Sanford J. Selman, Managing Director
Sandy Selman is a highly experienced financial executive with deep domain experience in technology and innovation. He co-founded and manages the TMC Emerging Technology Fund LP, an early-stage fintech venture capital fund focused on the mortgage sector. Mr. Selman has several technology start-ups to his credit, including CPROP which developed a digital asset security exchange for commercial real estate-backed security tokens. The benefits of this exchange include democratization, improved liquidity, improved transaction speed and reduced costs – all with the utmost level of cyber and transaction security.
Mr. Selman previously founded the Asia West Environment Fund LP, an early-stage venture capital fund with a unique focus on investing in privately-held companies in North America and Europe possessing proprietary technology that is commercially and environmentally relevant to China and India. Over a 9 year period, Mr. Selman’s portfolio companies endured the difficult transition of scaling their businesses from bench-scale technology “experiments” to viable global enterprises. As Chairman of three of his portfolio companies, Mr. Selman guided his management teams over an often bumpy road to cash flow breakeven and beyond. Managing these transitions required Mr. Selman to assume operational control as CEO during particularly challenging times to design and execute a turnaround or restructuring of the business.
Prior to Asia West, during his industrial and investment banking career, Mr. Selman specialized in developing and financing a diverse range of industrial and infrastructure projects with a particular focus on energy and the environmental projects. He arranged approximately $1.5 billion in project, trade and lease financing serving as financial advisor to governments and private sector clients in North America, Latin America, China, Indian sub-continent and Eastern Europe.
Mr. Selman holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (with Distinction) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Vik Sasi, Venture Partner
Vik is a seasoned venture capitalist and serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Manhattan West, a wealth management and alternatives investment firm. Mr. Sasi was formerly a Partner at Dreamers, an early-stage, generalist fund co-founded by actor Will Smith and athlete Keisuke Honda, and backed by an all-Japanese corporate LP base. Vik co-launched the firm’s first fund, which made more than 70 investments across a number of sectors in high-profile, Tier 1-led deals. Prior to Dreamers, Vik was an investor at AmFam Ventures, a $350m insurtech & fintech venture fund where he captained their agtech, mobility and blockchain/crypto practice. As a result of his collective transaction experience, Vik was invited to be the Chief Instructor of Venture Capital at Wall Street Oasis.
Prior to his MBA, Vik served as a Strategic Advisor to the Ministry of Health in Haiti and as an Analyst at the Clinton Foundation, positions in which he was trusted to represent the government to foreign embassies and development agencies, lead teams conducting highly technical scientific projects and find solutions to contain the spread of HIV and cholera in a post-disaster context.
Prior to his MBA, Vik served as a Strategic Advisor to the Ministry of Health in Haiti and as an Analyst at the Clinton Foundation, positions in which he was trusted to represent the government to foreign embassies and development agencies, lead teams conducting highly technical scientific projects and find solutions to contain the spread of HIV and cholera in a post-disaster context.
Vik is a former Wisconsin state chess champion, licensed FAA Private Pilot and speaks French, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
Vik graduated from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business with an MBA and Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and a Minor in Spanish.
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