Kerra Smith is an experienced marketing and investment sales professional with Trinity Street Asset Management, a London-based specialist investment manager of concentrated international and global equity strategies. She is based in New York and is responsible for building relationships in the U.S. with a wide variety of institutional investors, private families, OCIOs and consultants.
With twenty years of experience across the asset management industry, Kerra began her career in 2002 at Cambridge Associates in Boston as a Consulting Associate. At C|A, Kerra worked with and learned from thought leading endowments, foundations, families and their investment consultants. She moved to the hedge fund industry in 2005, first with JPMorgan Alternative Asset Management and then directly as a senior BD/IR professional at several hedge fund firms including Gotham Asset Management and Hudson Bay Capital. Kerra’s experience raising assets for early stage hedge fund managers spans across a variety of equity and credit strategies and also includes the development of private equity structured revenue share vehicles for Forester Capital.
Kerra attended Bowdoin College, where she graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts (AB) in Mathematics and Economics. She volunteers time as a Board Member of the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE), a Board Member of NC Rink Inc., and a member of 100 Women in Finance.
She lives in New Canaan, CT with her husband, two young children and French bulldog.