[3] After graduating from Johns Hopkins, Hammond began his career at Goldman Sachs & Co in the Energy & Power Group within the Equity Research Division, before founding Alerian Capital Management, LLC, in 2004, the first and leading energy infrastructure data and analytics company to create investment vehicles in the Master Limited Partnerships (MLP) asset class.
The funds provided investors access, liquidity, and transparency in energy infrastructure through the MLP asset class.
Total assets under management linked to the Alerian Index series exceeded $17 billion by 2015.
In July 2018 Hammond sold the company to a group reportedly financed by his old employer, Goldman Sachs.
[8] He also produced Break Point, a film starring Jeremy Sisto, David Walton, Amy Smart, and J.K. Simmons.