Carlo Zola is an investment professional with over 19 years of active experience in the financial markets. Mr. Zola is Italian and holds a BA in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he graduated Summa cum Laude in 2002 and a Master’s degree in management from CEMS, the Community of European Management Schools which he attended at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Zola started his professional career in 2002 as a research analyst at Intermonte SIM in Milan, the leading independent Italian investment bank. In 2004, Mr. Zola started working at the largest fund management company in the world with over $2 trillion under management, Capital Group, where he held positions as analyst and portfolio manager in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and London. Over 14 years at Capital Group, Mr. Zola successfully managed assets with responsibilities in global and income mandates as well as more focused mandates in Media, Metals and Mining, Chemicals and Real Estate (REITs). During the last 3 years at Capital, Mr. Zola also served as Research Portfolio Coordinator (RPC) overseeing investments by a team of over 20 analysts for one of its Growth and Income funds. An early investor in crypto currencies, Mr. Zola left Capital Group in 2018 and has been a founding partner at Paladin Trust – a leading Trust and Custodian business dedicated to the crypto markets founded in 2018 – and at Percival Ventures – an investment firm based in Puerto Rico focused on early stage blockchain investments and crypto currencies. Mr. Zola has been involved with Atlas Capital Team Inc. since early 2020 and joined the company full time as Portfolio Manager in January 2021. Mr. Zola is fluent in English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.