Claire Griffin
Director, KPMG
Claire is a Director with KPMG’s Asset Management Practice in the Cayman Islands. Her experience is focused on private equity structures and venture capital. Claire is the Lead Engagement Director on multiple hedge funds and private equity entities and has extensive experience with multi-billion dollar private equity funds based in Europe, Asia and the US. Claire also has experience in hedge fund structures and strategies, fund of funds, private equity funds, derivative funds and segregated portfolio cell structures.
Claire was also part of the research team and the editorial board for KPMG International and CREATE’s report on digitization in the asset management industry, entitled ‘Alternative investments 3.0 digitize or jeopardize’. A copy of which is available
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Christina Kopec
Head of Product Strategy, Goldman Sachs
Christina is head of product strategy for fixed income and liquidity solutions within Third Party Distribution. Previously, she was head of product management for liquidity solutions, focused on strategy and client communications for Goldman Sachs Asset Management's money market and short duration solutions globally. In 2013, she expanded her responsibilities to include coverage of strategies across fixed income. Christina joined Goldman Sachs in 2011 and was named managing director in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, Christina was responsible for product strategy and management of the bond and money market product lines at Fidelity Investments. Before that, she held various product development and investment communications roles for multiple asset classes. She began her career in the legal department of Fidelity. Christina earned a BA in English from the College of the Holy Cross and an MS in Administrative Studies from Boston College.
Alexandra Krystal
Managing Director and Sales Head, CIBC
Alexandra Krystal joined CIBC in August of 2017 as Managing Director and Sales Head, Prime Services Group. Ms. Krystal’s responsibilities include the strategic development and implementation of CIBC’s U.S. Prime Brokerage Launch Initiative, including oversight of core activities involving product development and sales & marketing. In her current role, Ms. Krystal is also responsible for managing senior client relationships with alternative asset managers, overseeing the build-out of client-facing strategies and providing ongoing guidance with respect to structure, industry best-practices and forward looking trends in the Prime Brokerage market.
Prior to joining CIBC Capital Markets, Ms. Krystal worked in the Hedge Fund Consulting Practice at a professional services firm, where she led the Prime Brokerage Hedge Fund Strategy. Ms. Krystal developed their Prime Brokerage Advisory business, where she and her team worked along-side Prime Brokers to perform business assessments considering metrics across infrastructure, legal entity analysis, balance sheet, human capital, risk, client composition, and fixed / variable technology costs. She also developed an industry-leading Treasury Function Study to substantiate the evolution of the financing role, based on a detailed examination of collateral management processes, counterparty risk management practices, margin replication methods, Prime Brokerage relationships and funding technology solutions. Ms. Krystal chaired that same firm’s Emerging Manager Hedge Fund Strategy and was involved in emerging manager consulting, including start-up considerations and franchise-sized best practices across middle and back office functions.
Kathleen Olin
Senior Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Indus Capital Partners
Kat Olin is Senior Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Indus Capital Partners, LLC (“ICP”). Ms. Olin joined ICP in April 2012. Prior to joining ICP, Ms. Olin was sole in-house Counsel and Compliance Officer at Zimmer Lucas Partners, LLC from September 2011 to April 2012. From 2001 to 2011, she was a senior associate in the Investment Management group of Seward & Kissel LLP, advising registered and unregistered investment advisers and the investment funds managed by such advisers on a comprehensive range of legal, compliance, investment and regulatory matters. From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Olin was as an associate in the Corporate group of Gardner, Carton & Douglas LLP in Chicago where she advised clients on investment management, securities, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
Kat received a BA from Duke University, majoring in English and Political Science, and made the Dean's List with Distinction in 1993. She graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997 with a Juris Doctor degree.
Jo Huckle
Partner, Ogier
Jo is a partner in Ogier's Cayman Islands investment funds practice. She is described in the legal directories as a "sharp and commercial" lawyer and one "who will rise through the ranks quickly." Her promotion to the partnership in 2017 made her the youngest partner to have been made up in Ogier's history.
Jo advises open-ended and closed-ended hedge funds and private equity funds, investment managers, institutional investors and fund service providers on fund launches, ongoing legal and regulatory compliance and termination. She is a Cayman regulatory expert sitting on Ogier's FATCA, CRS and AML specialist teams.
Jo originally trained as a corporate M&A attorney in London and Hong Kong and spent 9 months working in house at Lloyds Banking Group to oversee a major baking restructuring.
