Thomas Staz

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Mr. Thomas Staz serves as Managing Partner at Brazil Tower Company. He serves as Managing Partner at 1848 Capital Partners. He serves as a board member for Big Apple Entertainment Partners and London Bridge Entertainment Partners. Mr. Staz joined 1848 in early 2011 and prior to joining the firm, He served as Board member at 777 Partners. Mr. Staz was a senior investment banker with several large Wall Street firms and was an investor in multiple 1848 portfolio companies. Beginning in 2010, Mr. Staz served as a Director of Business Development at TOA Technologies, an early stage cloud-based software company which focuses on driving efficiencies and customer experience improvements for service and delivery businesses throughout the world. Mr. Staz was responsible for driving adoption of TOA's product with large telecommunications providers in the United States and Latin America. Prior to joining TOA, Mr. Staz spent 13 years as an investment banker with UBS, PaineWebber and Smith Barney. focused on bond-based derivative products for large public sector utilities and transportation agencies across the U.S. He served as Board Member at Ripley's Believe It or Not! London. In this capacity, Mr. Staz structured the first privately financed toll road in California and was integral in the structuring and sale of over $10 billion in bonds and related derivatives. In 1998, Mr. Staz founded and served as President of Pacific Capital Partners, a hedge fund catering to high net worth individuals and focused on leveraged derivative investments in fast growing technology and internet infrastructure companies. Mr. Staz is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a Bachelors degree in Engineering Sciences.