John Ward Rende

Mr. John W.
Rende is a Founder & Portfolio Manager at Copernicus Capital Management LLC.
He founded the firm in April 2013.
He currently serves on the board of the Price Center at UCLA.
Prior to Copernicus, Mr. Rende was the Senior Portfolio Manager at Weintraub Capital Management, LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund based in San Francisco which converted to a family office in December 2012.
At Weintraub, he produced positive returns in twelve out of thirteen years, including the more challenging years of 2008 and 2002.
Prior to Weintraub, he worked at Wells Fargo as a credit and fixed income analyst and as a Portfolio Manager in their Asset Management Group.
He also worked at Cowen & Company in their Healthcare Investment Banking unit during business school at UCLA.
He began his career in healthcare at American Bionetics, a biotechnology firm specializing in the research and design of HIV confirmatory tests.
He served six years as a board member of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.
Mr. Rende received his MBA from the John E.
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and has a joint degree, magna cum laude, in Biology and Economics from Claremont McKenna College.