Edward Gwekwete 

Ed is an audit partner with KPMG in the Cayman Islands and is the Audit Quality and Professional Practice Leader for the Cayman firm as well as the KPMG Islands Group. Ed has more than 20 years of experience providing audit services to a wide range of financial services clients, the last 12 of which have been focused on investment management and investment fund clients, including mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity/venture capital investment companies, and investment advisers.

Ed has served as quality control reviewer for many of KPMG largest asset management clients in the Cayman Islands and is part of KPMG’s Global Asset Management technical group. Over the past 5 years, Ed has been focused on building out the Audit Quality and Professional Practice group for the entire KPMG Islands Group where his responsibilities include monitoring activities at accounting and auditing standard-setting bodies and regulators and formulating views relative to investment management and investment company matters; consulting with KPMG engagement teams and clients regarding technical accounting, reporting, and audit issues in the investment management and funds industry; and assisting in developing and instructing KPMG’s investment funds training courses.

Ed is a CFA charter holder and a Certified Financial Risk Manager and has broad experience with accounting, reporting, operational, and compliance requirements of investment funds and investment advisers, including complex investment types and products.