About Us
Our Team
Our team brings over 200 years of broad-based experience, which includes:
- Management and / or governance responsibility for $500 billion in institutional capital across all asset classes
- Investment of over $3 billion in private equity
- Successful management of independent firms through the internet bubble and recession of 2008
- Direct and institutional investing
- Fund management
- Approximately $40 billion raised across all asset classes (over $2 billion in private equity) and $1
billion+ raised in 2009 - Research, faculty, and senior administrative roles at leading universities such as: Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Duke, UNC, East Carolina, and Auburn
- Advisory services
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
Eugene Flood, Jr., Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
More than three decades of asset management, global microeconomics and finance experience Executive VP of Dive...
James Mason
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
More than 25 years of experience across the private investments spectrum Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Pari...
Michael Howley
Managing Director
More than 20 years of experience spanning investment banking, transactional consulting and private equity Foun...
Andrea Chapman
Director
More than 14 years of experience spanning private equity, fiduciary relationship management and banking Trust ...
Farad Ali
Senior Advisor
More than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, business executive, corporate banking officer, consultant...
Taffye Benson Clayton, Ed.D.
Senior Advisor
Brings over 20 years of experience as an executive administrator leading diversity and inclusion efforts at ma...
Ted Zoller, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
T.W. Lewis Clinical Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ad...
James L. Collins
Senior Advisor
More than twenty years of private equity experience Founder and Managing Partner, Eastwood Capital Partners ...
Jeff Clark
Venture Partner
More than 30 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Co-Founder and Board Chair, M...
Emmit McHenry
Venture Partner
Mr. McHenry’s firm, Network Solutions, pioneered the internet domain registry, the foundational architecture...
Chip Gillooly
Venture Partner
More than 30 years of extensive experience leading companies, executing acquisitions and partnerships and crea...