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Investors: Diving into Due Diligence
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Pasquale J. D'Amuro
Giuliani Security and Safety
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| Pasquale “Pat” D'Amuro is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, a division of Giuliani Partners LLC dedicated to security consulting. Before joining Giuliani Security & Safety, Mr. D'Amuro served as the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York FBI Office, where he had begun his FBI career in 1979. Mr. D'Amuro has worked on a wide array of criminal investigations, including white collar crimes, major property crimes, violent crime, and organized crime. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Mr. D'Amuro was appointed Inspector in Charge of the FBI's investigation of those attacks. Subsequently, Mr. D'Amuro served as Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters and, later, Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence. In these capacities, he was instrumental in the creation and management of the FBI's Terrorism Threat Integration Center and Terrorism Watch List. During his distinguished career at the FBI, Mr. D'Amuro contributed to or led several high-profile investigations, including the investigations of the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in East Africa and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, as well as the latter stages of the investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Manila Air plot, and the crash of TWA Flight 800. Mr. D'Amuro has provided advice and briefings to the President of the United States, the U.S. Attorney General, the Director of the FBI, and the National Security Council, among others. Mr. D'Amuro graduated in 1978 from Niagara University with a bachelor's degree in business administration. In 1983, Mr. D'Amuro attended the FBI National Academy, Quantico, Virginia. Mr. D'Amuro was the 2004 recipient of the Presidential Rank Award of "Distinguished Executive" for the FBI. |
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Jeffrey Kollin
Rothstein Kass
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| Jeff Kollin is the Director of Financial Service Advisory Group at Rothstein Kass in the New York. He advises clients in tactical service areas including strategy, operations, technology, compliance and risk. Clients include hedge fund and private equity fund managers, institutional investors, mutual funds, broker/dealers and insurance companies. Prior to joining Rothstein Kass, Mr. Kollin was senior vice president, head of business development at R3 Capital, a multi-billion dollar global credit-focused hedge fund spun-off from Lehman Brothers Inc. in 2008, where he was responsible for implementing and managing operational and technological infrastructure. Previously, Mr. Kollin spent over 10 years at Lehman Brothers as U.S. head of hedge fund consulting, a practice that he launched. During his tenure at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Kollin focused on providing advisory services and new product development for hedge fund and investment managers. Previously, Mr. Kollin held COO / CAO positions in Lehman Brothers U.S. Equity Sales & Trading and Global Equity Capital Markets businesses. He earned his MBA in Finance/International Business from the New York University Stern School of Business and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. |
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Thomas Kreitler
C.P. Eaton Partners
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| Thomas S. Kreitler leads the hedge fund fundraising team at C.P. Eaton Partners. He has over twenty-six years of institutional marketing and financial markets experience. Before joining Eaton in 2004, Mr. Kreitler spent two years at Fairview Partners, raising institutional assets for alternative investment funds. Prior to that, he spent twenty-four years in institutional fixed income sales, most recently at J.P. Morgan where he was a Managing Director and Institutional Sales Manager for liquid debt and derivative products. At Morgan, his responsibilities included managing a group of fourteen sales professionals and maintaining an institutional client base consisting of insurance companies, banks and asset managers. Mr. Kreitler holds a B.A. in economics from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from Boston College with a finance concentration. |
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Randy Shain
First Advantage Corp.
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| Randy Shain is Vice President of First Advantage Investigative Services, LLC, and co-founded New York City-based BackTrack Reports in October 1993. BackTrack Reports, which was purchased by First Advantage in September 2004, provides insightful and comprehensive background information on fund managers. Mr. Shain and BackTrack have reviewed more than 4,000 funds and approximately 5,500 fund managers for fund advisors and funds of funds. Five of the top ten and nearly half of the top fifty funds of funds by asset size, worldwide, regularly receive a BackTrack Report prior to investing in a hedge fund. Prior to founding BackTrack, Mr. Shain was the Regional Director and Vice President at Bishops Services, a nearly 100-year old investigative firm. Mr. Shain has published several articles on management team due diligence and has spoken at various conferences, including GAIM, Eurohedge and many others. He is the author of the book, Hedge Fund Due Diligence, Professional Tools to Investigate Hedge Fund Managers.
Mr. Shain holds a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from Rutgers University in 1987. |
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