Trent Dawson is the Chief Financial Officer of WestRiver Group. Dawson has over 15 years of experience working in the alternative assets industry. As CFO of WestRiver Group, he leads the operations and finance for this leading investment company. WestRiver Group invests in various strategies across the global innovation economy.

Before joining WestRiver Group, Dawson was a Director with Standish Management, a fund administration group, leading the Seattle office. Prior to that, Mr. Dawson was VP Finance for Voyager Capital, a Seattle-based venture capital firm, where he was responsible for the accounting, tax and administrative functions of the Voyager funds and management company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Dawson was part of the fund administration team at Schroders (Bermuda) Limited on the island of Bermuda where he managed the accounting and tax functions of private equity and venture capital funds located around the world. With Schroders, he obtained a deep knowledge of partnership accounting and tax, fund formation and portfolio valuation. Dawson started his career with Ernst & Young, LLP in Dallas, Texas performing audits and consulting work for technology companies and gained experience in the IPO process and SEC reporting. He continued his work with Ernst & Young in Bermuda, where he focused on audit and tax of various alternative investment funds and their management companies.

Dawson graduated cum laude with a B.A. in accounting from the University of Texas at Tyler and has been a Certified Public Accountant since February 2000.