David Sarkis

Head of Investments and Risk

Mr. Sarkis has 30 years of financial markets experience across structured investments, cross assets and portfolio management with 17 years located in Japan and Hong Kong. He was previously the Global Head of Equity Derivatives at Daiwa Capital Markets where he managed teams across derivatives and long/short investment strategies and coordinated the development of the arbitrage and medium frequency trading strategies. Also serving as Head of Trading, Equities (Asia ex Australia) at ABN Amro/RBS, he managed billions of dollars of multi-asset-class investments across 7 strategies with a team of 20 investment managers.

He has been a member of global and Asian management teams at Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Daiwa Capital Markets and ABN Amro/RBS providing oversight and guidance on aspects of investments, strategy, risk oversight, technology development and trading. Drawing on his seasoned perspective in leadership and investment roles, Mr. Sarkis helped navigate these organizations through market cycles and events such as the 1997 Asian currency crisis, 2000 technology bubble, 2003 SARS and the 2008 financial crisis.

Sliver Tree Hong Kong Limited. Silver Tree is an investment manager, focused on multi-strategy relative value investment in Asia. The hedge fund employs process driven strategies in seeking alpha across capital markets, events, relative value and cross-asset investments. He is currently heavily involved in capital markets transactions, engaging with early stage founders and CEOs of listed companies on prospective capital raising.