Team

YCM was founded by a team of seasoned Wall Street professionals with over 100 years of combined investment experience who share a common passion for investing.

YCM team members manage their own capital alongside that of our investors to ensure our interests are aligned with those of our investors.

YCM developed an objective compensation structure that links performance compensation to the achievement of a strategy’s investment objectives.

Darren R. Schuringa, MBA, CFA was previously a Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager with Estabrook Capital Management where he managed over $1.0B of fund, institutional and individual assets. At Estabrook, Mr. Schuringa was responsible for separately managed accounts; in addition, he served as co-manager of the Bank of NY Hamilton Large Cap Value fund (BCPVX), a Morningstar five-star rated fund, and of an institutional collective trust (a multi-cap value trust) from the date of each fund’s inception to the time of his departure..

Mr. Schuringa received a BA in Finance from the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada, and an MBA in Finance from the Crummer School at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

George B. Clairmont, MBA, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Clairvest Corporation, brings 36 years of investment experience to Yorkville. He launched his investment career in 1972 at Citibank as an equity portfolio manager, subsequently working in real estate investments. In 1983 he formed Clairvest Corporation, an investment firm that manages various assets including equities, bonds, and real estate.

Mr Clairmont has served as director on two NYSE and two NASDAQ boards as well as on the boards of two private equity companies. From 1991 to 2006 he was the Principal on two private real estate investment trusts which owned and managed both residential and commercial properties. His activities have been reported in major business publications and he has appeared on several television programs; he has also co-authored a book, Street Smart Investing, published by Random House in 1983. The book became a Fortune magazine book club selection.

George B. Clairmont received his BA from Swarthmore College and his MBA from Columbia University.

James A. Hug, MBA joined Yorkville after serving with the investment firm Janney Montgomery Scott for over 20 years where he conducted independent research and portfolio management. Prior to his work with Janney, Jim was a Partner and Portfolio Manager with Adams and Peck. He began his career on Wall Street with Brown Brothers Harriman as a Credit Analyst, following this with a stint as an Equity Analyst in the Research Department of Smith Barney.

Mr. Hug received a BA from Brown University in Economics and Political Science and attended the University of Chicago on an academic scholarship, where he earned his MBA with a major in Finance.

Nicholas Jenks, MBA joined Yorkville as our Chief Global Strategist in December, 2008. Before coming to Yorkville, Mr. Jenks headed the US Embassy Office in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he conducted peace negotiations involving the government and 21 militia groups.

From 2002 to 2007 he was Director of Programs for the US Agency for International Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, overseeing strategy and an annual budget of $150 million. His many previous assignments include Mozambique, Zambia, Kenya, Peru, Lithuania, Azerbaijan and Angola, where he established an alliance with US oil companies to fund and implement a joint development program and served on the Joint Commission for Peace Negotiation between the government and UNITA rebels.

Mr Jenks speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He received a BA (Honors) in English and European Literature from the University of Montana and an MBA from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.