Saeid Hamedanchi
Saeid has over thirty years of business experience and over eighteen years’ experience in the Financial Services industry (Brokerage, Asset management). Saeid has strong knowledge of financial services industry (Asset management) as well as Technology sector. His practice focuses on assisting companies seeking growth capital via private placements of equity or debt both in the US and overseas. Florentez Investment management has been involved in launch family of SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) and Smart Beta ETFs on the US exchanges. Prior to starting Florentez, he was a senior investment officer at the Treasury Department of Islamic Development Bank (a AAA rated multilateral financial institution based in Saudi Arabia). Prior to IDB, he worked in the financial services industry as a research analyst focusing on the technology sector for Credit Agricole Indosuez Securities in San Francisco. Saeid has published articles and spoken at various conferences on ETFs and Indices. Saeid holds an Executive MBA and MSBA (Finance) from the University of Southern California. Saeid was previously a member of the board of governors of the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts. Saeid holds Chartered Financial Analyst designation and FINRA series 7, 24, 66 & 79 registrations.