Christopher Shakal

Chris joined Eachwin in late 2016 as Interim Chief Financial Officer / Chief Compliance Officer to help wind the firm down. In March 2017 he joined TPRV Capital. Chris has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, with concentrations in new hedge fund launches, accounting, operations, risk, compliance and auditing. Prior to joining Eachwin, Christopher was CFO/CCO of Chimney Rock Investments, a start-up hedge fund focused on credit investments, where his responsibilities focused on building and managing all non-investment functions. Prior to this, he was the Director of Finance at Allen & Co. where his primary duties included oversight of the firm’s merger arbitrage fund accounting, financial reporting and finance functions. Previously, Christopher served as the CFO at O-CAP Management and as the Controller at Serengeti Asset Management. At both hedge funds Christopher was the most senior finance professional and developed their accounting and operations processes.

Earlier in his career Christopher spent several years in the product control group at Deutsche Bank where he managed the non-investment functions of the interest rate derivatives, fixed income prime brokerage and the U.S. energy trading desks. He spent several years at KPMG as an auditor.
Christopher received a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Pace University in 1994 with a concentration in Public Accounting. He is a New York State Certified Public Accountant.