Hedge Fund Appraisal is organized in two offices. The Geneva office is staffed with seasoned due diligence experts with extensive experience in the hedge fund industry. Those experts are supported by a back office based in Bangalore, India.

Our appraisal process separates between the information collection tasks and the information analysis tasks. The information collection tasks include the gathering of all the data necessary from the fund’s stakeholders and its input into our proprietary Appraisal Database.  Those tasks are performed by our back office in India. The senior appraisers in our Geneva office can focus exclusively on the analysis of the information prepared in Bangalore and efficiently prepare their onsite visit and the final report.

The workflow between the two offices is managed through our proprietary project management platform. The platform allows for an efficient collaborative work through all the steps of the appraisal projects.

Gabriel Kurland is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hedge Fund Appraisal. Gabriel has more than 10 years of experience in the hedge fund industry and has performed due diligence on hundreds of hedge funds.

Before setting up Hedge Fund Appraisal, Gabriel was portfolio manager and senior hedge fund analyst with Anglo Irish Bank in Geneva, Switzerland (2002-2007). He managed the bank’s internal fund of hedge funds and was a member of the funds selection committee. When he left, his department was responsible for the investment of around $500ml in single manager hedge funds.

Gabriel, first experience with the Hedge Fund industry was as a manager in the hedge fund operation department of HSBC Republic (2000-2002). He was responsible of a team of four persons in charge of the internal audit for the bank’s hedge fund investments.

He started his career in the banking industry in 1999 as a mortgage specialist with Bank Leumi in Israel.

Gabriel has a BSc. in Economics and Statistics from the Tel Aviv University, an MSc. In Marketing from the Leicester University, UK and he is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) since 2005.