Sara Malak
Managing Member

Sara has extensive experience in managing complex business structures and 26 years of experience in the hedge fund industry. Her focus is on cross departmental integration in operational infrastructure.

She has been a member of a variety of committees during her career, including risk, valuation, operations and investment committees and has acted as a director for multiple fund structures as well as Chief Compliance Officer for several management firms. Prior to co-founding The Alpha Cooperative, LLC, Sara was the Chief Compliance Officer of L Plus, a multi‐strategy hedge fund. Prior to L Plus, Sara was a founding member of D5 Advisors LLC, a hedge fund specializing in high dividend equity securities and one of the founding strategies of L Plus. From 1999 to 2006, she was with Double Alpha Group Inc., a multi‐manager statistical arbitrage fund. She began her hedge fund career in 1997 at The Palladin Group.

Sara is a 1993 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology / Anthropology.