Alternative Investment Executive
Chief Financial/Operating/Risk/Compliance Officer
for
Long / Short, Credit, Distressed, Macro, Structured, HFT
Background
Interconnecting front, middle, & Back Office to Scale - Ernst & Young CPA with a proven 20+-year track record of using technology to democratize information and flatten inefficient hierarchies. Known for revitalizing organizations through transformative processes that harness data analytics to favor outcomes that accelerate productivity, innovation, and collaboration.
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System Integrations: Implemented Enfusion to scale a 2017 L/S launch from one to four accounts and growth from $15m to $285m within nine months. Upgraded to Advent Geneva to scale a Distressed Credit fund from $750m to $1.5b. Implemented EZE OMS for a $1bn L/S Fund. Migrated legacy CRM to a tailored Salesforce platform, which was adopted in part by a $100b+ Asset Manager.
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Operational Renewal: Hired after a $100m ODD failure to stabilize $400m in consulting assets (Cambridge), ahead of Man Group's acquisition of Pine Grove, JPM PWM Platform’s first distressed credit onboarding (Bay Harbour $250m allocation), and a transition to quantitative and derivative trading (LaBranche’s $750 IPO).
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Player/Coach: Leadership built on in-the-trenches experience at key positions including: CFO for $15m to $4b AUM, Defense team Lead for a $250m SEC Industry Investigation, Trader (series 24) for the largest ADR Specialist, JPM global client manager, (50 clients/$75b market cap), Head of Trading Tech for 150-person trading floor, CRO for $6b structured products broker-dealer.
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Data Architecture for AI-Ready Systems: Leveraged deep expertise in Big Data to design and deliver high-impact solutions, including a bespoke data warehouse (Bay Harbour), a 10+ TB compliance engine for regulatory scrutiny ($250M SEC investigation), and a predictive analytics platform inspired by "sabermetrics" to identify and exploit trading opportunities (LaBranche).
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Cyber Security: Former Big Four (E&Y) Cyber security consultant and auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor and Harvard IT Masters with an emphasis on cyber security.
Work Experience
Chief Operating Officer
$100 mn L/S Equity Tiger Seed
$900 mn L/S Beyond frontier equity
$1.0 bn Credit fund of hedge fund
$1.5 bn Credit Distressed
$4.0 bn Quantitative, Credit, Macro & L/S global fund
$6.0 bn HFT and Structured Products proprietary dealer
Chief Financial Officer
Big 4 Auditor & CPA
$100 mn L/S Equity Tiger Seed
$300 mn L/S Sector Fund
$900 mn L/S Beyond frontier equity
$1.5 bn Credit Distressed
$4.0 bn quantitative, credit, macro & L/S global fund
Chief Compliance Officier
$100 mn L/S Equity Tiger Seed
$900 mn L/S Beyond frontier equity
$1.0 bn Credit fund of hedge fund
$1.5 bn Credit Distressed
Chief Risk Officer
$1.5 bn Credit Distressed
$6.0 bn HFT and structured products proprietary dealer
Education
Georgetown: Masters in Tax (expected '28)
Harvard: Masters in IT
NYU: MBA
Scranton: BS in Accounting
Licenses
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Information Systems Auditor
Former 3, 7, 9, 10, 16, 24, 55 & 63