Jewel Huijnen is an Associate at J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management. Prior to joining JPMAAM in 2008, Jewel Huijnen was an Associate Director in the Hedge Funds area of Bear Stearns Asset Management where she worked on both BSAM-managed hedge funds, as well as externally seeded hedge funds. Prior to joining BSAM in 2007, Jewel worked as a Fund of Funds Analyst at the $5B hedge fund investment adviser (currently New Holland Capital) of the $250B Dutch APG pension fund, where she managed investments in pioneering hedge fund strategies. Prior to joining APG, she was a Strategy Consultant at Accenture in Europe working with companies such as Societe General, Paribas and Unilever.

Jewel holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School and an MS in Industrial Design Engineering with highest academic honors from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

In 2005, Jewel co-founded the Wharton Hedge Fund Network in New York, a professional association of 700+ Wharton alumni in the hedge fund industry.

You can contact Jewel at whfn@whartonny.com