Biography

Samer is a principal in the Asset Management Consulting practice of Ernst & Young LLP based in the New York Financial Services Organization. With more than 26 years of experience in business consulting, he leads the firm’s consulting initiatives in the alternative asset management marketplace. Samer has helped numerous institutional asset managers, private equity funds, hedge funds, credit managers, and asset services and prime brokers in improving and/or expanding the efficacy and effectiveness of their front-, middle- and back-office functions, redesigning operational processes to support changes in their organizational structures and their processes and technology platforms.

Samer’s experience includes consulting services relating to organizational refinement for private equity and hedge funds. He is an experienced advisor for trade/deal capture portfolio management, portfolio accounting and partnership accounting systems implementation, middle-office formation and software vendor selection, as well as the infrastructure buildup related to the outsourcing of middle- and back-office functions.

Samer has spoken at many domestic and international traditional and alternative asset management industry conferences.