Bridgeport Management Services

Kenneth J. Daut, the CEO, leads investment decisions. Daut's background includes senior roles at Goldman Sachs and UBS, where he developed the institutional manager network that underpins Bridgeport's due-diligence process. The firm's investment committee includes additional principals, though specific names and voting structures are not publicly documented.

Bridgeport relies on institutional manager relationships that Ken Daut and the team built during their Wall Street careers. The firm selects external fund managers across hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, and credit rather than building in-house direct-investment teams. Inbound opportunities also arrive through the professional networks of the families the firm serves.

Bridgeport began as a single-family office and later opened its platform to other families, making it a multi-family office today. This origin matters: its manager-diligence framework was first built to protect a founding family's capital, and only later extended to outside clients. The SEC classifies it as an exempt reporting adviser.

Bridgeport's core model emphasizes fund commitments across hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, and credit. It does not publicly market a direct-investment capability. The firm acts as an outsourced CIO and portfolio aggregator — conducting manager research, negotiating fees, and producing consolidated reporting — rather than a check-writing sponsor for individual company deals.

Bridgeport has not publicly disclosed an aggregate AUM figure. Its March 2024 SEC filing confirmed regulatory assets under management below $1 billion (per SEC filing, 2024), consistent with a multi-family office serving a small number of ultra-high-net-worth families.

The firm's origin traces to a single-family foundation, suggesting a philanthropic connection, but the foundation's name, asset base, and governance separation from the MFO are not publicly documented. Bridgeport operates as a for-profit advisory entity independent of its predecessor foundation.

Bridgeport has not publicly disclosed a dedicated co-investment program. Given its manager-selection orientation — rather than direct-deal sourcing — co-investments, when they occur, are likely opportunistic and manager-introduced rather than programmatically driven.