Gerald Cummins

Gerald Cummins serves as the Company's Chief Compliance Officer and is a Director at ACA Group ("ACA"). He is also Chief Compliance Officer of Barings Capital Investment Corporation. Mr. Cummins has supported registered advisers and registered funds as an outsourced chief compliance officer since 2015. Prior to working as an outsourced chief compliance officer, Mr. Cummins was a consultant for Barclays Capital Inc., where he participated in numerous compliance projects on pricing and valuation. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for BroadArch Capital and the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer to its predecessor New Castle Funds, a long-short equity asset manager with over $1 billion in AUM. Mr. Cummins also spent 25 years at Bear Stearns Asset Management ("BSAM"), an asset manager with over $25 billion in AUM, where he was a Managing Director and held senior compliance, controller and operations risk positions. Mr. Cummins served as a member of the risk, best execution and valuation committees that oversaw 25 hedge and private equity funds.  At BSAM, he also served as the head of the hedge fund business controllers unit, and participated in the structuring and launch of numerous hedge funds and fund of funds across multiple equity, fixed income and derivatives strategies. Mr. Cummins holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Fordham University.