Mazen Jabban

Mazen Jabban is a New York–based investment-management entrepreneur whose career spans hedge funds, fund-of-funds, and financial technology. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (1978) and an M.B.A. in Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business (1981). Before entering asset management, he worked in real estate development and investment, and founded a management-consulting and information-systems company.

In 1994 he founded Focus Investment Group, a global alternative-investment/hedge-fund organization whose internal technology became the predecessor of what is now the Vidrio platform. He expanded this franchise with Focus Europa (1997), one of the oldest European-focused fund-of-hedge-funds, and the Focus Star Fund (2000), a hedge-fund seeding program that identified and backed emerging managers — effectively an early-stage/seed investing vehicle within the hedge-fund world.

In 2011 (some sources cite 2008 for the underlying research business) he founded Vidrio Financial, where he serves as Founder, Chairman & CEO. Vidrio provides a "managed-technology" platform combining software and analyst services for institutional allocators to hedge funds and alternatives; Jabban sets the firm's strategic direction and product roadmap.

Alongside his firms, Jabban is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, where he lectures on alternative investments. His faculty listing at NYU identifies him as "Chairman and CEO, Focus Investment Group," which is consistent with the focusg.com contact domain in the known stub data.

• Core discipline is alternative investments and hedge funds — allocating to, seeding, and monitoring fund managers rather than classic startup venture betting.
• Through the Focus Star Fund he ran a "seeding" model: identifying emerging/early-stage hedge-fund managers and providing them with capital and infrastructure — the closest analog to his "seed round / angel" classification.
• Via Vidrio Financial, his stated view centers on allocator innovation and not "delegating away" the investment/technology edge — the theme of his "Improving Alpha" podcast appearance on the dangers of outsourcing allocator innovation.
• Investment sensibility is institutional, data- and technology-driven, reflecting his engineering background and his firms' roots in building proprietary allocation/monitoring technology.
• Any angel-style activity is best framed as fintech and alternative-investment adjacent, aligned with his own domain expertise, rather than broad consumer or deep-tech startups.