Tony Hsu
Founder / Chief Investment OfficerTony founded Alethea Capital Management, LLC in 2011 with fifteen years of equity, foreign-currency, and fixed-income trading and investment management experience.
As Founder and CIO, Tony is responsible for developing the strategic vision of the company as well as risk-management and optimization of portfolio assets on behalf of the firm’s clients. He began investing in technology start-ups since 2006 and has established the firm’s focus on early-stage venture opportunities in the biotech and health-tech sectors. Prior to founding Alethea, he served as a Portfolio Manager at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. overseeing $700+ million of client assets.
Tony also spent four years with UBS Financial Services, Inc. as Senior Vice President leading the top producing team in the San Diego region. Previously, from 1999 to 2005, he was employed with Deutsche Bank, managing the portfolios of middle-market institutions and corporate executives. He also worked closely with Deutsche Bank’s quantitative Global Momentum Group in London to build strategies for the firm’s clientele. Tony’s finance career began at Lehman Brothers in 1997 where he was a team member of the firm’s risk-arbitrage group managing in excess of $3 billion in Los Angeles following the company’s spinoff from American Express.
Tony holds a Bachelor of Arts Political Science degree with an emphasis in International Relations from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tony is the Co-Founder of Just In Time For Foster Youth, a leading nonprofit organization that’s been recognized for its significant contributions to San Diego’s emancipated foster youth population. He has seeded and serves on the Advisory Board of Find Ventures, a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) organization providing early-stage funding and equitable opportunity to entrepreneurs regardless of ethnicity, gender, ability, or sexual orientation. Tony served as Co-Chair of the Nonprofit Institute Advisory Board at the University of San Diego between 2012-2017 and currently serves on several private company boards. He splits his time between San Diego and Seattle where he resides with his wife and four children.