Professional Background
Kelly Ireland is a Managing Director in Stable Rock’s AI & Automation Services division. He helps asset managers modernize their operations by combining deep, hands-on industry experience with practical, AI-enabled tools.
Kelly has more than 20 years of experience as CFO and COO of hedge funds and alternative asset managers. He has worked across systematic/quantitative and fundamental strategies, with AUM of up to $1.6 billion. He has launched and registered new firms, built trading and operational infrastructure across asset classes and multiple prime brokers, and run fund accounting, tax, compliance and investor relations.
Most recently, Kelly was CFO of Dark Forest Technologies. Dark Forest is a multi-strategy quantitative manager running a systematic equity book alongside a systematic macro book of FX, futures, OTC derivatives and interest rate swaps. There he built AI-based applications around the firm’s trading and portfolio management systems to automate reconciliation, journal posting, margin and vendor management, and compliance controls. Before Dark Forest, Kelly held senior leadership roles at Chimera Capital Management, Strycker View Capital, Krensavage Asset Management, AidennLair Capital Management, LionEye Capital Management and Trivium Capital Management, spanning financials-focused, healthcare, event-driven, global and systematic investment strategies.
Earlier in his career, Kelly was Managing Director of Business Development at fund administrator HedgeServ, and he began his career in fund administration at Bank of Butterfield in the Cayman Islands.
Kelly is a CFA charterholder and a Chartered Accountant (Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand). He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce from Lincoln College in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Rock-Solid Outside of Work
Outside of work, Kelly enjoys swimming, competing in triathlons, cheering on the All Blacks, and watching his kids play sports.
