Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Serengeti Asset Management
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Female
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Leslie D. Biddle is a partner and the president of Serengeti where she heads the firm’s research efforts and risk committee. Prior to joining Serengeti, Ms. Biddle was the Global Head of Commodity Sales at Goldman Sachs and a member of the senior commodities management team contributing to the growth of the business from approximately $450 million
to more than $3 billion. She was a member of Goldman’s firmwide Finance Committee, Business Practices Committee, New Activity Committee, Structured Investment Products Committee and European Audit and Compliance Committee. She was named managing director in 2004 and partner in 2006. While at Goldman, Ms. Biddle was the architect of many structured transactions in the private equity and energy sectors including the monetization of the Allegheny DWR Contract, the financing for the Calpine Construction Finance Facility, the Texas Genco acquisition, Northern Tier Energy, and the TXU leveraged buyout, among others.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Biddle was a Vice President at the AES Corporation focusing on project finance and power plant development and acquisitions. She also served as a vice president at the Overseas Investment Corporation, providing political risk insurance and financing to U.S. companies expanding overseas.
She holds an A.B. from Colby College where she previously served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE), CenterPoint Energy (NYSE) and the Advisory Board of NatureVest, the impact investing arm of The Nature Conservancy. Ms. Biddle was twice named to the Hedge Fund Journal’s Top 50 Women in Hedge Funds, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Global Advisory Board of The Hawthorn Club for executive woman in energy. She lives in New York, New York with her husband, George, and their three children.
