Ilya Zaides, Esq.

Ilya Zaides is Chief Investment Officer of KG Funds.  Prior to joining KG Funds, Ilya was a Senior Vice President and Head of Hedge Fund Research for Auda Advisor Associates, an alternative investment management organization with approximately $5 billion in assets under management.  At Auda, Ilya was responsible for hedge fund selection and monitoring and the management of several hedge fund portfolios.  Prior to Auda, Ilya worked as an Investment Analyst for Ivy Asset Management Corp.  Before his career in asset management, he practiced tax law at King & Spalding and at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.  Ilya is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Economics and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law.