Kerry Jordan’s 30-year career spans from the early days of electronic trading at Nasdaq, to derivatives structuring at Bank of America in the dot-com era, to venture and private equity investing at D’Orazio Capital, to cannabis advisory at Supercritical. Kerry has developed a diverse range of competencies and capabilities that has proven a distinct benefit for executive leadership and board directorship. This experience includes substantial P&L responsibility, detailed understanding of financial modeling, and an expansive knowledge of mergers and acquisitions. Kerry has expertise in interpreting financial statements, audits, and investment portfolios, and translating this information into easy-to-understand terms. She gained her technical proficiency working for large, sell-side financial institutions as well as small, buy-side asset managers. She acquired her academic experience from undergraduate and graduate degrees in finance and the Chartered Financial Analyst program.

Prior to co-founding Supercritical, Kerry was the chief operating officer of D’Orazio Capital Partners, a Chicago-based family office focused on private equity and venture capital investments in middle-market manufacturing companies. Prior to joining DCP, Kerry was the director of development at RMB Capital Management where she managed client development, fund acquisition, and capital raising for its hedge fund division. Prior to RMB, Kerry served as head of development and chief compliance officer for Chicago Capital Management L.P., a risk arbitrage hedge fund. In this capacity, Kerry managed the fund’s global capital raising, investor relations, and compliance programs. Previously, Kerry was a director in the global derivatives products group at Bank of America where she focused on the structuring and trading of interest rate, commodity, and equity derivatives for the bank’s Fortune 1,000 clients. Kerry began her career as an analyst at the Nasdaq Stock Market,

Kerry holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Massachusetts and a master of science in finance degree from the George Washington University. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is an active member of the CFA Society Chicago and the CFA Institute. Kerry serves on the board of directors of Notiphy Corporation, a private technology company; the board of advisors of Awarex.io, an ESG fintech startup, and FIN Compliance, a fintech startup. She is the past chairwoman of the board of directors of Warriors at Ease, a nonprofit dedicated to veterans, and the CFA Society Chicago. Kerry is a former board member of the International Women’s Forum; Janelle Beauty, a private company creating organic ethnic hair care products; Truly Green Plastic, a private company focused on developing hemp-derived biodegradable polymers; LNG Capital, LLP, a U.K.-based asset manager; the Illinois Council on Economic Education; and the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago’s Impact Investing Advisory Council.