Manager

William "Bill" Ferri joined Cantor Fitzgerald in January 2022 as Global Head of Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management after a 25+ year career at UBS.
Since 2017, Mr. Ferri was Head of Americas for UBS Asset Management, during which time his business achieved record asset growth and profitability. From 2007 until departing year end 2021, Mr. Ferri was Group Managing Director, and the longest tenured leader on the UBS Asset Management Executive Board, a tenure during which the business grew to over $1 trillion in assets under management and attained its highest historical profitability.
Mr. Ferri was a key founder of the UBS O’Connor and Hedge Fund Solutions businesses in 2000, which remain leading global hedge fund industry businesses.
Mr. Ferri started his career in 1991 practicing corporate law at Seward & Kissel, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University (1988), and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law (1991).

Douglas R. Barnard has served on the Board of Managers at Prophet Asset Management, a registered investment advisor with over $2 billion under management since July 2015.

Prior to that, Mr. Barnard was the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Managing Director of Cantor from July 2006 until his retirement in April 2015. As Chief Financial Officer of Cantor, Mr. Barnard was responsible for Cantor’s global financial and management accounting, regulatory reporting, treasury and risk functions and also served as a member of multiple boards and committees at the company.

Prior to joining Cantor in July 2006, Mr. Barnard served as the Chief Administrative Officer for Dover Management LLC, an investment management firm, where he oversaw all compliance, finance and administrative functions.

Prior to his tenure with Dover, Mr. Barnard held the position of Managing Director and Controller of the Americas Region at Deutsche Bank AG, where he oversaw all regional financial control during a period of rapid expansion, including the integration of Bankers Trust Corporation. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for Deutsche’s Asia-Pacific Region based in their Singapore office.

Previously, Mr. Barnard was Vice President and Investment Banking Controller at Goldman Sachs & Co., joining the bank from Deloitte Haskins & Sells.

Mr. Barnard earned a BBA in public accounting from Pace University in 1982. He was a certified public accountant and a past member of the Financial Management Division of the Securities Industry Association, the Connecticut Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs.

Current and prior affiliations include the National Forest Foundation and the Corporate Cares Gala supporting the American Cancer Society.

Ramona Heine is a founder and shareholder of Heine & Kim Fiduciary Partners LLC, a professional director services business. She currently serves as a director of several public and private US-based investment funds and Cayman domiciled funds managed by global banks and specialized hedge fund management companies with an aggregate of over $20 billion in assets under management. She also serves as a non-executive director on the international corporate board of MUFG Investor Services, which is under the umbrella of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.

From January 2017 through 2018, Ms. Heine was Chief of Staff to UBS’ Fund of Hedge Funds business, Asset Management’s products areas, the Investment Specialists organization, and the asset servicing business. Prior to that, she was responsible for UBS Asset Management’s global product strategy, global pricing, proprietary capital, and product development, as well as mandate solutions for Hedge Funds Solution, the single manager hedge fund business UBS O’Connor LLC, and the UBS infrastructure and private equity fund businesses. Ms. Heine was also responsible for the ongoing servicing and management of the joint venture relationship between the investment manager and the UBS wealth management channel in relation to product features and service level agreements. Prior to that, she handled the set-up and launch of products, advisory relationships, and customized solutions relating to hedge funds and fund of hedge funds for the A&Q product range, which included solutions for both institutional and private clients.

Before joining UBS in 2007, Ms. Heine ran the product development and business strategy for both hedge funds and structured products at Threadneedle Investments Ltd. in London. Prior to joining Threadneedle, she worked at Coronation International Ltd. in London where she oversaw product development and client services of the fund of hedge fund business. Ms. Heine began her career in 1996 at Commerzbank, in Frankfurt, Germany, where she served as an analyst on the asset allocation team in the wealth management division and as a product developer in the asset management division.

Ms. Heine is a CFA Charterholder who holds a post-graduate degree from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany, and is working to complete an MSC in Sustainable Development at the University of Sussex, the global leader in this field of academics.

Louis R. Zurita has over 30 years of experience owning, operating, acquiring, and developing commercial and residential real estate in the United States and the Caribbean. Mr. Zurita is an active investor in the real estate market and currently serves as the managing member of a number of real estate investment vehicle companies.
Mr. Zurita was also the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Viagrupo.com, a leading e-commerce platform in the Dominican Republic, from May 2011 until March 2020. In addition, Mr. Zurita has been a board member of Remate Lince S.A.P.I. de C.V. since 2017.
Previously, Mr. Zurita was a board member for Cantor Futures Exchange L.P. (“Cantor Exchange”) from December 2016 to August 2020 and the Chairman of the Regulatory Oversight Committee of Cantor Exchange from February 2018 until August 2020.
Mr. Zurita has also served as a director of Cantor SPAC IV since December 2020 and as a director of Cantor SPAC V from January 2021 until consummation of its business combination with Satellogic in January 2022.
Mr. Zurita received his MBA from Columbia University, an MS in Dynamics of Organization from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Arch from Pratt Institute School of Architecture.