Alex Esparza - CEO and Founding Partner

Alex has over fifteen years of Wall Street experience within multiple disciplines including equities sales and trading, small-cap global long/short investing, and investment banking.  Most recently, Alex worked within the TMT investment banking team at Oppenheimer and Co, Inc, and lead the buildout of tech private capital markets.  Prior to Oppenheimer, she was a small-cap global investment analyst with Pearl Brook Capital Management, a long/short hedge fund, covering developed markets across North America, Asia, and Europe. She has experience across equity capital markets including IPOs, private placements and M&A. Alex also serves as an advisor to a number of early stage startups.

Alex earned a BA in Humanities from Stanford University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management with a focus on asset management. In her spare time she designs clothes, loves travel and is an endurance athlete and NASM certified trainer. She was a top four finalist in the Ira Sohn stock picking Idea Contest in 2016. Alex is conversational in German.