Role and Company
Founder CEO, Adirondack Capital International, LLC
Expertise
25 years experience in financial services
Location
Miami, FL
About Edmund
Edmund L. Luzine, Jr. is the Founder and CEO of Adirondack Capital International, LLC, an alternative investment management firm that is focused on the global emerging markets and natural resources sectors. Prior to founding Adirondack, Ed was a Vice President for Dresdner Bank, AG and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson North America, LLC in New York where he founded the global emerging markets sales, trading and research unit in 1996 after having worked in the emerging markets division and trust units of The First National Bank of Chicago. He completed a wide range of sovereign and corporate transactions across Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. He was an Advisor to the World Bank in Sarajevo as part of the team that implemented the post-war reconstruction program, developed a new currency, reviewed and coordinated privatizations, and developed an Emergency Pilot Credit Program for SME lending during 1998. Ed is a retired Army reserve officer and recently served as an advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the US rebalance to Asia – with a focus on China, economics and energy. He also served in Afghanistan and Iraq during 2002-2003 as a special operations plans officer, and he worked with the US State Department as part of the Future of Iraq Work Groups. Ed has been an MBA Adjunct Professor of Finance at Union College and now Johns Hopkins since 2001. He served as the President of the Washington Association of Money Managers in 2014. He is on the advisory board of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John’s University in MN, and is an advisor to the RAND Corporation. Ed completed his undergraduate studies at Syracuse University and earned an MBA degree in Finance, Economics and Business Public Policy from The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.