Christopher Cole

Experience

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  Merrill Lynch International, HK Ltd

  Apr 1985 - May 1989

  AVP, Private Client
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  Aetna International

  Jan 1990 - Mar 1993

  AVP
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  Aetna Capital Management/Aeltus

  Mar 1993 - Mar 1996

  Director, Discretionary Asset Management
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  Warren International, Investment Search

  Mar 1996 - Jan 2001

  Managing Director
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  Christian & Timbers

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Partner, Head of Asset Management
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  Orion Advisors, LLC

  Jan 2002 - Dec 2015

  Managing Partner

  Orion Advisors is a retained boutique investment management executive search practice. We specialize in team liftouts, senior level portfolio management (both quantitative and fundamental), and accomplished sales and marketing professionals for hedge, traditional institutional, and international.

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  Galileo Global Education US

  Dec 2015 - Jan 2018

  Senior Vice President, Co-Founder, Head of HR and Strategy

  GGE is a private equity-backed company focused upon acquiring and developing traditional and specialty career education platforms, on-site and on-line, in Europe and Latin America. GGE presently has over 72,000 students and is the single largest for-profit educational platform specializing in arts & creation in Europe. GGE well known schools include: Studialis, Istituto Marangoni, Macromedia, and IEU.

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  Advancity

  Feb 2018 - Sept 2022

  Co-Founder

  Advancity, is a Miami-based AI start-up. We are an online tutoring platform for conversational engagement. We bring together on our platform native English speakers, sourced from US Universities, with language learners. Our gig-economy workforce hold conversations with peers from around the world, modeling proper language and exchanging culture. We use data science to discern the proper mentor/learner pairing and other insights to most effectively improve conversation skill development.

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  South Florida Search Partners

  Oct 2022 - now

  Managing Partner

  Over my eight years in Miami, the investment community has expanded from a International HNW hub to home for some of the most sophisticated and entrepreneurial investment managers on the planet. Our objective is simply to deepen the talent pool and provide more career "liquidity" for both talent and firms.We are also proud to support the ongoing development of the new Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence in the Buffet Cancer Center, attracting PhD's, Scientists, C-Suite, and Bioinformaticians. Show less