Mary Beth has 16 years of experience representing a wide range of alternative investment firms including hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity and real estate investors.

She provides counsel in both building and defending a reputation and is highly skilled in profile-raising initiatives, media relations, mergers and acquisitions strategies, fund closes, portfolio company support, litigation situations and crisis management. 

Prior to joining ASC Advisors in 2015, Mary Beth was Managing Director and Co-Head of the Asset Management Group at New York-based Abernathy MacGregor. While there, she spent 10 years providing strategic communications support to hedge funds and private equity clients.

Mary Beth brings a unique perspective on media relations having over a decade of experience in journalism as a reporter and editor. Most recently she was a Senior Editor at Forbes, covering the asset management industry. Prior to Forbes, she worked as an Assistant Editor at the New York Times Op-Ed page.

Among the clients Mary Beth has represented are GoldenTree Asset Management, Davidson Kempner, Lyxor Asset Management, PAAMCO Prisma, GTIS Partners, Soros Capital Management, The Raine Group, Versor Investments, York Capital Management, TIAA, Hellman and Friedman, Man Group, and Greenlight Capital. 

Mary Beth actively supports women in the alternatives industry. She has served as a member of the Education Committee of 100 Women in Finance and has also been a board member of High Water Women. Mary Beth graduated cum laude from SUNY at Buffalo and holds an MBA from Baruch College.