Denise Valentine is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC, focusing on institutional asset management, hedge funds, and the intermediary market, evaluating systems in the front, middle, and back office, as well as general industry trends. She has supported clients in the selection of technology systems, the identification of product gaps, new market entry initiatives, and vendor firm acquisitions.

Ms. Valentine has been widely quoted in the press, in publications including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, BusinessWeek, NPR's Marketplace, Hedge Fund Technology, and Pensions & Investments, among others. She has spoken at key industry events in the U.S., U.K. and Asia-Pacific region.

Prior to joining Aite Group, Ms. Valentine was a senior analyst with research advisory firm Celent for four years. Before that she was a business risk manager in the asset management, insurance and consumer credit divisions of GE Capital Services. Her responsibilities included acquisition integration activities, implementation of corporate risk policies, risk assessments on new products and operational activities, and project management in the U.S. and Europe. She is trained in Six Sigma black belt principles

Ms. Valentine also served for ten years in asset management in the areas of marketing, research, performance measurement and portfolio administration. She was previously vice president and director of marketing services at Oppenheimer Capital, where she was responsible for product positioning, sales support, and research for the institutional pension and 401(k) markets. For six years prior to this, she was with Kidder Peabody Asset Management serving a captive brokerage sales force, product wholesalers and institutional sales reps in the product areas of separately management accounts, mutual funds and institutional account management.

Ms. Valentine earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has held multiple securities licenses including Series 3, 7, 63 and 65.