Rauf Ashraf BIO

Beginning of career
Mr. Ashraf started his career at Fidelity Investments, one of the
largest asset management firms on Wall Street, and worked for five
years with two large hedge funds with assets of over one billion
dollars.Mr. Ashraf also served as an Analyst at Fidelity Investments in
1995 (including working with the $50 Billion + Magellan Fund
Manager) and Essex Investment Management as well as a founding
member of the hedge fund arm of Summit Partners. Subsequently Mr.
Ashraf founded his own firm, Ash Funds LLC deploying over $1 billion
in numerous investments. During his career, he has interacted with
CEOs and CFOs to model and analyze over 1,000 different publically
traded companies.

In addition, Mr. Ashraf has served as an equal Managing Director with

Thom Weisel in an joint venture with the publically traded Thomas
Weisel Partners who currently has grown to Co-Chair his $100 billion
firm. In addition Mr. Ashraf has served in a joint venture with $12 billion
global equity fund with Altrinsic Global Partners. Mr. Ashraf has also
completed other philanthropic initiatives with other world figures
including Warren & Peter Buffett, Hollywood Musician Akon,
Hollywoods #1 Music Producer RedOne, Dual Oscar Winner &
Bollywood Legend A.R. Rahman as well as with the Governments of
Morocco and Trinidad.