Meet our leadership
The Wave Team is pioneering the bridge between traditional asset management and cutting edge technology
David Siemer
Chief Executive Officer
- Co-Founder of Wave, a global venture fund managing $325M in AUM across 300 companies
- Founder of Siemer & Associates tech-focused investment bank (acquired by CEC Capital)
- MBA U of Chicago, Series 66 securities license
Les Borsai
Chief Strategy Officer
- Serial entrepreneur and consultant
- Advisor to Ripple, RightMesh, and YouNow
- Early investor in Ethereum, Filecoin, Tezos, Stellar
Benjamin Tsai
President, Managing Partner
- Former CEO of Merrill Lynch Singapore Commodities
- Former Head of Alternative Investments Asia for AllianceBernstein
- MBA UCLA, Series 65/3 securities license
Matteo Dante Perruccio
President, International
- 30 years experience in investment management
- Global Head, Key Clients & Strategic Partners at Jupiter Asset Management
- Founder of Hermes BPK, CEO International of Pioneer Investments
Jennifer Wilde Anderson
Chief Operating Officer
- Co-founder, Wave Financial Miner
- 10+ years of operating experience leading fund operations including compliance, legal, investor relations, finance, HR, and product.
- Education: Yale University, B.A., cum laude, with Distinction in the Major. University of Chicago School of Law, J.D.
- Bar Admissions: California
Harumi Urata-Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
- Experienced Web3 executive whom has led innovative companies to achieve strategic, operational and marketing success
- Previously served as COO for CFA Society New York
- Spent 14+ years at Thomson Reuters where she hold positions such as director, Chief of Staff and Product Manager
- Began her career in investment banking at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley
- MBA from INSEAD and a BA, magna cum laude, in business from Sophia University in Japan
Henry K. Elder
Managing Director, Head of Treasury & Wealth Management
- Slice.market, Latitude Real Estate Investors (now LaSalle), George Smith Partners, ValueAct Capital
- Arranged over $1b of investments across the real estate and tech sectors
- Series 66 securities license
David Roebuck
Venture Principal
- Business Development Manager, TRON Foundation
- Principal, Sora Ventures
Investment Analyst, Int’l Space Station, US National Laboratory - Analyst, DFJ Dragon Fund
Heidi Pease
Head of Investment Products
- MBA & CEO, Los Angeles Blockchain Lab
- Blockchain and Crypto Consultant for Panasonic and Lamborghini
- Advisor to US Department Of Commerce Blockchain Trade Mission
Nauman Sheikh
Managing Director, Head of Protocol Treasury Management
- Wall St veteran in global equities including derivatives, prime brokerage, research and capital markets
- Former Head of Derivatives and Synthetic sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
- Former Equity Derivatives and Synthetic prime brokerage distribution at Credit Suisse
- MBA, Columbia Business School
- Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 63
Annie Burford
Vice President, Operations
- 14+ years of experience in event marketing / operations
- Former Vice President, CEC Capital Group
- Former Director of Events, dot.LA
- Siemer & Associates
- BA, UConn
Jomjai Srisomburananont
Vice President of Treasury & Wealth Management
- Former Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch - Wealth Management
- Former art dealer and consultant
- MBA, Claremont Graduate University
- MA, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
- Series 7 & 66 securities licenses
- Certified Exit Planning Advisor
Umed Saidov, CFA
Head of Staking Operations
- Former global power & infrastructure banker (IFC, EBRD)
- Digital asset and blockchain expert
- Early Cardano stake pool operator
- Lunux and Haskell supporter
- INSEAD MBA
Michael Jones
Head of Business Development
- Over a decade of Institutional, Family Office and Non-Profit Asset Management Experience (PIMCO, Goldman Sachs)
- MBA, Vanderbilt University; B.S., California State University Northridge
- FINRA license holder, Series 7, 66, & 3
Ben Hao
Head of Trading
- Founder of several financial modeling and trading firms
- MD, Head of Asia, Deutsche Bank Alternative Trading hedge fund
- MD, Global Head of Equity Quantitative Trading, Dresdner Kleinwort
Justin Chuh, CFA
Senior Trader
- FX Trader, HC Tech
- Chartered Financial Analyst
- BS, Business Economics and Management, Arizona
Laurentius Harrer
Senior Banking Associate
- Former M&A specialist investment banker at Houlihan Lokey’s Consumer, Food & Retail Group
- Series 63 & 79
- BBA, Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder
Jason Choi
Senior Structuring Associate
- Former Tech, Media & Telecom Corporate Banker at Bank of America Securities
- Series 63 & 79
- BA, Global Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tyler Matses
Venture Associate
- Healthcare Investment Banking Analyst, Raymond James
- Financial Analyst, Blackstone
- BSBA, Finance, Ohio State University
Jack Lu
Client Service Analyst
- Investment Advisory Representative, Mutual of Omaha
- BA, Financial Math and Statistics, UC Santa Barbara
- Licensed Investment Advisory Representative
Lana Anderson
Operations Assistant
- BS, Finance And Management Information Systems, SUNY Binghamton
Samuel Eisner
Analyst
- Financial Advisor, Equitable Advisors
- BS, Environmental Economics & Policy, UC Berkeley
- Series 7 & 66 Licenses
Norraphon Dejruksavattana
Trader
- Quantitative Trader, Independent
- Algorithmic Trading Advisor, AMR Trading Capital
- Quantitative Portfolio Manager, AMR Trading Capital
- Algorithmic Trader, AMR Trading Capital
- BBA, Investment Finance and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Aric Chang
Venture Analyst
- Investment Consultant, Aves Lair
- Compliance Consultant, Aspect Advisors
- Series 7, 24, & 63 holder
- BA, Political Science and Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Joanna Nesgoda
Legal Operations Manager
- Compliance and Risk Specialist, AGIA
- Paralegal at BFAS Law & JDSA Law, specializing in entity formation and management
- CA Notary Public
John Caldwel
NFT Principal
John is a tastemaker and contributor to the tight knight NFT community.
He trades creates and manages communities in almost every major NFT project.
Interests
- The intersection of traditional and digital art markets
- Historical provenance and relevance of non-fungible assets that exist on-chain
- Generative art, NFT Photography, gated content, and communities that utilize NFTs
Marcus Peters
Operations Associate
- 7+ years experience in Financial Services operations, compliance, and sales at JPMorgan, Lincoln Financial
- MS, International Business, University of Delaware
- Series 7, 63, 65 securities licenses
Paige Golay
Executive Assistant
- Master's in Applied Leadership and Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management, top 20%
- Air Force Veteran
- Member of Beta Gamma Sigma- International Business Honor Society
Kristeen Rodriguez
Junior Accountant
- Former Tax Associate at Macias Gini & O'Connell LLP
- BS, Business Administration, Concentration in Accounting, SFSU
Kelly Chapman
Chief Compliance Officer & Head of Legal
- 12+ years in the investment management industry, including 10+ as an attorney at major law firms and in-house, focusing on private investment funds and fintech/blockchain matters, and securities regulation of the same
- Education: Randolph Macon Woman’s College, B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
- Bar Admissions: California, the District of Columbia, and New York
Advisors
Bill Woodward
Venture Capitalist with $3 billion in exits, including Macromedia, Launch Media, Myspace, Nevenvision, Pulse, and Cognet
Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano & Co-Founder of Ethereum
Michael Arrington
Founder of TechCrunch and Arrington Capital
Rahilla Zafar
Advisory Board Wave Financial Miner
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