The people behind
the capital.
Timothy Witucki is a distinguished American entrepreneur, executive leader, and cross-border strategic consultant with over 30 years of experience building and scaling high-growth enterprises. Operating dynamically out of San Francisco and Hong Kong, Timothy's multifaceted career spans the financial services, private equity, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), AI technology, and healthcare verticals.
A seasoned 4X founder and CEO, Timothy has a proven track record of driving ventures from inception to highly successful strategic exits. His notable corporate achievements include founding Witucki Capital, as well as establishing, scaling, and successfully exiting Omada One, PayOmada, and the Madison Avenue Group (MAG) Agency—industry-leading platforms across knowledge process outsourcing, business processing, and fintech payment solutions.
Leveraging a formidable foundation as a former Wall Street banker, Timothy acts as a senior advisor and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) strategist. He provides high-level counsel on SMB structured finance, venture capital architecture, seed-stage capital raising, and international expansion frameworks. As an advisor on the prestigious Forbes Business Council and a respected author, Timothy is widely recognized as a thought leader at the intersection of operational excellence, digital transformation, and global scale.
Hacene Mezrag is an accomplished international finance and public policy executive with more than 25 years of leadership across multilateral institutions, sovereign governments, and global banking. His career sits at the intersection of macroeconomic policy, sovereign finance, and cross-border diplomacy, giving him a rare vantage point on how capital, governments, and international institutions intersect.
He currently serves as Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he oversees relationships with 46 member countries and advises on macroeconomic stability, sovereign finance, financial-sector reform, and economic development. In this role, he works closely with IMF executive leadership while coordinating policy, financial assistance, and strategic engagement with governments and international organizations. Beyond his IMF responsibilities, Hacene has served as a confidential advisor to French Presidents François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron, providing strategic counsel on economic and national policy matters.
Earlier in his career, he spent several years at Rothschild Bank, where he led regional procurement and third-party risk management initiatives, overseeing complex international sourcing, governance, regulatory compliance, and supplier management across Europe. His expertise spans international economic policy, sovereign finance and macroeconomics, IMF lending programs and technical assistance, government relations and diplomacy, European Union and multilateral institutions, and cross-border regulatory compliance. He holds an Executive MBA in Finance from London Business School and studied at Business School Europe in Paris.
Hacene brings exceptional insight into global economic policy, sovereign relationships, and international financial institutions. His experience working with governments, central banks, finance ministries, and multilateral organizations provides the firm with valuable perspective on geopolitical risk, public-private partnerships, infrastructure financing, and international expansion—complementing Witucki Capital's focus on cross-border investments, strategic advisory, and institutional relationships.
Andy Ward is a technology entrepreneur and growth strategist with 15 years of experience building and scaling ventures across North American and ASEAN markets. His expertise spans artificial intelligence, growth hacking, direct-to-consumer scaling, e-commerce infrastructure, fintech, augmented reality, emerging technologies, and commercialization strategy.
In 2011, Andy worked on a Facebook application connected to a military and veteran reintegration initiative, collaborating with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's office, a Brigadier General connected to the California Department of Veterans Affairs, and J.P. Tremblay at the California Department of Veterans Affairs. This early work gave him exposure to public-sector innovation, veteran support systems, defense-adjacent networks, and large-scale social technology deployment.
In 2016, Andy was recruited for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence opportunity with Singularity University, the exponential-technology ecosystem launched at NASA Research Park with backing from NASA and Google. He ultimately chose to build across Southeast Asia, gaining deep operational experience in ASEAN markets, sustainable agriculture, aquaculture, decentralized food systems, supply chain resilience, and infrastructure development.
Andy has also operated in regulated fintech environments, including the launch of 200,000 cryptocurrency wallets in 2017 with integrated KYC and AML compliance, underscoring his ability to scale emerging financial technologies within complex regulatory frameworks.
Andy's value proposition for PAX Silica centers on accelerating strategic growth, market positioning, commercialization, decentralized energy development, food security systems, AI-integrated logistics, and sovereign infrastructure adoption across emerging markets. He also understands the renewable energy transition and the next-generation power grid required to support AI, distributed compute, and industrial demand.
Andy has filed patents and worked on IP strategy with John A. Squires, now Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He maintains relationships across high-net-worth investor networks, politically connected circles, military and defense contacts, and senior legal/IP networks.