EDUCATION SESSION
By Invite Only: Navigating a Successful Career Change and Transformation
Admit it. You’ve thought about changing your job or career. Whether you’ve done so and are moving ahead, or you are still contemplating the possibility, your goal is the same: engineer a smooth transition, plan to overcome the challenges that lie ahead and succeed at what comes next.

Learn the guiding principles of job change and career transformation, plus the power of communication. Master the steps to direct your career move and how best to pivot to something different: a new role, a new company, a new direction. Preparation is key to embracing your next adventure.

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DATE
1 December 2021
TIME
5:00 PM Registration.
5:30 PM Event Begins

We will begin promptly at 5:30 PM; please arrive early.
LOCATION
350 Park Ave, 30th Floor
New York, NY 10022
PARTICIPANTS
Claudia Bertolino
Citco Fund Services (USA) Inc.

Elaine Furnari
Citco Fund Services (USA) Inc

Laura Schnaidt
Moderator
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
HOST
Citco Fund Services (USA) Inc
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BIOGRAPHIES
Claudia Bertolino
Head of Business Development, Citco Fund Services (USA) Inc.

Claudia Bertolino has a broad-ranging role at Citco Fund Services, where she is a Member of the CFS Business Leadership Team and Head of Business Development. Within this role, she is responsible for securing new fund services mandates for all lines of business, which includes Hedge Funds, Private Investments, Real Assets, Trusts & Foundations, Family Offices and leading on marketing the entire proposition. Her long-term commitment to Citco began in the Fund Accounting department in 2000, where she was directly involved in the development and rollout of Citco’s Proprietary Æxeo Platform to Fund Services clients. Before joining Citco in 2000, Claudia attained a BS in Accounting from Lehigh University and began her professional career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen LLP in their Asset Management Assurance Practice. There she assisted in audit engagements with several of the Funds she continues to service today. Along with her professional work in the Alternative Investment Industry, Claudia is a member of the New York Help for Children (HFC) Committee of Hearts, a global Angel of 100 Women in Finance and a co-chair and honoree of the St. Francis Food Pantries & Shelters. Claudia is also the Founder and Board Member of the MGB Memorial Scholarship Fund and is acting President of the St Joseph Regional Foundation.

Elaine Furnari
Head of Loan Servicing, Citco Fund Services (USA) Inc

Elaine Furnari is Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Loan Servicing at Citco. She leads a global team of employees located in the Americas, Ireland and India. Loan Services manages a portfolio of 115B in transactions across 11,000 loans[EFurnari] out of the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Citco, Ms. Furnari spent nine years as Head of Commercial Loan Support for HSBC, where she managed a portfolio of approximately $19 billion in commercial real estate loans and $10 billion in asset based and corporate loans. Furthermore, Ms. Furnari held the title of Senior Vice President and Director of Loan Operations at Capmark Bank, where she was responsible for data reporting, transaction management and loan administration. Ms. Furnari has experience in the full life cycle of loan execution and loan servicing across multiple asset classes.

Laura Schnaidt
Counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Laura Schnaidt is counsel in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Private Funds Group. Laura’s practice focuses on the formation and operation of a variety of private investment funds, including private equity funds, credit funds, hedge funds, hybrid funds, direct lending funds, real estate funds, funds-of-funds, funds-of-one and separately managed accounts. She also regularly advises clients on regulatory compliance issues related to SEC regulations. Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Laura spent over five years as in-house counsel at various multibillion-dollar private fund managers, including most recently as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Blue Torch Capital. During her time in-house, Laura oversaw all legal, compliance and regulatory issues, including creating best-in-class compliance programs and dealing with regulators (including the SEC). She was also responsible for negotiating private investment transactions, designing and managing cybersecurity and ESG programs, monitoring contractual obligations and private funding rounds, and working with investors and investment professionals on a variety of operational, legal and transactional areas. While in-house, Laura developed a deep understanding of capital raises, tax and ERISA structuring, global regulatory considerations, investor negotiations, co-investment arrangements and structures, topics arising under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, public trading and MNPI issues, trade documentation, and class action shareholder litigation and litigation funding. During law school, Laura completed a legal externship with the Asset Management Unit, Private Funds Unit, of the SEC’s Enforcement Division. Laura is the founder of Women in Funds, a social and philanthropic community for female leaders working in the private investment funds industry, including hedge, private equity, venture, credit, crypto and real estate funds. Laura is also a member of the Private Investment Funds Committee for the NYC Bar Association.
ABOUT
Citco Fund Services (USA) Inc
With over $1.6 trillion in assets under administration and over 8,200 staff deployed across 40 countries, Citco’s unique culture of innovation and client driven solutions has provided Citco’s clients with a highly valued partner for more than four decades. Having grown organically into one of the largest asset servicers in the industry, Citco’s Fund Services division offers a full suite of Middle Office services including Treasury and Loan handling, Back Office services including daily NAV calculations and Investor services. Citco’s front-to-back offering combines front-end portfolio capture and real time position monitoring technology using proprietary Æxeo Technology with reporting delivered by CitcoOne’s industry leading visualisations and dashboards, all bolstered by Citco’s experienced middle and back office support. In addition, corporate and legal services, regulatory reporting, risk reporting, tax services and financial statement production are amongst a suite of value add services that are offered to clients. Investing heavily in innovation and technology whilst further developing its current suite of client friendly solutions, Citco will continue into the future as flagbearer to the asset servicing industry.

Citco is a proud member of 100 Women in Finance’s Leadership Council. 100WF Leadership Council is a select group of international banks, alternative investment firms, asset management firms and others in the industry who support the mission of 100 Women in Finance.

100WF's 20th Anniversary
Throughout 2021, 100 Women in Finance will celebrate its twentieth year of operations with special events and recognition of the member volunteers who have built 100WF into today’s leading organization dedicated to the advancement of women in the global finance industry. Since its founding in 2001, 100WF’s pillars of Education, Peer Engagement and Impact have established a foundation of purpose, achievement and confidence that will guide the organization's future growth and focus on attaining its 30/40 Vision in the next twenty years.

100 Women in Finance
100 Women in Finance strengthens the global finance industry by empowering women to achieve their professional potential at each career stage. Its members inspire, equip and advocate for a new generation of industry leadership, in which women and men serve as investment professionals and executives, equal in achievement and impact. Through Education, Peer Engagement and Impact, the organization furthers the progress of women who have chosen finance as a career, and enables their positive influence over pre-career young women.
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