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
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.
Nathan Ebeling
Nathan Ebeling is a Partner at Ospraie Management and the Head of Ospraie Real Assets, where he leads a 15+ person team managing $1bb+ in private assets across agriculture, metals, and energy. Mr. Ebeling is actively engaged across the 17 portfolio investments and currently serves on the board of Peacock Nuts, a large pistachio ranch in Arizona. In 2015, he led Ospraie’s joint venture in founding Pandion, a metals and mining private equity business, and served on the investment committee and board of directors.
Previously, Mr. Ebeling held positions at Ospraie overseeing trading and research for the hedge fund business, as well as serving as a portfolio manager. Prior to joining Ospraie, Mr. Ebeling was a Vice President in the J. Aron Commodities Group at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Ebeling was a Field Artillery Officer and was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.
Mr. Ebeling graduated with a BBA in finance, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.
Scott Baglio
Scott Baglio is the General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Operating Officer at Ospraie. Mr. Baglio is engaged in product structuring, deal transactions for ORA and OAS, and other legal matters relating to firm and portfolio company operations, and he is also responsible for oversight of the firm’s non-investment functions. Mr. Baglio has worked with Ospraie for numerous years, both directly as a partner and employee and as the Managing Partner of ParkRiver Fund Solutions, a spinout of Ospraie’s middle and back office that was established to provide non-investment infrastructure to a platform of asset managers. In that role, Mr. Baglio oversaw the day-to-day activities of the platform and advised on the operations of numerous hedge fund, venture capital, and private equity investment management firms.
Previously, Mr. Baglio worked as a Senior Attorney covering alternative investments in Morgan Stanley’s Global Wealth Management Group. He also held positions in the Investment Management Group of Schulte Roth & Zabel and the Private Equity Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Mr. Baglio holds a JD, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Fordham Law Review, and a BA, cum laude, from Boston College.
