Donna D'Alessandro is a financial professional with over 25 years of broad-based experience in the securities industry including 21 years in hedge funds. She is a senior Consultant at CarbonBased Consulting responsible for providing start-up guidance to new managers, policy procedure development and compliance advice. Most recently, Donna oversaw all operations as the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Compliance Officer/Chief Operating Officer at Aremet Capital Management, LLC where she worked with the founders to launch an energy hedge fund and implemented the firm's operations and business systems. Prior to this, Donna was the COO at Avery Partners LP, an event driven hedge fund that concentrated in merger arbitrage that's AUM grew from $7 million at inception to $450 million in four years. During her tenure, Donna developed a marketing strategy and presentation materials that resulted in broad shareholder diversification and oversaw the majority of the firm�s operations and business systems including the portfolio management and accounting systems. She has held senior positions at Andco Securities, Marquette De Bary Co, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Donna graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. Politics and Sociology and has completed courses in accounting and financial analysis at Harvard University and New York University. She is a public notary. |