Gabriel Morris, Founder & Managing Partner, Alwaysraise LLC. Founded venture funded businesses globally. More than US$50 billion completed transactions, including life science financing and international mergers & acquisitions. Prior to founding Alwaysraise LLC, Mr. Morris was the Interim Chief Financial Officer of Zap Surgical where he completed an $81 million equity financing, and spent a decade leading cross-border mergers & acquisitions transactions at Goldman Sachs and other global investment banks. Mr. Morris is a graduate of Columbia University in the City of New York, and speaks, reads and writes fluent Mandarin Chinese. He is a private pilot & mountaineer.