About the Author
Jason Scharfman is the Managing Partner of Corgentum Consulting, a specialist consulting firm that performs operational due diligence reviews and background investigations of fund managers of all types, including hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and long-only funds on behalf of institutional investors, including pensions, endowments, foundations, fund of funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
He is recognized as a leading expert in the field of due diligence, and is the author of Hedge Fund Governance: Evaluating Oversight, Independence, and Conflicts (Academic Press, 2014), Private Equity Operational Due Diligence: Tools to Evaluate Liquidity, Valuation, and Documentation. (John Wiley & Sons 2012), and Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence: Understanding the Risks (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). He has also contributed to the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) curriculum on due diligence and has served on the organization's Due Diligence, Risk Management, and Regulation Committee.
Before founding Corgentum, Mr. Scharfman previously oversaw the operational due diligence function for a $6 billion alternative investment allocation group called Graystone Research at Morgan Stanley. While at Morgan Stanley, he was also a senior member of a team that oversaw all of Morgan Stanley's hedge fund operational due diligence efforts, allocating in excess of $13 billion to a firm-wide platform of more than 300 hedge fund managers across ...
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