The International Funds Conference produced an enviable list of internationally respected speakers for the 2009 event, and we have been extremely honoured by the number of world class speakers that have made themselves available for our 2010 conference. Our goal is to make this into an annual event that every major player in our industry will have marked on their calender as ‘must attend’ and we have taken a big step forward in pursuit of that goal with the speakers and panelists we have assembled this year.

Browse through the speaker gallery to the right to see a short biogaphy of each speaker as you roll over their picture, and click on the picture to see a full bio and details on their presentation.

Kenneth Krys
Managing Director | Krys & Associates Cayman Ltd.

Kenneth Krys is the Managing Director of Krys & Associates Cayman Ltd., and liquidator of a number of high profile and complex cross-border engagements. Ken is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Chartered Business Valuator and has over 18 years experience in a diverse range of corporate recovery, forensic accounting and regulatory compliance assignments in the Caribbean (including Bermuda, BVI, Jamaica and Belize).

In July 2009, Ken was appointed joint liquidator of Fairfield Sentry Ltd, the largest single investor in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme with potential losses estimated as high as $7.4 billion. This engagement involves numerous litigation matters in the US and Europe to recover funds for investors. He is joint official liquidator of the Sphinx Group of Companies comprising of 22 hedge funds representative of the S&P Hedge Fund Index. Sphinx is the first Chapter 15 application in history in which an opposition was filed against the recognition of foreign proceedings and it is the first significant insolvency involving segregated portfolio companies. He is also co-liquidator of Dyoll Insurance Company Ltd. the first liquidation of a foreign company in the Cayman Islands. Ken was Head Of Compliance of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority from 2002 – 2004 and responsible for management and administration of regulatory actions and corporate governance. Over the course of his tenure in Cayman, he has also acted as court fiduciary or directed court supervised engagements for over 50 entities. He has also provided expert evidence on numerous occasions.

Ken sits on the Board of the Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants (CISPA), is the Chairman of CISPA’s Compliance Sub-Committee and a member of both the CISPA Investigations Sub-Committee and the Insolvency Practitioners Sub-Committee. He was elected to the Cayman Islands Compliance Association in 2000 and has served as Vice-President of CICA since 2004. In addition, he is acting President of local chapter #123 of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Further, he is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Ken has also spoken at various conferences internationally and written articles on hedge fund or hedge fund blow ups, forensic investigations and general insolvency matters.