John T. Hyland, CFA
Portfolio Manager and
Director of Portfolio Research
United States Oil Fund, LP

Mr. Hyland helps oversee both the day-to-day trading and investments of USOF as well as working on longer term investment issues and strategies. With 20 years in the investment industry, Mr. Hyland has a long background in both portfolio management and investment research. His background includes experience with equities, fixed income, and structured investment products. In addition he has done extensive work in the area of developing new investment strategies and vehicles for both US and non-US clienteles.

He is con-currently a principal at Towerhouse Capital Management, LLC, a firm that provides portfolio management and new fund development expertise to non-U.S. institutional investors. Prior to founding Towerhouse in 2003, Mr. Hyland was the director of global property securities for a hedge fund focused on global real estate stocks. From 1996 through 2001, Mr. Hyland was the Director of Securities Research and Portfolio Manager for the capital markets division of CB Richard Ellis, a global commercial real estate services firm, which focused on REITs, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS), and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO).

Mr. Hyland received his Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) designation in 1994. From 1993 until 2003, Mr. Hyland was on the Board of Directors of the Security Analysts of San Francisco (SASF), a not-for-profit organization of investment management professionals. He served as the president of the SASF from 2001-2002. Mr. Hyland is a member of the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR). He is also a member of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts (NAPIA), a not-for-profit organization of investment professionals focused on the oil industry. Mr. Hyland is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.