Michael Green has studied financial markets and market structure for over thirty years. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a CFA charter holder.
From 2006 to 2014, he founded and ran the New York office of Canyon Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund then managing approximately $23 billion, where he built out global macro strategies covering more than $5 billion of exposure across equity, credit, FX, and commodity markets.
He subsequently founded Ice Farm Capital, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management and went on to manage macro strategies at Thiel Macro.
He Then worked as Chief Strategist for Simplify Asset Management, an ETF issuer founded in response to securities legislation that facilitated the inclusion of derivative strategies in ETFs, he facilitated growth from $200MM to $14B in assets under his and his partners’ tenure.
Most recently he founded his own firm Tier1 Alpha Asset Management where he serves as CEO and CIO. Tier1 is a passive aware, market structure focused asset manager. The first of it’s kind.



