davis]] in 1978, and an MBA from [[Harvard Business School]] in 1985.

==Career==
===Early career===
After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tarrant joined Berkeley Asset Management in Berkeley, California, as vice president, co-managing the [[Sequoia Fund]], one of the first fund of hedge funds in the United States. He went on to manage assets for private family fortunes, including [[Sidney Kimmel]] (film producer and founder of the [[Jones Apparel Group]]). For the [[Thurn und Taxis]] family of Germany, he managed their marketable securities hedge fund portfolio and investments in the US, UK and Europe. InvestorForce purchased it in 2000, and it was made a division of investment research firm [[Morningstar, Inc.|Morningstar]] in 2006.

===Protégé Partners===
Tarrant served from 1998 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), an investment advisory firm for charitable foundations, and advised TIFF on building its first hedge fund of funds. Tarrant initially served as chief investment officer and chief executive officer, with Seides as president. Seides took over as co-CIO in 2011 until leaving the firm in 2015, at which point Tarrant resumed his role as sole CIO.

Tarrant is featured in [[Gregory Zuckerman]]'s 2009 nonfiction book ''[[The Greatest Trade Ever]]'', about [[John Paulson]]'s use of credit default swaps to bet against the [[Subprime mortgage crisis|US subprime mortgage bubble]]. Tarrant and Paulson were discussing issues with the housing market as far back as 2004. Tarrant was the lead investor in Paulson's new fund, putting in $60 million on behalf of Protégé clients in 2006 (out of a total of $147 million Paulson would raise).

===Buffett bet===
In early 2008, [[Warren Buffett]] bet Protégé Partners that over a 10-year period, the [[S&P 500 Index]] would outperform a portfolio of hedge funds.

===Digital currency===
Tarrant was one of the backers of the [[MIT Media Lab]]'s Bitcoin Developer Fund. It provides financial support for the three [[bitcoin]] developers working for the Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative, which was launched in 2015 to explore issues involved in [[Blockchain (database)|blockchain]] technology and [[cryptocurrency]].

Tarrant was an investor in early iterations of [[quantitative fund|quantitative hedge fund]] investing, including [[Renaissance Technologies]]. Around 2016, he began focusing on machine learning and data science, exploring hedge funds built on concepts of artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and digital currencies.

===Documentary films===
Tarrant is a founding partner in the production company [[Candescent Films]], which was founded in 2010 to produce and finance documentary films exploring social issues. With Candescent, Tarrant has been an executive producer on films including ''Sons of the Clouds'', narrated by [[Javier Bardem]], which premiered at the [[2012 Berlin International Film Festival]] and won the [[27th Goya Awards|2013 Goya Award]] for Best Documentary Film; ''[[The Queen of Versailles]]'', which won the [[2012 Sundance Film Festival]] U.S. Directing Award for Documentary; ''Who Is Dayani Cristal?'' starring [[Gael García Bernal]], which premiered at the [[2013 Sundance Film Festival]]; and ''Trophy'', which premiered at the [[2017 Sundance Film Festival]] and was acquired by [[CNN Films]] and [[The Orchard (company)|The Orchard]]. Tarrant and [[Bill Ackman]] executive produced the 2010 documentary ''[[Smash His Camera]]'', about the life and career of paparazzi photographer [[Ron Galella]]. Directed by [[Leon Gast]], it won the US Directing Award: Documentary at the [[2010 Sundance Film Festival]] and was later picked up by [[Magnolia Pictures]] and [[HBO]].

==Philanthropy==
In 2002, Tarrant helped launch the London-based charity [[Absolute Return for Kids]].<ref name="staub"/> He is the vice chairman of its US affiliate, Friends of ARK.<ref name="rcohen"/>

In 2011, Tarrant joined the board of [[Witness (organization)|WITNESS]], a nonprofit focused on human rights issues, founded by musician [[Peter Gabriel]] and the [[Lawyers Committee for Human Rights]] in 1992. In the fall of 2016, Tarrant and Gabriel launched WITNESS Innovation Initiatives, whose goal is to collaborate with technology companies, schools, developers and activists to create human rights documenting skills.<ref name="staub"/>

==Bibliography==
* "Risikoreduzierung – Multi-Manager Portfolio – Nicht Traditioneller Investments" in ''Vermögensanlage mit ausgewogenem Risiko'', Roger C. Gibson, editor, Germany: Verlag Moderne Industry, 1990.
* "Hedge Fund Investing: A Private Family Perspective" in ''Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies'', Second Edition, Ronald A. Lake, editor, London: Euromoney Books, 1999.
* "The Life Cycle of Hedge Fund Managers" in ''Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies'', Third Edition, Ronald A. Lake, editor, London: Euromoney Books, chapter 21, pp. 269-77, 2003.

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:30px;"| Year
! style="width:120px;"| Title
! style="width:120px;"| Credited as
! style="width:250px;"| Notes
|-
| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center;"| 2006
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[God Grew Tired of Us]]''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"| Won [[2006 Sundance Film Festival]] Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Audience Award: Documentary
|-
| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center;"| 2007
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[The Third Wave (2007 film)|The Third Wave]]''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center;"| 2010
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[Smash His Camera]]''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"| Won [[2010 Sundance Film Festival]] U.S. Directing Award: Documentary; nominated for 2011 [[News & Documentary Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming; nominated for 2011 [[PGA Award]] for Documentary Producing
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"| 2012
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[The Queen of Versailles]]''
| style="text-align:left;"| Co-executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"| Won [[2012 Sundance Film Festival]] U.S. Directing Award: Documentary; nominated for [[65th Directors Guild of America Awards|DGA Award]] for Documentary Directing
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| ''Sons of the Clouds''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"| Won [[27th Goya Awards|2013 Goya Award]] for Best Documentary Film
|-
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;"| 2013
| style="text-align:left;"| ''Who Is Dayani Cristal?''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"| Won [[2013 Sundance Film Festival]] Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| ''Remote Area Medical''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
|
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| ''Likeness''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"| Short film; nominated for 2014 [[Webby Award]] for Drama: Long Form or Series
|-
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;"| 2017
| style="text-align:left;"| ''The Departure''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| ''Fantasy Island''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| ''Trophy''
| style="text-align:left;"| Executive producer
| style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|}

==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]
[[Category:People of the industry]]
==See Also on BitcoinWiki==
* [[BIP UNOFFICIAL DRAFT 0]]
* [[BIP 0109]]
* [[BIP 0062]]
* [[BIP 0130]]
* [[BIP 0122]]

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