Meet the Sophon Research Team

A bit on our backgrounds

Franco Chomnalez

Franco is based in California and previously worked at ARS Capital Partners ($1.6B AUM) - where he divided his time between a long-only, thematic fund as well as the platform’s affiliate long/short hedge fund, Papyrus Capital. He worked under Ross Taylor III (ex-Caxton Associates) and Nitin Sacheti (ex-Cobalt Capital, Tiger Europe Management). He also served as a consultant for Tekne Capital, a global TMT long/short hedge fund founded by Beeneet Kothari (ex-Duquesne Capital). He began his career at Bain & Company, as a strategy consultant. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Andrew He

Andrew is based in Chicago. He boasts years of experience in corporate development roles at Deloitte, OppFi, and Libra Solutions. At these companies, he evaluated M&A opportunities & capital raising initiatives, and led quarterly/annual strategic planning cycles. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.