Ari leads FEP’s finance department, with over 12 years of private equity back-office experience. Most recently, Ari was the Private Equity Controller at Casdin Capital. Prior to that, Ari was the Vice President of Finance and Operations at Level Equity and prior to that, he was the Controller / Vice President of Finance at Solera Capital. Ari also has public accounting experience including 6 years at PwC where he was an Audit Manager in their alternative investments practice. Ari graduated from Queens College with a Bachelor’s Degree, where he majored in accounting and minored in economics, is a licensed CPA and Notary Public in the State of New York. In his free time, Ari is a Class A, volunteer firefighter in his hometown of Woodmere, NY and enjoys watching and playing sports, and running marathons and triathlons.