Sharon Amezcua

Sharon Amezcua is the Co-Founder of ESE Partners, LLC and ESE Fund Ltd., a future financial services company (and associated private equity fund) that builds and invests in emerging and established companies in targeted sectors across the world. She is also the Co-Founder of the technology transfer companies G3 and SSG LLC, both of which are owned and managed by women at the top of their fields, and were initially created to build companies in the US, Europe and the Middle East/North African regions. ESE, G3 and SSG focus on traditional industries converging with new technologies, particularly in hardware/software/media/telecommunications, healthcare, alternative energy and financial services.

Sharon has more than 30 years of experience in creating, operating, growing and exiting businesses profitably. She was previously Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and CEO of MCC Global NV, an old-style merchant bank, created in 1999, that she and her team built and took public on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 2006. Sharon developed a proprietary “de-risking” process for the 500+ emerging and established companies that MCC either created, invested in or assisted in developing. She also gained extensive fund management experience at MCC Global in her role as the Vice Chairman of Moore Clayton Capital Advisors, Inc. and Vice President of Equus II, MCC Global’s fund management company and its NYSE-listed fund, respectively.

Prior to establishing MCC Global, Sharon owned Presentations, an international strategic advisory firm. The firm specialized in working with senior executives to set strategy, formulate business planning and implement strategies for emerging and established companies such as New Energy, Inc., which grew from a start-up to a $1B revenue run rate in 18 months. It was sold to a large conglomerate and is still the largest deregulated energy services company in the US.

Prior to launching Presentations, Sharon was the International Vice President of Business Development for Dimax Controls Company, Inc., a multi-national energy engineering company based in Toronto, Ontario. Other positions early in Sharon’s career included: Director of Business Development for the financial services and commercial real estate industries at Johnson Controls, Inc., Sales Manager at Marriott’s Bay Point Resort, Director of Sales at TrimbleHouse Corporation and Account Manager/Private Banking at the First National Bank of Atlanta, which became Wachovia.

Sharon’s international leadership in strategy, management, business development, corporate finance and investment banking for emerging and established companies has produced (and continues to produce) sustainable competitive advantages, differentiated business models and significant returns for shareholders. Over the past ~30 years and in her role as investor, advisor, operator and/or Board Director for many American, Canadian, UK, European, Middle Eastern, African, Asian and New Zealand-based public and private companies, she has assisted in building and financing hundreds of companies.

In addition to serving on the Board of the BABC LA, Sharon continues to serve on the Board for many of the emerging and established companies she has been involved with, as well as charities related to entrepreneurship and young people, including NFTE LA (Network For Teach Entrepreneurship Los Angeles). A former ballerina, she has served on the Boards of ballet companies in the US and supports many causes related to the arts, including one of her passion projects: Dance For All, a South African charity that teaches classical ballet and African dance to less fortunate children while simultaneously educating and feeding children at the school. She is also a mentor for her alma mater, the University of Florida, in entrepreneurial and technology transfer programs.