Overview

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Darlene DeRemer is managing partner and co-founder of Grail Partners LLC, which was established in 2005. In addition to heading up the Boston office, Darlene is the senior banker focusing on the asset management industry worldwide, and has advised clients in a wide range of strategic transactions. Grail is an advisory merchant bank, serving clients from offices in Boston, New York and San Francisco. Grail Partners has worked on over 250 strategic transactions involving asset management businesses over two decades.

Prior to becoming an investment banker at Putnam Lovell NBF in 2003, Ms DeRemer was for twenty five years, a leading advisor to the financial services industry, specializing in strategic marketing, planning, marketing, product design and the implementation of innovative service strategies. Her work on outsourcing and use of technology has transformed her fund company clients. She has participated in numerous fund company asset management restructuring transactions.

Darlene ran NewRiver’s eBusiness Advisory unit for four years, until 2003, prior to which for eighteen years, she operated her own strategy firm in asset management, DeRemer & Associates, for eighteen years. DeRemer & Associates, founded in 1987, was the first consultancy focused on the U.S. mutual fund industry.

From 1985 to 1987 Darlene was Vice President and Director in the Asset Management Division of State Street Bank & Trust Company (now State Street Global Advisors) where she managed the $4 billion Pension Real Estate Department and developed Marketing Communications and Client Service programs.

Before joining State Street, Darlene was a Vice President at T. Rowe Price & Associates from 1982 – 1985. Darlene’s career started in strategic planning at Tiger International and its subsidiary, Flying Tier Airlines.

Darlene earned a BS in finance and marketing in 1977 summa cum laude and an MBA in 1979 with distinction from Syracuse University. She graduated Beta Gamma Sigma (Phi Beta Kappa analogous).