Lawrence Palermo

Background

About Lawrence Palermo

Senior executive with over twenty years of diverse experience encompassing all aspects of the management and development of several premier financial and family institutions. Levering off a broad range of professional exposures and strong technical skills, has designed and built multiple highly scalable, best-in-class infrastructures which are heavily focused on process, personnel management and technological utilization. Over six years, designed, institutionalized and oversaw a multi-generational family office for a prominent New York family which included an SEC registered, diversified, multi-billion-dollar investment platform. Prior to that, worked nine years at a global, multi-strategy hedge fund manager, which peaked at $16 billion in assets. The first six years were in controller roles, achieving a broad array of experiences that involved practically all aspects of the back office; the latter three years, in a front-office role, heading up all financial and accounting aspects of the private equity group which managed a portfolio of over $1 billion in assets. In addition, has a foundation in public accounting, specializing in tax and has launched several start-up hedge fund managers.