"Compliance infrastructure was ranked the third most important manager selection criterion, with nearly 50% of respondents citing it as "very important.""

SEI-Greenwich Associates Report, New Rules of Institutional Hedge Fund Investing, January 2010

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Castile Compliance addresses the requirements of the ever changing regulatory environment for Investment Advisers, Hedge Funds, Broker Dealers, and Private Equity Firms. Today's financial services professionals need the proper guidance and expertise in establishing and implementing robust internal controls. Investors need to be assured that extensive due diligence and asset protection exists in all areas. Regulators are mandating a higher standard that could potentially be cost prohibitive to put in effect. Castile Compliance is the answer to all these important requirements. Castile Compliance is expert in establishing and maintaining a firm’s compliance risk management policies, procedures and infrastructure.

Fusion Business Group is a business and technology consulting company that services primarily the alternative investment community. Our emphasis is on designing, installing, monitoring and maintaining server domain and network infrastructures, Managed and Hosted Services, Disaster Recovery, Help Desk services and standard break/fix desktop support. Our Hosted Services includes full server infrastructure hosting via our high availability virtualized environment. We have partnered with VMWare, Citrix and Microsoft to provide the best of breed technologies, and our engineers have designed an infrastructure with redundancy and performance as the cornerstone of our solution. Our Business consulting offerings include relocation and office build-out consulting, business continuity planning, compliance and due diligence and virtual CTO advisory services.

Asset Technology is widely recognized as the leading solutions supplier in the Middle East for Enterprise Content management, Document Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Initiative Management, and custom e-Business applications. With its world-class Arabic-English applications, Jupiter and Emagineering, ASSET allows enterprise users for the first time to obtain the full advantage of Oracle's full suite of advanced technologies when developing Enterprise Content and Initiative Management applications. With more than 100 highly qualified software engineering professionals using state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies at its development center, ASSET has successfully and cost effectively delivered world-class, enterprise-level solutions to meet the most demanding requirements of 120+ clients in the US and the Middle East.

Transitional Data Services excels in the rapid delivery of efficient and cost effective IT solutions that cannot be practically delivered by either the in-house staff (due to lack of time), conventional outsourcing providers (due to lack of flexibility) or IT contractors (due to lack of supporting infrastructure). Their specialization is the automation, integration and optimization of service delivery processes that improve IT efficiency, agility and effectiveness. TDS terms this collective capability as service orchestration. Their experience is that service orchestration enables IT organizations to more effectively transition from their current state into one that is more efficient, agile and effective and therefore better aligned with their company's core business. TDS has also found that service orchestration really enables IT organizations to do more with less, especially in the implementation and management of next generation data centers.

Candela Solutions is a public accounting firm working with boards and management teams to help them reach their objectives through governance, internal auditing, technology, strategic planning, and change management. Candela also has specialized competencies to service governments, middle market companies and start-up businesses. Candela strives for results rather than elaborate reports which simply sit on a shelf. For example, they take an operational approach towards governmental mandates to add value as opposed to merely achieving compliance. The delicate balance management faces is walking the line between noncompliance and over-compliance. The common question is, 'How far should we go, and are the costs justified by the benefits?' The key is finding the optimal balance and securing a comprehensive solution and consulting expertise to build value beyond a strict compliance approach.