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Simon Fludgate – Head of Operational Due Diligence
Simon has over 15 years of audit, hedge fund credit and operational due diligence experience. Simon joined Aksia at its inception in October 2006 as the Head of the Operational Due Diligence team. Simon manages a team of research professionals dedicated to performing operational due diligence of hedge fund and fund of hedge funds investments on behalf of clients.
Prior to Aksia, Simon worked at Credit Suisse, where he was the head of operational due diligence and deputy head of risk management for Credit Suisse’s fund of hedge funds activities.
Prior to Credit Suisse, Simon worked for KBC Financial Products (formerly D.E. Shaw Financial Products) as a risk manager working on market risk and hedge fund counterparty risk. He joined D.E. Shaw in 1997 as an accounting supervisor in their financial and operations group. Simon started his professional career in 1993 working for Richard A. Eisner & Company (Eisner LLP) in the audit department.
Simon graduated from The State University of New York at Albany in 1993 with a B.S. in Accounting. Simon is a Trustee for the Friends of the New York Transit Museum.