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69th percentile
Former SEC Division of Investment Management Director now Kirkland & Ellis investment funds partner
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 64th percentile
- Partner in the Investment Funds Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a globally recognized law firm advising the largest private fund sponsors in the world.
- Has approximately 10 years of investing-adjacent experience as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis advising investment funds (since February 2016), plus prior experience as General Counsel at Chilton Investment Company.
- Former partner of a hedge fund manager (Chilton Investment Company), giving him direct fund-side experience as noted in his Chambers profile.
Relationship Matrix
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Partner in the Investment Funds Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a globally recognized law firm advising the largest private fund sponsors in the world.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has approximately 10 years of investing-adjacent experience as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis advising investment funds (since February 2016), plus prior experience as General Counsel at Chilton Investment Company.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Former partner of a hedge fund manager (Chilton Investment Company), giving him direct fund-side experience as noted in his Chambers profile.
What you likely need
Your highest-leverage Festival moments are rooms where regulatory authority meets capital deployment — dinners with GPs and LPs who need exactly the compliance clarity you provide, and roundtables where your Harvard Law and Kirkland & Ellis credibility opens doors to advisory board seats and emerging manager relationships. You'd also benefit from curated podcast-host and media-editor meetups where you can convert your SEC expertise into a broader public voice beyond institutional fund circles.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA private funds GP/LP dinner for emerging managers and institutional LPs where your SEC regulatory expertise anchors the conversation on the new private fund adviser rules and compliance priorities
- introsA Kirkland & Ellis alumni and top-10 private fund sponsor roundtable to facilitate warm introductions between emerging managers seeking their first institutional LP checks and the large allocators you already advise
- positioningA Harvard Law School finance and securities faculty dinner with Bloomberg Law and Harvard Law Review editors to workshop a co-authored op-ed or policy paper on SEC private fund regulation
- introsA fintech and private fund manager happy hour specifically for founders and GPs actively recruiting formal legal and regulatory advisors to their boards, where your SEC background is the exact credential they are seeking
- positioningA curated meetup of top finance and venture capital podcast hosts — including shows like Acquired, Invest Like the Best, and 20VC — to pitch your SEC regulatory lens as a timely episode angle for their GP and LP audiences
- tacticalA roundtable with financial literacy organization leaders and RIA wealth management firm partners to structure co-branded speaking engagements around 'Mastering Money' that expand your network beyond the institutional fund world
- positioningAn office hours session with LinkedIn's top finance and legal creators — founders and attorneys with 50K-plus followers — to build a content cadence around SEC regulatory developments that converts your 11,592 followers into inbound fund manager leads
- tacticalA dinner for credentialed legal and finance professionals making their first visible angel investments, focused on structuring AngelList and Crunchbase profiles that establish a public investor track record alongside an active advisory practice