Edwin Wang Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

About SandboxAQIn the tech and data intelligence worlds, a sandbox is where innovation is born. It’s a place where the brightest free-thinking minds from across disciplines come together to reimagine what’s possible. A collaborative environment where the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of the parts.At SandboxAQ, this forward-looking vision is core to everything we do. It’s how we became who we are and it’s how we know our solutions can shift the way your business competes in tomorrow’s marketplace. As the world enters the third quantum revolution, AI + Quantum software will address significant business and scientific challenges.‍SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cyber and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and others.

Senior Advisor to Dr. William I. Koch:William I. (Bill) Koch, An American BusinessmanMr. Koch comes from a family steeped in entrepreneurship. His grandfather, Harry Koch, a Dutch immigrant, settled in the town of Quanah, Texas, where he started his own newspaper, the Quanah Tribune Chief. Mr. Koch's father, Fred, with the help of a local businessman, went off to study chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently invented a more efficient way of converting petroleum into gasoline.In 1968, Mr. Koch joined his family's business, running the carbon trading group and the chemical and venture capital divisions. He left in 1983 to start his own company in Dedham, Massachusetts which became the basis for Oxbow Carbon LLC. Through the years, Mr. Koch has created a multi-national business which has generated an annual rate of return of nearly 30 percent.

In 2009 our advisory team was awarded a mandate by Citi Global Private Bank to provide PE portfolio restructuring services to their private global wealth clients who had experienced substantial drawdowns during the GFC, were deep underwater with deep discounts to NAV and in default on margin credit facilities with unfunded capital calls looming large. The highlight of these assignments was a Saudi family office based in London with PE commitments exceeding $1.5B that we were able to monetize remaining PE stakes at greater than anticipated values on an individual asset basis, thus averting a crisis where the liabilities would have extinguished net equity. The fortuitous conclusion was a salvage operation yielding a positive net capital account.In 2008, having concluded multi-fund liquidation exercise, we moved on to raising a $215MM commitment from secondary fund of funds in order to purchase a targeted direct secondary slice of $660MM Evercore Capital Partners II middle market buyout portfolio. These were direct equity stakes in preselected promising companies from Fund II. Within 7 years we completed this investment cycle with just under a 2X return on capital and high teens IRR.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Leading investment and financial consultancy led by Chen Xiaolu, influential Chinese princeling who was Executive Chairman of auto insurer Anbang.

From 2002 to 2007 while at Accretive Capital Partners LLC affiliate Asymmetry Capital LLC, ran the successful financial restructuring and liquidation of $1B in venture capital portfolios. In restructuring and liquidating Zero Stage Capital, led the successful monetized turnaround and engineered liquidity events for numerous portfolio companies including: OuterLink Corporation ($16MM acquisition by Digital Angel Corporation and subsequent 5X exit); Imaging Automation, Inc. ($39.9MM acquisition by Viisage, Inc. and subsequent merger with Identix to form L-1 Identity Solutions, a global biometric security company); First Service Networks (co-investor buyout); Intersense, Inc. (company buyback); ViaCell, Inc. ($60MM IPO underwritten by CSFB/UBS); Aprilis, Inc. ($25MM tender offer by CrossMatch Technologies, Inc.); Axxis ($5MM acquisition by UCG/OPIS); Fletcher Spaght Ventures, L.P. (partnership interest buyout by Thomas Weisel Partners); LiveWave ($25MM acquisition by Smiths Detection Services); WorldWinner Inc. ($30MM acquisition by Fun Technologies, an affiliate of Liberty Media); Evergreen Solar $61.9MM IPO and total exit; BioTrove sale to Life Technologies; Solidscape sale to Stratasys, global leader in 3D printing; secondary portfolio asset sales to HarbourVest Partners and Omega Funds. These milestones were chronicled in two Harvard Business School case studies and The Deal Magazine.

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On behalf of Zero Stage Capital V LP, Zero Stage Capital VI LP, Zero Stage Capital VII LP, Zero Stage Capital SBIC VII LP and Zero Stage Capital (Cayman) VII LP served as Board Member/Advisor/Observer to: ASG, Aprilis Inc., Axxis Inc., BioTrove Inc., BlueStreak Inc., Digital Angel Corp., Evergreen Solar Inc., First Service Networks Inc., Formscan Inc.., HydroCision Inc., Imaging Automation Inc., InterSense Inc., Konarka Technologies Inc., LiveWave Inc., NetKey Inc., OuterLink Corp., Powerspan Corp., Resinate Corp., Rib-X Pharmaceuticals Inc., Solidscape Inc., Spherics Inc., U.S. Genomics Inc., ViaCell Inc., Viisage Inc., WorldWinner Inc.Retained by Zero Stage Capital to provide strategic advisory and management services in devising and executing liquidity strategy, recaps and exits for LPs from nearly defunct portfolio of early stage technology, media and healthcare investments. Banking on the success of this strategy after generating substantial value for OuterLink investors through the merger of Digital Angel with OuterLink subsequent to having been given up for dead, led restructuring team to undertake efforts on behalf of Zero Stage Capital Funds to devise and implement similar outcomes for numerous other portfolio companies. This activist approach brought about changes that were strategic, operating and tactical, sometimes combined with recapitalizations to position for sale or merger, enabling the Funds to exit with maximum recovery in the shortest period. Where necessary the activities entailed difficult decisions on restructuring leadership and developing consensus with co-investors (old and new).Zero Stage Capital found these strategies advantageous to its LPs and through engineering successful exit transactions for numerous companies, including the above named, realized excess returns of $200M+ for its Fund V, VI, VII LPs during the five year exercise. Documented in several Harvard Business School case studies. Included Moderna predecessor co.

Zurich, Ch

Cross-border direct investment. Originated and structured $250 Million Asia Corporate Partners (China) Fund LP on behalf of China Development Industrial Bank (Taiwan) and Delaware Management (Lincoln Financial Group asset management subsidiary). Early investor in Acer (Texas Instruments JV), Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics (UMC) and Nvidia (NVDA). Led restructuring and liquidation for Huamei Telecommunications Company (U.S.-China broadband telecom JV) on behalf of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III and institutional investors, including Ameritech, Bechtel, Dayton family, Pacific Telesis, and Southern California Edison.

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Investment banking and institutional capital markets MBA training program. Assigned to investment grade and high yield corporate bond trading. Traded Original Issue Discount book.

Boston, Ma, Us

Visiting Fellow, Finance

B.A., Economics

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