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$100,000.00Max Investment:
$1,000,000.00Target Investment:
$250,000.00
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2021
Founder & Partner
2021
https://www.artichoke.capital Investing in the web3 and digital assets ecosystem, supporting founders building infrastructure and applications that will drive greater consumer adoption of web3 tech over the next decade.
2020 - 2022
Director
2020 - 2022
Growth PE focusing on consumer food and foodtech. Proterra Investment Partners spun out of Cargill's Black River Asset Management division in 2016 and is a US-headquartered asset management firm with >$3B AUM.
2017 - 2020
Senior Director & Division General Manager, North Asia-Pacific
2017 - 2020
Division General Manager with P&L responsibility for the Burger King North Asia business unit, which included Mainland China, South Korea and Japan, generating >$1.3B annual system sales. Member of the Restaurant Brands International Asia Pacific Senior Leadership Team. Also held previous role as global development lead in Miami reporting to the Burger King CFO. Burger King Corporation is owned by Restaurant Brands International (NYSE:QSR / https://www.rbi.com), a leading consumer restaurant group closely affiliated with 3G Capital (https://www.3g-capital.com).
2014 - 2017
M&A/Private Equity Lawyer
2014 - 2017
Former member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance practice groups at Debevoise. Over my time at the firm, I represented private equity sponsors, public companies and private companies in mergers, acquisitions, financings and other corporate transactions with aggregate deal value of >$15B. Clients included Amazon.com, The Hertz Corporation, Allergan, Time Inc., Mitsui, Clayton Dubilier & Rice, KKR, AXA, Guardian Life.
2013 - 2014
Managing Editor, Columbia FDI Perspectives
2013 - 2014
The Columbia FDI Perspectives is an occasional series of published perspectives on important and topical foreign direct investment issues.
2012 - 2014
Fellow
2012 - 2014
My research activities with the CCSI (formerly the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment) lie in the field of foreign direct investment and public policy, with a particular focus on home country measures that support outward investment by private enterprises. In connection with my research at CCSI, I was a panelist at the Academy of International Business 2014 Annual Meeting — "Policies and Instruments to Support Outward FDI: What are the Challenges?" For more information, see http://ccsi.columbia.edu/.