Chester Aldridge

In addition to his role with Aelan, Chester is also the chairman and CEO of US Equity Holdings. Chester has more than twenty years of experience in founding, operating and financing businesses, from startups to multimillion-dollar publicly traded companies.

He has assembled world-class teams and helped raise more than $150 million of private equity for long-term financing of numerous ventures in the fields of entertainment, clean energy (solar and biofuels), Internet and publishing, among others.

Chester has also worked closely with his partners on licensing major Hollywood properties such as Frank Miller's Sin City and numerous Disney brands. He was responsible for securing sales and distribution rights worth tens of millions of dollars from partners including Sony, Atari and Vivendi Universal. His most recent projects are focused on biotechnology and biomedicine.

By working with scientists from research institutes and universities around the globe (NASA, the Buck Institute, Stanford and Fraunhofer), Chester is particularly experienced in understanding innovation-focused culture. This knowledge helps him provide the business and financial infrastructure for early-stage development of innovative products, treatments and technologies.