MFA Ops Los Angeles 2024 - Speakers

Marty Atkinson is a vice president on Barclays’ Prime Services team.  Located in San Francisco, he covers Barclays’ West Coast hedge fund client base in an account management and client relationship role.  Prior to Barclays, Marty spent 12 years at Credit Suisse and seven years at Goldman Sachs in similar roles within their prime services teams.  Marty is a CPA (inactive) and began his career in public accounting with Ernst & Young.

Bryan Corbett is MFA’s President and CEO. He is a veteran of Washington and Wall Street. For the past 12 years, he was a senior executive at The Carlyle Group, most recently as Managing Director in the Corporate Private Equity segment and Head of the firm’s OneCarlyle Global Investment Resources Group. In this role, Mr. Corbett and his team provided strategic and operational support to investment teams and portfolio companies across segments.

For the first half of his Carlyle tenure, Mr. Corbett managed U.S. government and regulatory issues affecting Carlyle, its investments and the industry. In this role, he developed legislative and regulatory strategies relating to all of Carlyle’s business segments, including private equity, credit and real estate. In addition to serving on the boards of several Carlyle portfolio companies, Mr. Corbett started the firm’s global corporate citizenship program focused on responsible investing, published Carlyle’s inaugural corporate citizenship report, and started the firm’s initiative to recruit and place diverse individuals on portfolio company boards in the U.S.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Corbett served in the George W. Bush Administration as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and as the Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt at the Treasury Department. He also served as Majority Counsel on the Senate Banking Committee.

Mr. Corbett earned his JD from George Washington University Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the George Washington Law Review, and earned his BA from University of Notre Dame.

Isaac Haas has been associated with HBK since 2015 and serves as HBK’s General Counsel, with primary responsibility for managing the firm’s legal function. Prior to joining HBK, Isaac was an attorney at Haynes and Boone, LLP, where he advised investment funds and operating companies on corporate and securities matters. He began his legal career as an associate at Jones Day. Isaac received a B.B.A. degree in Finance and Risk Management & Insurance in 2004 from Baylor University. He received a J.D. degree magna cum laude in 2011 from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where he was a Sumners Scholar and served on the editorial board of the SMU Law Review Association.

Jose Jimenez is a partner in the Implementation Group at Albourne Partners where he provides advice regarding client’s operational processes, analysis of fund documents, assistance with negotiation of terms, and subscription and AML assistance. He joined the firm in 2011 as an Operational Due Diligence analyst where he led a team of analysts responsible for operational due diligence coverage of alternative funds.

Prior to Albourne, Jose was an audit manager at Ernst & Young in Bermuda working in the hedge fund practice.

Jose is a Canadian CPA,CA and has a Master in Accounting from University of Toronto and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario.

Albourne was established in 1994 and advises investors on hedge funds, private equity funds, real assets and dynamic beta. It has over 340 clients from around the globe who have an estimated $700 billion invested in alternative investments.

Noah Theran is MFA’s Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Head of Global External Affairs.

Noah joined MFA after six years at Internet Association, a national trade association representing more than 40 of the world’s top internet companies, where he oversaw global communications, creative, marketing, events, and grassroots. In this role, he helped grow Internet Association from a startup into a respected voice on tech policy issues.Prior to Internet Association, Noah was Director of Communications at the American Investment Council, the trade association representing the interests of the world’s largest private equity firms. There, his team earned a PRSA Silver Anvil Award of Excellence, Reputation/Brand Management for their campaign to help the private equity industry manage the spotlight of the 2012 presidential election.

Noah also worked at Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications in Washington, where he developed and executed communications strategies for a diverse set of clients with broad reputation, image, and crisis management challenges.

Noah earned his B.S. from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.