LaCrosse Global Fund Services

Renee Kessler

Senior Manager, Investor Reporting

Renee Kessler serves as senior manager of investor reporting for LaCrosse Global Fund Services. In this role, she manages a global team responsible for accounting policies and financial statement reporting and investor accounting and reporting.

Kessler joined Cargill in 1981 and held several accounting positions in Internal Audit, Corporate Accounting and Corporate Financial Reporting prior to joining the Financial Markets Division in 1989 as an accounting manager. In that capacity, she was responsible for global financial, management and tax reporting for the Financial Markets Division. In 1992, she gained experience in hedge fund administration initially on the start up team to launch Cargill Asset Management and eventually as Administrative Manager responsible for the administration, accounting, treasury and operations to support the business and assets under management. In 1995, she became Administrative Manager for Cargill Corporate Capital, a business providing growth companies with structured financing, interest rate risk management and securitization services and products. She was named Assistant Vice President of Cargill Financial Services Corp. in 1996.

In 1999, Kessler joined Cargill’s Worldwide Tax Department. In 2001, she joined the asset management start up team for Cargill Global Capital Markets that eventually launched Black River Asset Management and Black River Global Fund Services. In 2003, she was named managing director for the newly organized Global Fund Administration for Black River Global Fund Services.

Kessler graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater in 1980 with a B.B.A. in Accounting and is a CPA.