We are Partners and Investors.
Our team is entrepreneurial in support of our portfolio companies.
Tony Ettinger is the Senior Managing Director and group head of KCK Financial Services Investments. Tony has been a Founder of six market leading, specialty finance companies including C-BASS (delinquent residential mortgages) and Sherman Financial (charged off credit cards) which each generated over $1B of Net Income since inception. Tony is a seasoned executive whose career spans over forty years covering many facets of the Financial Services Industry. His prior Experience Includes: Operating Partner and Portfolio Board Member for Towerbrook Capital Partners, a top performing, $10B private equity fund. Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group; President of Credit Based Businesses at Enhance Financial Services (a NYSE listed company); Head of Corporate Development and M&A and holding company COO for seven (7) subsidiaries at MONY (Mutual of New York); Head of Integrated Financial Accounts at The Travelers Insurance Companies.
Tony is a Co-Founder (with Secretary of State James Baker) and Chairman of the Mongolian Children’s Aid and Development Fund.
Timothy Ho
Tim joined KCK Financial Services Investments Group in 2019 as a Managing Director/Operating Partner. Tim has over 15 years of private equity and operations experience.Prior to joining the KCK Group, Tim worked in executive roles at OneMain Holdings and Enova International.
Dustin DeWitt
Dustin is a Principal of KCK Financial Services Investments Group. Prior to joining KCK, he was a financial services investment professional at Pine Brook Partners, a growth equity firm dedicated to investing in the financial services and energy industries; and an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group of Goldman Sachs, where he covered clients in specialty finance, banking, insurance, asset management, and financial technology spaces. He has focused on investing in or growing financial services businesses for 10+ years including serving on the Board of Directors of Clear Blue Insurance Group, the first pure play insurance fronting carrier in the United States.
Grace Jiang
Grace Jiang is a Vice President of KCK Financial Services Investments Group. Prior to joining KCK, Grace was an investment professional at the Principal Investments & Acquisitions arm of Swiss Re, a leading global reinsurer; Stone Point Capital, a private equity firm focused on financial services; and an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group at J.P. Morgan, where she covered clients in specialty finance and asset management.
Terry Smith
Terry joined the KCK Financial Services Investments Group in 2018 as the Accountant.
Prior to joining KCK, she was the Finance and Administration Manager at Marken LLP a pharmaceutical logistic company. She spent over 12 years managing the regulation of Money Services Business and Corporate Management and Trust Service Providers for the government of Antigua & Barbuda.
Education
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York | MA in Economics | BS in Accounting
Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist | Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
The Society for Human Resource Management | SHRM-CP (Society for Human Resource Management-Certified Professional)