Barry Ipp

Barry Ipp has 18 years direct experience in evaluating back office, operations, technology and compliance programs as part of his extensive operational due diligence ("ODD") background and over 25+ years of asset management and audit experience. In addition to having experience assessing compliance policies and procedures Barry served for 2 years as Chief Compliance Officer for a Fund of Hedge Funds and after the acquisition successfully integrated the compliance program into the new acquiring asset management Firm. Barry is highly skilled in conducting in-depth reviews on most asset classes and has extensive experience in obtaining important data/information to assess a fund managers’ infrastructure. In addition, Barry has a proven track record interviewing fund managers compliance and back office staff, as well as investor relations professionals, third party compliance consultants, fund administrators, auditors, lawyers and IT professionals. Barry also has experience conducting investigations and performed comprehensive fraud risk assessments and evaluated anti-fraud programs and controls for alternative managers while at a PwC.

Barry previously worked at a firm that he founded in 2019, Carson Advisory LLC, that was an outsourced investment operations, compliance and operational due diligence risk consulting services firm. In addition, he served as outsourced Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for a private credit advisor in NY. Prior to launching Carson Advisory, Barry was Director of Operational and ESG Diligence at Fiera Capital Inc. from 2016 to 2019 where he was solely responsible for performing operational due diligences on private managers and was a voting member of multiple investment committees including direct lending and hedge funds (across all strategies). In addition, Barry formed and chaired Fiera’s Proxy Voting Committee and oversaw the Fiera’s ESG efforts across all asset classes. Prior to Fiera Capital, Barry was Partner, Head of ODD at Larch Lane Advisors (a FoHF) from 2007 until the acquisition by Fiera Capital in 2016. Barry was also Chief Compliance Officer for Larch Lane from 2014 to 2016. Prior to Larch Lane, Barry was Manager, Fraud Risk and Controls at PwC where he conducted investigations in every major segment of the Investment Management Industry from institutional, retail and bank advised funds, to domestic and offshore hedge funds, private equity and other alternative asset vehicles.