Tim Stevens is Chief Financial Officer of ASA and its affiliates. From 1989-1993, Mr. Stevens was an auditor at Price Waterhouse in New York, working primarily with financial service clients such as mutual funds, employee benefit plans, pension trusts, and transfer agents. In 1993, he joined Lehman Brothers in New York where his experiences included performing various middle office financial control and risk management functions with the proprietary trading and international equity desks. In 1995, Mr. Stevens moved to the London office of Lehman Brothers to perform the same functions for the international fixed income desk. After returning to the U.S. in 1995, Mr. Stevens joined Jeffery Slocum & Associates, Inc. in Minneapolis as a Consultant and Director of Finance and Operations. As a Consultant, Mr. Stevens provided strategic investment advice on investment policy, asset allocation, and investment manger selection decisions for traditional and alternative investments. Institutional clients included corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, insurance trusts and family offices. As Director of Finance and Operations, Mr. Stevens was responsible for all aspects of the financial management of the firm, human resources, and SEC compliance. From 2003-2004, Mr. Stevens was the Chief Financial Officer of Highbar Capital Management LLC, a statistical arbitrage private investment fund, where he was responsible for all aspects of the firm's financial, administrative, compliance, and client service operations. Mr. Stevens joined Alternative Strategy Advisers LLC in 2005 and became a partner in 2015. Mr. Stevens received his B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from New York University.