Casey Quirk - Strategy Development, Investments & Products, and Market Knowledge & Research

KEVIN P. QUIRK
Partner, Casey, Quirk & Associates

Kevin is a founding partner of Casey, Quirk & Associates. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the investment management industry and has advised the management teams of over 150 organizations, including many of the industry leaders. Among Kevin's client experience and areas of expertise include:

• Business strategy and organizational design
• U.S. institutional/professional buyer markets strategy (including defined benefit, defined contribution, endowments, foundations, and other not-for-profits, retail intermediary, and college savings)
• Global markets strategy (including on-the-ground experience in the U.K., Continental Europe, Japan, Australia, Middle East, and Latin America)
• Hedge fund and fund-of-hedge fund markets and business strategy
• Investments capability assessment and marketing strategies
• Merger and acquisition advisory

Kevin is a frequent industry speaker, is often quoted in industry publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barron's, Business Week, and Pensions & Investments, and has appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box. He has co-authored a number of Casey Quirk’s industry research papers over the past ten years, including:

• Success in Investment Management: Building and Managing the Complete Firm (2000)
• Fund of hedge funds—Rethinking resource requirements (2002)
• Search for Investment Quality (2003)
• Success in Investment Management: Three Years Later (2003)
• Institutional Demand for Hedge Funds: New Opportunities and New Standards (2004)
• 2005 Business Benchmarking Survey
• Institutional Demand for Hedge Funds 2: A Global Perspective (2006)
• The Brave New World: Winning Product Strategies for a Changing Global Market (2007)
• The New Gatekeepers: Winning Business Models for Investments Outsourcing (2008)

Prior to founding Casey Quirk, Kevin was a Managing Director of Barra Strategic Consulting Group and RogersCasey. He previously worked for Coopers & Lybrand in Boston and Los Angeles in the management consulting practice and in the Mutual Fund Services group of American Express/The Boston Company in Boston.

Kevin graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Providence College and received his M.B.A. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Kevin is a member of the Investment Committee for Providence College’s endowment.