Cara
Hennessy
Cara began her career in financial services as a chartered accountant working in the business and risk advisory practice at KPMG and then progressed her career with a big move in 2006 to the Cayman Islands to serve as a fund accountant at Close Brothers. In 2009, Cara joined DMS, spending ten years honing her finance, Internal Audit, Risk, and compliance skills. Cara’s industry experience spans many business and financial services, including funds, banking, insurance, pensions, and legal. Her work entailed collaborating with regulated global entities in the EU, US, Bermuda, Cayman, and the BVI. Until recently, Cara served as Cayman Fund Administrator and has worked to design compliance solutions for funds investing in virtual assets. Most recently, Cara has co-founded the compliance advisory firm, Provenance, which focused primarily on providing AML/CFT/PF support for projects engaged in the virtual asset sector. She is also advising on the build-out of electronic identity and verification solutions that will allow for centralized verification of encrypted KYC/KYB docs and allow KYC data subjects to share that encrypted data across multiple third-party financial service providers.