Remy White Trafelet (born March 1970) is an American hedge fund manager and investor.
[2] In 1998 he was hired by Bowman Capital Management, running a diversified stock portfolio that netted an annualized return of 48% over two years.
[4][2] While the fund outperformed major stock indices in 2008, large institutional investors and banks were seeking liquidity and freeing up assets to meet their own financial obligations.
[4][9] In 2016, Trafelet was appointed president and CEO of Alico, Inc., owner of the largest citrus producer in the United States, where he had been serving as director since the purchase of a majority interest in 2013.
[17] Ouster Inc, a U.S. startup that makes lidar sensors for self-driving cars and smart cities, announced that it had reached a deal to go public via merger with Colonnade Acquisition Corp. in December 2020.
[19] Trafelet and Sambuco formed a second SPAC, Colonnade Acquisition Corp. II, and priced a $300 million IPO in March 2021.
On 30 September 2000, he married Lara Elizabeth Schmidt at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio.
Trafelet married Lady Melissa Percy on 19 December 2019 at Mercer Mill Plantation in Oakfield, Georgia.