The Conifer Group, a provider of fund administration, middle office, trading and prime brokerage services to the hedge fund industry, announced several new hires in the firm's New York office.
It has added Drew Burggraf as vice president and team leader for the New York prime brokerage team and hired Jarod Riley as vice president and Kyle Vedder as client services representative for their middle- and back-office services business.
Conifer has also brought on Pamela Fong as a shareholder services professional on the fund administration team in New York.
Conifer signed 22 new clients in the first half of 2013, and opened an office in Halifax, Nova Scotia to complement its existing San Francisco, New York, and Tortola locations.
The fund administration group took on several large clients from other administrators, including a complex mandate from a credit manager emerging from the Lehman estate, and implemented the firm's Form PF solution tool.
Before joining Conifer, Burggraf was an executive director of prime brokerage services at UBS and a senior collateral manager at Morgan Stanley.
Riley formerly served as assistant controller for Protege Partners, while Vedder was an account operations manager at Brown Brothers Harriman.
Previously, Fong was an investor relations associate for Morgan Stanley's private equity funds.
