Maria C Ricci has joined KStone Partners as senior managing director and member of the firm.

Ricci will focus on business development and on raising awareness of KStone’s funds of hedge funds with family offices, individual investors and institutions.

Joseph H Marren, president and chief executive of KStone Partners, says: “We are delighted to have Maria join the team and given her history of success we are confident that she will provide our investors with an exceptional level of service.”

Ricci has over ten years of experience working with high net worth individuals, wealth advisers and leading institutions. Previously, she held positions in institutional research sales at Bloomberg and was a director of institutional research sales at Instinet. She was also an assistant vice president at AllianceBernstein. 

KStone Partners is a privately owned asset management company that provides absolute return funds of hedge funds to institutions and high net worth investors.