Other high-profile potential victims include Nicola Horlick, whose investment firm has £40m invested with Madoff.
Take the investments of Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, whose investment firm Kapor Capital focuses on investing in founders from underrepresented communities.
Other notable investors include advertising agency gurus Sir John Hegarty and Tom Teichman, whose investment fund The Garage Soho invested, and female-focused investors Angel Academe.
"[It] had three part-time people when we invested in it," recalls Wetherell, whose investment at the time bought CMG some 80% of Lycos stock.
The Dean's Circle honors a core group of philanthropists whose investment is critical to the school.
Often, hedge funds are formed around one particular manager, whose investment prowess is the draw.
Talbot and Max Griggs, whose investment has got Rushden this far, should be worried.
Consider the MainStay Equity Index fund, whose investment adviser is New York Life Investment Management.
ReprintsTake the case of Perpetual Trustee Company, whose investment was caught up in the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Williams, whose investment in Odeo had turned him into the company's C.E.O., soon called him in for an interview.
Only Warren Buffett, whose investment skill made Berkshire Hathaway what it is, has a comparable importance to his firm's shareholders.
