Tayfun is a Senior Vice President at iCapital. Before joining iCapital, he was a SVP at Mesirow. Previously, Tayfun held positions at Morningstar in the Multi-Asset and Alternatives group, where he was on the Ratings Committee, and at Alpha Performance Partners and XE Capital Management LLC, a fixed-income, multi-strategy hedge fund where he managed a $150 million multi-strategy portfolio. He began his investing career as a bond trader at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Istanbul. Tayfun holds a bachelor’s degree in finance, cum laude, and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.