Maple Tree Capital Services manages Maple Tree Partners, LP, a long/short equity hedge fund, specializing in investments in the Communications, Media and Entertainment industries. The company was founded in 2003 by Barry Kaplan, former partner and Media & Telecom analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. Maple Tree Partners seeks to achieve above average returns while assuming modest risk and volatility by investing both long and short in the securities of companies in the broadly defined media, telecom, entertainment, Internet services and leisure segments of the economy. The fund focuses primarily on small to mid-sized capitalization companies, and uses little to no financial leverage.The fund’s investment approach is completely fundamental research driven, including regular direct communication with company managements. Portfolio construction typically includes 20 to 30 core positions, with opportunistic trading around those core positions. The fund targets an average exposure of 40% to 60% net long, and seeks to maintain diversity among the targeted industry segments