Over 26 Years of Institutional Investment Experience

Diallo joined Leading Edge Investment Advisors in July of 2014 as Senior Vice President. As a member of the manager research team, he conducts due diligence on both prospective and current investment managers. Diallo is responsible for the creation and management of the firm’s proprietary portal for manager reporting. He has in excess of 26 years of financial experience with institutional investments. Diallo is a member of the Investment Committee.

Prior to joining Leading Edge, Diallo worked as an independent investment consultant to emerging managers for both long only and alternative strategies.

Diallo served as the Senior Vice President and Director of Manager Research with FIS Group. During his tenure, he created both the investment manager due diligence process and database platform for various product categories for both the emerging manager and consulting businesses. He was a voting member of the Investment Committee.

As a visiting professor at Florida A&M University, Diallo taught investment analysis, portfolio management and corporate finance. Additionally, he worked as an independent consultant to an emerging hedge fund manager.

Early in his career, Diallo spent several years working in the Commodities Department within the Executive Office at U.S. Sugar Corporation, a large vertically integrated bulk commodities producer. While there, he reported to four senior officers responsible for running the company’s large sugar and orange juice businesses. He served as a member of the Commodity Risk Management Team that developed and executed trading strategies utilizing derivatives and physicals (several hundred million dollars) and as lead for mergers & acquisition of agribusiness targets. Diallo developed the original design of the company’s internal ComTrax system (Commodity Tracking System), a digital integrated risk management solution that ran seamlessly between the front, middle and back offices.

He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration (Finance Concentration) from Florida A&M University.