Dwight Anderson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ospraie. Mr. Anderson launched the original Ospraie Fund in 1999 in partnership with Tudor Investment Corporation (“Tudor”), where he served as Head of the Basic Industries Group before establishing Ospraie as an independent firm in 2004. Prior to joining Tudor, Mr. Anderson was a Managing Director at Tiger Management in charge of the Basic Industries and Commodities Group.
Mr. Anderson has served on numerous boards of directors of companies in various sectors of the commodity industry. Additionally, he serves on the boards of trustees of NYU Langone Medical Center, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the United States Olympic Committee.
He holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina and an AB in history from Princeton University. Mr. Anderson has been a recipient of the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Young Alumni Award and its MBA Alumni Merit Award. In 2008, he was inducted into NYU’s Sir Harold Acton Society. In addition, Mr. Anderson was the 2016 recipient of the Princeton in Africa Founder’s Medal.
Jason Mraz is the Co-Founder and President of Ospraie Management. Since 2010, Mr. Mraz has focused on Ospraie’s business development and private investments. He organized and led the development of the Ospraie Ag-Science (“OAS”) team and platform with the catalytic investments in Beeflow in late 2017 and Marrone Bio in early 2018. He managed the OAS team through 19 investments in AG-tech companies ranging from early seed-stage partnerships to public holdings. The OAS team deployed over $220mm over a seven-year investment term.
While actively engaged in all of the Ag-Scienc portfolio companies, Mr. Mraz represents Ospraie Ag-Science on the boards of directors of Beefflow and IGS – Intelligent Growth Solutions, and he also serves on the board of Five Rivers Cattle Feeders for Ospraie Management. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mraz was the Co-Portfolio Manager for Ospraie Real Return and Ospraie Real Return Enhanced Funds, actively managed long-only commodity index funds with $1.5bb in AUM. From 1999 to 2009, he ran all trading activities and related personnel for Ospraie Management.
Mr. Mraz’s career has been focused on the financial markets for over 30 years, beginning when he joined JPMorgan in 1989. He began his career trading foreign bonds and currencies and spent his last four years at the bank as the long bond sector trader on the U.S. Treasury desk. In the summer of 1999, Mr. Mraz joined Dwight Anderson to form Ospraie in partnership with Tudor Investment Corporation.
He holds an AB in political science from Princeton University. In his personal time, Mr. Mraz serves on the board of Concarlo Therapeutics, a pre-clinical oncology company, and on the Board of Advisors for the Princeton Varsity Club.
