The Principal
and the Desk

Alan Rios has spent a decade on the execution side of capital markets and alternative investments. As Chief Investment Officer and Head of Capital Markets for a specialty finance platform, he built the capital markets and investor relations function from zero: the investor narrative and deck, the investor website and portal, the data rooms, the communications program of newsletters, webinars and investor dinners, and the teams that ran them, with strategy set alongside the C-suite. He led more than $100 million in transactions across debt and equity: warehouse facilities, forward flow structures and preferred equity in the ABS market, along with the infrastructure for future securitizations.

Before that he served as Vice President in Citi's North America Family Office Group, where he led more than $150 million in mandate wins across investments, banking and lending, and the group's coverage model carried raises from Series B rounds to project financings above $1.2 billion.

He serves on various AI start-up advisory boards and is also head of capital strategy for the single-family office House of Vanderbilt. Alan spends his time between Connecticut and New York while maintaining his roots in Texas.

Ryan Ngo-Phan supports research, analysis and client deliverables at Æther Capital Studio, working across ideal client profile development, market research and client-facing materials for the firm's private equity and family office engagements. He is pursuing a degree in Finance at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, Class of 2028.