Who we are

Aaron De Haven is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Haven Capital Advisors, where he designs and oversees the firm's income-oriented targeted liquidity strategies. With nearly two decades of experience building and operating businesses across asset, risk, and investment management, Aaron specializes in constructing durable systems that convert complex market dynamics into structured, repeatable income frameworks.

In 2002, Aaron co-founded Pilgrims Group USA, serving as CEO and Managing Partner of the U.S. affiliate of a global risk and asset management enterprise. The platform oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in managed properties, infrastructure, municipalities, and public-sector contracts across more than twenty international programs. His work focused on strategic portfolio design, financial oversight, and operational continuity, often in economically and politically unstable environments.

Aaron's approach centers on mathematical modeling, capital efficiency, and yield-oriented systems built for full-cycle durability and performance across variable conditions.

Hunter Obrikat is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Haven Capital Advisors, responsible for operational architecture, governance systems, and firm-level risk infrastructure. His career spans nearly two decades designing and managing financial and operational frameworks for complex asset portfolios and public-sector programs across multiple jurisdictions.

A Charlotte, North Carolina native, Hunter began his academic studies in exercise physiology before transitioning into financial operations and systems design. That foundation in performance analytics evolved into a professional focus on precision execution, redundancy planning, and capital continuity.

As Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pilgrims Group USA, Hunter oversaw compliance, operational controls, and financial continuity for programs managing hundreds of millions in assets and contractual obligations across public and private sectors. He specialized in multi-party coordination outside of predictable operating environments.

Patrick Zielbauer is a Partner and Director of Strategic Growth at Haven Capital Advisors, where he leads strategic expansion initiatives and capital formation efforts for the firm. With more than twelve years of experience across institutional derivatives and digital asset markets, Patrick brings a cross-market perspective grounded in direct engagement with institutional dynamics, trading, OTC flows, and global market-making.

Prior to joining Haven Capital Advisors, Patrick held senior leadership roles at a global digital asset liquidity provider, working with sophisticated market participants across spot, derivatives, and collateralized lending markets. His experience includes centralized and decentralized trading venues, structured derivatives, crypto-native banking and settlement infrastructure, and cross-border capital flows.

Earlier in his career, Patrick spent over fifteen years in global futures and derivatives markets, advising professional traders, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other commercial market participants.

Robert Vicini serves as Director of Treasury Strategy & On-Chain Liquidity Infrastructure at Haven Capital Advisors, where he manages the firm's strategic deployment across centralized and decentralized liquidity venues. In this role, Robert oversees real-time risk assessment, capital allocation across protocol-specific liquidity positions, and the execution of yield-optimized, income-oriented yield while preserving treasury principal in dynamic market environments.

Robert's work centers on the design and execution of capital-efficient deployment strategies within automated market maker (AMM) and DEX ecosystems. By integrating technical market analysis with operational liquidity architectures, he engineers repeatable positioning frameworks that convert short-term volatility into structured, fee-generating income streams while maintaining disciplined exposure to underlying digital assets.

Prior to joining Haven Capital Advisors, Robert served as Head Technical Analyst and Treasury Manager for a digital asset investment fund focused on capital appreciation strategies across emerging crypto markets.

Mike DiMicco is a Compliance Officer at Haven Capital Advisors, where he supports the firm's regulatory framework, governance processes, and client engagement functions. He brings a multidisciplinary background spanning public policy, entrepreneurship, and investment operations, with a focus on aligning regulatory requirements with evolving financial market structures.

Prior to joining Haven Capital Advisors, Mike began his career at Moore & Van Allen, where he worked on the Government Policy & Regulatory Affairs team. In that role, he supported corporate and nonprofit clients through research, policy analysis, and strategic communications across complex regulatory and legislative environments. He also served as Assistant Creative Director, contributing to the development of client-facing materials, reports, and outreach initiatives.

Since 2011, Mike has served as President of LAWD, LLC, an angel investment firm, where he has evaluated early-stage investment opportunities and engaged across a range of entrepreneurial ventures — developing a practitioner's understanding of business risk, governance gaps, and operational accountability. His experience co-founding and operating a business in a highly regulated, detail-intensive environment further reinforced the operational discipline and compliance awareness he brings to his work at Haven Capital today.

At Haven Capital Advisors, Mike focuses on compliance oversight, internal controls, and partner-facing processes, helping ensure the firm operates within applicable regulatory frameworks while maintaining a high standard of transparency and investor experience. His approach combines policy-driven discipline with practical execution, supporting both traditional investment structures and emerging digital asset strategies.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Queens University.

Focus Areas: Regulatory Compliance Oversight, Internal Controls, Governance, Policy Analysis & Implementation, Investor & Partner Relations, Digital Asset Regulatory Frameworks.

Kristen Banks serves as Chief of Staff at Haven Capital Advisors, where she supports the executive team by driving organizational alignment, managing internal and external communications, and ensuring seamless execution of the firm's strategic initiatives. Her role bridges leadership and operations — keeping priorities on track and teams moving in the same direction.

Kristen brings more than two decades of operations and project management experience. Most recently at Pilgrims Group USA, she managed large-scale international personnel deployments — overseeing visa processing, labor contracts, cross-border logistics, and life support coordination for hundreds of client personnel across multiple countries. Earlier in her career, she held operations and client services roles at Ballantyne Business Center and has an additional background in procurement and supply chain management across the medical and manufacturing industries.

Kristen holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Transportation & Logistics and Marketing from The Ohio State University.

Terry Ziemniak serves as fractional Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for Haven Capital Advisors, providing strategic leadership across cybersecurity, technology infrastructure, and compliance program development. With more than two decades of security leadership experience spanning financial services and highly regulated industries, Terry oversees the design and implementation of Haven Capital's information security program — including policy development, access governance, incident response, and exam-readiness posture aligned with SEC and state RIA requirements. His work ensures that Haven Capital's digital asset operations, cloud infrastructure, and investor-facing systems are built on a foundation of security, operational integrity, and regulatory accountability.