Meet our team
The Wave team is pioneering the bridge between traditional asset management and cutting edge technology
David Siemer
Chief Executive Officer
- Co-Founder of Wavemaker, 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
- Wavemaker Partners, Casden Properties, Siemer & Associates, Senate Judiciary Committee
- BA Yale; JD University of Chicago
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, 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
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
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
Uyanga Batbold
Trading Analyst
- Risk Management, Athene USA
- MSc, Computational Finance, Rochester Institute of Technology
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
Senior Corporate Paralegal
- Compliance and Risk Specialist, AGIA
- Paralegal at BFAS Law & JDSA Law, specializing in entity formation and management
- CA Notary Public
Advisers
Bill Woodward
Venture Capitalist with $3 billion in exits, including Macromedia, Launch Media, Myspace, Nevenvision, Pulse, and Cognet
Brock Pierce
Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital, Tether, Block.One (EOS), Director of Bitcoin Foundation
Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano & Co-Founder of Ethereum
Michael Arrington
Founder of TechCrunch and Arrington Capital
Rahilla Zafar
Advisory Board Wave Financial
Ken Nguyen
Managing Partner, Insight Capital. VC / PE investor, complex special situations banker; McCourt Global, Blackstone, Citigroup
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Flexible Work Arrangements
Health & Wellness Benefits
Parental Leave
Benny's Tacos
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Wave Financial offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem
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