4th New York Family Office Fintech Summit 2019

Mr. Sharon is an executive vice president and product strategist based in the New York office. He is responsible for broad business management as well as developing and leading strategic initiatives aimed at driving growth within the traditional product franchise. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, he was a principal at Blackstone, where he helped launch the firm’s retail alternatives initiative. Previously, he was a managing director at AllianceBernstein, where he ran multi-asset product management, led wealth management group research and marketing, and was interim head of investor relations for the firm. He has 18 years of investment and financial services experience and holds a Ph.D. from Boston University. He received an undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta.

A Wall Street veteran and entrepreneur, Charlotte Beyer has been identifying changes in the culture and dynamics of wealth management since 1992. Beyer's career spans 40+ years, first on Wall Street, and then as founder of the Institute for Private Investors [IPI] in 1992. A pioneer in social media, IPI hosted the first online community for investors when it went live in 1998. An Aresty Fellow of the Wharton School, Beyer continues to teach in Wharton’s Private Wealth Management program, a five-day residential curriculum she co-created with Wharton in 1999.
Beyer continues to remain active in several industry groups, and her recent book, Wealth Management Unwrapped Revised & Expanded (Wiley 2017) describes key trends in the wealth management industry, including robo-advisors, the aging private client and ‘women with wallets.’ Currently, Beyer is President of the Principle Quest Foundation whose mission is women’s empowerment.

Mr. Reilly is an investment and strategy consultant to family offices and the host of the Private Capital Podcast. He was the co-founder and founding president of the Family Office Association, a global forum for single-family offices that is based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Previously Mr. Reilly helped to start a single-family office and foundation in New York where he was an investment manager for five years. He was an energy specialist focused on options and futures trading at Credit Agricole Indosuez in New York prior to that and started his career at Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Reilly has spoken on family office issues at many conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Forbes, and Bloomberg, and currently does a monthly interview series with notables in the family office world for Family Wealth Report, where he is on the global editorial board.

Steve is an innovator and thought leader in the global financial services industry. He has built leading MFOs and asset management firms and has advised industry leaders and UHNW families and family offices for over 30 years. Prior to PKFOD, Steve was the Head of Family Wealth Advisors, the first global MFO in the U.S. and a division of Bank of the West | BNP Paribas, where he served on the Bank’s Senior Management Committee. He is also the founder of The UHNW Institute. Steve previously served as the CEO of Silver Bridge, President of Atlantic Trust, President of Chase Global Asset Management and he also held senior positions with Fleet, Mellon Bank, and KPMG.

Michael is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience building successful wealth management firms. Most recently, Michael served as the CEO of Cresset Asset Management, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Cresset offers individuals and families access to a comprehensive suite of family office services, personalized wealth management, investment advisory, planning, access to third-party and direct private investments and advanced technology and reporting solutions. Before joining Cresset, Cole was founder and president of Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank, an award-winning multi-family office. Prior successes include head of Wells Fargo Family Wealth, now called Abbot Downing, and President of Merrill Lynch Trust.Cole is author of the book More Than Money: A Guide to Sustaining Wealth and Preserving the Family. Since its release, the book has consistently been in the top 100 of Amazon’s best-selling books in Wealth Management and Financial services.

NIMESH PATEL is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer for Cresset. For nearly two decades, Nimesh has applied his extensive technology acumen developing innovative technology platforms, enabling product innovation and organizational expansion across diverse sectors.

At Cresset he is designing a mobile-first technology platform for the wealth management sector–an approach aiming to differentiate and transform wealth management experience for high and ultra-high net worth clients.

Prior to Cresset, Nimesh was CTO of Emmi Solutions, a healthcare technology company acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2016. Before helping lead the successful exit of Emmi Solutions, Nimesh held technology leadership roles at UBS, InterContinentalExchange Trust, Boston Options Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

Nimesh holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has co-authored and been granted two patents for fintech and healthcare software solutions.

The Rudin Group founder April Rudin is a widely acknowledged top marketing strategist for the financial-services and wealth-management sectors. Her firm designs bespoke marketing campaigns for leading wealth-management firms, fintechs, and family offices; campaigns that strengthen brand value and drive client acquisition. Recognized as an IBM “influencer,” she is a regularly-featured source of expertise, contributes to Capgemini’s World Wealth Report, produces the CFA Institute’s annual U.S. outlook, and often speaks about wealth, next-gen, and fintech. She’s been published extensively and judges the Family Wealth Report’s annual Wealth Management Industry Awards and is a member of their advisory board. Her two sons say she has always been an “influencer”.

Bob became CEO of PCR in 2016 after a year as Vice Chairman and strategic advisor.  A founder of 5 financial technology companies in which he was both technical architect and business strategist, Bob brings to PCR a unique combination of market-facing, technology-driven and operations-focused skills that are driving the Company’s rapid growth.​

Bob’s last company CorrectNet, sold in 2013 to Symphony Group and subsequently acquired by MarkIt, was a ground-breaking managed service provider of aggregation and reporting services to hedge funds.  The company’s customers included 7 of the top 10 institutional fund administrators and at its peak were reporting on almost 40% of all hedge fund assets globally.

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Carol R. Kaufman consults to HNW families, entrepreneurs and trusted advisors.  Her newly released software venture, Pinventory®, coupled with her consulting service, www.homeinventoryacademy.com, focus on the responding to the need for home inventories, ensuring that important possessions and their supporting information are properly catalogued, securely shareable and easily accessible, anywhere and anytime that information is needed.  Her first software product, InvesTier®, was acquired by SunGard in 2002.  An entrepreneur for over 35 years, Ms. Kaufman’s specialties include public speaking, training and software/service-based solutions to organizational problems.  She resides in Hawthorne, NJ and Otis, MA.

Chris is a member of SEI Archway’s Business Development team serving as a subject matter expert for prospective clients interested in SEI Archway’s technology and service solutions. He is responsible for conducting product demonstrations as well as responding to Requests for Information supplied by family offices and industry consultants. Prior to his role in Business Development, Chris was a member of the Technology Implementation team where he implemented a number of family office clients onto the ATWeb platform. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Hanover College.

Mr. Berkowicz is Managing Director of SS&C GlobeOp Fund Services, the global hedge, private equity, fund of fund and private capital administration unit of SS&C Technologies Inc. He joined SS&C when the company acquired the Eisnerfast LLC fund administration business from Eisner LLP in 2005. Mr. Berkowicz is responsible for oversight of the global Private Capital Group operations. Mr. Berkowicz has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Deb’s responsibilities include coordinating technology support and projects, business analysis, and project management. She has been with Gresham both as an independent consultant and employee since its founding. Prior to working with Gresham, Deb was an instructor consultant for ComputerLand in Chicago. She was the Director of Business Systems Analysis at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. for five years. Deb has also held various financial reporting and auditing positions at CNA Insurance, Allstate Insurance and Health Care Service Corporation. Deb holds a BS in Accountancy from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, an MBA from DePaul University, and is a CPA.

Dr Neild is CEO of InfoGrate, a consulting boutique specializing in information technology for family offices. We architect solutions that encompass GL/portfolio management/partnership accounting/CRM selection, data integration, operations, performance reporting, and infrastructure/ cloud management. Tania has over 25 years of academic and applied research in data integration. She began her career with the National Security Agency, which awarded her the National Physical Sciences Consortium Award to fund her research in heterogeneous database integration. She earned a PhD in computer engineering from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer sciences from Emory University.

Howard Geller is a strategic consultant working with family offices, individual investors, wealth managers, investment managers and private equity to assess, analyze and recommend solutions. He has over 20 years of diverse experience in the financial services industry with several notable financial organizations. His primary family office consulting focus has been on portfolio reporting system review and requirements development, best practices review, investment manager and outsourced service provider due diligence, and targeted project assessment and resolution. He functions as an internal consultant bridging the communication gap to solve problems, implement solutions and take advantage of opportunities.

Jennifer Moore, CPA, is the Family Office Controller for the Holt Family. Based in San Antonio, the Holt's own and operate the largest Caterpillar equipment dealer in the United States with 50 locations and 2,300 employees in Central Texas. Prior to Holt, Jennifer worked in public auditing with KPMG and managed a family business for 10 years.
Jennifer earned a Bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, with a double major in Accounting and Information Systems. She currently is working toward a Master’s in accounting at Texas A&M University and a Project Management Professional Certification.
She has extensive non-profit volunteer experience as Board Treasurer of The Pangea Network, working with micro lending programs in Kenya.

Jonathan is the CEO of Just Invest. Founded in 2016, Just Invest is a leading Direct Indexing provider formed by leading technologists and investment specialists from Aperio Group, Blackrock, MSCI Barra, Thomson Reuters and Wells Fargo. Just Invest specializes in tailoring client portfolios to the individual ESG goals of discerning families and individuals
provide innovative direct indexing.
Prior Just Invest, Jonathan was the COO of Pluribus Labs, a research firm distilling investment signals from non-traditional data sources. Jonathan's investments career began at MSCI Barra, where he headed the Portfolio Analytics business for institutional investors focusing on Asset Allocation, Risk management and ESG.

Mr. Gemp is Vice President of SS&C GlobeOp Private Capital Group overseeing technical delivery, accounting and operations of the Private Capital Group serving Single/Multi Family Offices, Endowments, and other Private Capital Clients.  Kyle joined the firm in 1998 and has played various roles within the  Hedge Fund Family Office market segment.  Mr. Gemp has executed numerous onboarding engagements of various products and service solutions across Investment Portfolio Accounting, Partnership Accounting, Payments/Wires, Tax, Entity/Investment/Partner Performance, Liquidity, Risk Analytics facilitating Back and Middle Office requirements.  Mr. Gemp holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Organizational Behavior from Miami University.

Mark joined AltaReturn in 2010 and is focused on sales and business development for AltaReturn. Mark has 17 years professional experience in the asset management industry, 10 years of which are focused on alternative investments. Prior to joining AltaReturn, Mark worked for the SS&C’s- TheNextRound business unit where he was the Vice President of Sales and Client Service. He graduated from Bentley University with a degree in Finance and resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mark Wickersham is a vice president and business development consultant for City National Bank’s Datafaction® sales team. He is responsible for growing Datafaction’s presence and revenue in the family wealth market.
Prior to joining Datafaction in 2018, Mr. Wickersham was a technology consultant for family offices, served as general manager for Dynamo Software’s family office market segment and worked at Fidelity Investment for over a decade in their RIA and family office businesses.
Mr. Wickersham received his Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Southern New Hampshire University. He coaches youth soccer for the Andover Soccer Association in Andover, MA and has two teenage daughters.

Mike Slemmer is Sales Director at Dynamo Software. Dynamo powers investment decisions of clients representing $4tn+ of assets and serves over 1,000 clients including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, family offices, funds of funds, private equity firms, M&A teams, venture capital groups, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokerages, and insurance firms. Previously, he was a senior consultant at The Collaborative. Mike has deep experience in investment technology, having had many sales, marketing and leadership roles at SS&C, Thomson Financial/ThomsonReuters, FundCount and Chase. Mike earned his BA from the University of Delaware, an MBA in finance from the University of Houston and an executive degree from the Columbia University Graduate Business School. He is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Boston.

Paul M. Hoffman leads teams of professionals committed to meeting the financial goals and objectives of client families and institutions. While Paul spends most of his time serving clients, he is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and a leader of various firm-wide technology and infrastructure initiatives.

Ruth Calaman is a Managing Director at Evercore and the Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel of Evercore Wealth Management, LLC and Evercore Trust Company, N.A. She is responsible for all aspects of legal, compliance, and risk management.

She joined Evercore in 2011 from Goldman Sachs, where she served as the Chief Compliance Officer of The Goldman Sachs Trust Companies. She previously served as the Chief Compliance Officer of Morgan Stanley’s Trust Companies.

Ruth received her BA from Brown University and a JD from St. John’s University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in New York.

Sergei Bourlatskii is the CFO at DS Advisors. Before joining DS, he was the CEO of AnantaFO Inc., a single-family office managing both personal/trust investments as well as philanthropic efforts through a Foundation and a DAF. At Ananta, Sergei is responsible for technology, operations, and managing investments in global equities (both listed and OTC), direct private equity/venture capital with investments in over 20 direct deals, fixed income, and real estate. Prior to joining Ananta, Sergei was one of the three executive team members at Sentient Investment Management, responsible for trading, operations, and data for the AI driven quant Hedge Fund. Before that, Sergei spent some time consulting for EY in the technology group, building direct trading, technology, and operations for the EM portion of Rock Creek Group, and was a Partner, Head of EEMEA Trading, and Head of Risk at Artha Capital Management, an EM Hedge Fund. Sergei holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Syracuse University.

Seth is responsible for building and managing the business, product development, and client service teams. Seth has seventeen years of alternative investment and FinTech experience. He started his career focused on alternative investments research and analysis working for multi-billion-dollar allocators and family offices. His responsibilities included creating investment criteria, developing a robust pipeline of prospective investments, and constructing portfolios of alternative investments for institutional clients. In addition to his investing experience, Seth had a senior role at Novus Partners, a venture capital funded buy-side financial technology analytics company that grew from 15 to over 100 employees during his tenure.

Sherwood is the Head of Partnerships at Just Invest, and has over 17 years of investment management experience, both in the institutional and retail client space.  He previously worked at MSCI, where he was responsible for covering investment consultant and asset owner clients for their index business.  He also worked at Callan Associates, providing investment consulting services to pensions, endowments, and foundations.  Before this, he was at Wells Fargo’s Private Banking Group, where he was responsible for sourcing, research, and product management of their alternative investment platform.  He began his career at Charles Schwab on their equity derivatives sales and trading desk, where he specialized in risk management strategies and structured note offerings for their RIA and high-net-worth clients.  Sherwood has an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a BA from Cornell University.

Stephanie leads Pitcairn’s Insurance, Operations, and Technology departments. She provides input on the firm’s strategic planning and is responsible for leading technology initiatives designed to improve the client and employee experience.

She previously served as Director of Family Office Process and Technology, Family Office Services Manager, Personal Financial Manager, and Personal Financial Analyst. Her work encompassed implementation of long-term financial plans for families, investment strategy development, risk management, tax planning, and analysis and client reporting for families.

Stephanie received her BS and MBA, both magna cum laude, from Drexel University. She holds the designations of certified financial planner™ and Certified Trust Financial Advisor and has a PA Insurance License.

Beginning his career with SEI Archway in 2008, Ted has managed dozens of family office technology implementation projects as well as provided conceptual knowledge of performance measurement to clients and internal technical teams. Prior to working at SEI Archway, Ted spent time in wealth management at Waddell & Reed and Merrill Lynch. Ted holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the Lacy School of Business at Butler University.

Thomas DeMayo is a Principal in the Cyber Risk Management group of PKF O’Connor Davies and is responsible for the implementation and design of the Firm’s cybersecurity service client offerings, internal and external audit programs and testing procedures. His cybersecurity services relate to threat and vulnerability management, governance, privacy, incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery and computer forensics. He has extensive experience with securing and managing information risk across a wide range of industries. He is also a computer forensic specialist and can assist with the acquisition and analysis of data in a forensically sound and legally-approved manner.

Tricia Haskins is vice president of Digital Strategy & Platform Consulting with Fidelity Institutional. With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Ms. Haskins leads the strategic team that is focused on helping wealth management firms thrive in an environment of transformational change. We devise and implement strategies to achieve help our institutional clients achieve their growth, client service and productivity goals, as shifting investor demographics, rapid technology innovations, and the advisor supply-demand imbalance provide tremendous opportunities for firms determined to lead the future of wealth management.