Chief Investment Officer & Co-Founder, HS Group

Michael Garrow is the CIO, Chairman of the Investment Committee, and Co-Founder of HS Group. Mr. Garrow has over 20 years’ experience in finance, based in Hong Kong and New York. His focus and training spans alternative investment fund seeding, direct co-investments, portfolio management and capital markets.

Prior to HS Group, Mr. Garrow was a founding member of Blackstone Strategic Alliance, and led Blackstone’s Asia co-investments and Asia fund-of-funds. Based in Hong Kong and New York with Blackstone, he led their global emerging manager portfolio program as well. Previously, Mr. Garrow advised internal macro, multi-strategy and equity hedge funds for the incubation program at SAIL Advisors, a large Hong Kong-based family office, as a member of its investment team. Mr. Garrow started his career as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York, and moved to its Global Capital Markets team in Hong Kong in 2002 as a member of its Greater China group.

Mr. Garrow graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and grew up in Toronto, Canada.