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Michael Garrow is the Chief InvestmentOfficer and co-founder of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited, Chairman of theInvestment Committee, and co-founder and Director of the Investment Manager.Mr. Garrow is primarily responsible for the investment management activities ofHS Group (Hong Kong) Limited within the guidelines established by the board ofdirectors of the HS Group Ltd., of which he is a director and votingshareholder. Mr. Garrow has over 20 years’ experience in finance, primarilybased in Asia. He has extensive experience in alternative investment fundseeding, direct co-investments, portfolio management and capital markets.

Prior to forming HS Group, Mr. Garrow ledBlackstone’s Asian alternative fund program and invested on behalf ofBlackstone Strategic Alliance Funds, based in Hong Kong and New York. Inaddition to sourcing, diligencing and monitoring seed investments, he ledBlackstone’s global emerging manager program and had primary responsibility forsourcing co-investment opportunities in Asia. Previously, Mr. Garrow advisedinternal macro, multi-strategy and equity hedge funds for the incubationprogram at SAIL Advisors, a large Hong Kong-based family office, as a member ofits investment team. Mr. Garrow started his career at Morgan Stanley in NewYork, and moved to its Global Capital Markets team in Hong Kong in 2002 as amember of its Greater China group.

Mr. Garrow graduated magna cum laude fromBrown University with an Honors BA in Political Science and East Asian Studiesin 2000. He speaks and reads Mandarin fluently.