personal Bio

Mark Corigliano founded Corigliano Investment Advisers and manages the Energy Security Fund, a long/short equity fund in the oil & gas and energy transition sectors. He was employed at DUMAC, Inc., the investment management company of Duke University, from 2014 to 2022. In 2017, he was named Head of the Private Investments Team, a group of approximately eight investment professionals with responsibility for roughly half of DUMAC’s capital. Prior to this appointment, he co-led the Public Securities Team, which oversees DUMAC’s investments in equities, hedge funds, and commodities. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He instructed a class on Alternative Energy and lectured on commodity investing and alternative investments. In 2009, Mr. Corigliano founded Belltower Advisors LLC, a $200 million investment management firm that utilized a long/short equity strategy to generate superior risk-adjusted returns in the energy, mining, and materials sectors. Prior to founding Belltower Advisors, he invested in a similar fashion with New York-based Proxima Alfa Investments. Mr. Corigliano initiated his investment career at DUMAC where he managed a $200 million portfolio of private equity investments in the natural resources sector and implemented a unique and successful commodity futures trading program. He started his career with Schlumberger, the world’s largest oil service company, where he performed engineering services in the Gulf of Mexico for major exploration and production companies. Mr. Corigliano received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. (beta gamma sigma) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a CFA charter holder.