TAU INVESTMENT - Key Persons
Adarsh possesses equity research experience in diversified industries and had worked on specific projects with TAU across Southeast Asia as an intern associate, after which he joined in a full-time role.
Adarsh completed an MBA in finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School. Prior to earning his MBA, Adarsh was a business executive with Decathlon S.A in India developing multiple strategies to source apparel and other products from medium and large-scale manufacturers across Asia for global Decathlon retail outlets.
Adarsh holds a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering and has operational experience working in family businesses across the textile and agriculture industries.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
- Founding Chair of the Board of Directors of Bend
- Managing Partner of Soros Brothers Investments
Alexander Soros is the managing partner of Soros Brothers Investments. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports civil rights, social justice, and educational causes. He also created the Alexander Soros Foundation award for Extraordinary Achievement in Environmental and Human Rights Activism. The inaugural award went to Liberian activist Silas Siakor.
Soros is the founding chair of the board of directors of Bend the Arc Jewish Action, a leading progressive Jewish domestic lobby in the United States. He also serves on the board of the Soros Economic Development Fund and on the advisory board of Global Witness. Soros is a graduate of New York University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
Oversees all US operations, including finance, investor relations, brand relations, and technology and innovation.
Over 10 years' experience in management consulting, PE/VC, startups, and advisory to growth stage companies.
Andrew Leventhal brings over 10 years of experience in consulting, finance, and operations in early and growth stage companies. In his role as TAU's Head of Operations, he oversees a number of internal and external initiatives and manages the firm's day to day operations.
Previously Andrew served as the Vice President of Operations for Oak Street Health. Oak Street Health owns and operates primary care clinics for seniors throughout the Midwest. At various points during his tenure, Andrew led marketing, IT, Infrastructure, and Growth for Oak Street Health. He played a pivotal leadership role in helping the company grow from 4 to over 600 employees, build 15 clinics, and raise several rounds of capital from angel and institutional investors.
Andrew Leventhal brings over 10 years of experience in consulting, finance, and operations in early and growth stage companies. In his role as TAU's Head of Operations, he oversees a number of internal and external initiatives and manages the firm's day to day operations.
Previously Andrew served as the Vice President of Operations for Oak Street Health. Oak Street Health owns and operates primary care clinics for seniors throughout the Midwest. At various points during his tenure, Andrew led marketing, IT, Infrastructure, and Growth for Oak Street Health. He played a pivotal leadership role in helping the company grow from 4 to over 600 employees, build 15 clinics, and raise several rounds of capital from angel and institutional investors.
Prior to Oak Street Health, Andrew completed his MBA with honors at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. While pursuing his MBA, Andrew co-chaired the Emerging Markets and the Chicago African Business Groups. He also co-founded the Emerging Markets Summit, an annual event that brings together professionals, investors, entrepreneurs, and students from six different continents.
During this period, Andrew worked with private equity funds based in Chicago and Nairobi, Kenya, assisting with portfolio strategy and operations. He also co-founded g.Maarifa, a Kenya-based interactive mobile education technology platform.
Before business school, Andrew spent three years as a management consultant overseeing projects in the energy, telecom, industrial construction, and healthcare industries, including multiple projects in South Africa and Australia. Andrew left consulting in 2009 to start a London-based trading firm's US operations for a year and a half, during which time he helped lead significant growth initiatives for the firm. He subsequently spent a year traveling the world to understand different emerging markets and the challenges of operating businesses in such environments.
Andrew holds a BA in English from Davidson College, an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Managing Director at Mithril Capital Management
- TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
Brian Behlendorf is Managing Director at Mithril Capital Management in San Francisco. His career has been a mix of technology start-up, public policy, and non-profit tech leadership.
Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. Most recently he was a Managing Director at Mithril Capital Management in San Francisco.
Behlendorf serves on the Boards of the Mozilla Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Benetech, three organizations using technology to fight for civil liberties, open technologies, and social impact in the digital domain. Prior to Mithril, Behlendorf was Chief Technology Officer at the World Economic Forum.
Behlendorf also served for two years at the White House as advisor to the Open Government project within the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and then later as advisor to Health and Human Services on open software approaches to health information sharing. Before that he has founded two tech companies (CollabNet and Organic) and several Open Source software projects (Apache, Subversion, and more).
Bruce J. Klatsky served as CEO and Chairman and of the Board Directors of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH), from 1993 until June 2007. During his 13 years as CEO, he led the transformation of a 120 year-old shirt company into one of the largest apparel and footwear companies in the world.
Mr. Klatsky joined PVH in 1971 as a merchandising trainee after graduating cum laude from Case Western Reserve University and studying law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He worked in various capacities at PVH, and after 16 years was named President of the company in 1987. In 1993 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer.
As CEO of PVH, Mr. Klatsky oversaw the operations and strategic development of a multi-division NYSE-traded public company with approximately 20,000 employees, annual sales in excess of $2 billion, and brand revenues of approximately $6 billion. At PVH, Mr. Klatsky's oversight grew the company's market capitalization from approximately $300 million to more than $3.5 billion. In 2002, he led the successful acquisition and integration of Calvin Klein, adding the brand to a roster of companies that included Van Heusen, G.H. Bass & Co., Gant, Geoffrey Beene, Kenneth Cole, Arrow, BCBG Max Azria, Chaps, Sean Jean, Michael Kors, and Donald Trump.
One of Mr. Klatsky's responsibilities at PVH was the transformation of the company from a domestic manufacturer of footwear and apparel to a global producer. He accomplished this by opening factories and developing a variety of sourcing relationships around the globe. This was achieved simultaneously with his advocacy for worker rights and protections, as well as advising various government agencies on trade matters.
Mr. Klatsky served as Vice Chair, Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch. As a recognized leader in the apparel and footwear industries, he worked with three Presidential administrations. He served on President Clinton's White House Apparel Task Force to help advance reforms intended to improve working conditions around the world. He also served as an advisor on U.S. trade policy to both the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations.
In late 2005 and 2006, utilizing a platform provided by the Aspen Institute, he developed a proposal for USAID to assist in the creation of an export processing zone in the Gaza strip. This in an effort to promote regional stability by providing increased employment opportunities and an economic engine for growth, thereby replicating the model that has assisted in the evolution of many developing nations.
Mr. Klatsky co-founded a private equity company in March 2006, LNK Partners, to identify and support strong management teams in building outstanding consumer and retail businesses.
Job Titles:
- OPERATING PARTNER
- OPERATING PARTNER ( EU )
Luxury brands Corporate Development and M&A executive with over 20 years of experience.
Job Titles:
- HEAD of ASIA INVESTMENT
- Head of Asia Investment / Private Equity Investment Executive and Portfolio Company CEO With 18 Years' Experience Investing in Asian Emerging Markets.
- Managing Director and Head of Asia Investments
Kenneth Katz serves as TAU's Managing Director and Head of Asia Investments, bringing 18 years of private equity and direct investment experience in control, minority, turnaround and distress situations, as well as senior executive roles in portfolio companies. Dedicating most of his investment career to global emerging markets, Ken has resided in Asia for 14 years and is currently based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining TAU, Ken served as the Executive Chairman and CEO of Global Beauty International, a private equity-owned retail business with a pan-Asian presence in 14 countries. Ken lead efforts to rebuild and reposition this 25-year old group that had pioneered the Asian beauty and wellness category.
Previously, Ken headed private equity activities for Lazard Asia Investments with particular focus on managing a $300 million Asia regional, distressed asset portfolio. Driving strategic focus and guiding various business restructurings, Ken successfully led multiple exits generating above-market gains. Prior to Lazard, Ken joined Emerging Markets Partnership, manager of the AIG Infrastructure Funds, with $6 billion under management. While based in Singapore with EMP, Ken led Asia deal teams in Southeast Asia, Korea, India and China originating, executing and managing investments across sectors including power generation, oil & gas, transportation & logistics, energy distribution, telecommunications, heavy manufacturing and agribusiness. Ken also had responsibilities for regional investor relations and investor reporting. Before joining EMP, Ken spearheaded and managed the Asia Pacific direct investment business for Edison Capital as its Singapore-based Head of Asia Pacific Investments. Ken launched the firm's first Asian office and managed its direct investment team, originating and overseeing equity, quasi-equity, mezzanine and other structured investments across multiple industries including power generation, chemicals, telecommunications, water treatment and healthcare facilities. He was a member of Edison's Global Investment Committee and also led regional reporting, administration, corporate compliance, and government relations functions. Ken began his investment career in commercial real estate principal investments at Weyerhaeuser Company, where he had responsibilities for a multi-state real estate portfolio.
Ken has served on the board of directors of publicly listed firms in the United States and Hong Kong and on the boards of numerous private companies. He has also served as an Asia advisor for US-based multinationals. As a principal investor, Ken acquired, expanded and successfully exited from an Asia regional food manufacturing company. Ken earned his MBA with high distinction from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and his BA in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Private equity investment executive and portfolio company CEO with 18 years' experience investing in Asian emerging markets.
Previously held roles in HR, recruiting, and as a Deployment Manager for EY supporting Assurance and Advisory services.
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development
- STRATEGIC ADVISOR / Private Equity Investment Executive With 20 Years' Experience in Direct and Fund Investments.
Private equity investment executive with 20+ years' experience in direct and fund investments.
Previously developed and executed the Asia Pacific investment strategy and business for Capital Dynamics; led investments of $1.3+ billion in Asia Pacific-focused private equity buyout, growth capital, venture capital, and special situations vehicles.
Markus serves as Director of Business Development and a Strategic Advisor to TAU. Markus has 20 years of private equity-related investment experience in direct and fund asset management business in Western Europe, Russia, Ukraine, and Asia Pacific.
Previously, Markus developed and executed the Asia Pacific investment strategy and business for Capital Dynamics, a global private equity asset manager. Markus was also responsible for new Asia Pacific product development for global institutional investors. At Capital Dynamics Markus led investments of over USD$1.3 billion in Asia Pacific private equity in buyout, growth capital, venture capital, and special situation situations managers. Previously, Markus worked for INVESCO Central Eastern Asset Management as an operating partner in Russian and Ukrainian private equity portfolio companies in consumer related businesses. Prior to INVESCO, he led the Moscow auditing and tax department of Puender Group (then Clifford Chance), Moscow. For the past two years Markus has been a strategic consultant for one of largest ‘Third Wave Coffee' concepts in the Philippines.
Niko Canner founded Incandescent in 2013, building on nearly twenty years as an advisor to leaders of many of the world's major companies.
Niko was co-founder and Managing Partner of the consulting firm Katzenbach Partners and then Senior Partner at Booz & Company following the sale of Katzenbach to Booz in 2009. Niko was most recently a member of the Management Committee of Bridgewater Associates.
Niko was named one of ten "new gurus" by Fortune magazine in November 2008, featured as a "rising star" in Fortune's 2009 "40 Under 40" issue, and named as one of the top twenty five in the consulting profession by Consulting Magazine in 2010.
Niko began his consulting career at McKinsey & Company, where he was a founding member of the McKinsey Change Center. He subsequently co-founded Mitchell Madison Group's Organization Practice. Niko is a co-founder and Director of Goodstone Group, a leading executive coaching firm; a founding investor and board member of Journelle, a lingerie retailer; and a Director of Sevident, an early-stage company applying nanotechnology to the diagnostics industry.
Niko earned an A.B. in economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard College and completed graduate work in philosophy at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He serves on the Advisory Council of Acumen. He initiated and co-leads China 2024, a twenty-year longitudinal study of the development of business leaders in China, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a member of the US-Japan Leadership Program.
Experienced entrepreneur, investor, and board member with a 15-year track record of building, developing, and operating sizeable global P&Ls via holding companies, consolidation plays, minority/JVs, subsector serial acquisitions, and startups.
20 years of investment experience; led, co-led, and participated in 50+ minority and control acquisitions in Europe, US, and Asia ranging from a few million to $1 billion.
Oliver is the founder of TAU and serves as Chairman & CEO. He also chairs the firm's Investment Committee. Prior to launching TAU, Oliver served as an Operating Partner at Advent International, a global private equity firm with over $32B assets under management, where he co-invested in Equiniti and served as a non-executive director from buyout in 2007 to IPO in 2015.
Concurrently, Oliver served as the CEO of DF King Worldwide, a global financial communications and stakeholder management firm he founded in 2007.
Job Titles:
- OPERATING PARTNER
- OPERATING PARTNER - GLOBAL SOURCING
Job Titles:
- HEAD of BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- Partner
30+ years' experience in Southeast Asian business development, deal origination, capital markets, and alternative investments.
Scott Clark is a partner at TAU and serves as Managing Director of Business Development, bringing over two decades of experience working with Southeast Asian entrepreneurs.
Formerly a Director of Barclays Private Bank in London, Scott had specific responsibility for SE Asia business-families undertaking liquidity events for generational businesses. Scott's focus was on providing succession solutions, which included originating solutions around growth equity, and with a team-based approach, looking for partnerships with incumbent investors that had a cultural-fit. With further focus on deal origination, Scott undertook roles in New York at Merrill Lynch International and Morgan Stanley. Scott's introduction to Alternative Investments started in London over 25 years ago, as Director of Limited Partner Sales, for European Hedge Fund Manager, and General Partner, Rudolf Wolff & Co Ltd.
Scott currently serves on the Board of Bream Tail Farm, a working farm in New Zealand using the principles of sustainable management, to oversee 675 acres of farmland and 459 acres of rare native forest. Scott attended Auckland University of Technology studying Business Administration.