Kevin A. Pemberton, Managing Director, Senior Strategy Advisor, Banking & Capital Markets | Microsoft

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Kevin is a Managing Director, Senior Strategy Advisor in the Banking & Capital Markets practice at Microsoft. In this role, he advises asset and wealth management clients as well as custodial banks on business model innovation, platform modernization, and strategic tech investments to drive growth and competitive advantage.

Kevin was most recently a Director at UBS Hedge Fund Solutions, where he led investment and operational due diligence for a 250+ investment manager complex with $85B AuM.

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Prior to this, Kevin was Senior Vice President, Sub-advised Portfolios at Neuberger Berman, where he transformed its $17B 3rd party mutual fund platform into a recognized asset leader. During his tenure, Kevin also led compliance and risk and fund governance of the firm’s inaugural ‘40 Act liquid alternative funds. He sat as a non-voting member of the ESG Committee, Transaction Cost Analysis and Best Execution Committee, and the Mutual Fund Governance Committee.

 

Prior to Neuberger Berman, Kevin was a Vice President in the Corporate Advisory Division of Lehman Brothers Asset Management where he was responsible for the strategic plan for an investment adviser and limited purpose broker dealer with $8.7B in AuM.

 

He has held senior roles at Citigroup, Franklin Templeton (f/k/a Legg Mason), and Clearbridge Investments. Kevin started his career as an investment management analyst at Putnam Investments.

 

Kevin previously served as a former Adjunct Faculty in the Master of Science, in Enterprise Risk Management program at Columbia University. He is an advisor for start-ups at the Martin Trust Center for M.I.T. Entrepreneurship and a lifetime member of the Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab at M.I.T. He also serves as an advisor to Fintechs for Microsoft for Startups, a presales program that enables startups to build on Microsoft Azure.

 

Kevin is a Northeast native. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in New Jersey. He holds an AB, social science, concentration in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He holds the distinction of CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing. He is a member of The Economic Club of New York; the National Advisory Council for Creative Capital; a member of the Advisory Board for Teach for America - New York; and the African and African Diasporic Art Committee and the Chairman’s Council at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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