Chris Umscheid focuses on manager origination and business development.

Prior to joining Stuart Portfolio Consultants, Chris spent over a decade at Deutsche Bank where he led the research effort for the Hedge Fund Advisory Group within Deutsche Asset Management. The Hedge Fund Advisory Group provided global institutional investors with bespoke and fund based solutions across liquid alternatives, alternative risk premia, UCITS, hedge funds and niche and private credit strategies.

Before Deutsche Bank, Chris worked as a Fund of Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager for the Wafra Investment Advisory Group. Earlier, he was a Portfolio Manager and Director of Research for Yankee advisers, LLC and a Senior Analyst at Phoenix Advisers Inc.

Chris earned an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College and began his career as a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Bill Anawaty serves as Stuart Portfolio Consultant’s liaison to Asian and other global institutional investors. His early experience with Asian investors arose from his service at the US Treasury Department HQ in Washington DC as an international lawyer; Director of Special Programs for the Under-Secretary for Monetary Affairs; and Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary, in which capacities he traveled regularly to Asian countries, especially Japan.

In the private sector, as Founder/President of Anari Inc., www.anari-invest.com Bill has brought Asian institutional capital to US and other Western investment managers and asset owners since the 1990’s – significantly in direct real estate, REITS, M&A, infrastructure, private equity, and private credit; and to a lesser extent in venture capital and M&A in the mid-market insurance sector.

For global institutional investors, he regularly conducts macro-strategic investor trips to Asia, Europe, and Latin America. These high-level, small-group exploratory trips are useful for asset allocation, risk assessment, strategic planning and due diligence; and enable Anawaty to keep abreast of the latest interests, needs, and preferences of institutional investors around the world.

A native of Houston, Texas, Bill is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. International Relations) and the University of Texas Law School (J.D.). He spends more than half of each year in Asia.

Mike Welsome is the founder and CEO of Welsome Capital Advisors, a financial consulting firm.  Before founding WCA, Mike finished up a distinguished career with the NYPD serving as the Executive Director of the NYC Police Pension Fund where he was responsible for the administration of its $24 billion dollar fund with over 80,000 active and retired members. The PPF had an annual budget of seventeen million dollars and a staff of 150 professional and administrative employees.  

Welsome was appointed to the New York City Police Department in November 1979 and began his career as a Police Officer in the Midtown South Precinct in Manhattan. His subsequent assignments included numerous commands, predominately in Manhattan, with promotions to Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain. In 1998, he was promoted to Deputy Inspector and one year later as the Commanding Officer of the Pension Section. In November of 2001, Mr. Welsome was promoted to Inspector and placed on leave from the NYPD to serve as the first Executive Director of the NYC Police Pension Fund. Welsome retired on July 31, 2007 to open up a financial consulting firm.

Welsome holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from St. Francis College. In addition, he is a graduate of the Police Management Institute at Columbia University, as well as the Pension Management and Investments Program at the Wharton School of Business. He has been married to his wife Lorraine for 40 years and they have three children Michael, Steven and Lisa.

Chau has extensive investment management experience as both a Limited Partner and a General Partner, having worked in a variety of strategies including ventures, buyouts, mezzanine, private debt, hedge funds and fund of funds.

Prior to joining Stuart Portfolio Consultants, Chau was Managing Director at Nile Capital Group Holdings. Previous roles include Partner at Bennu Venture Group, LLC., and Partner at Progress Investment Management Co., LLC. Prior to Progress, Chau was co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Institutional Sales at MultiTrade Securities, LLC., an electronic trading platform representing Bloomberg Tradebook in selected markets. Before founding MultiTrade, she was Managing Director at National Mutual Funds Management Co. (an AXA company). Previously, she was Head of Public Funds Marketing at Citibank Global Asset Management. Chau began her career in the investment management industry as Head of Institutional Sales at Clemente Capital, Inc.

Chau received an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business and a BA from Wellesley College. Vietnamese born, she was raised in Switzerland and France. Chau is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese. She is a member of PE WIN (Private Equity Women’s Investor Network), a by-invitation-only global organization comprised of top women in private equity.

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