Matt Trusch is Director of Marketing & Investor Relations for Texas Regional Center, LLC. Matt worked in Asia for 15 years, first as an investment banker for Merrill Lynch Asia in Hong Kong and Singapore. Subsequently, Matt worked for over a decade based in Shanghai, as General Manager for Legziel Diamonds, an Israeli diamond wholesaler trading on the Shanghai Diamond Exchange, and as Chief Executive Officer for The Copper Group Asia, affiliated with the New York-based real estate group developing large-scale mixed-use projects in partnership with the City of Shanghai. Most recently, Matt founded the award-winning Asian spirit brand "byejoe" which is distributed in the US, in duty free, and in international markets including China. Matt received his B.A. magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and his M.A. from Harvard University.