Iron Road Partners adds James McGovern as managing director

Iron Road Partners, a regulatory consulting firm focusing on the investment management industry, has hired James McGovern as a managing director.

Based in Greenwich, CT, McGovern brings more than 30 years of government, legal, and industry experience focusing on investment management compliance.

For the last 15 years, he has built and led compliance programs at leading hedge fund managers, serving as general counsel and chief compliance officer at Candlestick Capital and Mason Capital Management and chief compliance officer at Hutchin Hill Capital.

Between 2002 and 2011, McGovern worked at the US SEC’s division of enforcement, latterly serving as an assistant director in the asset management unit.

Before that, he spent a decade at law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, where he was a litigation associate and special counsel.

McGovern has a juris doctor and bachelor’s degree from Boston College.

“Jim brings the judgment that can only be developed through years of managing SEC enforcement investigations, combined with many years of practical experience serving as a hedge fund CCO,” said Igor Rozenblit, Iron Road Partners’ founder and managing partner. “He understands not just what the SEC staff is looking for in a compliance program, but what it actually takes to build a regulatory infrastructure that holds up under scrutiny.”

Iron Road Partners was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York. The firm provides strategic advisory and tech-enabled managed services to investment managers and registered funds.

Iron Road Partners has more than 30 employees listed on LinkedIn and offices in New York, Boston, and Denver.

“As a CCO, Iron Road was the firm I called,” said McGovern. “Now I get to be on the other end of the phone, helping clients get ahead of difficult compliance issues.”