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This list showcases the top New York based Partner operating in the Venture Capital space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jared Carmel
Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
As a pioneer in the development of the secondary market for pre-IPO technology companies, Jared helps shareholders with their liquidity and diversification needs; Simultaneously providing investors access to well-capitalized, disruptive, venture-backed companies that we refer to as “Tomorrow’s IPOs Today™”. Jared’s involvement has helped produce over $5 billion of invested capital with >45 exits including: DraftKings ($DKNG), Facebook ($FB), Twitter ($TWTR), Pinterest ($PINS), Lyft ($LYFT), Airbnb ($ABB), Spotify ($SPOT), Alibaba ($BABA), DocuSign ($DOCU), Coinbase ($COIN), Asana ($ASAN), SoFi ($SOFI), MoneyLion ($ML), and Palantir ($PLTR). Other select pre-IPO investments include Epic Games, Turo, Lime, Transfix, Instacart, and Udemy. Jared is often quoted by leading financial news organizations such as CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, MarketWatch, The Telegraph, and Business Insider. Over the last twenty years, Jared has worked on various assignments, including early and late-stage venture capital, SPACs, private investment in public equity (PIPE), M&A projects, and secondary direct stock offerings. The aforementioned has led to extensive investment banking experience, business operations, acquisition integration, and board work. Jared Carmel graduated with a BA from the University at Buffalo School of Informatics. For all media inquiries, please reach out using the following email address: info@mvp.vc
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About Manhattan Venture Partners, MVP All-Star Fund, The MVP Foundation: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
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Bradley Fishman
Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
Manhattan Venture Partners “MVP” is a research-driven merchant-banking firm focused on the emerging secondary market for late-stage private technology companies. We facilitate direct and managed secondary investment opportunities, deploy capital as principals, and provide advisory services. Act as a partner and work with companies, angel and venture capital investors, executives and current/former employees to provide them the liquidity and diversification that they need and want in a professional and efficient manner. MVP also provides our clients with accurate, timely and innovative research into the companies and sectors we cover. To that end we established an experienced team of analysts, researchers, economists and industry veterans that focus exclusively on private companies with a proven track record of success.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners, MVP All-Star Fund: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Eric Brachfeld
Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
Eric has more than 27 years of experience as an investment banker and entrepreneur and has provided financial and strategic advice and structuring transactions for a broad range of companies and investors. Prior to launching Manhattan Venture Partners, Eric was a Partner at Citizen VC, Inc., a financial technology and investment firm, where he led the firm’s investment banking efforts. Prior to Citizen VC, Eric cofounded Gentry New York, which he merged with GSV Financial Group. At GSV FG, Eric was head of investment banking and CEO of Gentry Securities, their broker-dealer subsidiary. Prior to GSV FG, Eric cofounded and led investment banking efforts at Ledgemont Capital Group and Indigo Ventures, firms which raised capital for and invested in early and growth stage companies. Prior to those firms, Eric was an Associate and then General Partner at McFarland Dewey & Co., a boutique investment banking firm. Eric began his career at McKinney Advertising. Eric received a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA, with Honors, from the Stern School of Business, New York University. He holds FINRA Series 7, Series 63, Series 24, Series 79, Series 87 and Series 99 licenses.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners, MVP All-Star Fund: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Nicholas Gupta
Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
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About Manhattan Venture Partners: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Bryan Rosenblatt
Partner of Craft Ventures
Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures which he started in 2017.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
William Guillouard
Venture Partner of FJ Labs
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About FJ Labs: FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
Scott Shleifer
Partner of Tiger Global Management
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About Tiger Global Management: Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally in both public and private markets.
Chase Coleman
Partner of Tiger Global Management
Chase Coleman is the partner of Tiger Global Management LLC (previously known as Tiger Technology Management LLC) in 2001.
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About Tiger Global Management: Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally in both public and private markets.
Nasir Jones
Partner and Co-Founder of QueensBridge Venture Partners
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life. Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housing in Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life. The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am… (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time. Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010). Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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About Emagen Investment Group, Inc., QueensBridge Venture Partners, Uncle Sam Loves Me, LLC: QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.
Jennifer Wolf
President & Partner of Initialized Capital
I’m President and Partner at Initialized Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital Firm with $1B assets under management. At Initialized I’m responsible for hiring and managing the team on both the investment and operations sides of the business. I invest in companies that have an intriguing product or design challenge, usually in the e-commerce marketplace, enterprise saas, and data science spaces. I also advise our portfolio companies on product strategy/roadmaps, product design and user research, how to build and manage teams, and how to resolve conflicts. I have been a product executive at several B2B and B2C startups, from early-stage to growth stage. Prior to Initialized I was Chief Product Officer at Reserve, an Expa-funded hospitality platform that connects restaurants and diners. I also founded a boutique consultancy where I delivered successful projects for companies like Apple, Twitter, Chase, Nordstrom and Starwood Hotels. Before that I helped create the User Experience practice at Sapient and helped open its Milan, Italy office.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Jason Ewell
Operating Partner of Insight Partners
Jason leads TravelClick’s global product team, which includes reservations, business intelligence, media, web, and guest management product lines. He focuses on assisting hotels increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve performance through our complete suite of hotel solutions. He has 18 years of experience specializing in digital media, marketing, and partnerships for small and mid-sized companies in the travel, ecommerce, and financial services industries. Jason spent 14 years with American Express, where he led digital customer acquisition for the OPEN Small Business Group, and managed travel product and distribution partnerships for the Global Commercial Card group. Jason received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Gary Survis
Operating Partner of Insight Partners
Gary Survis is the Chief Marketing Officer of Syncsort, leading Syncsort’s global Big Data integration marketing team. Gary is a seasoned marketing executive with experience combining traditional and digital marketing tools to provide practical solutions to today’s marketing challenges. Before joining Syncsort, Gary was Founder and “Chief Buzz Officer” at Practical Digital Marketing. Prior to that, he was COO of Geoscape Solar, a firm specializing in residential, commercial and non-profit solar projects. Gary holds a BA in Business from University of Pennsylvania-Wharton, and an MBA in marketing from NYU Stern School. He is also currently a Lecturer at the Wharton School and a Senior Fellow at Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Pablo Dominguez
Operating Partner of Insight Partners
Pablo Dominguez is an operations executive with experience in working across global internet, technology, software, and communications industries. He is the vice president of global business operations at [AppNexus](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appnexus), a technology company enabling cloud-based software platform enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising. Previously, he served the same company as was the vice president of sales enablement and operations. Prior to AppNexus, Dominguez worked at [ADP](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adp#/entity), holding various leadership roles in global sales operations and compensation. He was also the director of global sales compensation at [Avaya](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/avaya). Dominguez holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems and international economics from [The University of Texas](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-university-of-texas-at-austin#/entity) at Austin and an MBA in global businesses and strategy from [New York University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/new-york-university#/entity).
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Rick Scanlon
Founding Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Rick Scanlon is a Partner of Marker and has been with the firm since its inception in 2011. Rick joined Marker after he returned to the U.S. from Singapore, where he lived for more than 15 years. In 2003 while in Singapore, Rick co-founded Crescent Point Group, an Asian private equity firm, and served as a Managing Partner of the firm until 2011. Rick’s first investment was leading the Series A round of AirAsia, a company that went on to achieve extraordinary success by making flying possible for everyone in Asia. Prior to Crescent Point, he was employed in the investment banking departments of Morgan Stanley, First Boston and Credit Suisse in New York, Singapore and Beijing. Rick holds a BA (cum laude) from Middlebury College where he studied Art and Physics. He serves on the Middlebury College Board of Trustees.
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About Dynamic Yield, Innovation Endeavors, Marker: Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
Daniel Goldstein
Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Daniel Goldstein is a partner at Innovation Endeavors. She is the founder and leader of our firm’s Growth & Partnership team, which is committed to helping young companies become more successful, while architecting vibrant, mutually-supportive ecosystems around them. A natural at building and fostering long-term relationships, Daniel is a firm believer that the best way to be of service is to bring people together who can solve problems for one another. Whether it’s introducing the founder of a promising startup to a Fortune 500 executive, producing a content-rich, 200+-person summit for CISOs and CMOs in New York, or hosting a delegation of global leaders on a week-long tour of the Israeli tech scene, Daniel makes it possible for people who share the same interests to bridge the gap between friendship and partnership. Since joining Innovation Endeavors in 2013, Daniel and her team have made ~2,000 strategic introductions; hosted more than 100 events, including industry summits, demo days and intimate dinners — all of which have helped our companies generate more than $100 million in revenue. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, Daniel was head of business development at Red Onion Games. The daughter of a psychotherapist and a tech entrepreneur, Daniel has a keen understanding of the people who work at the cutting-edge of technology. She earned a BA in communications from IDC Herzliya and graduated from the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
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About Innovation Endeavors: Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
Jonathan Weiner
Venture Partner of Oak HC/FT
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About Growth – Cannabis Conference, HLTH, Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Andrew Adams
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT
Andrew joined Oak Investment Partners in 2003. He currently serves as General Partner of Oak Investment Partners, and General Partner of Oak HC/FT. Andrew currently serves on the Boards of Limeade, Maestro Healthcare Technologies, One Medical Group, Radisphere National Radiology Group, and xG Health Solutions. Andrew is also actively involved with Benefitfocus, Independent Living Systems, and Precision for Medicine Holdings. Prior investment activity includes American Esoteric Laboratories (acquired by Sonic Healthcare Limited), Argus Information & Advisory Services (acquired by Verisk Analytics), CareMedic Systems (acquired by Ingenix), CLARiENT (acquired by GE Healthcare), Harbor Payments (acquired by American Express), Health Dialog (acquired by British United Provident Association), iHealth Technologies (merged with Connolly), NetSpend Corporation (acquired by TSYS), PayFlex Systems (acquired by Aetna), PharMEDium Healthcare (acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice) and United BioSource (acquired by Medco Health Solutions). Prior to joining Oak Investment Partners, Andrew was a Senior Associate with Capital Resource Partners, a mezzanine capital firm, where he focused on investments in healthcare and business services companies. Andrew was also a Financial Analyst in the media and communications group of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown. Andrew graduated from Princeton University with a BA in History.
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Daniel Petrozzo
Partner of Oak HC/FT
Dan Petrozzo (FT), a Partner at Oak HC/FT, joined the firm in 2017 and focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in FinTech. Dan currently serves on the Board of Kryon, Ocrolus, and Pagaya. He is also a Board Observer at NextCapital. Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Dan was Senior Vice President at Intralinks and responsible for customer success and technology operations. He joined Intralinks from Verilume, a cloud computing company that he co-founded and sold to Intralinks in 2016. He is a former Partner and Global Head of Technology for investment management at Goldman Sachs. He was Chief Information Officer at Fidelity Investments, Co-Chief Information Officer at Morgan Stanley and Global Head of Equity Prime Services Technology at Deutsche Bank AG. Dan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Moravian College and a law degree from Seton Hall University Law School.
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About Oak HC/FT, Verilume: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Patricia Kemp
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT
Patricia joined Oak Investment Partners in 2002. She currently serves as Venture Partner of Oak Investment Partners, and General Partner of Oak HC/FT. Patricia currently serves on the Boards of Kuaipay, Duedil, and Vesta, and she is a Board Observer at Acculynk. Some of Patricia’s past portfolio activity includes Argus Information & Advisory Services (acquired by Verisk Analytics), Harbor Payments (acquired by American Express), NetSpend (acquired by TSYS), Point Carbon (acquired by Thomson Reuters), and TxVia (acquired by Google). Prior to joining Oak Investment Partners, Patricia’s history includes over 11 years of senior management experience at Cendant (formerly CUC International). At various times she was responsible for the marketing, operations, or general management of a variety of direct marketed products and memberships in the auto, shopping or merchant services space.
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
David B. Black
Technology Partner of Oak HC/FT
David B. Black, Technology Partner, joined Oak in 1992 and became Technology Partner in 1999. He focuses on investments in all sectors that make substantial use of computer technology. David’s current portfolio activity includes: Centric Software, FirstRain, Good Technology, MobiTV, Nexant, SmartDrive, Rearden Commerce, Keep Holdings, Demand Media, Federated Media, Milyoni, Sutherland Global Services, Thrillist Media Group, U.S. Auto Parts, YoYi Media, Radisphere National Radiology Group, Benefitfocus, Independent Living Systems, mlgpro, Castlight Health and XIO Storage. David’s past portfolio activity includes: athenahealth, Argus Information Systems (acquired by Verisk), PayFlex (acquired by Aetna), Point Carbon (acquired by Thomson Reuters), TxVia (acquired by Google), iCrossing (acquired by Hearst), Talisma (acquired by Moxie Software), Allyes (acquired by Focus Media), Cobalt (acquired by ADP), Fastclick (acquired by ValueClick), aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft), Bleacher Report (acquired by Time Warner), Captura (acquired by Concur), Cobalt (acquired by ADP), Huffington Post (acquired by AOL), G-Market (acquired by E-Bay), CBord (acquired by Roper Industries), ILOG (acquired by IBM), Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo), Knowledge Networks (acquired by GfK), Pivotal, Primus, Digital Media Group (acquired by VisionChina), iCrossing (acquired by Hearst), Netspend. Prior to joining Oak, David started programming computers while in high school and worked on projects including oil refinery output optimization and ARPA-net protocols prior to graduating with honors from Harvard College. Then he spent decades writing code for network protocols, compilers, composition systems, operating systems, DBMS internals and applications, large scale financial transaction processing, document processing and workflow, various hardware components and enterprise systems.
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About Oak HC/FT, Oak Investment Partners: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Jared Madfes
Partner of Tribe Capital
Jared Madfes is a Partner at Tribe Capital.
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About Tribe Capital: Tribe Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on recognizing and amplifying early stage product-market fit.
Rexhep Dollaku
Partner of Base10 Partners
Rexhi (pronounced Reggie) is a Partner at Base10 Partners. Prior to joining Base10, Rexhi was an investor at Insight Venture Partners, one of the leading global software and internet focused venture capital and private equity firms. At Insight, Rexhi focused on investments in a variety of vertical markets (including TriTech and AMCS), next generation workflow solutions (including Salesloft and Showpad), and applied data companies across the US and Europe. Rexhi was born in Ulcinj, a town bordering Montenegro and Albania. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from Harvard University with a focus on economics and global health and health policy. During his time at Harvard, Rexhi was CEO of a student-run intercollegiate hedge fund, GPS, that provides real-world training to the next generation of investors and entrepreneurs. He was also an early employee of a data services startup in the renewable energy space.
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About Base10 Partners: Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the automation of the real economy.
Shana Fisher
Managing Partner of Third Kind Venture Capital
Shana Fisher is the Managing Partner of HLVP, a NY Based venture fund focused on early stage investments. From December 2003 to June 2010, Ms. Fisher served as IAC’s Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Mergers and Acquisitions, and prior to that as the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for IAC. Previously, Ms. Fisher served as Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance for Allen & Company, LLC. In this capacity she led principle investments and advised publicly traded technology firms, private telecommunications firms and media companies. Prior to Allen & Company, LLC., Ms. Fisher was a program manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Fisher received her B.A. from Hampshire College with a triple major in Sculpture, Philosophy and Linguistics and attended the Master of Arts program at New York University’s ITP.
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About Third Kind Venture Capital: Third Kind Venture Capital is a venture capital fund focused on early-stage investments.
Chris Harrington
Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Chris Harrington (New York) joined KKR in 2008 and leads the Financial Services industry team within KKR’s Americas Private Equity platform. Mr. Harrington has been involved with KKR’s investments in Alliant Insurance Services, Focus Financial Partners, Mr. Cooper Group (formerly WMIH Corp), Privilege Underwriters (PURE), Santander Consumer USA, Sedgwick Claims Management Services and USI Insurance Services. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Focus Financial Partners, Privilege Underwriters, Mr. Cooper Group and USI Insurance Services. Previously, Mr. Harrington was with Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York, where he was involved in a variety of corporate advisory transactions. He holds an A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Roger Morales
Partner, Head of Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Roger Morales (New York) joined KKR in 2011 and serves as Co-Head of Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions Americas. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Morales worked with Eton Park Capital Management and with Vornado Realty Trust where he focused on real estate and real estate related investment opportunities. Before business school, he worked with JP Morgan Partners where he focused on middle market corporate private equity, and with Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Leveraged Finance Group. He received a BA from the University of Miami and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Roger is a member of the Urban Land Institute and is a member of one of its Commercial and Retail Development Councils. He is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO).
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Christen Lee
Partner – Head of Real Estate Americas of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Christen (Chris) Lee (New York) joined KKR Capital Markets in the Real Estate Group in 2012. Prior to joining KKR, he spent three years at Apollo Global Management on their global real estate team where he focused on real estate acquisitions. Mr. Lee also worked at Goldman Sachs in the merchant banking division’s real estate principal investment area for over five years after spending two years in the investment banking division. Mr. Lee earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and his B.A. in Economics from Emory University. He serves as a trustee of St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas, Texas and is a member of the board of directors of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) in New York, New York.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
David Petraeus
Partner, Chairman of KKR Global Institute of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
General (Ret) David H. Petraeus joined KKR in June 2013 and is Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which supports KKR’s investment committees, portfolio companies, and investors with analysis of geopolitical and macro-economic trends, as well as environmental, social, and governance issues. He was made a Partner at KKR in 2014. He is also a member of the boards of Optiv (cybersecurity) and OneStream (business software). Petraeus is also a personal venture capitalist, a Visiting Fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute, an Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham (England), a member of the Trilateral Commission, Senior Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute, and Co-Chairman of the Global Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as well as a member of the boards of the Institute for the Study of War and the Atlantic Council and over a dozen veterans service organizations.
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About Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Harvard University, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Royal United Services Institute, University of Southern California, William E. Macaulay Honors College: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Christopher Lee
Partner – Head of Real Estate Americas of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Janice Cook Roberts
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Janice Cook Roberts (New York) joined KKR in 2007 and is a member of KKR’s Client and Partner Group. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Roberts was co-CEO of the New York City Investment Fund. Ms. Roberts focused on developing the strategy of this civic venture fund, identification and execution of transactions and monitoring portfolio companies. Previously, Ms. Roberts was an executive director in MCA/Universal’s Home Entertainment Group (now owned by Comcast) and was with Bankers Trust in its corporate finance department. Ms. Roberts earned a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Ms. Roberts serves on the board of directors of The Robert Toigo Foundation.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Henry C. Hager
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Henry C. Hager (New York) joined KKR in 2011 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group. He has been involved in the Firm’s global capital raising activities and currently works as a product specialist focused on energy and infrastructure. Prior to joining KKR, he was with Constellation Energy in its corporate strategy and development group, where he was involved in a number of merger, acquisition, and other corporate advisory transactions. He holds an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a B.S. from Wake Forest University. Mr. Hager is an active board member of the Building Conservation Trust.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Anthony C. Hass
Managing Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Anthony C. Hass (New York) joined KKR in 2003 and is a member of KKR Client and Partner Group. Mr. Hass is involved in institutional investor coverage and capital raising activities. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Hass was with Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust, and Lehman Brothers. Mr. Hass holds a B.A. from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Suzanne Donohoe
Member & Head of Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Suzanne Donohoe (New York) joined KKR in 2009 and is the global head of KKR’s Client and Partner Group and a Member of KKR. She also serves on the firm’s Risk Committee. Prior to joining KKR, she was with the Goldman Sachs Group, serving as a Partner and head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International. Ms. Donohoe also led Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s client businesses in North America and co-headed GSAM’s EMEA business. Ms. Donohoe holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and an M.B.A from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Donohoe also serves on the New York Board of The Nature Conservancy and as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
J.B. Kiley
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
J.B. Kiley (New York) joined KKR in 2009 and is a relationship manager in the Client and Partner Group. Prior to joining KKR, he was an alternative investment product specialist within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Before joining GSAM, Mr. Kiley was a relationship manager in the pension solution groups of both Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Kiley has worked with institutional investors on issues related to alternative investments, synthetic beta solutions, complex portfolio restructurings, and ALM since 1999. Mr. Kiley received a B.A. in Economics from Washington and Lee University.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Lesley Nurse
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Lesley Nurse (New York) joined KKR in 2010 and is a member of KKR’s Client and Partner group. Prior to joining KKR, she was managing director and head of consultant relations at PineBridge Investments (formerly AIG Investments) focused on the cultivation and development of relationships within the investment consultant community. Ms. Nurse’s prior experience includes consultant relations, sales and marketing roles at Deutsche Asset Management and PaineWebber. She holds a B.S. with honors from the Pennsylvania State University and is a CFA Charterholder.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Alisa A. Wood
Member, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Alisa A. Wood (New York) joined KKR in 2003 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group. She has been actively involved in the Firm’s global capital raising activities along with the creation of KKR Private Equity Investors. Currently, she heads the product specialist area globally for all private market activities, including private equity, energy & infrastructure, and real estate. She also leads the Firm’s capital raising efforts in Latin America. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Wood was with Deutsche Bank’s Private Equity Group where she worked on the institutional placement and structuring of private equity, venture capital, real estate, and securitized debt products. She holds a B.A. from Columbia College and an M.B.A from Columbia Graduate School of Business. Ms. Wood currently sits on the Columbia Business School Private Equity Board, the Convent of the Sacred Heart Board of Trustees, the Sloane Hospital for Women’s Advisory Committee, the PE-WIN’s (Private Equity Women Investor Network) Steering Committee, and co-chairs the Columbia College Young Leadership Council.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Jacki Goodman
Principal, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Jacquelyn Goodman (New York) joined KKR in 2013 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group. She is involved in the Firm’s capital raising and investor relations effort and works closely with institutional client and consultant relationships. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Goodman was with Credit Suisse Asset Management where she focused on project management and distribution for Credit Suisse’s private equity and hedge fund businesses. Ms. Goodman holds a B.B.A from Emory University’s Goizeuta Business School with concentrations in Finance and Organization & Management.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
William Cornog
Global Lead Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
William Cornog (New York) joined KKR Capstone in 2002 and currently serves as Head of KKR Capstone.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Daniel Parant
Managing Director, Co-Head of Private Wealth Partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Daniel B. Parant (New York) joined KKR in 2012 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Parant was a vice president and head of alternatives business development for intermediary distribution at Neuberger Berman, and previously was a member of the absolute return strategies business at Lehman Brothers. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Parant worked as an associate in the capital markets consulting group at Thomson Financial. Mr. Parant holds a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Amy C. Stuart
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Amy C. Stuart (New York) joined KKR in 2007 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group. She has been involved in the Firm’s global capital raising activities and currently works as a product specialist focused on private equity activities. Prior to joining KKR, she was with Lehman Brothers in its global natural resources group, where she was involved in a number of merger, acquisition, and other corporate advisory transactions. She holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Robert Lewin
Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Ari Barkan
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Ari Barkan (New York) joined KKR in 2012 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group, focusing on institutional clients in the Midwest region of the U.S. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Barkan was a managing director in Credit Suisse Asset Management performing a similar role from 2009 until early 2012. Previously, he spent 12 years at Citigroup where he held both asset management and corporate banking roles. At Citigroup, Mr. Barkan served as a director in the Citi Alternative Distribution Group (CADG) between 2006 and early 2009. Before joining CADG, he served as chief of staff to the vice chairman of Citigroup and, for six years, held various corporate banking and relationship management positions in Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, Mexico, Hungary, and Australia. Mr. Barkan holds a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Elizabeth Hammond
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Elizabeth Hammond (New York) joined KKR’s Client and Partner Group in 2009. Prior to joining KKR, she was a director at Citi Alternative Investments where she was involved in consultant relations and had responsibility for managing the RFP team. Ms. Hammond has 20 years of experience working in asset management sales and marketing. Her prior experience includes Siguler Guff, Deutsche Asset Management, and Lynch & Mayer. She holds a B.S. from the College of Charleston and an M.B.A. from Fordham University.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Len Fliegel
Principal, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Len Fliegel (New York) joined KKR in 2012 as a member of the Client and Partner Group. Prior to joining KKR, he worked at Lazard Asset Management, where he was involved in marketing and investor relations efforts focusing on alternative investment strategies. Previously, he worked at Deutsche Asset Management where he was involved in institutional business development focusing on hedge fund strategies. He also previously worked in the architectural industry. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Joshua Kushner
Founder and Managing Partner of Thrive Capital
Joshua Kushner (June 12, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and businessman. He is a co-founder of Vostu, the largest social gaming company in Brazil, where he serves as Chief Strategic Officer. He is also the founder and Managing Partner of Thrive Capital, an early stage venture capital fund. Kushner also serves as a Principal of Kushner Companies, a diversified real estate investment company, whose holdings include The New York Observer, a weekly Manhattan newspaper. Kushner sits on the board of the Observer Media Group. He is the son of businessman Charles Kushner and brother of businessman Jared Kushner.
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About Oscar Health, Thrive Capital: Thrive Capital is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
Kareem Zaki
Partner of Thrive Capital
Kareem Zaki is an Investor at Thrive Capital. He is based in New York City. Kareem was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018 for the Venture Capital category. Zaki has worked as a Investing Banking Analyst for JP Morgan, Business Analyst for McKinsey, and Private Equity Investor for The Blackstone Group. He joined Thrive Capital in 2014 and focused on primarily healthcare and financial services companies. He led the firm’s investments in Morty and Robinhood and is a board investor at Cedar, Honor and Welkin.
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About Cadence Solutions, Cedar, Nava, Thrive Capital: Thrive Capital is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
Gaurav Ahuja
General Partner of Thrive Capital
Gaurav Ahuja is a Managing Director and Head of Fundraising and Investor Relations at ChrysCapital. He joined the firm in August 2004 and previously served as a Director at the firm. Gaurav Ahuja left in July 2005 to pursue his M.B.A. at INSEAD and rejoined the firm in July 2006. Previously, he served in the mergers and acquisitions group at Lazard Freres and Merrill Lynch. Gaurav Ahuja received a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics from University of Virginia.
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About Thrive Capital: Thrive Capital is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
Jared Weinstein
General Partner of Thrive Capital
Jared Weinstein is Partner of Thrive Capital. He worked in the White House between 2002 and 2009 and for three years served as President George W. Bush’s body man.
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About Thrive Capital: Thrive Capital is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
Nabil Mallick
Partner of Thrive Capital
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About Thrive Capital: Thrive Capital is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
Matt Levinson
Partner of B Capital Group
Matt is a Partner at B Capital Group. prior to that, he was the Principal on the investment team at FinTech Collective. Prior to joining FinTech Collective, Matt co-founded NYC-based startup Aerobo, a venture-capital-backed provider of drone services. Previously, Matt worked in private equity at AEA Investors, where he invested in middle-market buyout transactions. Matt started his career in management consulting at LEK. Matt received his B.A. cum laude from Yale University, has studied in Spain, and lived and worked in Brazil.
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About B Capital Group, FinTech Collective: B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Allen Duan
Partner of B Capital Group
Allen Duan is the General Partner at B Capital Group.
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About B Capital Group, Pied a Terre Winery: B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Sami Ahmad
General Partner of B Capital Group
Sami Ahmad serves as a General Partner at B Capital Group.
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About B Capital Group: B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Fady Yacoub
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of HOF Capital
Fady Yacoub is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at HOF Capital, where he focuses on companies leveraging frontier technologies to reshape massive industries. At HOF, he led investments in Epic Games, Klarna, Flutterwave, and others across sectors and stages. Prior to HOF Capital, Fady worked at Digital World Capital, a technology-focused hedge fund, helping the firm expand its investment portfolio in Asia by overseeing the firm’s investment in Baidu and Qihoo 360. Earlier in his career, he was an EIR at Switch (NYSE:SWCH), which builds and operates the highest-rated colocation data centers in the world. Fady earned both a BS and BA in Business Administration & Psychology from the University of Southern California.
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About HOF Capital: HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.
Hisham Elhaddad
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of HOF Capital
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at HOF Capital. He invests across sectors and stages, with a particular focus on deep tech and web3. Hisham’s track record at HOF includes early-stage investments in the likes of Dapper Labs, Insitro, Figure, Republic, Braintrust, and Habi, amongst others. He also led the firm’s growth stage investments in category-defining companies, such as SpaceX, Stripe, Kraken, SaltPay, FTX, and UiPath (NYSE:PATH). Prior to HOF, Hisham was an investor at ERA, an early stage fund and technology accelerator in New York. Hisham holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boston University. He is fluent in English, German, and Arabic with a working proficiency in French.
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About HOF Capital: HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.
Thomas Lehrman
Managing Partner of Teamworthy Ventures
Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co – Founder and former Co – Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President’s WMD Commission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co – Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.
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About GLG, MasterStreet, Teamworthy Ventures: Teamworthy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise software and software-enabled services businesses.
Stephen Schmalhofer
Partner of Teamworthy Ventures
Stephen Schmalhofer is the Partner ofTeamworthy Ventures
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About Teamworthy Ventures: Teamworthy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise software and software-enabled services businesses.
Nihal Mehta
Founding General Partner of Eniac Ventures
Co-Founder at The100kPledge. Founding General Partner at ENIAC Ventures & India Internet Group.
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About Eniac Ventures, Project Ahimsa, Project Ahimsa, The100kPledge: Eniac Ventures leads seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies.
Vic Singh
Founding General Partner of Eniac Ventures
Vic Singh is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor as a founding GP of Eniac Ventures. Vic has a deep passion for building product experiences that scale. He previously founded 3 venture-backed startups in mesh networking, communications and developer platforms. Most recently Vic was founder and CEO of Kanvas, which he led to a successful exit by AOL, where he served as GM and steered Kanvas through its ultimate transition into the leading developer platform for creative self-expression. Vic previously founded Tracks, a venture-backed consumer social network for collaboration around experiences and NearVerse, a platform for proximity-based mesh networking. Before he was a founder, Vic was a venture capitalist at RRE Ventures where he focused on consumer, cleantech, deep tech and fintech. He started his career building large scale enterprise systems as a full stack developer at the height of the dot-com boom. Vic holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from Columbia Business School where he was a Robert Toigo Foundation Fellow and a BSE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania where he earned the National Science Foundation Fellow for his work in Micro-electro Mechanical Systems.
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About Eniac Ventures: Eniac Ventures leads seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies.
Hadley Harris
Founding General Partner of Eniac Ventures
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About Eniac Ventures: Eniac Ventures leads seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies.
Harley Miller
Founder and Managing Partner of Left Lane Capital
Harley Miller joined Insight in 2011. He previously worked as an analyst at Lubert Adler Real Estate Funds in Philadelphia, focusing on acquisitions and asset management. Harley graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a BS in Economics, with concentrations in both ‘International Venture Capital & Consumer-Facing Industries’ and ‘Information Management’. During his time at Wharton, Harley launched his first startup, MobileEatz – a mobile food ordering portal targeted at college campuses. Harley is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese.
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About Left Lane Capital, MobileEatz: Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and early-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses.
Dan Ahrens
Partner of Left Lane Capital
Dan joined Insight in 2016. He previously worked as a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Philadelphia, where he advised clients in the financial services, retail, and consumer goods industries. His projects covered a variety of functional topics, including long-term growth strategy, sales force effectiveness, and operating model design. Dan graduated from Duke University with degrees in Economics and Political Science, and a minor in Mathematics. Born and raised in St. Louis, MO, Dan spends his free time watching and playing basketball and soccer, cooking, and traveling.
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About Left Lane Capital: Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and early-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses.
Bradley Twohig
Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners
Bradley Twohig is a Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, and Health sectors. Before that, he was the managing director of Insight Venture Partners and founded Spreadsave. Twohig holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Justin Overdorff
Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners
Justin is currently a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Carter Adamson
Partner of Atomico
Carter is a Partner at Atomico and helps portfolio companies to scale their products, operations and teams so that they can become global market leaders. He is a board advisor to Uniplaces, and also works closely with Gympass, Clutter, Compass & Masterclass. A startup junkie to the core, Carter has worked for a number of different companies at all stages of their development. He co-founded the online music service Rdio, and Sum, a health and wellness wearable startup. He was head of product at Skype, a senior program manager at ICQ whilst they were hitting their stride, and was director of product strategy at AOL during its peak. A lifelong skateboarder, Carter still wears Vans but is now often mistaken for a Staples salesperson. Raised in Virginia Beach (an archipelago of the world-famous “Redneck Riviera”), he has an English degree from Vassar. He is a published writer and lives in Brooklyn with his two sons where he likes to raise chickens in his backyard. Carter also speaks French and Spanish proficiently.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Jason Epstein
Affiliate Partner of Stonecourt Capital
Jason Epstein, an affiliate partner at Stonecourt Capital, is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist who has identified and developed profitable business models for a multitude of struggling companies, turning them into high-value firms. He currently sits on the Board of Harmonix Music Systems, EG7 Games, and Cold Iron Studios. Previously, Mr. Epstein was the Managing Partner of a private equity firm which he helped grow to $12.3 billion in assets under management. He also founded eLink Communications in 1998, when he was just 20 years old. As CEO, he helped raise nearly $100 million across a dozen cities. Mr. Epstein is committed to making value-driven investments and works closely with his alma mater Tufts University, Moon Valley Nurseries, and Change Summer. Most recently, he and his wife partnered with Tufts to develop a graduate certificate in Environmental Social Governance (ESG) investing. Mr. Epstein and his wife live in New York City with their three children.
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About Daybreak Game Company, Stonecourt Capital: Stonecourt Capital is a private equity firm focused on transformational investments across a range of industries.
Jordan Nof
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Tusk Venture Partners
Jordan Nof is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at Tusk Venture Partners L.P. and is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He has led many of the firm’s investments including Lemonade, Bird, Coinbase, Alma, Sunday, and Wheel. He currently serves on the board of directors of Wheel, Alma, and Sunday. Prior to Tusk Venture Partners, Jordan was a Director at Blackstone, where he focused on the development of the firm’s corporate venture capital portfolio. During that time, Jordan focused on investing in early-stage technology companies that could accelerate operations across Blackstone and the firm’s underlying portfolio companies. Before joining Blackstone, Jordan was part of the institutional investment management division at AllianceBernstein. During that time, he worked with many of the firm’s largest global institutional sub-advisory relationships. Jordan received an M.B.A. from Rollins Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of Florida State University where he received a B.S. in Finance. He is based out of the firm’s New York office.
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About Tusk Venture Partners: Tusk Venture Partners invests in early-stage technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.
Bradley Tusk
Co-founder, Managing Partner of Tusk Venture Partners
Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist who protects startups from political risk. He is the CEO and founder of Tusk Ventures, the first venture capital fund dedicated to working with and investing in startups in regulated industries. His fund, Tusk Ventures, has now worked with and invested in dozens of startups like Bird, FanDuel, Lemonade, Circle and Ripple. Bradley previously served as Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign manager in New York City, Deputy Governor of Illinois, and Senator Chuck Schumer’s communications director
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About Tusk Strategies, Tusk Venture Partners: Tusk Venture Partners invests in early-stage technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.
Daniel Eichner
Partner of SOSV
As the partner in charge of Capital Development at SOSV, Daniel is responsible for raising capital for SOSV funds, connecting SOSV’s portfolio companies to a global syndicate of investors and providing business development insight and leads. Daniel has been an Angel investor and advisor to companies across multiple sectors with a focus on FinTech and B-to-C companies. Daniel brings a decade of experience at financial institutions in business development, fund marketing and investor relations. Daniel headed up these initiatives at Marlette Funding, Serengeti Asset Management and Garrison Investment Group. Over this time, he raised $4 billion of capital and launched several new investment vehicles. Previously, Daniel performed buy-side investment research. This was primarily at Goldman Sachs and Ermitage. At Goldman, Daniel was a Vice President in the Special Situations Investing Group (aka “the Distressed Prop Desk”). His scope included credit and distressed investments across several sectors. At Ermitage, Daniel was a portfolio manager for fixed income, credit and event driven investment strategies. Daniel started his career as a management consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He was primarily focused on enhancing risk management infrastructure for South American banks. He developed an expertise in building credit scoring and loan pricing models. Daniel has a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Fordham Law School.
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About SOSV: SOSV is a global VC firm with $1B AUM and 1,000+ investments, that operates HAX, IndieBio, Chinaccelerator, MOX, and dlab.
Darren Cohen
Partner of Goldman Sachs
Darren Cohen is the Partner at Goldman Sachs.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
William Conley
Partner of Goldman Sachs
William J. Conley is Board of Trustees at Northeastern University.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
David Friedland
Partner, Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
David Friedland is a Partner, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Dina Powell
Partner of Goldman Sachs
Dina Powell McCormick serves on the Management Committee and is responsible for helping to build and enhance the firm’s relationships with sovereign clients around the world. She rejoined Goldman Sachs in 2018 as a Partner in the Investment Banking Division after serving as the US Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy from 2017 to 2018. Dina Powell McCormick initially joined the firm in 2007 and from 2007 to 2017 led the Impact Investing Business and the Environmental Markets Group, which deployed more than $5 billion in market-based loans and equity to drive sustainable economic development and revitalize under-served communities. During this same period, she was also president of The Goldman Sachs Foundation, overseeing two major initiatives to drive economic growth and opportunity — 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses — that successfully provided business education and capital to women and small businesses, respectively. Earlier in her career, Dina Powell McCormick served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and Deputy Undersecretary of Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy and as a senior White House advisor as Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel. Dina Powell McCormick is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Andrew McCormack
Founding and General Partner of Valar Ventures
General Partner at Valar Ventures.
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About Valar Ventures: Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies.
James Fitzgerald
Founding Partner of Valar Ventures
James is a Founding Partner at Valar Ventures.
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About Valar Ventures: Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies.
Erik Nordlander
General Partner of GV
Erik is a general partner at GV, where he manages GV’s operations in New York and is part of the enterprise investing team. Erik has over a decade of technical experience as an engineering leader with expertise in building first-class teams and scaling massive systems. He has interests in developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. Prior to joining GV in 2010, Erik led the development of Google’s next generation display ad serving system. He helped with the acquisition and technical integration of DoubleClick (DCLK) and led a team that built statistical and machine learning models for Google’s ad businesses. Erik was also a developer on Google’s core infrastructure, creating a distributed file system that Google.com and Gmail rely on today. Erik studied computer science and engineering at MIT. He completed his graduate research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he focused on unique data extraction and disk forensics. Erik is an avid runner and an expert in television game show theory.
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About GV: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
Jeremy Whelchel
Engineering Partner of GV
Jeremy joined the GV engineering team in 2014, based in New York City. He has expertise in big-data pipelines, machine learning, and implementing engineering best practices. Jeremy was an ads engineer at Google for over seven years. He used machine-learning systems to predict click through rates on Google shopping, analyzed ad auctions to provide advertisers with insights, and built Google’s high-volume display ad serving system. Most recently, he led the storage team for Google’s big-data analysis platform. Jeremy graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.S. in computer science and a B.A. in philosophy. In his free time, Jeremy enjoys flying airplanes and swimming in the waters around Manhattan.
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About GV: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
Adam Margolin
Venture Partner of Khosla Ventures
Adam Margolin is a Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures.
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About Khosla Ventures, NextVivo: Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on environmentally friendly tech, internet, computing, mobile, and silicon tech.
Andrew Hunt
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Elephant
Andrew Hunt is a Co-Founder and Director at Warby Parker. He is also Co-Founder and Partner at Elephant, a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet and mobile markets. Andy has studied eyewear design in more than 40 countries. Rumors that he conceived the idea for Warby Parker while fasting at a temple in the jungle city of Angkor Wat are only somewhat misleading. After working in finance and healthcare, Andy was convinced that there had to be a way to deliver top-quality eyewear for less.
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About Elephant, Warby Parker: Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet, and mobile markets.
Julie Effron
General Partner of Elephant
Julie Effron is currently a General Partner at Elephant, a venture capital firm focused on consumer internet, mobile and software. Previously, she was an Investor at Insight Venture Partners. Julie also co-founded ALICE, a mobile first, hospitality operations SaaS platform that is re-inventing how businesses can use cloud technology to improve their customer service.
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About Elephant: Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet, and mobile markets.
Peter Fallon
General Partner of Elephant
Peter Fallon is currently a General Partner at Elephant, a venture capital firm focused on consumer internet, mobile and software. Previously, he was an Associate at Highland Capital Partners and an Investment Banking Analyst at America’s Growth Capital.
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About Elephant: Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet, and mobile markets.
Kevin Rose
Partner of True Ventures
Kevin Rose is a partner at True and serial entrepreneur best known for founding Digg and Revision3. Most recently, he founded Oak, a guided meditation app, and Zero, an app for tracking intermittent fasting. In addition to serving on the boards of True portfolio companies, he is a board member for the Tony Hawk Foundation and Harlan Estate. Prior to joining True Ventures, he was an advisor to and general partner at Google Ventures. He has been featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and RedHerring in addition to others. Kevin was named in “Top 25 Angel Investors” by Bloomberg, “Top 25 Web Celebrities” by Forbes, “Top 35 Innovators” by MIT, and “Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web” by Time and Businessweek magazines. He has also appeared on ABC Nightline News, The Jimmy Fallon Show (2011, 2012), and the Charlie Rose show. Kevin interviews experts of all types to learn how to reach peak personal and professional performance while living a minimal and balanced life for his podcast, The Kevin Rose Show.
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About True Ventures, Watchville, Zero: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Kevin Rose
Partner of True Ventures
Kevin Rose is a partner at True and serial entrepreneur best known for founding Digg and Revision3. Most recently, he founded Oak, a guided meditation app, and Zero, an app for tracking intermittent fasting. In addition to serving on the boards of True portfolio companies, he is a board member for the Tony Hawk Foundation and Harlan Estate. Prior to joining True Ventures, he was an advisor to and general partner at Google Ventures. He has been featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and RedHerring in addition to others. Kevin was named in “Top 25 Angel Investors” by Bloomberg, “Top 25 Web Celebrities” by Forbes, “Top 35 Innovators” by MIT, and “Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web” by Time and Businessweek magazines. He has also appeared on ABC Nightline News, The Jimmy Fallon Show (2011, 2012), and the Charlie Rose show. Kevin interviews experts of all types to learn how to reach peak personal and professional performance while living a minimal and balanced life for his podcast, The Kevin Rose Show.
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About True Ventures, Watchville, Zero: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Hayley Barna
Partner of First Round Capital
Hayley Barna is a Venture Partner at First Round Capital based in New York. Prior to joining First Round she co-founded Birchbox, the leading beauty and grooming retailer seed funded by First Round in 2010. She served as Co-CEO at Birchbox for five years from conception and launch to growing the business to over a million monthly subscribers. She raised over $70M in venture capital, expanded the business internationally and launched new businesses and channels like men’s and retail stores. Hayley oversaw key functions including marketing, operations, strategy and technology. Before launching Birchbox in 2010, Hayley received her MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in New York. She also spent time at two very different ends of the retail spectrum through her roles in strategy at Christie’s in Hong Kong and product management at Amazon in Seattle. In addition to her current role at First Round, Hayley is a board member at Birchbox, RAB Lighting and Madison Reed.
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About First Round Capital: First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.
Merritt Hummer
Partner of Bain Capital Ventures
Merritt joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2018. She focuses on growth equity investments in the fintech and proptech sectors. Merritt is involved in all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, due diligence, transaction execution and portfolio company support. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Merritt was a growth equity investor at Goldman Sachs. Merritt began her career as a management consultant at Bain & Company in New York. Merritt is a CFA charter holder, and she graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science in engineering, and from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.
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About Bain Capital Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Kevin Zhang
Partner of Bain Capital Ventures
Kevin focuses on investments in enterprise software, service, and marketplace businesses. Additionally, he contributes to Bain Capital Ventures’ emerging practices in cryptocurrency and gaming. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Kevin was the first business hire at Fundera, a financial services marketplace for small and medium-sized business. Kevin built the initial content and acquisition marketing efforts, before leading roadmap, user research, and analytics as Head of Product. During Kevin’s tenure, Fundera grew from 5 to 65 employees, raised $20M+ of venture capital, and was ranked #69 fastest growing company on the Inc. 5000 in 2018. Originally from Edison, New Jersey, Kevin earned a BA in economics from Columbia University, where he led the Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs to win the Zvi Galil Award for positive impact on engineering student life. Kevin serves on the young alumni association, the Young Leaders Council, and is an advisor to student groups like Blockchain at Columbia.
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About Bain Capital Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Matthew Harris
Partner of Bain Capital Ventures
Matt is based in New York City and focuses on investments in financial technology and services. He sees a huge amount of revenue, profit and market cap shifting from regulated financial institutions to entrepreneur-led insurgents, across payments, lending, capital markets, real estate and insurance.
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About Bain Capital Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Fred Wilson
Partner of Union Square Ventures
Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City.
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About Computer Science For All, Union Square Ventures: Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
Albert Wenger
Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures
Albert Wenger is the Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures.
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About Stacks, Union Square Ventures: Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
Brad Burnham
Partner of Union Square Ventures
Brad Burnham is a partner at Union Square Ventures.
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About Union Square Ventures: Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
John Buttrick
Partner of Union Square Ventures
John Buttrick is a partner at Union Square Ventures, which is based in New York. John joined USV in 2010. He manages the firm’s later stage fund, Union Square Ventures Opportunity Fund and led the firm’s investment in Lending Club. He also focuses on earlier stage investments in the financial sector. John began his career as a lawyer and from 1985 to 2000 practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He spent more than two years in the firm’s Paris office and became a partner in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group in 1994. From 2000-2004, John was a partner at LiveWire Ventures, a private equity firm which acquired mid-sized enterprise software companies servicing the telecommunications, media and utilities industries. From 2004-2010, John was involved in a number of start-up ventures as an investor, director, managing member and consultant.From 2003-2009 he served as a member of the board of directors of Agfa-Gevaert N.V., a public company headquartered in Belgium. He is currently board chair of Environmental Advocates of New York and Hirondelle USA. John majored in American Studies at Northwestern University and has a JD degree from Villanova University School of Law.
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About Union Square Ventures: Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
Steve Sarracino
Founder and Partner of Activant Capital
Steven Sarracino is the founder of Activant Capital. He has been investing in exciting growth businesses for over a decade. Over his career, Steve has invested more than $2 billion of equity across a broad range of technology companies. Prior to founding Activant, Steve founded a consulting firm focused on commerce technology, where he advised, invested in, and was a member of the board of directors of some of the world’s leading commerce technology companies including hybris and iCongo. Previously Steve helped open the technology investing office at American Capital, Ltd. in Palo Alto, CA. Steve also worked at McKinsey & Co. in their Hong Kong office. He began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco, CA. Steve has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He attended Southern Methodist University for his undergraduate degree, where he received a BBA in Finance with a minor in History.
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About Activant Capital: Activant is a global investment firm that partners with high-growth companies that are transforming commerce.
Liza Landsman
General Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Prior to Jet, Liza was Chief Marketing Officer for E*TRADE and was responsible for their marketing initiatives, including customer engagement, analytics and insights, advertising, direct online and offline marketing programs, and branding campaigns. Prior to joining E*TRADE, Ms. Landsman held the position of Global Head of Digital at BlackRock, where she was responsible for firm-wide digital marketing strategy, including social media, web sites, and mobile applications. Before that, she was an Operating Partner at Bravas Partners. This followed a decade in senior management positions at Citigroup, where she focused primarily on driving engagement across customer channels, especially internet and mobile platforms. She also previously held several leadership roles at IBM in their e-commerce and personal systems group units, flooz.com, a start-up in the payments space and Writers House Inc. Ms. Landsman graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University. She joined the Board of Directors of Choice Hotels International (CHH) in 2014 where she is a member of both the Audit and Diversity Committees and has served on the Board of Directors of GO! Project, a New York City based non-profit organization that provides educational programs for children in need since 2012.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Tony Florence
General Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Tony is a General Partner and co-leads NEA’s Venture Growth Equity and Consumer Internet investment practices. Tony focuses on investments in the software and Internet sectors with emphasis on SaaS and marketplace ecommerce companies. In addition, he is actively involved in NEA’s investing activities in China. Tony has led investments in Care.com (NYSE: CRCM), Cvent (NYSE: CVT), Moda Operandi, Edmodo, EverFi, Casper, Raise.com, Jet.com, Goop.com and Wallapop. He led the firm’s investment in Quidsi (Diapers.com), which was acquired by Amazon in 2011. Prior to joining NEA, he was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and was Head of Technology Banking in New York, and was a member of the North American Management Committee for investment banking. Tony spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley focused on the software and Internet sectors, and also worked with a number of NEA’s companies in both IPOs and M&A transactions. Tony received an MBA and an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Albert Lee
Operating Partner – Design & Product of New Enterprise Associates
Albert Lee, a Managing Director in IDEO’s New York office, brings more than a decade of experience in digital product, communication, and venture design to IDEO. He specializes in developing new offerings and incubating ventures for clients based on consumer insights in a wide range of industries, including retail, financial services, consumer technology, and fashion.
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About All Tomorrows, New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Adam Freed
Managing Partner of GSV Ventures
Adam Freed is the Executive Chair of the Board of [Teachers Pay Teachers](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/teacherspayteachers-com), a New York City-based company that runs an online marketplace, where teachers can sell their educational materials to other teachers. Most recently he served as the chief operating officer of Etsy. Freed holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Harvard University and a Juris doctor degree from Yale Law School.
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About GSV Ventures, Teachers Pay Teachers: GSV Ventures is a venture firm investing company.
Paul Sethi
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of 2048 Ventures
Paul Sethi is a co-founder and Managing Partner at [2048 Ventures](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/2048-ventures). For 7+ years prior to 2048 Ventures, Paul was CEO of [Redbooks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/redbooks), leading sales data and intelligence platform for the marketing industry (acq. by List Partners – May 2018). He also co-founded [Robuzz](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/robuzz-news), an advanced ML/NLP practice, with a real-time alerts and data extraction engine built for enterprise. Paul has been a first-check angel for over a decade, including in Flexport, SeatGeek, Transfix, Knotel and LearnVest. He serves as Advisor to Transfix and OpenFortune, and graduated with honors from Wharton (UPenn) and Columbia. Early in his career, he was a public company investor focused on the tech sector.
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About 2048 Ventures: 2048 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm.
Alex Iskold
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of 2048 Ventures
Alex Iskold is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at [2048 Ventures](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/2048-ventures). Prior to 2048, Alex spent 5 years at [Techstars](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/techstars) as the Managing Director of its NYC program, where he invested in and helped over 100 startups. Alex was previously the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by [Union Square Ventures](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/union-square-ventures), [RRE Ventures](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rre-ventures), [TimeWarner Investments](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/time-warner-investments)), Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse, and a software engineer at Goldman Sachs, D.E. Shaw and Thinkmap. Alex also taught an award-winning undergraduate computer science class at NYU. He holds a B.S. in Math with Honors from Lehigh University and M.S. in Computer Science from NYU. Alex writes one of the top startup blogs called Startup Hacks.
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About 2048 Ventures: 2048 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm.
David Pakman
Partner of Venrock
As a Partner at Venrock in New York, David focuses on early stage venture investing in internet and digital media companies. His active investments include Dstillery (formerly Media6Degrees), Smartling, Dollar Shave Club, YouNow, Amino and Burner. He served on the Board of Crunchyroll (acquired by The Chernin Group) and led Venrock’s investment in Klout, which was acquired by Lithium Technologies.
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About Venrock: Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.
Anthony Evnin
Partner Emeritus of Venrock
Anthony Evnin, Ph.D. has served as a director since March 2002. He has been a Partner at Venrock, where he has focused largely on life sciences investments and, in particular, biotechnology investments, since 1975. Evnin currently serves on the boards of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Pharmos Corporation as well as a number of private companies, including Acceleron Pharma Inc. and Metabolex, Inc. Evnin is a Trustee of The Rockefeller University, a Trustee of The Jackson Laboratory, a Trustee Emeritus of Princeton University, and a Member of the Boards of Overseers and Managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Evnin holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. from Princeton University.
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About Princeton University, The Jackson Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, Venrock: Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.
Nick Beim
Partner of Venrock
Partner at Venrock.
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About Venrock: Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.
Nimish Shah
Partner of Venrock
Nimish Shah joined Venrock’s New York office in 2013 and focuses on a range of healthcare subsectors including generics, specialty pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and animal health. Most recently, he worked at Citadel and was involved in the firm’s healthcare investments. Prior to Citadel, Nimish was a Research Analyst at Credit Suisse covering the specialty pharma and generics sectors. Nimish began his career as a retail pharmacist and later spent time working in the Medical Affairs department at Novartis. He received his BS in pharmacy with honors from Rutgers College of Pharmacy, MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Venrock: Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.
Dan Abelon
Partner of Two Sigma Ventures
Dan joined Two Sigma Ventures in 2015 and spends his time on the investment team funding startups in a wide variety of sectors within early-stage technology. Before joining Two Sigma, Dan was an entrepreneur as well as an investor in areas such as data science, healthcare IT, and IOT. Previously, Dan co-founded SpeedDate (acquired by IAC), a live-video online dating service that used real-time matching algorithms to connect its 23 million members. Dan is very familiar with the roller coaster ride that most founders experience during their startup journeys. Earlier in his career, Dan worked at IBM, Lazard’s Technology M&A Group, and briefly at the World Bank in the Philippines researching investments in both technology and bamboo processing. Dan holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia. In his spare time, Dan enjoys Citibiking, playing keytar, and mentoring entrepreneurs in the developing world. He is a Kauffman Fellow and a member of YPO.
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About Kauffman Fellows, Two Sigma Ventures: Two Sigma Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in companies run by highly driven people.
