Adam Sweidan graduated from Northwestern University in 1993 with a BA in History. In 1994, he was conceptually instrumental in creating Aurum Fund Management Ltd., a Bermuda based investment firm specializing in multi-manager portfolios. Adam is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Aurum Fund Management Ltd. In this role, he advises risk strategy, manager selection and global asset allocation.
Adam has been fascinated by the alchemical properties of the Hedge Fund industry and also has a deep concern for the state of the planet. Synchronicity is his attempt at bringing these two realms together in, hopefully, a positive and holistic way.
Jessica Sweidan graduated in 1993 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA with a BA in Philosophy, and a concentration in Art. After graduating she worked as the Program Director for Art Horizons International, a company that organized educational art tours and programs for special-interest groups. In 1995 Adam Sweidan asked her to join him in creating an organization that would both invest in the financial markets and philanthropically in the world. Her role would be to oversee the investments in the philanthropic realm. Since then she has been completely dedicated to The Synchronicity Foundation and all of its endeavors around the world.
Ken De Bevoise has degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), the University of California Hastings College of the Law (J.D.), and the University of Oregon (Ph.D.). He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand and later was a labor law attorney in Guam and San Francisco. Subsequently, he lived in Chile, China, and the Philippines. He is currently a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He is the author of Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines (Princeton University Press, 1995).