Leadership

Jason Scharfman, Managing Partner

Jason Scharfman is the Managing Partner of Corgentum Consulting, LLC. He is recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of hedge fund operational due diligence and is the author of Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence: Understanding the Risks (John Wiley & Sons 2008).

Before founding Corgentum, he 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, Mr. Scharfman was also a senior member of a team which oversaw all of Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund operational due diligence efforts allocating in excess of $13 billion to a firm-wide platform of over 300 hedge fund managers across multiple investment strategies. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he held positions which primarily focused on due diligence and risk management within the alternative investment sector at Lazard Asset Management, SPARX Investments and Research and Thomson Financial.

Mr. Scharfman received a B.S. in Finance with an additional major in Japanese from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. in finance from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. He holds the Certified Fraud Examiner credential and has consulted with the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the subject of hedge fund regulation. Additionally, he has provided training to financial regulators on the subject of hedge fund due diligence. Mr. Scharfman has served as a consultant and expert in hedge fund litigation, and has lectured on the subject of hedge fund operations and operational risk as an adjunct professor at New York University. He has written extensively on the subject of operational due diligence and travels and speaks worldwide on hedge fund operational risks. Please click here for a list of Mr. Scharfman's recent speaking engagements and publications.

Resource Network

Corgentum has developed a resource network which consists of former operational due diligence analysts from leading hedge fund allocators, hedge fund auditors, fraud investigators, lawyers with significant hedge fund legal and compliance experience and information technology professionals with deep expertise in hedge fund technologies as well as business continuity and disaster recovery.

This functional expertise across multiple disciplines ensures that investors that partner with Corgentum will remain on the cutting edge of operational risk management.