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Prior to Baytree Capital Mr. Cicogna was a partner at the Zanett Group in New York where he co-founded the successful Zanett Lombardier hedge fund that invested in early stage public companies. The Fund invested in over 60 transactions and generated IRR's in excess of 35%. Prior to Zanett he co-founded Casco Track Limited, a boutique investment bank based in Hong Kong that represented clients in over $600m of cross border M&A transactions. Whilst at Casco Track Mr. Cicogna and his partners invested in telecoms transactions across Asia, including launching Cavite Cable Corporation, the first fiber optic cable TV business in the Philippines. Mr. Cicogna was a founding partner in Orion Telecom Corporation, the largest independent telecommunications service provider in South Africa with annual revenues over $100m and Southern Farms, South Africa's premier table grape production and export company. Mr. Cicogna graduated from Buckingham University in Economics (with Honors). | 