Brian Wood is a professional with over 20 years of experience in investment management
and capital markets – at both by-side and sell-side firms as well as operating companies.

He began his career as an equity research analyst at San Francisco based investment bank
Hambrecht & Quist, where he covered Special Situations, worked on over 40 IPOs and
secondary raises, and published equity research regularly. Brian then spent eight years as a
senior analyst at a US$5 billion AUM New York-based hedge fund focusing on long/short
equity, capital structure arbitrage, and high-yield/distressed debt investments. He has also
managed debt capital markets for a Singapore-based aircraft lessor Avation PLC and
successfully guided their inaugural public bond issuance.

Brian graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Lafayette College, New York and
holds an MBA from Columbia University, New York.