Our Team

Prior to founding Ferghana, Hadley was a Senior Managing Director at MGG Investment Group with $6 billion in AUM. He served as the Head of Originations and Underwriting and was a member of the Investment Committee. He joined at inception and was the 2nd investment professional, leading a team of 27 investment professionals across the platform.

Prior to joining MGG, he worked at TPG Sixth Street Partners, a specialty finance firm where he sourced and evaluated credit opportunities from both a primary and secondary perspective, including distressed, recapitalizations, rescue financings, and other turnaround solutions. When he joined, TPG operated with approximately $6 billion in AUM, and he was the 12th investment professional hire at the time.

Previously he worked at Oaktree Capital Management, one of the leading credit firms in the US with approximately $50 billion in assets under management at the time. He also worked as an analyst at JPMorgan Securities, Inc. in the Syndicated and Leveraged Finance/Financial Sponsors Group.

Mr. Ma received his BA in Business Administration with a formal concentration in Finance from the University of Washington, Foster School of Business.

Richard Ni is a Senior Associate at Ferghana Investment Partners, where he supports investment origination, due diligence, and portfolio execution. As the first non-founder member of the investment team, he is responsible for financial modeling, transaction analysis, and managing third-party workstreams across the firm’s investments.

Prior to joining Ferghana, Richard was a Vice President in the Global Industrials Group at Jefferies where he worked with clients in the Business Services sector on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and restructuring transactions. There, he also led day-to-day deal execution on a range of founder-led and sponsor-backed transactions and helped build franchise initiatives focused on opportunity tracking, client coverage, and market mapping.

Richard began his career at Jefferies as an Analyst and advanced through Associate and Vice President roles. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors from the University of Chicago.

Charlie Waldburger is Head of Firm Development at Ferghana Investment Partners, where he helps shape firm operations and growth strategy. His work spans fundraising, investor relations, marketing, and go-to-market execution—integrating systems, people, and messaging as the firm scales.

Prior to Ferghana, Charlie led his own communications and GTM advisory company, helping technology companies, private equity funds, and venture-backed startups on communications, market positioning, and growth strategy.

Earlier in his career, he held strategy roles at Tableau Software and Microsoft and began his career in financial leadership with Washington Mutual (now JPMorgan Chase). Charlie earned his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration & Finance from the Carson College of Business at Washington State University and teaches Business Communications at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management.