Biography

Ryan is a partner in the Ernst & Young LLP Wealth & Asset Management practice. He has approximately 20 years of experience serving the alternative asset management industry, with a primary concentration in advising hedge funds, private equity funds and a variety of alternative hybrid vehicles. Ryan sits on the EY US NY Wealth and Asset Management Markets Board, co-leads the Emerging Manager Platform, and is responsible for helping the alternatives practice understand and evaluate new and evolving financial reporting and market issues within the industry.

Ryan’s investment fund clients range from $50 billion-plus global fund complexes to startups that he has guided from launch to full operations. His clients deploy strategies that include long and short equity, activism, quantitative techniques, global macro, credit, lending and private investing.

He has extensive experience advising investment managers on all areas of their operations, including regulatory, structuring, reporting and accounting. Additionally, Ryan has worked with many of the top hedge fund administrators, specifically leading SOC engagements for several of the largest global hedge fund administrators.

Ryan speaks periodically at industry events on current issues impacting the hedge fund community and has codeveloped many pieces of our asset management thought leadership.

Ryan earned a BS in Accounting with an Economics minor from Fordham University. He is a certified public accountant in New York and sits on the Board of Directors of Good Shepherd Service.