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Noreen Harrington is managing partner for MD Sass, a U.S. $12 billion investment management firm. ‎She has been working with MD Sass since 2005 on the distribution and management of a fund of hedge ‎funds in a joint venture with Alternative Institutional Partners, LLC (AIP), where Ms. Harrington served ‎as managing partner and chief investment officer. She is also a trustee of Adelphi University. Prior to ‎starting AIP, she was an adviser to AAM, Alternative Asset Managers, LP, a private investment boutique ‎with primary focus on providing seed capital to start-up hedge fund managers. Ms. Harrington has built ‎family offices for the owners of the NY Mets and for the owners of the Hartz Mountain Group. She ‎served as the chief investment officer specializing in funds of hedge funds.‎

Her traditional Wall Street career started two decades ago. She was managing director at Goldman Sachs, ‎head of hedge funds and non-dollar sales in the fixed income division globally, and co-head of Barclays ‎Capital Fixed Income and a member of the Barclay’s management committee. Ms. Harrington was based in ‎London for six years and built up numerous contacts throughout the world. She is more publicly recognized ‎as the whistler-blower in the mutual fund scandals. Her efforts, along with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, ‎led to the end of late trading and market timing abuses and created industry reforms that benefit and protect ‎an estimated 95 million investors. To date, there has been over $5 billion in fines collected by various ‎government agencies.‎

Ms. Harrington has a BS in education from Adelphi University and has received numerous industry awards: ‎Titan of the Year 2003, Top Fifty Women in Finance (1997), Compliance Person of the Year 2003, and The ‎Truthsayer Award. She is a founding member of 85 Broads, Goldman Sachs Women’s Network, and 100 ‎Women in Hedge Funds‎

Topic:‎ ‎“The Role of a Whistleblower: Ethical Dilemmas in Investment Management”‎