Team

John P. Ernenwein

Managing Partner

  • John has over 25 years’ experience in finance, operations and compliance at private investment firms, with over 20 years in C-Suite roles. From 2006 to 2018, he was Chief Financial Officer of Blue Harbour Group, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, concurrently serving as Chief Compliance Officer from 2006 to 2014. Previously, John was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of PAW Capital Partners from 1997 to 2005. Prior to PAW, he was a Portfolio Accountant at Ardsley Partners from 1993 to 1997. Prior to Ardsley, John was in charge of equity derivatives operations at Citibank. John began his career in corporate accounting at Verizon Communications.

    In his role as CFO and COO, John was responsible for accounting, reporting and annual audits for dozens of investment funds, investment managers and general partners. He successfully implemented technology solutions to create straight-through business processes. He led firms through exponential growth of assets under management, including hiring and infrastructure expansion. He worked closely with Investor Relations teams in creating new fund structures, fee arrangements and best-in-class reporting. John has extensive experience in operations due diligence (“ODD”), having represented his firms in hundreds of ODD assessments that preceded billions in investment allocations.

    As a Chief Compliance Officer, John oversaw all regulatory reporting and compliance, and successfully navigated two SEC audits. He was also responsible for governance tasks, including organizing and presiding over board and internal committee meetings. He served as Executive Director on the board of internal funds.

    John currently represents various client funds as a member of Advisory Committees and Boards. He has served as a speaker and panelist at investment advisor conferences and has served on various industry committees.

    John is a Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) Registered Director, and is a member of the Private Director’s Association (PDA). He has a BS in Finance from Manhattan College and an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Fordham University.

Rhonda D. Eldridge
CPA, CA

Director

  • Rhonda has over 25 years in the alternative investment fund business, a career spanning from chief financial officer and head of operations to country and regional managing director roles, and recently pivoting to advisory and consulting roles in the fintech, blockchain, and digital assets industry.

    Early in her professional career Rhonda worked at PwC in Canada and The Bahamas, focused on financial services audits. She joined Pierson Helding & Pierson (which became Fortis, then rebranded under ABN Amro), first as Chief Financial Officer of a private banking client, then as head of their fund administration group before moving to New York and becoming regional Managing Director. She worked in a similar capacity with UBS Global Asset Management before embracing a career as an industry consultant to startup and niche fintech, blockchain and fund administration firms. Over the past 5 years she returned to the audit industry and has focused on hedge funds, private equity funds and crypto-digital asset funds.

    Rhonda has extensive experience working with a wide range of fund structures and strategies, particularly on due diligence, corporate governance, infrastructure, operations and third party risks. She has worked with many well-known alternative investment funds and their stakeholders and served on many fund boards during her career.

    She is an entrepreneur-founder of Haddison Advisory Partners, a consulting practice, and Harness All Possibilities (“HAP”), a non-profit social impact enterprise engaged in sharing knowledge of fintech, blockchain and emerging technology with executives in work transition and persons in underserved communities.

    Rhonda is currently on the Global Board of Directors of Help for Children, the premier alternative investment industry charity, a member of AIMA’s Digital Assets Working Group and curator of “Blockchain Business School”, a program for students, teachers, and business professionals curious about the future of work, Web3-blockchain, and digital transformation.

    She was a first female member of the Young Presidents’ Organization in The Bahamas, a founding member of a Rotary Club in The Bahamas and L’Alliance Francaise des Bahamas. She has been active on many other industry and social impact committees during her career.

    She has received several accolades including, a top 50 woman in fintech (blockchain industry) in the Caribbean and a 2019 DevCon Scholar (Ethereum Foundation).

    Rhonda is a diverse thinker and a results and team focused visionary able to curate and execute strategies particularly for acquisitions, business turnarounds, crisis-change management, and market- shifts. She remains active as a judge of startup pitches, and as a speaker, mentor and community voice in the alternative investment and digital asset industries.

    Rhonda holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Degree from Queen's University, Canada and is a chartered accountant and member of the Canadian Institute of Professional Accountants. She is a member of WomenExecs on Boards, a global organization of women on boards for networking, peer support, and education. In 2023 she completed "Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director" at Harvard Business School Executive Education.