Lesley Keefe

Lesley is a managing director in EY’s Wealth and Asset Management (WAM) consulting practice with more than 25 years of experience in asset and wealth management. Lesley leads EY Comply’s Operations organization, responsible for supporting the timely and accurate regulatory and fund financial reporting on behalf of both alternative fund and registered fund managers on EY’s managed service platform.

Prior to this role, Lesley led EY Advisory’s Asset Management Business Consulting practice, focusing on top-tier global asset management firms and the investment management function within insurance companies.

Lesley has worked with the leading global asset managers, assisting firms with target operating model strategies spanning business, application, data, organizational blueprints, and implementation roadmaps. Lesley’s teams have assisted firms with strategic operating model design, business requirements specifications, fund accounting selection and implementation, organizational change management, management reporting, and business process outsourcing across all functions performed by asset managers.

Lesley has authored or led a number of thought leadership articles and industry operating model surveys, most recently “ “When the ground beneath your feet is shifting, do you stand still or leap forward?  A view on the new asset management global operating model”

Lesley holds a BA, Finance, Boston University and MBA, International Management, ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management