Hedge Fund Administration
Team
If you are starting a Hedge Fund or
wondering about how to start a Hedge Fund. We can help, here is a listing of
our staff (your administrative team). Ainsley Fuller - Director of Technology
Linda McDonald - Director of Fund Administration
Louis Angeloni - Director of
Administration Accounting and Proprietary Trading
Howard Kaplan - Certified Public Accountant
Richard Reichstein - General Counsel
In November 2003, he
and partners from the futures industry launched
a futures and spot currency hedge fund. He is an attorney
admitted to the practice of law in the states of Illinois in 1976, Florida in
1994, and New York in 2000; as well as U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois in 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit in 1984, U.S.
District Court, Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, in 1992, U.S.
Court of Federal Claims in 1994, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of
Michigan in 1998, U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida in 1998. He
is a graduate of University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where he
received a B.A. Degree in 1972; and, a graduate of the John Marshall Law
School where he received a J.D. degree in 1976. While at the fund he was an
officer and compliance director of an Illinois Investment Advisor and an
Illinois Investment Advisor representative. He is NASD Series 3,
Series 7 and Series 65 Examination qualified
as well as a member of the NFA and an "Associated Person" of a Registered
Commodity Pool Operator. Mr. Lapat is
also the recipient of the American Civil Liberties Union Recognition
Award for Litigation and Support of Civil Rights
awarded in 1985.
Michael Lapat
is the President, General Counsel and a founder of TURN KEY HEDGE
FUNDS, INC. He currently serves on the Board of Directors
of the Hedge Fund Association, a non profit association representing the Hedge
Fund Industry. In 1998, Mr. Lapat was a co-founder of a successful hedge fund
which from August 1998 through September 2000 grew its assets from $500,000 to
$60,000,000; and during which time had an average annual return of 78.53%. At
that fund, he was responsible for document preparation, investor relations,
fund administration, and legal and compliance matters, as well as other back
office matters. Mr. Lapat was responsible for the initial launch of the
domestic hedge fund as well as its transition to a master feeder fund
structure with onshore and offshore feeder fund components. In September 2000,
he left that position and formed Turn Key Hedge Funds Inc. where he
developed the concept of the Turn Key Hedge Fund.
Ainsley Fuller:
Mr. Fuller is the Director of Technology for Turn Key Hedge Funds,
Inc. and a founder. He joins Turn Key Hedge Funds, Inc. from his own
successful computer consulting firm, Clearwater Services, Inc. Mr. Fuller is
Microsoft Certified and well versed with Microsoft networking solutions and
business applications. He has been providing and implementing technology
solutions as well as consulting services to a wide variety of business and
organizations since 1994. He is equally experienced in network analysis, design,
administration, and security. He is well versed in a wide variety of hardware &
software configurations and the deployment of these technologies. Turn Key
Hedge Funds, Inc. and its clients have benefited from his knowledge and
experience in computer networking and business applications. Technology makes
the process of starting a Hedge Fund easier. Mr. Fuller is available to
promptly assist hedge fund managers and their computer traders in dealing with
all their technology needs. He is available to perform a system analysis of
their existing hardware and software configurations as well as to provide
technology risk management consulting to improve and maintain trading technology.
Linda McDonald
entered the financial industry and joined Turn
Key Hedge Funds, Inc. in 2002. She was initially employed in the company’s
fund launch section. In that section Ms. McDonald was individually responsible
for entity formations, state securities filings for Private Investment
Companies, federal "Form D" filings, internal investor and fund document
preparation and filing, fund investor relations, as well as coordination of
monthly reporting. In January 2004, Ms. McDonald assumed the duties of "Director
of Fund Administration" managing the company’s fund administration
section. In that capacity she is responsible for supervising, managing and
directing launch activities, entity formation, document preparation, Commodity
Pool Operator Registration activities, Investment Advisor registration
activities, as well as administrative client fund investor relations.
In addition to his trading experience, Mr. Angeloni brings his twelve years of accounting experience in the private sector to the administration operation of the company as well as trading experience to BRILLIANT FOREX PARTNERS, LP. In that capacity, he will supervise and maintain internal accounting and management of the day-to-day bookkeeping as well as supervises and assists in the reconciling and closing the Partnership book at the end of every trading day.
Mr. Angeloni received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from DE PAUL UNIVERSITY in Chicago, Illinois and received a Master Business Administration (MBA) in Management Information Systems from DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY. Mr. Angeloni is NASD Series 7, NASD Series 65 and NASD Series 3 examination qualified. Mr. Angeloni is registered with the COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CFTC) as an Associated Person of BRILLIANT FUTURES FUND, L.P. a registered COMMODITY POOL OPERATOR (CPO)and is a member of the NATIONAL FUTURES ASSOCIATION (NFA)
RICHARD REICHSTEIN
is General Counsel to TURN KEY HEDGE FUNDS, INC.
He has been a guest speaker before the National Contract Management Association, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, Small Business Innovative Research Center. Lecture topics include intellectual property, federal and private commercial law, contract formation and defenses, contract clauses and formation of government contracts, rights and remedies under innovative research contracts.
Mr. Reichstein is a member of the Chicago Bar Association; Illinois Bar Association; ABA Section of Public Contracts, ABA Committees on Bid Protest, Debarment and Suspension, Federal Contract Claims & Remedies; National Contract Management Association; General Contractors of America; Assoc. General Contractors of Illinois.
Howard J. Kaplan, CPA: Turn Key Hedge Funds, Inc. has formed a strategic alliance with the accounting and consulting firm, Kaplan & Company (K&CO), based in Northbrook, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), to provide independent auditing services to clients of Turn Key Hedge Funds, Inc. Mr. Kaplan is the Managing Partner of K&CO. Turn Key Hedge Funds, Inc. has formed this ongoing strategic relationship with K&CO to provide start-up consulting services, accounting services, auditing services, tax consultation and preparation services to private investment partnerships and offshore funds. Mr. Kaplan has been providing accounting and tax services to private partnerships since 1971. Prior to joining K&CO, he worked for one of the “Big Five’” accounting firms where, in addition to providing auditing and tax services, he was involved in SEC matters and the preparation of SEC filings on behalf of firm clients. Mr. Kaplan is a graduate of Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and also holds memberships in the tax section, consulting services section, personal financial planning and information technology sections of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a member of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants where he has served on various committees. Mr. Kaplan has testified as an expert witness in Federal and State court on various matters. He has taught courses to other accountants for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Kaplan has spoken before various groups on income tax and investment planning matters.
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