INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT: • 30 years of investing experience on all stages: publicly traded companies, venture capital, and private equity. • Experience in and understanding of the cycles of equity markets, developed and emerging. • Advanced knowledge and understanding of Value and ...more

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT: • 30 years of investing experience on all stages: publicly traded companies, venture capital, and private equity. • Experience in and understanding of the cycles of equity markets, developed and emerging. • Advanced knowledge and understanding of Value and Growth-at-Reasonable-Price strategies. • Advanced knowledge of active equity ETFs, leveraged ETFs incl. inverse, volatility decay, and effects of daily rebalancing of ETFs. • Excellent presentation skills, a sought-after speaker at investment conferences, extensive hands-on marketing, and client relationship experience. HIGH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT: • 17 years of experience in managing R&D groups, companies, and divisions of companies. • Founding, raising venture capital for, and successfully growing companies - developers of advanced systems software. INTERNATIONAL: • Acute understanding and knowledge of Russian and Eastern European psyche, customs, and history. • Fluency in Russian, working knowledge of several Eastern European languages. PRESS: I have been interviewed by or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, Market Watch, WSJ.com, SmartMoney, Business Week, Structured Products Magazine, New York Sun, The Electronic Engineering Times, E-Commerce Times, Technology News World, HCP Live Network, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and Boston Business Journal. ABILITY: -- to execute long-term investments with patience, knowledge, and feel for the cycles -- while staying clear of investment fads. -- to absorb a vast amount of knowledge fast and turn it into a relatively simple actionable plan. -- to execute the aforementioned plan. -- to run a company and deliver its commitments on time and on budget be that running a hedge funds management firm, a high-tech company, or a turnaround of a troubled company. --- Please message me via an email to michael_schwartzman@yahoo.com ---less