Benjamin E. Nickoll

Nickoll Benjamin

Benjamin E. Nickoll

Managing Partner El Faro Partners

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Managing Partner
El Faro Partners

Mr. Ben Nickoll is the Managing Partner of El Faro Partners, a Holding Company with interests in Real Estate, Credit and Private Equity. Prior to founding El Faro Mr. Nickoll was the CIO of Ore Hill Partners, an event driven hedge fund firm he Co-Founded in 2002 with Frederick Wahl and later sold to the Man Group. He began his career on Wall Street in 1986 at Lehman Brothers where he ran their High Yield Trading operation. He subsequently was Managing Director and Head of Global High Yield Trading at Morgan Stanley.

He is a 1986 graduate of the Honors College at UCLA with distinction in History and currently sits on the boards of the Fink Center of Finance at the Anderson School of Business and the History Department. He serves of the board of the Steeprock Association, Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust and Agrovision Corporation. He is married with two children and lives in Connecticut.