Hedge Fund Expert Witnesses

This expert has over 25 years of experience in the securities industry as an accounting and compliance specialist. Industry experience with broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, hedge funds,regulation, compliance, accounting, and information technology. He has been FINRA registered since 1984 and is also a licensed Financial and Operations Principal. He currently serves as Principal for a financial compliance services firm.

This expert currently serves as Owner and Founder of a hedge fund advisory firm that provides various services including due diligence evaluation, accounting, and compliance consulting. He previously worked in various positions as an accountant, a capital markets consultant, CFO, and Managing Director for a hedge fund consulting group. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst with a degree in Accounting from Hofstra University.

This expert has almost 15 years of experience in the financial services industry with a focus on direct investment and operational due diligence of alternative investments. She received her B.S. in Finance and Accounting. Her focus involves an in-depth inspection of hedge funds and their operations including hedge fund administrators. At PNC Asset Management, she served on the national due diligence unit and was responsible for the selection and monitoring of hedge, fund of hedge fund, and liquid alternative investments in the U.S. and Asia. She currently serves as Managing Director of an alternative investment consulting firm that, among other tasks, focuses on thorough investment and operational due diligence and risk assessment.

This expert has over 20 years of experience in advising asset managers of all sizes and complexities across fund and investment adviser formation, securities, corporate, regulatory, fund marketing, fund operations, investor due diligence, compliance and best practices front to back office infrastructure including legal negotiations and operational set up with various trading counter-parties and service providers such as fund administrators, prime brokers. He received his B.S. and Master's Degrees at Pace University in addition to a J.D. from Quinnipiac University. His extensive experience in fund management includes working at both Nikko Alternative Asset Management and CooperNeff Advisors where he was part of the executive business management team and Chief Legal Officer with roles and responsibilities across multi-strategy platforms and the due diligence of managers and related service providers. He also co-founded Anchor Risk Advisors, a hedge fund trading in catastrophic weather linked fixed income instruments, where he managed enterprise matters including funds and managed accounts. He currently serves as Managing Partner for a legal and business development consulting firm for asset management firms.

This expert is a senior-level investment manager with extensive experience in long/short equity investing. He is an expert in hedge fund strategies, securities selection, portfolio management and other investment-related issues. He has provided consulting, investment research and expert witness services to investment funds and law firms since 2004. He earned his masters in business administration from Harvard Business School and is currently a Senior Investment Consultant at a private financial investment consultancy.

This expert serves as an assistant professor of finance at a respected Chinese university. For seven years prior, he was an assistant professor of finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD in finance from Yale University and his BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include mutual funds, hedge funds, short selling, and behavioral finance. His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in investment management. He holds a BA in economics from Brandeis University and an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his career managing portfolios and funds, he has bought and sold options and traded stocks, ETFs and mutual funds. As the former Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Charles Schwab, he managed a $3.5B of mutual fund assets. In this role he was responsible for developing and implementing portfolio strategy, including asset allocation among multiple asset classes and selection of underlying funds. He then went on to serve as President and Chief Investment Officer for Adviser Partners, a boutique asset manager that manages equities and asset allocation products for advisers, financial institutions and family offices. He currently oversees the investment process, research activities and portfolio strategy for an investment firm in Boston, MA.