- harvesting volatility in digital asset markets -

Crest Fund

Crest is a joint business of Willy Woo and CMCC Global. It has been created to harvest market inefficiencies and volatility in the crypto ecosystem through quantitative trading strategies. Crest is a Fund of quantitative trading hedge funds.

Crest is our Freedom Fund and invests with the prime premise never to have any drawdowns on an annual basis, while maximizing the upside.

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Our Leadership

A fast-growing group of technology and finance professionals in Hong Kong, Toronto, and Berlin.

Willy Woo

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Crest Fund
Willy was an early investor in Bitcoin since 2013 and has been labelled one of the most influential people in crypto by Fortune Magazine and a top 5 crypto analyst by CoinDesk. Willy is a serial entrepreneur with 21 years of experience in the emerging technology sector. His first venture, SnapperMail, put mobile email onto the first generation of smartphones and won majority marketshare and a rare rave review by Wall Street Journal’s tech guru, Walt Mossberg. His most recent business, “The Bitcoin Forecast”, is the industry’s most successful paid market intelligence letter.

Martin Baumann

Co-founder and Managing Partner
Previously, CFO at Nova Founders Capital, a global fintech investment firm and M&A banker in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Served on multiple boards of leading Fintech companies such as Hyphen Group, Coru Mexico and others. Business Administration and Finance masters diploma from Technical University Berlin.

Charlie Morris

Co-founder and Managing Partner
Previously CIO at a blockchain VC firm as well as Management Consultant in London. Software Engineer in Hong Kong, expert Blockchain Adviser for Chinese investment company, CLSA. Ethereum ICO investor in 2014. PPE degree from Oxford University.

Andrea Sorani

Chief Operating Officer
After 9 years at Morgan Stanley where Andrea was VP of Equity and OTC Derivatives Middle Office, Andrea spent 17 years as COO at several high-profile hedge funds in Singapore and Hong Kong. In his last role, he accompanied a hedge fund on the journey from its early stages at USD40m AUM to surpassing the billion USD assets under management mark. Andrea speaks English, Italian, Japanese and French.

Ronald Poon

Head of Institutional Sales
Prior to joining CMCC Global, Ronald was Executive Director and SFC licensed RO at a Hong Kong based investment manager. He kicked off his career as a financial consultant and institutional sales at Charles Schwab’s Hong Kong office. Ronald holds a Master of Science dual degree from HKUST and NYU Stern School of Business. He also holds a financial engineering and management degree from Stanford University.

Willy Woo

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Crest Fund





Willy was an early investor in Bitcoin since 2013 and has been labelled one of the most influential people in crypto by Fortune Magazine and a top 5 crypto analyst by CoinDesk. Willy is a serial entrepreneur with 21 years of experience in the emerging technology sector. His first venture, SnapperMail, put mobile email onto the first generation of smartphones and won majority marketshare and a rare rave review by Wall Street Journal’s tech guru, Walt Mossberg. His most recent business, “The Bitcoin Forecast”, is the industry’s most successful paid market intelligence letter.

Martin Baumann

Co-founder and Managing Partner




Previously, CFO at Nova Founders Capital, a global fintech investment firm and M&A banker in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Served on multiple boards of leading Fintech companies such as Hyphen Group, Coru Mexico and others. Business Administration and Finance masters diploma from Technical University Berlin.

Charlie Morris

Co-founder and Managing Partner




Previously CIO at a blockchain VC firm as well as Management Consultant in London. Software Engineer in Hong Kong, expert Blockchain Adviser for Chinese investment company, CLSA. Ethereum ICO investor in 2014. PPE degree from Oxford University.
Our People

Our People

Andreas de Vries

Investment Analyst

Crystal Ng

Finance and Operation Manager

Rohit Mittal

Investment Analyst

Candy Liu

Student Analyst

Arman Zhumakhan

Investment Analyst

Lindsay Shi

Student Analyst