CMCC Global is a leading investor in the blockchain ecosystem, now with offices in North America and Asia.
Our Story & Team
Our origins
CMCC Global was founded in 2016 and is one of Asia’s first venture capital companies focused solely on blockchain investments.
Today we offer three different investment products and have offices in Asia and North America. Our team has a mixture of deep technical and business experience.
At CMCC Global we believe that blockchain technology is bringing about the next era of the Internet, which will facilitate the movement of value rather than just data and information. We believe that value will accrue in different areas of the blockchain ecosystem and we offer investors exposure to different aspects of this frontier technology.
Being a global company, we are conscious of the regional disparities in blockchain platforms and believe that the speed of adoption will vary geographically. We look for teams with a clear path to adoption and we leverage global relationships to help our portfolio companies bridge the East-West divide.
Different investment products, accessible to professional investors only.
Our roadmap
The team
A fast-growing group of technology and finance professionals in Hong Kong and Toronto.
Our leadership
Martin Baumann
Previously, CFO at Nova Founders Capital, a global fintech investment firm and M&A banker in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Served on multiple boards of leading Fintech companies such as Hyphen Group, Coru Mexico and others. Business Administration and Finance masters diploma from Technical University Berlin.
Charlie Morris
Previously CIO at a blockchain VC firm as well as Management Consultant in London. Software Engineer in Hong Kong, expert Blockchain Adviser for Chinese investment company, CLSA. Ethereum ICO investor in 2014. PPE degree from Oxford University.
Andrea Sorani
After 9 years at Morgan Stanley where Andrea was VP of Equity and OTC Derivatives Middle Office, Andrea spent 17 years as COO at several high-profile hedge funds in Singapore and Hong Kong. In his last role, he accompanied a hedge fund on the journey from its early stages at USD40m AUM to surpassing the billion USD assets under management mark. Andrea speaks English, Italian, Japanese and French.
Glenn Stewart
Glenn started his career at Morgan Stanley in Australia where he worked in equity capital markets. Remaining with Morgan Stanley, Glenn moved to Hong Kong in 2012 where he became a Vice President focused on structuring bespoke equity products for private equity clients. From there, he joined a blockchain startup that was offering environmental financial products to institutional clients. Most recently, Glenn was an executive director at Goldman Sachs working in the investment banking division.
Willy Woo
Willy was an early investor in Bitcoin since 2013 and has been labelled one of the most influential people in crypto by Fortune Magazine and a top 5 crypto analyst by CoinDesk. Willy is a serial entrepreneur with 21 years of experience in the emerging technology sector. His first venture, SnapperMail, put mobile email onto the first generation of smartphones and won majority marketshare and a rare rave review by Wall Street Journal’s tech guru, Walt Mossberg. His most recent business, “The Bitcoin Forecast”, is the industry’s most successful paid market intelligence letter.
He is founding father of on-chain analysis, a new field unique to digital assets, which can predict price movements by reading investor behaviour as seen on digital asset blockchains. Willy has wide recognition in the industry for his insights into the crypto market. 1 million crypto investors follow his voice on Twitter.
Shiau Sin Yen
In the past years, Yen gained significant deal execution experience as Head of Strategic Investments at Block.one, one of the largest and best capitalised blockchain firms globally. Prior to that Yen was co-founder and CIO of a Tech VC fund run within Chinese investment group CLSA. He kicked off his career as an M&A investment banker with UBS in New York and Hong Kong. Yen holds an MBA from Cornell University.
Ronald Poon
Prior to joining CMCC Global, Ronald was Executive Director and SFC licensed RO at a Hong Kong based investment manager. He kicked off his career as a financial consultant and institutional sales at Charles Schwab’s Hong Kong office. Ronald holds a Master of Science dual degree from HKUST and NYU Stern School of Business. He also holds a financial engineering and management degree from Stanford University.
Our people
