Roderick Cruz, Managing Director & Deputy Chief Compliance Officer

Roderick Cruz is a Managing Director & Deputy Chief Compliance Officer at RockCreek and is the Chief Compliance Officer of RockCreek (Canada) Adviser, Inc.

Before joining RockCreek, Roderick was the chief compliance officer at Perseus, LLC, a private equity adviser, where he concentrated on regulatory and compliance issues. Prior to this, he was in private practice, including as an associate at Dechert LLP, where he focused on private fund formation and counseling private fund advisers on compliance with, among other things, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, CFTC/NFA rules, AML, and privacy. While an associate in private practice, Roderick authored several articles on regulatory and compliance issues impacting private fund advisers and has been a panelist on regulatory developments.

Roderick holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Tufts University, a M.A. in International Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, and a J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School. He was a member of the Brooklyn Law School Journal of Law & Policy and a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Advanced Corporate Law and in Legal Writing II.