Founder, Cyson Advisors
Carlyon Knight-Evans was the Alternatives Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Asia Pacific region before he retired in December 2022 and was an Assurance Asset Management Partner. He has experience serving clients in the asset management industry since the mid-90's, initially in the United Kingdom. He started his career with Ernst & Young in London before moving to Hong Kong with Ernst & Young in 2001 to help found Ernst & Young's local asset management practice. When he left Ernst & Young to join PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2011 he was Ernst & Young's Asset Management leader for Asia-Pacific and a member of their Global Asset Management's leadership team.
In addition to providing audit services to the asset management industry, Mr. Knight-Evans also has extensive experience in advising asset management firms on operational effectiveness, best practices in areas of corporate governance and internal controls, fund start-ups, and regulatory and compliance matters. While focusing on hedge funds, where he covered a wide range of investment strategies from long short equity through to multi-strategy, multi-manager platforms, he also serviced clients across other sub-sectors of the industry, including fund of funds, private equity, real estate and traditional asset managers. Mr. Knight-Evans is a regular speaker at industry events and was an executive committee member for the Alternative Investment Management Association's Hong Kong Chapter from 2005 until late 2022.