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Management Team
Paula Beroza | Advisor
Ms. Beroza has more than 25 years of experience in investment banking. She has originated, structured and marketed over $26 billion of new debt and equity issues of U.S. and international companies. She has raised more than $2 billion in financing and M&A transactions with Chinese companies, including some of mainland China's first international equity offerings.
Prior to founding Sierra Asia, Ms. Beroza spent 11 years at Merrill Lynch. During the mid-1990's, she was appointed head of Merrill Lynch's Greater China investment banking group, where Ms. Beroza completed the first international equity offering of a mainland Chinese company. During this period, Ms. Beroza structured and placed innovative Asian financial products, helped multinational firms obtain access to the Chinese market, and she was among the first to bring Chinese enterprises into the international capital markets. Her work included introducing government regulators and Chinese companies to foreign investor expectations, regulatory practices, transparency issues, after-market trading, and other aspects of foreign financial markets with which they had previously had limited contact.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Ms. Beroza worked in the High Yield Capital Markets and Private Placement divisions of Salomon Brothers, where she structured, arranged, negotiated and sold complex financings, leveraged products and loans to institutional investors. Prior to working at Salomon Brothers, Ms. Beroza spent five years with the Prudential Insurance Company of America, where she managed, negotiated and monitored a portfolio of private placements and participated in some of the first leveraged buyouts to be completed in the US market.
Ms. Beroza received her undergraduate degree in mathematics and her master's degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Beroza is based in San Francisco, California.
