CIO and Co-founder, HS Group
Michael Garrow is the Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited, Chairman of the Investment Committee, and co-founder and Director of the Investment Manager. Mr. Garrow is primarily responsible for the investment management activities of HS Group (Hong Kong) Limited within the guidelines established by the board of directors of the HS Group Ltd., of which he is a director and voting shareholder. Mr. Garrow has over 20 years’ experience in finance, primarily based in Asia. He has extensive experience in alternative investment fund seeding, direct co-investments, portfolio management and capital markets.
Prior to forming HS Group, Mr. Garrow led Blackstone’s Asian alternative fund program and invested on behalf of Blackstone Strategic Alliance Funds, based in Hong Kong and New York. In addition to sourcing, diligencing and monitoring seed investments, he led Blackstone’s global emerging manager program and had primary responsibility for sourcing co-investment opportunities in Asia. 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 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 with an Honors BA in Political Science and East Asian Studies in 2000. He speaks and reads Mandarin fluently.