Lawyer-turned-hedge fund executive Jason Gerlach touts California as the land of opportunity for alternative investment professionals. Before becoming the CEO and managing partner of Sunrise Capital Partners, a San Diego-based hedge fund, Jason Gerlach worked as an attorney for a decade. He worked with clients in the alternative asset management space, and eventually the lure of joining a buy-side firm was too tempting to pass up. “I spent about 10 years practicing law, and I’ve always been really interested in the businesses that my clients were running – I’ve always been entrepreneurial, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands...