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Michael Gardner » Managing Member
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Michael Gardner has been Managing Member of Baytree Capital since its inception in 1990. Mr. Gardner brings with him a lifetime of experience as an investment banker and asset manager.
Known for his aggressive equity trading and structured financing, Mr. Gardner has helped Baytree Capital raise over one billion dollars on behalf of small to mid-sized public companies.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Gardner received his B.A. from Brooklyn College. A former U.S. Naval Officer, Mr. Gardner balances his time between the investment community and a number of cultural and
charitable causes. Mr. Gardner is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) and a Trustee of Oklahoma City University. Mr. Gardner is a Trustee of the
New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center and a Board member of its subsidiary the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases which honored him in 2007/08 with its Humanitarian Award. In that same year,
the Mental Health Association of New York honored Mr. Gardner for his work with the mentally ill at their annual Giving Hope, Saving Lives gala.
Mr. Gardner's other avocation is producing theater in New York
and London. Most recently, "Superior Donuts", "The Homecoming" (Tony
Nomination 2007), "Sinatra at the Palladium"(London), and "And Then
There Were None" (London), On Broadway, "Dance of the Vampires", with
Michael Crawford, "Sly Fox", with Richard Dreyfuss, and "A Year with
Frog and Toad" (Tony nomination 2003). He has been financially involved
in numerous other shows.
Mr. Gardner is a Tony Voter and a Member of the Broadway League, the Downtown Association of New York City, Tournament Players Club of Summerlin, and the Stirling Club and Foundation Room
in Las Vegas.
Mr. Gardner divides his time between homes in Manhattan, Quogue, and Las Vegas.
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Gianluca Cicogna
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Prior to Baytree Capital Mr. Cicogna worked at the Zanett Group in New York where he was involved in advising and investing in early stage public companies. Prior to Zanett he worked with Casco Track Limited, a boutique investment bank based in Hong Kong that represented clients in over $600m of cross border M&A transactions. Whilst at Casco Track Mr. Cicogna was involved in telecoms transactions across Asia, including participating in the launch of Cavite Cable Corporation, the first fiber optic cable TV business in the Philippines; and in Orion Telecom Corporation, the largest independent telecommunications service provider in South Africa with annual revenues over $100m.
Mr. Cicogna graduated from Buckingham University in Economics (with Honors).
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Jim Fuller
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Heads the Baytree office in California and has been Involved in the in securities business for over 40 years, beginning his career in small cap research and institutional sales at several notable firms including J. Barth and Company, Dean Witter, and Shields and Company
Senior VP of NYSE from 1976 to 1981 after which he served for several years as Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corp (SIPC) whilst working as a Senior VP of Charles Schwab & Co.
Director of the Regan Business Advisory Panel and member of the Bush Advisory Business Committee; member of the Californian Republican Party's executive committee and a vice chairman of the Republican Central Committee; board member at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Lincoln Club of California
BS from California State University, San Jose and MBA from California State University
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