Social bio:: Have lived around - Los Angeles, Europe, Boston, Orange County - and travelled much. Presently, although I still drive up to L.A. to see friends and parents, I am finally feeling at home in the OC. Most weeknights, you can find me out with friends, at gym or yoga, reading in a cafe, strolling the beach, painting or sketching, sometimes working late at the office, at a friend's dinner party, watching a play, movie, exhibit, at a gala or social/charity event. Sense of humor, yes! I love to laugh - quick wit, sometimes wry - sometimes even at myself. I also have the integrity and self-confidence to unabashedly admit my fears - once revealed, I can enjoy life and progress. Travel as much as possible: exploring the Amozonas, horseback trekking through Patagonia, feeding wild dingos in Noosa Heads, getting lost at night in Tazmania, savoring St. Petersburg's white nights, sightseeing Angkor Wat,.... Grew up with an open mind to flavors, cultures, art, peoples, and porous borders. This exposure can be both uplifting and humbling. The more I experience, the more I want to share. Spent several years in Western Europe - so in my voice there is a noticeable yet untraceable accent. Undergrad was at UC Berkeley, studying economics along with the occasional rhetoric course; a pizza parlor put me through school and simultaneously expanded my appreciation for music to include everything from African pygmy rhythms to punk while still keeping my love for opera and the classics. Grad school was at MIT, in Cambridge, MA: still miss the Boston area and the great folks there. I love children, animals, and good people.

Professional bio:: Michael Ashley Schulman, CFA, is a Director/Senior Portfolio Manager at Hollencrest Capital Management. He has over 11 years of professional investment experience, a CFA designation, an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley. Michael has broad experience in top-down and bottom-up analysis from both the fundamental and quantitative perspective across a wide variety of financial instruments. He has consulted for the World Federation of Exchanges, the Colombian Financial Exchange, and several high-tech firms, and has presented at forums in Malaysia , Argentina and Spain . Michael began his professional career at Pacific Income Advisors in Santa Monica , California , where he was promoted to the position of Portfolio Manager, and managed fixed income and equities for companies, managed accounts, union pension funds, group trusts and high net worth clients. While at Pacific Income, Michael developed a real-time quantitative analysis system that allowed the firm to create new stock strategies and expand to $930 million in equities under management.

In 1998, Michael left Pacific Income to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his MBA. Directly prior to joining Hollencrest in 2005, Michael spent over three years at Deutsche Bank as Vice President, CDO / Quantitative Analysis Specialist. Within the community, Michael recently served as the Education and Career Planning Chair for the CFA Society of Orange County (CFAOC) and was recently elected CFAOC's Vice President for 2005/2006. Also, for the last three years, Michael has been an Event Committee member for the National Kidney Foundation's Great Chefs of Orange County annual fundraiser.