Stuart Weiss serves as the independent Chief Compliance Officer for Data Power Investments at the fund level. The independence of the role is deliberate: fund-level compliance sits outside the deal team, establishing a clear distinction between the people responsible for originating or executing a transaction and the person responsible for independent compliance oversight.
Weiss previously held Managing Director credit-risk roles at Citi and Morgan Stanley. Those positions placed credit assessment, institutional risk management, escalation and oversight within large financial organizations. At Data Power Investments, that background informs an approach focused on whether the fund’s procedures, decisions and records align with the compliance architecture established for it.
Commercial urgency, technical diligence, financing and counterparty negotiations may move in parallel, but compliance obligations require their own responsibility and documentation. Weiss’s position is structured to preserve that independent perspective and support a control environment in which questions can be raised and reviewed outside the commercial chain.