Contact Brian:

As one of the company's founders, Managing Partner, and CEO Brian’s responsibilities include developing and implementing high-level strategies, making major corporate decisions, managing the overall operations and resources of a company, and acting as the main point of communication between the global management team. Brian also heads the underwriting and investment committee.

Since inception Brian has designed ICG's trading platforms, credit and hedging instruments, investment philosophy, and transaction partnerships.

Brian has facilitated hundreds of investment transactions around the globe and is a leading expert on corporate structure, finance and share management for global small cap issues. His key relationships coupled with his knowledge of innovative hedging strategies are providing powerful managed portfolio risk analysis and broadening the scope of financing and investment decisions available to ICG's global clients.

Prior to ICG, Brian was a leading investment banker and head of the Chicago branch of ACAP Financial, a boutique investment firm. ACAP specialized in debt and equity financing of small and micro-cap securities and high net-worth individual asset management with a focus on alternative investments.

Brian graduated from Illinois State University with degrees in Finance & Business Administration and currently resides just outside of Chicago with his wife and children.

Contact Larry:

As one of the company’s founders and Managing Partner, Larry helped to establish ICG as first among structured securities financing institutions. Larry currently manages the day-to-day business operations, strategic partnership development, and oversees the high-level global network channel. Larry is also a member of the underwriting and investment committee.

Prior to launching ICG, Larry was Director of Business Development for a private equity firm specialized in asset-backed lending for small and mid-cap companies worldwide. Larry began his financial career at Fidelity Finance, a residential and commercial real-estate firm specializing in real-estate acquisitions and mortgage banking. Since the mid-1990s, Larry has been focused on direct marketing, sales channel and customer relationship management, communications, and various operational functions.

Larry resides with his family outside Indianapolis, Indiana.

Contact George:

As President, George's responsibilities include the day-to-day operations in Hong Kong and Seoul as well as developing high-level strategies designed specifically for Asian markets. George oversees the global trading platform and all credit facilities along with developing customized hedging solutions and products. George also serves on the underwriting and investment committee.

As a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong, George has more than 20 years experience in accounting, audit and taxation. Before starting his own practice, he spent eight years with KPMG in Hong Kong, during which time he was the in-house specialist for the retail and banking verticals. He has also assisted numerous PRC corporations in both IPO and pre-IPO financings.

George is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Company Secretaries and resides in Hong Kong with his wife.

Contact Tom:

Thomas is the Chief Compliance Officer for International Capital Group. He is an experienced financial service professional who currently advises on complex strategic, regulatory and compliance issues. Thomas is focused on BSA, FSA, SEC, FINRA, and Dodd-Frank regulatory issues. Prior to working with ICG Thomas was a commodity and equity trader with more than 20 years of pit and screen experience managing risk and portfolios. Thomas has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, Exchange, and other exchanges for several proprietary trading firms. A specialist in options, futures, equities, and risk management, Thomas has managed traders, established a broker-dealer joint back office, developed a fully integrated proprietary trading operations and served as an anti-money laundering officer.

Thomas received the Certified Regulatory Compliance Professional (CRCP) certificate from FINRA through The University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Loyola University Chicago. He is an approved securities industry arbitrator for FINRA Dispute Resolution’s Arbitration Program and he currently holds a Series 3 License.

Contact Michael:

As Chief Business Development Officer Michael has a broad and comprehensive knowledge of all matters related to the business of the organization with an eye towards identifying new sales prospects and driving business growth and requirements for global product development that is coordinated with R&D functions. His core focus is to elaborate business development plans, design, and implement processes to support ICG’s global lending platform. Michael has helped build and maintain high-level contacts with current and prospective partners.

Previous to ICG Michael worked as a financial representative at Northwestern Mutual. During his tenure there, he achieved the company’s Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum performance awards. He also achieved membership into the Million Dollar Round Table, founded in 1927 and the industry’s premier association of financial professionals.

Contact Casey:

As Vice President of Trading & Compliance, Casey is responsible for leading a team of institutional clients structuring debt instruments geared to the small and micro cap companies and works with various legal and compliance partners to assure ICG is compliant with ever changing securities regulation. Casey also is a member of the underwriting committee and investment committee.

Before joining ICG, Casey worked as an Investment Banker for a boutique investment-banking firm where he developed a network and managed accounts of high net worth individuals and institutional clients.

Casey has been involved in the securities industry for 7 years and currently holds a series 7 and 63. He graduated from Illinois State University with a degree in finance and insurance and resides outside of Chicago with his wife and son.

Contact Jennifer:

Jennifer is responsible for oversight of corporate finances and reports to ICG managing partners. Jennifer is also responsible for all financial reporting, general accounting, audits and corporate funds.

Jennifer began her career with KPMG Peat Marwick, accumulating invaluable experience working directly with Fortune 500 clients in the financial services arena. Subsequently, she has been part of the financial teams for some of Chicago's wealthiest and most successful business people including Sam Zell (Equity Group Investments) and the Pritzkers (The Pritzker Group). Jennifer has a diverse industry background, providing controllerships for multi-national companies headquartered in the Chicagoland area. She has had the pleasure of helping a number of businesses implement and develop strong financial infrastructures, especially during operational expansion and growth.

As a certified public accountant with a specialization in taxes, Jennifer has also founded and operated a thriving tax practice while offering business consulting services to small business entrepreneurs.

With a bachelor's degree in Public Accounting from Loyola University, she has also studied music performance at Indiana University (Bloomington). As an active animal rights advocate, she volunteers her time with local shelters and the ASPCA, working to provide education and training for anyone who cares for animals. She is an avid supporter of Noah's Wish, an animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to rescuing and sheltering animals in disasters.

Contact Issac:

As Senior Vice President, Issac leads and oversees all operations, accounting and administration at ICG's Hong Kong office. He is also the point person for all servicing efforts.

Issac has worked at a range of small- and medium-sized firms in greater China, and has +10 years of experience in finance, operations and accounting. Prior to joining ICG Asia, he was finance manager for the Hong Kong arm of a Chinese lending company. In that role, he served as the liaison between borrowers and the lender, controlled and operated loan procedures and oversaw collections.

Issac lives in Hong Kong with his wife and daughter and enjoys basketball, soccer and music.

Contact Tae-Hyun Cho:

Tae-Hyun has previously served on the executive management of public companies on both the Korean KOSPI (Trigem Computers Inc.) and American NASDAQ (Thrunet). His management of these companies included mergers, acquisitions and also debt financing for public & private companies. His experience spans industries including telecommunications, media and technology. Additionally, Tae-Hyun is also adept with financial transactions spanning Australia, Korea and United States. The relationships across these industries and within these continents gives Tae-Hyun a pool of assets to bring to ICG's growth across Asia Pacific. Tae-Hyun graduated with a BA from University of New South Wales (Major Logic), and is currently completing his CFA certification.

Contact Michael:

As Vice President, Korea, Michael maintains ICG's relationships with brokers throughout Seoul. Most recently, he has worked with brokers to establish a retail network and inform them on ICG's lending model and its application in retail.

Michael has 20 years experience in the trading industry, and specializes in finance and operations.

Michael enjoys basketball, snooker (cue sport) and music.

Contact Chloe:

As Senior Vice President, Finance & Accounting, Chloe manages a team of seven people and is responsible for cash flow planning and protecting the company's assets. She also works closely with the Finance and Accounting Departments of ICG in the Asia Region and reports directly to the main headquarters in Chicago. Chloe is actively involved in many different ad hoc projects related to different loan structures and logistics in various currencies.

Chloe obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master’s degree in professional accounting. She is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Chloe has more than ten years' experience in accounting, administration and finance sectors for listed and private companies in Hong Kong and PRC.

Contact Kitty:

As Vice President, Loans & Compliance, Kitty administers the overall loan portfolio and, in conjunction with three staff members, monitors the position of each individual loan. Kitty also works closely with Settlement, Trading and Finance to ensure the compliance requirements of each country are met and ICG's assets are protected.

Kitty has maintained exceptional knowledge in the financial sector serving several years in the consumer banking and account industry. Prior to ICG, she worked at Hang Seng Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), as well as FMCG Company.