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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

Have led global business development, capital raising and sustainability efforts for a global sustainable aquaculture development company utilizing state of the art technology and proprietary biological protocols.Key Accomplishments:- Have led an international team of 20+ technology, biology, operations, in-country experts and partners to drive growth of integrated production capacity to 136,000 metric tons per annum and over $2 billion in investment capacity.- Have negotiated contracts for large scale, world class sites in Denmark, Malaysia, and Morocco with proximity to key end markets.- Have managed high value broodstock acquisition and biology development agreement in Chile.- Have led comprehensive bottom-up project sustainability analysis comparing Living Seas to competing benchmarked technologies, and the seafood and food production industries in general.

Greater New York City Area

A global business development, investment, and advisory company. Collaborates with a range of strategic advisors and partners to provide foreign market and trend expertise, and to source and finance real estate, hotel development and other strategic investment projects. Led global business development and capital raising efforts as well as project and property management.Key Accomplishments:- Developed, property managed, and exited a significant multi-family real estate portfolio with a 3x return on investment.- Developed and property managed award-winning boutique hotel in Marrakech, Morocco recognized as a top luxury destination by global travel publications including The Top 30 New Hotels in the World by Travel + Leisure and The Most Beautifully Designed Hotels in the World by House & Garden UK. Led due diligence, acquisition, development, operations management and successful exit. Created high-end design concept, managed international contractors and fabricators, and sourced local and imported FF&E in a compressed timeline for a successful 100% sold out launch. Led US and UK marketing and PR campaign that achieved branding success with editorial coverage in over 25 international travel and design publications creating global brand awareness including Town & Country, Elle Décor, Elite Traveler, Contemporary Hotel Design, and Forbes, among others. Established relationships with global luxury travel agents and concierge service partners.

Greater New York City Area

Led successful technology development efforts of a financial services firm launching a range of disruptive leveraged exchange traded products that resolve multiple issues inherent in leveraged ETFs. TruShares products minimized the tracking error inherent in leveraged ETFs relative to underlying benchmarks over any time period and provided fixed, point to point leveraged returns that are significantly less costly than margined positions. The SEC subsequently limited the further advancement of leveraged ETFs.

New York, New York

Managed all affairs and assets.

London, United Kingdom

Structured and marketed derivative product debt and hedging products to European financial institutions. Structures included imbedded custom equity, foreign currency and commodity options, interest rate swaps and options, and other custom asset linked derivatives.

New York, New York

Structured and marketed cross border short and medium-term debt products to international corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns.