Max Morgunov

Max is Chief Investment Officer at Oceanic Partners. Prior to Oceanic Partners, he worked in a related capacity at MicroVentures, being primarily responsible for managing the company’s due diligence and investment selection efforts. Prior to MicroVentures, Max was a founding member of a strategic consultancy executing international corporate development and commercial facilitation, as well as participating in various other commercials, analytical, and business development projects. Earlier, Max was engaged as an economic and venture development consultant, focused on economic strategy development for new industry clusters, industry cluster management, startup management consulting, and intellectual property commercialization strategies. Max’s earlier background derives from the hedge fund space, including work with Equity Management Associates, LLC, an equity long/short hedge fund based in Waltham, MA, and with SAC Capital Advisors, LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund operating from Stamford, CT. Max is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is a Member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute San Francisco Chapter. He holds a BA from Colgate University with concentrations in Philosophy and Japanese and has pursued studies at the Kyoto Institute for Culture and Language in Kyoto, Japan. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 66 licenses.