Our team is built on experience drawn from entrepreneurship, venture capital, venture law, investment banking and institutional asset management. We understand the challenges that private companies face, because we’ve been there too.
Five things about Barrett…
- Co-founded Scenic Advisement and oversees the team’s global activities as CEO
- Formerly with Lehman Brothers in San Francisco where he established himself as the “deal whisperer of Silicon Valley,” helping investors connect with non-public startups
- Represented the early Facebook and Twitter teams which led him to found Scenic to institutionalize the secondary market
- Served as an advisor to Howard Schulltz’s Maveron Ventures
- He’s also wearing really neat socks right now
Five things about Michael…
- Has deep expertise in resolving inefficient markets across asset classes
- Part of the leadership team in Fixed Income and Equity Trading at BlackRock
- Advised exchanges on optimal market structure, including the NYSE and NASDAQ
- Founded Scenic to bring transparency and efficiency to the private market
- Speaks Japanese, plays drums, and competes in triathlons
Five things about Peter…
- Spent 17 years as a quantitative researcher at BlackRock/Barclays
- One of the first to bring an analytics-driven approach to managing large institutional portfolios
- Expert in the implementation and quantification of investment insights
- Passionate about bringing data-driven approach to the private markets
- Has his Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University
Five things about Paul…
- His given name is ‘Spencer’
- Over 25 years working in the investment management industry
- Worked as in-house counsel for Barclays Global Investors (“BGI”)
- After the acquisition of BGI by BlackRock became Chief of Staff for the Multi-Asset Strategies and Scientific Active Equity Business
- Then became Chief Operating Officer of Pluribus Labs, a new asset management firm focused on quantitative investments
Samuel Toso
Managing Director – Business Development, Capital Markets, and Operations
Five things about Sam…
- Sales and relationship management professional with operational experience
- Business development manager with exceptional record of engaging across the C-suite
- Sales operations specialist responsible for building, maintaining and driving organizational deal pipeline
- Grows Scenic’s relationships through data-driven systems, process, and outreach
- Former U.S. Army officer and Afghanistan veteran, dog lover, and passionate about making things better
Five things about Dominic…
- Part of three IPOs, two acquisitions, and two not-quite-so-goods
- Led Europe’s largest tech IPO
- Positioned and launched more startups than he remembers
- Passionate about discovering and defining new categories
- Lawyer-turned-marketer and avid runner
Five things about Spencer…
- He’s a career-long client relations and sales development professional
- Has expertise in connecting with senior-most, C-Level executives and generating fruitful, long-term professional relationships
- His specific domain knowledge is around executive development and networking for Global 2000 leaders like Chief Legal / Communications Officers (think AT&T, Toyota, PepsiCo, UnitedHealth Group)
- Joined Scenic to help expand the brand with founders and leaders of the most valuable companies in the private market ecosystem
- He’s a BBQ enthusiast and an aspiring pitmaster
Five things about Mark…
- Experience includes raising debt and equity capital for privately held businesses, including for Private Equity and Venture Capital backed businesses and family enterprises
- Mark has extensive experience helping both issuers and investors to access deal situations in the private capital markets
- On the buy-side, he has led over USD 500 MM in equity investments for portfolio companies and on the sell-side has originated billions of dollars of new business while at HSBC and JP Morgan
- Has lived and worked in the US, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America and developed deep relationships with PE, VC, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and family offices
- Started skiing at age two and has been going downhill ever since
Five things about Anastasia…
- Anastasia is an experienced financial analyst with exceptional data management and analytics skills
- Is responsible for managing long-term relationships with Scenic’s investor network and placing Scenic’s private company mandates with the right top-tier institutional investors
- Enjoys manipulating and sourcing data to identify opportunities for growth and operational efficiency
- Is an entrepreneur and an avid DIY enthusiast
- She is a multilingual Ukrainian immigrant