Startup Management and Advisory, Strategic Consulting, Negotiation, Deal Structuring, Directorship, Corporate Governance Investment Management: Fund of Funds, Hedge Funds, Family Offices, Multifamily Offices, HNWI, Venture Capital, Private Equity Specialties: Portfolio Management, Manager Selection, Due Diligence, Capital Raising, Product Development, Investor Relations, Strategic Advisory, Investment Banking, Merchant Banking

Founder and Managing Partner @ From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Newport Beach, CABoard Member @ From January 2015 to Present (10 months) CaliforniaBoard Advisor @ From November 2014 to Present (1 year) Irvine, CaliforniaBoard Member @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Santa Ana, CAManaging Director @ Armored Wolf is an SEC-registered investment firm founded in 2008 and based in California. We manage USD1bn+ across a range of alternative investments for institutions and family offices. Armored Wolf’s team of 20 is led by CIO John Brynjolfsson (“Brynjo”), who previously spent two decades at PIMCO where he launched and ran PIMCO’s USD80bn Real Return Platform. Armored Wolf manages global macro funds that seeks to profit from macro imbalances created by global inflation and deflation. The firm utilizes liquid, real return strategies to generate attractive, absolute, risk‐adjusted returns while providing an active hedge against the wealth destruction created by long‐term inflationary trends. The firm dynamically allocates to the following sector portfolios: (1) commodities; (2) global inflation‐linked bonds; (3) global event‐linked bonds; (4) global equities; (5) emerging market bonds; (6) emerging market foreign exchange; and (7) high yield. From March 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 4 months) Irvine, CAExecutive Director, Corporate Development @ From January 2011 to February 2013 (2 years 2 months) Santa Barbara, California AreaManaging Director @ Family Office Alternative Investments Hedge Funds, Funds of Funds Structured Products Project Finance From December 2000 to January 2013 (12 years 2 months) NYC, CA, LondonManaging Director @ Family office From January 2007 to August 2009 (2 years 8 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Analyst, Americas @ From April 2005 to September 2006 (1 year 6 months) Greater New York City AreaChief Operating Officer (Veros Capital Management) @ From April 2003 to April 2005 (2 years 1 month) Irvine, CaliforniaVice President @ www.corevp.com From February 2002 to March 2005 (3 years 2 months) VP, Research @ Venture Capital and Private Equity Research www.ventureone.com From December 2000 to January 2002 (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaAnalyst, Mergers and Acquisitions @ From December 1998 to June 1999 (7 months) Newport Beach, CA

MBA, International Finance and Information Technology @ University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business From 1997 to 1999 BS, Astrophysics, Mathematics @ University of California, Irvine From 1991 to 1995 Sasha Talebi is skilled in: Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Portfolio Management, Due Diligence, Fund Of Funds, Equities, Hedging, Asset Managment, Global Macro, Family Office, Structured Products, Asset Management, Investments, Project Finance, Fundraising, Fixed Income, Commodity, Equity Research, Pension Funds, Investment Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Trading, Mergers, Manager Selection, Family Office Management, Investment Banking, Investment Management, Capital Markets, Investor Relations, Bonds, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Startup Development, Mentoring, Sports Coaching, Science, Corporate Venture..., Start-ups, Funding, Management, Valuation, Derivatives, Emerging Markets, Corporate Development, Financial Markets, Financial Modeling, Investment Strategies, Financial Advisory