Investing Insight: Eric Rosenfeld, Crescendo Partners

Harvard educated Eric Rosenfeld, President and CEO of New York-based Crescendo Partners, previously held the position of managing director for 14 years at Oppenheimer & Co, as well as its acquirer CIBC. Crescendo Partners is an investment firm that specialises in value and activist investing. The firm has been in the news recently for its activist demand that Aeropostale Inc (NYSE:ARO), the struggling chain that retails teen and children’s clothing, sell itself to a suitable buyer. It invests primarily in small- and mid-cap companies in the United States and Canada and has secured board positions in 21 companies over the…