William R. Araskog (AB ’82, MBA ’83), Managing Member and Investment Manager, WRA Investments LLC, New York, N.Y.

Araskog has been managing member and investment manager for WRA Investments LLC since founding the alternative investment management firm in 2003. Previously, he was a managing director with Lazard Frères & Co., LLC specializing in investment banking and sales and trading over his 20-year career at the firm.

He advised communications equipment companies and was responsible for equity private placements as a member of the TMT Group from 1999 to 2001, was co-head of emerging markets equity and debt sales and trading from 1995 though 1998, and co-head of the taxable fixed income group from 1986 to 1994. Araskog was a member of the board of directors and risk commission of CALFP (Lazard’s derivative finance joint venture with Crédit Agricole) and a trustee of Lazard’s employee pension fund. He studied public policy at Duke before attending the Fuqua School of Business.