Mazen Jabban

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Mr. Mazen Jabban is the Founder and serves as Director & Chief Compliance Officer at Focus Investment Group. He is also the Founder of VIDRIO Financial and serves as its Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. In 2000, he started Focus Star, a seed manager program that identifies and invests with emerging hedge fund managers. In 2008, he founded Vidrio Financial, a hedge fund research, investment, and monitoring organization that provides a comprehensive investment platform to major financial organizations and institutional investors. Earlier in his career, he worked in Real Estate Development and Investment. He later founded a Management Consulting and Information Systems company. He founded Vidrio Financial in 2011 and is responsible for setting strategic direction and the firm's product development roadmap. In 1994, he founded Focus Investment Group, an alternative investment firm, which incubated the development of the predecessor to the Vidrio Platform. In 1997 he started Focus Europa, one of the oldest European-focused fund-of-hedge-funds and in 2000 he established the Focus Star Fund, a hedge fund seeding program that identified and invested with emerging hedge fund managers. Prior to 1994, he worked in real estate development and investment and later founded a management consulting and information systems company. He is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at NYU's Stern School of Business lecturing on alternative investments. He received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California - Berkeley (1978) and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, Stern School of Business (1981).