MAS is an investment consulting firm that advises endowments, foundations, and family offices on their investment manager selection and performance of fiduciary duties. Our services include:• Advising nonprofit institutions on investment governance practices and selection of consultants, OCIOs, and investment managers• Conducting due diligence reviews on investment managers, where we have reviewed over 2,000 managers across every major strategy and style of investing• Constructing and optimizing portfolios of traditional and alternative investment strategies, covering private equity, real estate, hedge funds, agriculture, equities, and fixed income• Advising institutional investor clients on their business strategy, investment decision-making processes, financial budgeting, and risk management• Advising high net worth clients on complex estate planning, selection and monitoring of private banks, investment managers, and estate counsel, and examining portfolio investments • Reviewing complex offering documents to protect against nuances that favor managers over investors, negotiate side letters

• Co-founded business unit at Deutsche Bank that produced almost $100 million in revenue and personally negotiated over $15 billion in financial contracts, while managing a team of 7 investment professionals• Developed the fixed income arm of Deutsche Bank’s transition management business as part of the Structuring Group in 2002, helping pension plans liquidate complex fixed income portfolios after terminating bond managers• Executed trades across all fixed income product desks in the US, and liquidated over $5 billion in bond portfolios• Established risk policies and systems, built pricing methodologies, managed client relationships, and negotiated complex financial contracts

Emerging Markets EconomistBanking Supervision Analyst Banking Analyst—Bank Supervision, 1991 to 1994• Co-authored the Federal Reserve System’s original Trading Activities Manual, which provided a comprehensive guide to bank examiners on how to analyze derivatives and trading processes and controls among the largest U.S. banks.• Analyzed and monitored the financial strength of European banks with a substantial banking presence in the United States. • Supervised team of analysts covering Northern European banks' financial performance. • Analyzed banks’ merger applications and developed covenants the Federal Reserve System required as a condition for approving applications. Junior Economist—Economics Department, 1988 to 1991• Analyzed the economies of emerging markets to assess their ultimate ability and willingness to repay their foreign debts.• Specialized in centrally-planned economies including China and the USSR, and covered their crises including China/Tiananmen Square and the collapse of the Soviet Union.• Coordinated country analysis discussions with U.S. Treasury and State Department analysts.• Sponsored in full by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to do NYU Stern School of Business Executive MBA Program in Finance, one of only two employees selected out of a pool of over 1000 eligible candidates.