2025-10-17 –, Presentation Side
Key Note #2
Key Note #2
Dr. Hohns founded Newmarket in 2020 with the buy-out of the IIFC strategy platform, which he and his colleagues launched in 2012 with Mariner Investment Group. He has served on the Investment Committees for IIFC I, IIFC II, IIFC III, and IIFC IV since inception. Since the establishment of IIFC, Dr. Hohns has overseen transaction structuring and negotiation for approximately $50 billion of notional risk transfer. He has been a regular speaker at various industry conferences, with special expertise in topics related to infrastructure, securitization, socially responsible investment, impact investment, and development finance. Prior to joining Mariner, Dr. Hohns was a Managing Director at Cohen & Company, which he joined at its inception in 2001. While at Cohen & Company, Institutional Investor named Dr. Hohns as a member of its 2008 “20 Rising Stars of Fixed Income.” Additionally, Dr. Hohns served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Hohns holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in Liberal Arts from the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Applied Economics and Managerial Sciences from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hohns serves as a member of the Board of Directors of FTAC Emerald Acquisition Corp. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and Investment Committee of Battery Finance Inc., an affiliate of Newmarket, where since its founding, he has served as President. Dr. Hohns also is a member of the Board of Directors of UNICEF USA.