Robert Caruso is a Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Highbridge Capital Management. Mr. Caruso shares the oversight of the day-to-day management of all non-investment activities with the firm's Chief Administrative Officer. Mr. Caruso is also the chairman of the firm's Operating Committee. Mr. Caruso is also a member of the firm's Executive Committee, which has responsibility for the overall management, strategy, business development, risk management and financial and regulatory operations of Highbridge.

Prior to Highbridge Capital Management, Mr. Caruso was a Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Robertson Stephens, a San Francisco based global investment bank. At Robertson Stephens, Mr. Caruso was responsible for the financial, accounting, treasury, corporate strategy and risk management departments. Mr. Caruso began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. At PwC, as part of their Global Capital Markets Advisory Practice, Mr. Caruso provided consulting services to various investment banking and trading professionals on highly structured derivative transactions, valuation of investment and trading portfolios and other financing/securitization structures. Mr. Caruso has extensive regulatory and compliance experience and advised several domestic and international banks on the establishment or acquisition of broker-dealers under Section 20 of the Glass-Steagall Act to obtain underwriting and dealer powers in high yield and equity securities.