Saul Aaron Singer – President & CEO
Singer founded Living Space Labs in 2007 in San Francisco, CA. Singer recently returned to architecture after spending ten years in interactive technologies and strategic business consulting. Aaron founded the adhoc Group in 1991 in San Diego focusing on the development of strategic interactive business solutions at the dawn of the .com age for Fortune 100 companies such as America Online, Disney, the Gap, Toyota Lexus, and Nike. Singer merged adhoc in 1998 with Proxicom, Inc. and the combined company went public in 1999, achieving a market-capitalization of over $1 billion.
Singer went on to found two non-profit foundations, the Just Think Foundation and the Blue Yonder Foundation, both focused on different aspects of encouraging innovation in education for young people. Singer is currently leading a non-profit effort to build a Crissy Field Aviation Museum in San Francisco’s historic Presidio. Singer has also served on the boards or as an advisor/fund-raiser of several not-for-profits, including the Nature Conservancy, Lighthawk, and the Kimya Animal Sanctuary. In 2004, Singer returned to academia to earn his Masters in Architecture and his LEED AP certification. Aaron founded Living Space Labs to bring his entrepreneurial and technological experience to help spark the next generation in green technologies.
Patrick Ascaso – CFO
Ascaso was CFO and a partner of Eastbourne Capital Management, a spin-off hedge fund from Robertson Stephens that grew from an initial $1.5 million dollars to over $3.5 billion dollars under management in a few short years. Patrick is a native of Paris, France, but has lived most of his life in the United States and recently in the Bay Area. Patrick has over 10 years management experience in hedge funds. Patrick and Eastbourne grew substantially through a clear and pragmatic investment strategy focused on technology companies driving innovation in the emergence of the networked Information and Internet Age.
Ascaso and Singer formed Living Space Labs, a green technologies investment research group, in 2007. LSL became deeply involved in building energy-efficiency technologies, renewable energy projects, and the emerging environmental commodities markets through helping broker deals between promising startup companies and investment capital banks and funds. |