Tim McDowell

Tim McDowell is Managing Partner at Fort Point Capital Partners in San Francisco, where he leads the firm's asset management and customized wealth advisory practice for high-net-worth individuals, institutions, and family offices. In this role, he is responsible for designing and managing sophisticated portfolio strategies, including risk management, hedging, and private investments.

His expertise spans concentrated equity position hedging, systematic covered call writing, structured note replication, tail-risk solutions, and opportunistic private fund offerings such as private credit, private equity, and real estate. He also specializes in planning and executing complex transitions for clients, including pre- and post-liquidity events, private company ownership, pre-IPO stock strategies, and multi-generational family planning.

McDowell holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is recognized for his significant contributions to optimizing risk-adjusted returns and delivering bespoke asset management solutions, having helped structure, trade, and manage over $15 billion notional in customized hedging solutions during his tenure.