Today we announced the winners of the Fortress Challenge

Alexander Mallinson (UPenn ’15) and Arun Narasimhan (Queen’s ’15) have been awarded summer internships at Fortress. In addition, the following students are being awarded cash prizes in recognition of their outstanding performance:

SPRING HALF WINNERS

$2,500 prize: Harrison Reinisch – Cornell ’16
$1,500 prize: John Hunter Massad – Brown ’15
$1,000 prize: Cole Feldman – Notre Dame ’17

OVERALL WINNERS

$2,500 prize: Harrison Reinisch – Cornell ’16
$1,500 prize: Owens Huang – NYU Stern ’15
$1,000 prize: Arun Narasimhan – Queen’s (Canada) ’15

If you would like to learn more about what’s been happening behind the scenes – the following two articles got published earlier today:

• Quartz: Worthy of Wall Street
  Provides a general overview of the Upgrade Capital concept.
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• Forbes: Students Compete in Online Macro Trading Competition
  Some further color around the Fortress Challenge and a short Q&A with one of the two students who were awarded internships at Fortress.

It has been an interesting day…