LAURALOUISE DUFFY
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Lauralouise Duffy has worked as the CEO of Global Fund Exchange since 2006. In September 2007 she acquired The Global Fund Exchange Group and moved headquarters to New York. As CEO, Ms. Duffy built a broad-spectrum platform service business offering independent fund support, structuring services and consulting to a wide range of hedge funds, fund of funds, and institutional clients. In 2008, she launched GFX Alternatives, a company dedicated to the alternative energy and renewable resources sector. Prior to Global Fund Exchange Group Ms. Duffy spent 15 years on Wall Street working in the capacity of CEO, COO and Managing Director in the Hedge Fund and Alternative Investments community. Most recently Ms. Duffy was Founder and President of Golden Retriever Capital, a global strategic development firm, consulting to major financial institutions in the alternative investment arena. For 6 years, prior to starting Golden Retriever Capital, Ms. Duffy built and ran, as Partner and COO, FNY Capital, the alternative investment arm of First New York Securities.
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Ms. Duffy has spent 17 years running the operations, administration and distribution of eleven hedge funds, building and running investment fund businesses for Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and South America, including equity, global macro, emerging markets, venture, and private equity businesses. Ms. Duffy has extensive experience working in the areas of financial and risk management, fund launches, legal structuring, fund conversions, platform development, infrastructure building, operations and reporting, legal, compliance, client services, manager due diligence and selection, branding, product development, global distribution, and disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
An active philanthropist, Ms. Duffy is the co-founder and Vice President of the Little Baby Face Foundation. Ms. Duffy lives in New York, is married and has 2 golden retrievers and a yellow lab.
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