William Duhamel, Jason E. Moment, Ashish H. Pant and Richard H. Voon founded Route One Investment Company in 2010. The San Francisco based hedge fund has around $500 million AUM. Bill Duhamel and his partners were managing members at Tom Steyer's Farallon Capital. He started working at Farallon in 1995, focusing on long-short equity, arbitrage, and distressed debt. William Duhamel has a BA in economics and M.S.E. in Operations Research from Stanford University. He also has an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.