Mitch Ackles

Mitch Ackles is the founder and CEO of Hedge Fund PR, and the global president and spokesman of the Hedge Fund Association, an international non-profit organization that promotes the understanding and development of the alternative investment industry. With over 30 years experience, Mitch has a track record for excellence. He has executed campaigns for hedge…

Lauri K. Goodwyn

Lauri K. Goodwyn has extensive experience representing hedge fund clients and other buy side market participants on a wide array of matters, including but not limited to (a) negotiating: (i) ISDAs and related confirmations; (ii) prime brokerage agreements, futures and options agreements, FX and credit intermediation agreements, term margin agreements, securities lending agreements, tri-partite, control…

Tony Acquadro

Tony C. Acquadro is a Vice President and Officer of The Hedge Fund Association, and serves as a Partner at N1 Investments in New York and Miami. His prior roles include Managing Director for BroadRiver Asset Management in New York, Managing Director and Investment Committee Member for Windsor Securities & MFI Associates, a Family Office…

Deloris Dunk-Vickers, CPA

Deloris Dunk-Vickers, CPA, has over 20 years of professional experience in the financial services industry including roles at premier financial institutions and CPA firms. She currently serves as Director of Assurance for Katz, Sapper & Miller LLP’s Financial Services division where she is responsible for the audit of hedge funds, private equity funds, fund of…

Josh Stone

Josh Stone is the founder and principal of FundsLawyer PLLC. Josh is the Legal and Compliance Advisor of the Hedge Fund Association, an international non-profit organization that promotes the understanding and development of the hedge fund industry. Josh also serves as a Director of the Miami Finance Forum, which brings together professionals from the world…

Rajpal Arulpragasam

Mr. Arulpragasam is the COO at Warshaw Asset Management, a non-directional, relative value diversified volatility fund manager. Prior to Warshaw, he was CEO of Archetype Risk Advisors, Inc. (“ARA”), a quantitative hedge fund manager that managed investment strategies across a variety of asset classes. Mr. Arulpragasam was previously COO of Pavise Capital Management (2019-2022) and…

Alex Contreras

Alex Contreras is a Sr. VP at Apex Group based in Miami, focusing on Fund Services for Hedge, PE, VC & Digital Assets managers. His work includes Corporate Services, Fund Administration, ESG Ratings & Advisory, European Vehicles and Manco Work. Apex currently has over $2.3T in assets serviced. In addition, with over 18 years of…

Paul Gray

Mr. Paul Gray is the CEO and Founder of the global value-based hedge fund Ironhold Capital Management headquartered in New York City. Mr. Gray spends the majority of his time building product, managing teams and scaling company operations and systems. Mr. Gray brings over a decade of asset management experience after overseeing a family real…

Leanne Golding

Leanne Golding is a Director of HTC Fiduciary Services Limited and an officer of The Harbour Trust Co. Ltd. (together, doing business as “Harbour”). She is responsible for providing fiduciary services to Harbour’s fund clients, including serving as an independent director for such funds. Ms. Golding has been in Cayman since 1996 and previously worked…

Rob Hartnett

Rob has spent more than 25 years providing tax and related consulting services within the asset management industry. Over the years he has provided services for hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, commodity pools, open-end and closed-end funds, and various private placements and fund structures. Rob consults with clients and attorneys on fund…