Daniel Ades is a principal, main shareholder and founder of Kawa Capital Management. Since inception of the firm he has had the primary responsibility for origination, fund raising, and oversight of Kawa's investment products, currently managing close to $600 million in assets. Daniel is the principal portfolio manager of the Kawa's flagship vehicle, a Global Macro Hedge Fund with over $300 million in assets with a focus on asset backed securities, esoteric credit in general and turnaround situations in fixed income. In addition to his role with the Kawa Fund, Daniel was also responsible for launching several special purpose vehicles, including a long-biased fixed income fund in 2009 , several real estate SPVs and more recently Private Equity investments. Currently, Daniel also serves on the advisory group to the Investment Manager's joint ventures, including BridgeInvest (commercial mortgages) and Adler Kawa Real Estate Advisors (Private-equity Real Estate).

Felipe has been with Kawa Capital since inception in September 2007. He currently serves as its Director of Operations and Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to Kawa, Felipe worked with European and Latin American investors in the South Florida real estate market, becoming a specialist in commercial and residential real estate lending. In 2003, Felipe founded Caravelas Cigar, a premium cigar manufacturer in Brazil, which was successfully sold in 2005. Prior experience includes business development positions at Brand Institute, where he expanded the firm’s presence in Latin America and Europe. While at Brand Institute, Felipe was also responsible for project management and worked with several new product launches in the pharmaceutical and consumer products area.

Alexandre joined Daniel as a partner at Kawa Capital, where he acts as Portfolio Manager and Director of Technology. From 2005 to 2007, Alexandre was at Horn Eichenwald Investments as the Head of Software Development. There he led a team to develop an asset management software platform and explored automated computer based trading models. Prior to Horn Eichenwald, Alexandre was at Motorola's Multimedia Messaging team as a senior developer, where he helped to successfully launch Motorola's multimedia messaging platform to over 60 million Verizon and US Cellular subscribers.

Luciano joined Kawa in May 2011, as its Director of Marketing and Investor Relations. Luciano’s background includes 14 years of experience in strategic marketing and business consulting across the Latin American market. Prior to Kawa, he worked for 5 years at Microsoft Corporation, 2 years of which he spent in Brazil managing the local channel's marketing strategy before being relocated to South Florida to lead the Microsoft Business Solutions marketing efforts for the Latin America region, a position he held for 3 years. Before that, Luciano worked for various business consultant companies such as IBM, Accenture and Andersen Consulting, participating in diverse projects across different industries. His areas of focus included change management, process design and solution system implementation.