Prominent Advisor to Financial institutions Joins Advisory Board of Leading Blockchain and Crypto Fund

Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — (via Blockchain WireAlpha Sigma Capital announced today that Alan J. Ginsberg joined its Board of Advisors.

Mr. Ginsberg has advised on more than 75 strategic transactions and advisory assignments totaling more than $100 billion during his tenure as an investment banker. Currently, he is advising numerous public and private companies on strategic initiatives.

Mr. Ginsberg is a Director of StoneCastle Financial Corp and of StoneCastle Trust Co, as well as, an Advisory Director of Yale’s Peabody Museum. Mr. Ginsberg received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Mr. Ginsberg has more than 35 years of experience in providing financial advisory services to financial institutions. His investment banking career began at Salomon Brothers in 1983, followed by being a key member of a team that moved to UBS in 1995 and to Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette in 1998. He remained at DLJ through the merger with Credit Suisse until 2004, when he was recruited to head HSBC’s Financial Institutions Group, remaining there until 2006. Following HSBC, Mr. Ginsberg was a senior member of the BankAmerica Financial Institutions Group, followed by Co-Heading the Banks and Specialty Finance team at Barclays.

Enzo Villani, CEO and Managing Partner commented, “As blockchain companies begin to look to the public equity markets for capital, scale and access to institutional investors, we engaged Alan to assist us in developing our public equities and markets strategy. Alan’s knowledge and experience of capital markets combined with recent engagements into the blockchain and cryptocurrency markets made it a perfect fit for the Alpha Sigma Capital team.”

“I am excited to be part of such a dynamic and experienced group of advisors and investment professionals who are operating at the top-levels of the blockchain economy.” said Alan Ginsberg.

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Daniel Siciliano

F. Daniel Siciliano is an Independent Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and Chair of the American Immigration Council. He is the former faculty director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and former Professor of the Practice and Associate Dean at Stanford Law School. His work has included expert testimony in front of both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives and for 2009, 2010, and 2011, alongside leading academics and business leaders such as Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman, and Carl Icahn, Professor Siciliano was named to the “Directorship 100” – a list of the most influential people in corporate governance.

Siciliano was also co-founder, CEO and ultimately Executive Chairman of LawLogix Group, Inc. – a global software technology company named 9 consecutive times to the Inc. 500/5000, several times ranked as one of the Top 100 fastest-growing private software companies in the US and named to the US Hispanic Business 500 (largest) and Hispanic Business 100 (fastest growing) lists for 2010 and 2011. In 2012 he sold a majority stake of the company to PNC Riverarch Capital, continued as Executive Chairman, and led the sale of the company to Hyland Software/Thoma Bravo in 2015.

Siciliano is a co-founder and board member of the Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange (SVDX), Chairman of the national non-partisan American Immigration Council, past-President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council #1057, and an active member of the Latino Corporate Directors’ Association.


Siciliano’s related areas of expertise include executive compensation, corporate compliance, the legal and social impact of autonomous (AI/robotic) systems, and corporate technology strategy and security. He has served as a governance consultant and trainer to the Board of Directors of dozens of Fortune 1000 companies (including Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Disney, Entergy and Applied Materials), is an angel investor and consultant to several firms and companies in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, India, and Latin America, and currently serves as an independent director on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. He lives in Los Altos, California.