New partner at Westport’s CastleKeep Investment Advisors

CastleKeep Investment Advisors LLC, a Westport-based independent Registered Investment Advisor serving high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families, has recruited Mike Benevento as a new partner.

Benevento was previously a portfolio manager at Millennium Management, a global alternative investment platform with over $58 billion in assets. He has also held portfolio manager and analyst roles at several hedge funds including Bronson Point Management, Hilltop Park Associates and Pequot Capital Management. He was also the founder and chief investment officer of DYAD Capital Management LLC, a long/short equity hedge fund that launched in 2006.

Outside of CastleKeep, Benevento is a founding member and the current chairman of the board of the New Canaan Athletic Foundation, a public-private partnership with the Town of New Canaan. He is also a frequent guest lecturer at the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University and the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing and was an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.