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Allison Baum
Allison Baum is a Managing Director of Fresco Capital and is involved in all aspects of investment and operations with a specific focus on the education sector. Previously, as Regional Director of Asia at General Assembly, she established and grew the company’s first education programs for technology, business and design in Hong Kong. She originally joined the company during its early stages in New York where she developed and scaled their first long-form part-time and immersive courses. Throughout this process, Allison has worked with startups of all sizes across the San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong communities. After earning a B.A. in Economics and a Secondary Degree in Film Studies from Harvard University, Allison worked in Equity Derivatives Sales & Trading at Goldman Sachs in New York and as an Associate Producer for the Microlending Film Project, a documentary about micro finance for women around the world. She continues to contribute to the cause for female empowerment through an education initiative called Arts and Enterprise for Women, which teaches business skills to refugee and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. She is also an active member of the Hong Kong Global Shapers Community, a social impact initiative of the World Economic Forum.
| Investors: | Website: http://frescocapital.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Tytus Michalski
Tytus Michalski is a Managing Director of Fresco Capital and is involved in all aspects of investment and operations. He has been investing, working and living in Asia since 1999. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer of Equities at PMA Investment Advisors, an institutional hedge fund, managing the regional equity funds and the equity team. He was a founding member of PMA, which was started in 2002 and acquired in 2006 for over US$200M. Before that, he was focused on equity investment with HSBC Asset Management in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and London. Tytus graduated from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (Finance with Honours), is a Leslie Wong Fellow alumnus of the UBC Portfolio Management Foundation and holds the CFA designation. He is an active supporter of startup ecosystem in Hong Kong and Asia with an emphasis on mentorship and education. In his spare time, Tytus enjoys training and teaching traditional Okinawan karate as a third degree black belt.
| Investors: | Website: http://frescocapital.com/ | Email: [email protected] |