Advisors to the Alternative Investment Industry

Intrepid Advisors LLC provides full-service financial, operational, risk management and compliance solutions to the alternative investment industry.

Leverage Our
Decades of Experience

Our operating experience is a key differentiating factor that we leverage to provide

consultative services for general partners, limited partners and portfolio companies.

We’re not your average consultants – we have built successful businesses,

so we have ample experience in the trenches ourselves.

Meet the Founder

Steven Ruggeri

Founder & CEO

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Prior to starting Intrepid Advisors, Steven served as the CFO and Chief Compliance  Officer at Paragon Outcomes. Steven has 20+ years of CFO experience and has worked with companies like Hudson Sustainable Investments, Apollo Global Management, Royal Bank of Scotland, and EY.

Jody H. Chesnov

Co-Founder / Partner

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Jody was instrumental in developing Intrepid Advisors LLC and its strategic direction when it started in early 2022. Jody also is the Managing Partner of its sister company, Rosenberg Chesnov CPA’s. He takes a pragmatic approach to accounting, finance and business. 

Steven Ruggeri

Co-Founder / Partner

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Prior to starting Intrepid Advisors, Steven served as the CFO and Chief Compliance  Officer at Paragon Outcomes. Steven has 20+ years of CFO experience and has worked with companies like Hudson Sustainable Investments, Apollo Global Management, Royal Bank of Scotland, and EY.

The Intrepid Difference

Our suite of solutions is backed by our decades of operational experience in the industry, dedication to our clients, and passion for driving results.

At Intrepid our core values are what drives us every day. They are ingrained in how we conduct our business. We treat every client in accordance to these values: Passion, Integrity, Accountability, and Respect.

Intrepid Advisors is backed by Rosenberg Chesnov, a New York accounting firm with 47+ years of experience serving hundreds of satisfied clients.

Tailored solutions to fit your needs

We tailor our solutions to fit your specific needs and where you are in the firm’s lifecycle. We care about each client’s success and provide true strategic partnership.

Our Services

Advisory Services

We have the capabilities, expertise, and eagerness to serve all companies in the alternative investments ecosystem: general partners, limited partners, and portfolio companies.

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Investment Management Support

We provide support as replacement investment advisor or sub-advisor, and offer strategic advisory on fund management, restructurings, extensions, and more.

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Intrepid Advisors brings decades of industry experience to serve the alternative investments ecosystem. Contact us for our advisory or investment management support.

Address

8 Wright Street, First Floor
PMB # 3442
Westport, CT  06880

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Advisory Services

We leverage decades of operating experience to drive beneficial results for general partners, limited partners and portfolio companies. We also understand that each situation is unique, so we tailor our services to your needs.

Your success inspires our success. Some of the advisory services we provide:

What We Do

  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Coordinate annual audit and assist with preparation of the annual income tax returns
  • Treasury management
  • Investor relations assistance
  • Portfolio monitoring and reporting
  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Treasury management
  • Human resources management
  • Management of the clients IT function
  • Vendor Management
  • Facilities management
  • Service provider selection (i.e., fund administration, payroll/benefits, IT, audit, tax, insurance and compliance etc.)
  • System selection and implementation (i.e., CRM, investor reporting, accounting etc.)
  • Design and implementation of policies and procedures (i.e., compliance manual, employee handbook, investment process, valuation, treasury etc.)
  • Develop and administer compliance programs
  • Produce annual operating budget and monitor available capital/liquidity
  • Staff development and supervision
  • Office space planning
  • Coordinate the fund-raising effort
  • Entity formation; determine optimum legal structure for organization and establish limited partnership, general partner and management company entities
  • Legal document review; private placement memorandum, limited partnership agreements, subscription documents, side letters, tax forms and other formation documents
  • Service provider selection; audit, tax, banking and insurance
  • Limited Partner onboarding
  • Process design and implementation
  • Pre-liquidation planning and communication
  • Termination of contracts with services providers
  • Closing of legal entities
  • Management of assets (i.e. bank accounts)
  • Realization of assets and distribution of proceeds
  • Perform due diligence on prospective investments
  • Portfolio monitoring and risk management on existing investments
  • Review secondary transactions
  • Assist and review of negotiations for lead investors
  • Structuring and negotiating separately managed accounts
  • Term Sheet, LOI and definitive document review and analysis
  • Prophylactic due diligence for both buyers and sellers in potential mergers & acquisitions
  • Closing and post-closing transaction support, including, but not limited to, adjustments, disputes and insurance coverage analysis
  • Debt capacity and capital structure

We facilitate performance improvement and cost reduction through enhancing the finance and accounting functions at Portfolio Companies.

We provide specialized skills and knowledge to help your portfolio companies reduce costs, leverage their own personnel, providing them with the resources needed to increase their ability to respond to rapidly changing environments. A sample of the services currently being provided:

  • Start-up assistance
  • General accounting and finance assistance
  • Budgeting, planning and forecasting
  • Finance & accounting systems implementations
  • Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
  • IPO preparation

What We Do

  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Coordinate annual audit and assist with preparation of the annual income tax returns
  • Treasury management
  • Investor relations assistance
  • Portfolio monitoring and reporting
  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Treasury management
  • Human resources management
  • Management of the clients IT function
  • Vendor Management
  • Facilities management
  • Service provider selection (i.e., fund administration, payroll/benefits, IT, audit, tax, insurance and compliance etc.)
  • System selection and implementation (i.e., CRM, investor reporting, accounting etc.)
  • Design and implementation of policies and procedures (i.e., compliance manual, employee handbook, investment process, valuation, treasury etc.)
  • Develop and administer compliance programs
  • Produce annual operating budget and monitor available capital/liquidity
  • Staff development and supervision
  • Office space planning
  • Coordinate the fund-raising effort
  • Entity formation; determine optimum legal structure for organization and establish limited partnership, general partner and management company entities
  • Legal document review; private placement memorandum, limited partnership agreements, subscription documents, side letters, tax forms and other formation documents
  • Service provider selection; audit, tax, banking and insurance
  • Limited Partner onboarding
  • Process design and implementation
  • Pre-liquidation planning and communication
  • Termination of contracts with services providers
  • Closing of legal entities
  • Management of assets (i.e. bank accounts)
  • Realization of assets and distribution of proceeds
  • Perform due diligence on prospective investments
  • Portfolio monitoring and risk management on existing investments
  • Review secondary transactions
  • Assist and review of negotiations for lead investors
  • Structuring and negotiating separately managed accounts
  • Term Sheet, LOI and definitive document review and analysis
  • Prophylactic due diligence for both buyers and sellers in potential mergers & acquisitions
  • Closing and post-closing transaction support, including, but not limited to, adjustments, disputes and insurance coverage analysis
  • Debt capacity and capital structure

We facilitate performance improvement and cost reduction through enhancing the finance and accounting functions at Portfolio Companies.

We provide specialized skills and knowledge to help your portfolio companies reduce costs, leverage their own personnel, providing them with the resources needed to increase their ability to respond to rapidly changing environments. A sample of the services currently being provided:

  • Start-up assistance
  • General accounting and finance assistance
  • Budgeting, planning and forecasting
  • Finance & accounting systems implementations
  • Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
  • IPO preparation

Schedule a Consultation

Intrepid Advisors brings decades of industry experience to serve the alternative investments ecosystem. Contact us for our advisory or investment management support.

Investment management. Portfolio diversification.

Investment Management Services

Our goal is to provide limited partners with the ability to monetize and manage their illiquid holdings.

We help re-align the interests of both the limited partners and the general partner such that both parties can realize their goal of creating substantial value on their investment.

What We Do

  • Act of replacement investment advisor or sub-advisor
  • Strategic advisor on fund restructurings, extensions and other situations
  • Dispute resolution
  • Advise both limited partners and general partners about developments in the fund finance market
  • Help identify lenders, negotiate lending facility terms, prepare required reporting to lenders if applicable
  • Reporting to limited partners

Schedule a Consultation

Intrepid Advisors brings decades of industry experience to serve the alternative investments ecosystem. Contact us for our advisory or investment management support.

Our goal is to provide limited partners with the ability to monetize and manage their illiquid holdings.

We help re-align the interests of both the limited partners and the general partner such that both parties can realize their goal of creating substantial value on their investment.

Some of our investment management service include:

  • Act of replacement investment advisor or sub-advisor
  • Strategic advisor on fund restructurings, extensions and other situations
  • Dispute resolution
  • Advise both limited partners and general partners about developments in the fund finance market
  • Help identify lenders, negotiate lending facility terms, prepare required reporting to lenders if applicable
  • Reporting to limited partners

Schedule a Consultation

Intrepid Advisors is backed by Rosenberg Chesnov, a Manahattan-based accounting firm with 47+ years of experience serving hundreds of satisfied clients.

Advisory Services

We leverage decades of operating experience to drive beneficial results for general partners, limited partners and portfolio companies. We also understand that each situation is unique, so we tailor our services to your needs.

Your success inspires our success. Some of the advisory services we provide:

  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Coordinate annual audit and assist with preparation of the annual income tax returns
  • Treasury management
  • Investor relations assistance
  • Portfolio monitoring and reporting
  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Treasury management
  • Human resources management
  • Management of the clients IT function
  • Vendor Management
  • Facilities management
  • Service provider selection (i.e., fund administration, payroll/benefits, IT, audit, tax, insurance and compliance etc.)
  • System selection and implementation (i.e., CRM, investor reporting, accounting etc.)
  • Design and implementation of policies and procedures (i.e., compliance manual, employee handbook, investment process, valuation, treasury etc.)
  • Develop and administer compliance programs
  • Produce annual operating budget and monitor available capital/liquidity
  • Staff development and supervision
  • Office space planning
  • Coordinate the fund-raising effort
  • Entity formation; determine optimum legal structure for organization and establish limited partnership, general partner and management company entities
  • Legal document review; private placement memorandum, limited partnership agreements, subscription documents, side letters, tax forms and other formation documents
  • Service provider selection; audit, tax, banking and insurance
  • Limited Partner onboarding
  • Process design and implementation
  • Pre-liquidation planning and communication
  • Termination of contracts with services providers
  • Closing of legal entities
  • Management of assets (i.e. bank accounts)
  • Realization of assets and distribution of proceeds
  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Coordinate annual audit and assist with preparation of the annual income tax returns
  • Treasury management
  • Investor relations assistance
  • Portfolio monitoring and reporting
  • Design, build and maintain accounting policies and procedures for each client
  • Treasury management
  • Human resources management
  • Management of the clients IT function
  • Vendor Management
  • Facilities management
  • Service provider selection (i.e., fund administration, payroll/benefits, IT, audit, tax, insurance and compliance etc.)
  • System selection and implementation (i.e., CRM, investor reporting, accounting etc.)
  • Design and implementation of policies and procedures (i.e., compliance manual, employee handbook, investment process, valuation, treasury etc.)
  • Develop and administer compliance programs
  • Produce annual operating budget and monitor available capital/liquidity
  • Staff development and supervision
  • Office space planning
  • Coordinate the fund-raising effort
  • Entity formation; determine optimum legal structure for organization and establish limited partnership, general partner and management company entities
  • Legal document review; private placement memorandum, limited partnership agreements, subscription documents, side letters, tax forms and other formation documents
  • Service provider selection; audit, tax, banking and insurance
  • Limited Partner onboarding
  • Process design and implementation

Schedule a Consultation

Intrepid Advisors is backed by Rosenberg Chesnov, a Manahattan-based accounting firm with 47+ years of experience serving hundreds of satisfied clients.