Kevin Crossett

General Counsel & C.C.O

Kevin S. Lee-Crossett serves as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of AlphaOne. He has more than twenty-five (25) years of financial services industry experience, approximately twenty (20) years of which have been focused on investment management. Mr. Lee-Crossett was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Gartmore Investment Management Limited prior to and following the management buy-out sponsored by Hellman & Friedman that was completed in September 2006. Mr. Lee-Crossett was a senior member of Gartmore's executive committee and a member of its board of directors following the management buyout, being responsible for all aspects of Gartmore's legal, compliance and corporate risk functions. Mr. Lee-Crossett has a specialist's knowledge of hedge funds, mutual funds, private equity and segregated mandates in the United Kingdom, Europe, Far East and United States markets.

Mr. Lee-Crossett joined Gartmore's former parent company, Nationwide, in 1999 as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of its U.S.-based asset management subsidiary, Gartmore Global Investments, Inc.

Before joining Gartmore, Mr. Lee-Crossett was a senior lawyer with Merrill Lynch's asset management group (1992 to 1999), an associate with Drinker Biddle & Reath's Investment Management Group (1989 to 1992) and a Certified Public Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand (1982 to 1986).

Mr. Lee-Crossett holds JD and LLM degrees from Villanova University School of Law and a Bachelors degree in Accounting from Philadelphia University. He has licenses to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the States of New Jersey and Ohio.