Jonathan Ng is a Partner of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr. Ng is primarily responsible for business development and investor relations of the HS Group Sponsor Funds and HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr. Ng also works closely with the Firm’s Advisory Services Committee to help HS portfolio companies plan, build, run and grow institutional asset management businesses.

Prior to joining HS Group, Mr. Ng spent four years as a Senior Investment Associate in the Singapore office of Cambridge Associates (CA), a global investment consultant headquartered in Boston. At CA, Mr. Ng was part of the Global Investment Services team, providing portfolio investment advice to institutional investors, such as endowments, foundations and private family offices based primarily in Asia with AUM ranging from US$100 million to US$2 billion. Mr. Ng holds a Bachelor of Business (Honors) from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and is Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. Mr. Ng is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Aayesha Ghanekar is a Partner at HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited. Ms. Ghanekar works closely alongside the CIO to identify and diligence new manager investments and co-investment opportunities, as well as manage and monitor the existing portfolio of investments. Prior to joining HS Group, Ms. Ghanekar was a Manager at Starwood Hotels & Resorts with its Asia Sales Strategy team. Before joining Starwood Hotels, Ms. Ghanekar spent four years with Bain & Company as a Senior Associate Consultant with significant experience in private equity, M&A, sales and marketing, consumer data analytics, market entry and organizational re-design strategy, Ms. Ghanekar holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BTech in Metallurgy and Materials science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Ms. Ghanekar is fluent in English, Hindi, and Marathi.

Richard is the Chairman of the board of directors of HS Group. He is also a director and investor with select alternative asset management firms in Asia and the US, including Argyle Street Management in Hong Kong and Main Management in San Francisco.

Mr. Gadbois began his career at EF Hutton in 1980. He then opened the west coast office for the Corporate Executive Services Group at Prudential Securities in 1989. In 1994 Mr. Gadbois became a Senior Vice President with Merrill Lynch where he advised insiders at public companies in the US and Europe. He retired from Merrill in 2001 with client assets of over $3 Billion. From 2001-2006 Mr. Gadbois was President and Co-Founder of Vantis Capital Management, a long-short equity fund with offices in Los Angeles and New York. From 2010-2013 he was CEO of Roth Asset Management. During this period he co-founded GROW Partners and was a Managing Director for EAM Investors. Mr. Gadbois also served as a Senior Advisor to Oakmont Corporation, a $2.5 Billion family office for Robert Day, where he has maintained an investment relationship since 1989.

Mr. Gadbois graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BA in Economics. He has served as Director of several public companies and charitable organizations over the last 30 years. Mr. Gadbois is also a Founder and Trustee Emeritus of Sage Hill School in Newport Beach, California.

Jonathan Garfinkel is a Partner of TPG based in San Francisco and is a member of the leadership team of TPG Rise Climate, the firm’s dedicated climate impact investing business. Mr. Garfinkel joined TPG in 1998 and through 2010 worked on the TPG Capital private equity investment team in both San Francisco and London. Thereafter, he served in numerous firm-related roles, including leadership of corporate development and compensation, and was TPG’s Co-Chief Operating Officer from January 2019 to June 2021.

Mr. Garfinkel serves or has served on the boards of Summit Carbon Solutions, Monolith, eVoltz, ProSight Specialty Insurance, 2Co Energy, Aleris International, and Midwest Air Group. He is a member of the Advisory Council of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and the Stanford Cancer Institute, is the current Board Chair of Climb Hire, and the former Board Chair of Aspire Public Schools.

Mr. Garfinkel holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University, an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MA in Education from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education.

Patrick Gorta is the Chief Financial Officer of HS Group (US) LLC and HS Group Japan (Cayman) Branch Office and the Chairman of the Valuation Committee and a member of the Advisory Services Committee. Mr. Gorta is primarily responsible for the accounting, finance, tax, fund administration and operations of the HS Group Sponsor Funds, HS Group Ltd., and HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited. He has more than 19 years’ experience in finance, primarily based in Asia.

Prior to joining HS Group, Mr. Gorta spent two years as the Head of Operations at Rockhampton Management, an equity long/short hedge fund investment manager based in Tokyo where he was primarily responsible for non-investment operations, fund accounting and process improvement. Previously, Mr. Gorta was Head of Operations at Trikon Asset Management, a pan-Asia equity long/short hedge fund investment manager based in Hong Kong. Prior to Trikon, he was the Operations Manager for the Asia presence of Taconic Capital Advisors, a global multi‐strategy investment manager based in New York. Prior to that period, he was Head of Operations and then Chief Operating Officer for Expedition Advisors, a volatility arbitrage hedge fund investment manager in Hong Kong. Mr. Gorta started his career in operations at Bear Stearns in New York and has worked at Standard Chartered and Merrill Lynch. His experience spans across the United States, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong with more than eighteen years spent in Asia. Mr. Gorta has a BA in Economics (Specialization in Finance) from The City College of New York. He is a CAIA and CFA charterholder.

Anna Klavins is the Chief Operating Officer of HS Group (US) LLC, the Chairperson of the Compliance Committee, counsel to the Investment Committee and a member of the Advisory Services Committee. Ms. Klavins is admitted to the New York Bar and is responsible for the legal, compliance and business operations of HS Group companies.

Prior to joining HS Group, Ms. Klavins was a Managing Director at UBS, where she was responsible for overseeing the prime brokerage sales effort in Asia Pacific. Previously, she worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a vice-President in the General Counsel’s office, where she served as in-house counsel to the global prime brokerage business (“Global Securities Services”). Ms. Klavins also has experience working at an Asia-focused hedge fund, BlackShip Capital, where she was responsible for investor relations, marketing and other business management functions.

Ms. Klavins started her career as a securities litigator at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, after graduating from DePaul University College of Law. She holds an A.B. in Philosophy and English Literature from Georgetown University.

Johannes Kaps is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited, Branch Representative of HS Group Japan (Cayman) Branch Office, Chairman of the Advisory Services Committee, a member of the Investment Committee and a co-founder and director of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr. Kaps is responsible for managing the business and affairs of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited within the guidelines established by the board of directors of HS Group Ltd., of which he is a director and voting shareholder. Mr. Kaps is also responsible for the Firm’s Advisory Services, designed to help HS Group’s partnerships plan, build, run and grow institutional hedge fund businesses. Mr. Kaps has 28 years’ experience in finance, primarily based in Asia.

Prior to founding HS Group, Mr. Kaps worked in the Global Securities Services sales team for Asia Pacific at Goldman Sachs based in Hong Kong. Previously, he invested Goldman Sachs’ proprietary capital as part of the Japanese Shares Trading team. Prior to that, Mr. Kaps provided trading and alpha research to hedge funds and institutional clients focused on Japanese equities. Mr. Kaps joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an associate and was named Managing Director in 2008. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Kaps worked at Morgan Stanley for two years as an analyst in the investment banking division. He also worked at a private investment banking firm, Gruppo, Levey & Co., for one year as a senior analyst specializing in the consumer, industrial, media, multi-channel retail and marketing services sectors. Mr. Kaps earned a BA in International Relations and German Literature from Brown University in 1996. Mr. Kaps speaks German and Japanese.

Michael Garrow is the Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited, Chairman of the Investment Committee, and co-founder and Director of the Investment Manager. Mr. Garrow is primarily responsible for the investment management activities of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited within the guidelines established by the board of directors of the HS Group Ltd., of which he is a director and voting shareholder. Mr. Garrow has over 20 years’ experience in finance, primarily based in Asia. He has extensive experience in alternative investment fund seeding, direct co-investments, portfolio management and capital markets.

Prior to forming HS Group, Mr. Garrow led Blackstone’s Asian alternative fund program and invested on behalf of Blackstone Strategic Alliance Funds, based in Hong Kong and New York. In addition to sourcing, diligencing and monitoring seed investments, he led Blackstone’s global emerging manager program and had primary responsibility for sourcing co-investment opportunities in Asia. Previously, Mr. Garrow advised internal macro, multi-strategy and equity hedge funds for the incubation program at SAIL Advisors, a large Hong Kong-based family office, as a member of its investment team. Mr. Garrow started his career at Morgan Stanley in New York, and moved to its Global Capital Markets team in Hong Kong in 2002 as a member of its Greater China group.

Mr. Garrow graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with an Honors BA in Political Science and East Asian Studies in 2000. He speaks and reads Mandarin fluently.