Adam has worked in UK financial services regulatory compliance roles for over 20 years, primarily in the asset and investment management sector and is Judd’s CEO.
Prior to establishing Judd Advisory, Adam was a Partner with ACA Group for over 12 years, where he led the UK Regulatory Compliance Practice. In his role at ACA, he worked with a portfolio of investment management clients and managed a team of consultants providing Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) compliance support to UK-based clients. These firms include hedge and traditional long-only managers, private equity companies, private family offices and venture capital firms. He held managerial responsibility for the financial and non-financial performance of the UK Regulatory Compliance business at ACA.
Immediately prior to joining ACA, Adam worked for the Permal Fund of Funds Group. While there, he focused primarily on the firm’s UK, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Singapore regulatory requirements. Before Permal, he served as Vice President, Legal and Compliance, for Centaurus Capital, a European event-driven hedge fund. In that position, he handled all UK and European regulatory issues and oversaw implementation of the Hedge Fund Standards Board requirements. Before this, he held Manager and Senior Consultant positions at a leading UK compliance consultancy for over 5 years. There he specialized in providing technical regulatory analysis and compliance support to alternative investment managers. Adam started his compliance career at Fidelity Investments in the UK and has also held the FCA approved Compliance Oversight Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer roles.
Adam received his Master’s in Commercial and Corporate Law (LLM) (merit) from University College London, having previously graduated in Law and Politics from the University of Birmingham. He also holds the Investment Management Certificate. In addition, Adam has participated in industry working groups established by the Alternative Investment Management Association and presented at industry events on regulatory compliance matters.
Danny has spent over fifteen years in regulatory compliance roles, with a particular focus on the alternative asset management space, gaining experience across several investment strategies, fund structures and domiciles, and regulatory regimes – including the UK, US, Ireland, Jersey, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and Luxembourg.
Prior to co-founding Judd Advisory, Danny was a Senior Compliance Officer at B-FLEXION, a private, entrepreneurial investment firm and family office. Whilst there, Danny was responsible for all elements of compliance and regulation at the firm, across a variety of regulatory regimes. Danny’s role included regulatory due diligence on new investment partnerships, new fund and investment manager/adviser set up, compliance advisory work across a variety of complex regulatory topics, horizon scanning and implementation of new regulatory regimes, “code of ethics” matters and marketing material reviews.
Before joining B-FLEXION, Danny worked for an international regulatory consultancy, where he managed a portfolio of clients operating in the alternatives sector. Danny’s portfolio of clients included UK firms who were authorised and regulated by the FCA, SEC registrants and NFA members. Prior to this Danny was in-house at a London based hedge fund and at the international private markets business, Partners Group where his role focused on UK regulatory matters for the firm’s two regulated entities – an alternative investment fund manager and a CLO manager. During his time with Partners Group, Danny also gained exposure to the regulatory regimes in Dubai and Australia, helping the Group obtain regulatory licences in each of these jurisdictions.
Prior to his first in-house role with Partners Group, Danny worked for over five years, for ACA Group, in their UK Regulatory Compliance Practice. At ACA, Danny was responsible for a portfolio of alternative asset management clients, whilst also managing the UK regulatory authorisations team working on over 100 licence applications to the FCA.
Danny received has LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Essex.
Mary Campion has worked in regulatory compliance roles in the asset management space in the UK for over 11 years.
Prior to joining Judd Advisory, Mary was a Director with ACA Group in their UK Regulatory Compliance Practice for 9 years. In her role, she was responsible for a portfolio of alternative asset management clients who were authorised and regulated by the FCA, SEC, CFTC and NFA. Mary’s role included providing ongoing regulatory compliance support which involved assisting them with their compliance framework, monitoring, horizon scanning, training, filings, applications, and with the implementation of regulatory change projects. In addition to ongoing support, Mary’s role involved delivering projects for clients such as health check reviews, scope of permission reviews, mock FCA examinations, AML projects and regulatory change implementation projects. During her tenure, Mary was also outsourced to clients who required additional short and long-term compliance resource. Mary was a member of ACA’s Technical Working Group who were responsible for horizon scanning and providing a house view on more complex areas. Mary developed and led the Firm’s Consultant Development Programme, which was designed to provide analysts with the necessary resources and training to develop as compliance consultants.
Prior to joining ACA, Mary worked in-house in a compliance and legal role for a global macro hedge fund that was FCA, SEC, CFTC and NFA regulated. Her role involved assisting the Legal Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer with drafting legal documentation, compliance framework, compliance monitoring, and the implementation of regulatory projects such as AIFMD and EMIR. Mary also assisted the firm in preparing for its SEC presence exam.
Mary received an LLB (Hons) degree from the National University of Ireland Galway.
Mike trained as an accountant with Price Waterhouse and on qualifying as a chartered management accountant joined Schroder Investment Management within its fund accounting and administration department, ultimately becoming Director of Operations with responsibility for over 1,100 client portfolios with a collective AuM in excess of £135bn. Mike left in 2005 to take on the role of CEO and partner in Blueprint Capital Management, a pioneering regulatory umbrella and then joined Hutchinson Lilley Investments, to develop the firm’s regulatory umbrella offering and support his fellow partners in the legal, compliance, finance and operations functions. In 2020 he was invited to join ACA Mirabella as a partner in the market leading regulatory umbrella, acting as deputy CEO and Director of Strategic Operations covering their four authorised entities within the UK and Malta.
Mike graduated in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford.