Maziar Dalaeli, Partner

Maziar has over 15 years of sales, marketing and finance experience and was a founding partner of AIAS Group, an Alternative Investment Advisory firm. Maziar was responsible for marketing the firm’s services and interfacing with investors. Maziar has developed relationships with over 600 hedge funds, private equity funds, banks, family offices, pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, and funds of funds. He has performed financial advisory work for a number of energy and alternative energy companies. For example, he advised NanoPV Technologies, an equipment manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic solar panels based in New Jersey and DBP Exploration, an oil and gas exploration company based in Texas.

Prior to AIAS Group, Maziar was Chief Operating Officer of the New Business Group at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the second largest German bank. The New Business Group led the e-initiatives of the bank by investing in companies such as Capital IQ, FxALL, and Creditex and by developing the bank’s internal electronic trading systems. Prior to that, he ran the Brady bond options portfolio of Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

Maziar holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS from Universite Paris-Dauphine in applied mathematics and statistics.

Paul Jeun, Partner

Paul has over 14 years of experience as a corporate attorney and investment advisor. He has also been president of AIAS Group, LLC, an investment advisory firm that focuses on alternative investments. Previously, Paul was a senior associate at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP where he specialized in representation of private investment funds in transnational settings.

Prior to Curtis, Paul was an attorney at Hawkins, Delafield & Wood LLP where he focused on representation of issuers and underwriters in connection with tax-exempt financings of power and environmental projects.

Paul holds a JD from Fordham University Law School and a BA from Northwestern University.

Michael Latefi, Partner

Michael is an entrepreneur, corporate architect, turnaround specialist and private equity executive with more than 14 years of experience through the development, growth, and positioning of over 40 companies including Oxford Health Plans (OHP), iVillage Inc. (IVIL), and Quovadx Inc. (QVDX). He recently served as Chief Financial Officer of NanoPV Technologies Inc., a leading supplier of the state of the art manufacturing equipment for nanocrystalline thin-film solar modules. Michael spearheaded the growth of NanoPV’s international sales bookings from $32MM to $650MM over a one year period, while also building its global financial infrastructure with subsidiaries in Europe and Asia.

Prior to joining NanoPV, Michael served as Senior Vice President of the Growth Markets under the Private Equity division at Bank of America Securities, where he led the efforts of the Bank to expand its credit card services through new market verticals via investments, acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Previous to this appointment, Michael was a General Partner at Nazem and Company, a veteran private equity firm focused primarily on high technology. In his capacity as a General Partner at Nazem and Company, Michael also served as General Partner at Hedgeworth Capital, Senior Vice President of Product Development at Munshee, Inc., Vice President of Global Business Development at US Open Healthcare, Chief Financial Officer and later Senior Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at NetFabric, Inc. (NFBH.OB), Chief Financial Officer of Protek LLC., and Chief Financial Officer of BodySelect Surgery Centers LLC.

Mr. Latefi has also played a key investment and operational role in the a number of companies including Dulance, Inc., Clear to Close LLC, Universata Inc., Sound Surgical Technologies LLC, China WorldBest Group Ltd. (leading textile and health care groups in Asia) and Paramount Healthcare Ltd (leading Third Party Administrative company in India). He currently serves on the board of BodySelect LLC, NanoPV Technologies Inc., and Kenmos Photovoltaic Co. Ltd.

Mr. Latefi earned a Bachelors of Science from Columbia University in 1995 and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 2004. He has published papers in hypertension in the Journal of Nephrology from Georgetown University and has done extensive research-work at Aaron Diamonds Laboratory, Rockefeller Research Center.

David Picard, Partner

David has worked extensively in Information Technology and with running operations in challenging start-up environments. David was a co-founding partner of AIAS Group, LLC where he developed from the ground-up a proprietary database platform to store, organize, and distribute complex hedge fund research collected from meetings with over 600 hedge fund managers and has developed several advanced portfolio construction and management tools. He has also been in charge of operations on a day-to-day basis including taking on the role of CFO and COO.

In 2000, David co-founded and was Director of Technology at bCorner.com, a leading provider of private-labeled e-commerce solutions. He oversaw the start-up's launch and independently developed bCorner's full-featured, templated, online cash-back marketplace engine to implement a completely managed system consisting of 500 of the web's most popular retailers on any client's website within a few hours.