The VU Team

 

 

 

• Ranked Top 100 Powerlist VC
• 10+ years of VC/PE Investing, 80+ Portfolio Companies
• Select Prior Portfolio Companies: Beyond Meat (IPO'd), Sensity (Acquired by Verizon), ShopKick (Acquired by SK Telecom), FabFitFun, MeUndies, Le Tote, Helix Sleep, ZeroCater, Deliv
• Former Managing Director of Investments at Cleveland Avenue (VC/PE Fund co-founded by Former CEO & President of McDonalds), focusing on food and beverage brands, food related technologies, and new restaurant concepts
• Founder, Head, & Former Managing Director of Simon Venture Group (Corporate investment arm of Simon Property Group, S&P 100, largest retail real estate company in the world), grew to top 5 corporate VC focused on commerce alongside Google Ventures, Intel Capital, and Comcast Ventures
• Adjunct Professor at New York University teaching Venture Capital Intensive
• Creator of Multiple Top Ranked Entrepreneur Resources: #1 Startup Investor Pitch Deck Template (viewed & downloaded 500,000+ times, used by leading business schools and accelerators)
• Co-Founder of the #1 Startup Board Game: The Next Big Thing: The Game of Entrepreneurship, backed by over 25+ of the top accelerators and VC investors

• 4+ years of venture capital experience, 30+ portfolio companies
• Select prior portfolio companies:  Epinomics (acquired by 10x Genomix), Melo (acquired by Ucommune), Ample, Sense Photonics, Bioaesthetics, Cypre, Persephone Biome, Nebulas Genomics, Phenomic Ai, Mendo, Navan Technology, Skymind, Alcatraz ai, Apprentice, Paladin, Tensorflight, Prime Discoveries, Securrency, Fr8, SkyFChain, Blockseed, AiCoin
• Former General Partner at Genesis Block Ventures:  A Blockchain Venture Capital Fund, Cryptocurrency Quant Hedge Fund, & Crypto Mining Company based in NYC & Wyoming
• Venture Capital investor at Hemi Ventures
• Family office investor/advisor to high net worth individuals & families in Asia, Singapore, & the middle east
• Led technology platforms at a major financial institution which managed $300 Billion AUM
• Cornell University, Finance
• University of Central Florida, Ph.d in Modeling and Simulation
• University of South Florida, Electrical Engineering
• Adjunct Professor at Cornell University teaching Finance & Management
• Author of 2 books published in all major bookstores globally

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• Member of the Marketplace and Consumer investment teams in Venture University's First Cohort
• Venture Fellow, VentureSouth
• Clemson University, MBA, Entrepreneurship
• Wofford College, BA, Business Economics

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