Founder
Jie Hayes is the Founder and Principal of Songbird Capital LLC, with over 25 years of investment experience. She launched the firm in 2011 after serving as Vice President at Citi’s Hedge Fund Management Group, which oversaw more than $12 billion at its peak. At Citi Alternative Investments (CAI), she managed risk for $3.5 billion in hedge fund-managed accounts, expanding her responsibilities to include strategy research, manager due diligence and selection, and portfolio construction for institutional clients and Citi’s global fund-of-hedge-fund platforms. Her contributions included developing a proprietary index to replicate merger arbitrage strategy returns and leading a feasibility study for an Asia-focused fund of hedge funds.
Earlier, Jie served as a risk manager at PlusFunds from 1999 to 2001, and she began her career in 1992 as a commodity trader in China. In 1995, she developed a profitable coffee arbitrage strategy.
At Songbird Capital, her recent research has focused on digital transformation and energy transition—two megatrends driving the firm’s thematic investment strategies. Songbird Capital Institutional was created to serve institutional investors in these focus areas.
Jie is also deeply committed to philanthropy and education. Since 2018, the Songbird Scholarship at Baruch College’s Global MS Program has supported three graduate students annually. Songbird also supports Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute’s Tuned-In program and various nonprofits through volunteer work and donations.
Jie has served on the Princeton United Methodist Church Endowment Committee since 2009 and was previously a member of the board of the United Methodist Stewardship Foundation of Greater New Jersey. She was featured on Beijing TV’s "Chinese Women on Wall Street" and received the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business award in 2017.
She holds an MBA from Baruch College (CUNY) and has been a Chartered Financial Risk Manager (FRM) since 2000. Born in China, she is fluent in Chinese.
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