Rohit has three years of experience investing in early stage B2B software start ups. He is currently in New Products at Cerebral. He was previously an Associate at Grand Ventures. He is particularly passionate about investing in digital health start-ups. Specifically, he’s interested in verticalized telehealth start ups, companies helping people with complex mental health conditions, and companies addressing social determinants of health. Outside of work, Rohit is an Ironman triathlete, an adrenaline junkie, and an improv podcast host.
Morgan Cheatham is an investor in the New York City office of Bessemer where he focuses on applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare, marketplaces, and enterprise software. Before joining Bessemer, Morgan worked at Goldman Sachs in the Consumer Retail and Healthcare Group in the Investment Banking Division. He also worked as a data scientist at Kyruus, a healthcare IT startup focused on patient access and provider data management, and as an analyst at Rhode Island’s Health Information Exchange. Morgan was accepted to medical school at age 17 and graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in neuroeconomics.
Sophie is a sustainable business practitioner; first from the perspective of state and global policy, then implementing ESG at the Brown endowment, followed by a few years consulting at Bain & Co., published a book and taught on sustainable investing along the way, and founded an agtech venture (Kula Bio; raised +$15m). She now writes a climate tech newsletter (Climate Tech VC; 10,000+ readers) and invests in early stage companies.
Alexis Alston leads the investment team at Lightship Capital, a firm focused on investing in underrepresented founders in overlooked geographies in the US. In addition, she is the host and judge of Twitch Pitch, the very first pitch competition hosted on Twitch. Prior to that, she was an investor at Advantage Capital Partners where she invested both in growth stage VC and private equity deals in underserved geographies. She enjoys musical theatre, drag, the ballroom scene, and all things food with her maltese, Hamilton.
Deborah Mills-Scofield helps mid to large-sized companies make strategic planning a verb. She also is a partner at early stage Venture Capital firm, Glengary. Deb has written for Harvard Business Review and other venues, including her own blog, and has contributed to several books. Deb graduated from Brown University in 3 years and helped start the Cognitive Science concentration. After graduation she went to AT&T Bell Labs where her patent was one of the highest-revenue generating patents for AT&T and Lucent. She is on the Advisory Council of Brown University’s Engineering School and RISD’s DESINE-Lab and lectures at Brown. Deb also mentors student entrepreneurs of all types, advises in the Brown Design Workshop, and supports those involved in STEAM. She measures her success by her clients’ success and their impact.
Peter Levine is a Managing Director in the Brown Investment Office. While the Brown Investment Office team are all generalists, Peter does have subspecialties in all stages of Private Equity and both liquid and illiquid Credit Strategies. Previously, Peter founded and managed a distressed asset trading firm specializing in corporate aircraft value dislocations and cross border transactions. Prior to establishing Shepherd, he served as a Portfolio Manager at New Holland Capital, an investor focused exclusively on absolute return and uncorrelated hedge fund strategies. While at New Holland, Peter focused on distressed, real asset, and esoteric credit strategies. Peter has over 10 years of experience in senior corporate finance roles at private equity-sponsored growth and turnaround businesses. He began his career in the mergers and acquisitions group at JP Morgan. Peter is a graduate of Brown University class of 1995 with a concentration in Modern European History. He is an accomplished pilot, holding a commercial license and multiple jet "type" ratings.
Rima is a physician scientist and venture capital investor with KdT Ventures, where she partners with and invests in early stage scientific founders engineering the world at the molecular level. She graduated from Brown in 2011 with a degree in Neuroscience, went to UT Southwestern for medical school, where she studied lipid metabolism in the lab, and then went on to the University of Pennsylvania for clinical training in neurology. Driven to translate science at the bench to treatments in the clinic, she jumped from clinical training to the Fannin Innovation Studio, a life sciences startup cultivation firm in Houston TX, before joining KdT.
Michael is an entrepreneur and investor with a passion for building innovation companies. He’s had the good fortune to be operating as a leader driving multiple large exits (IPO and 3 successful acquisitions by large cap companies) and also as an early-stage investor in multiple unicorns. These days he also am collaborating with PE funds and SPACs to invest in and acquire later stage private companies.
Howard Anderson founded The Yankee Group which analyzed the high tech industry and was on the Inc list of fastest growing companies three years running. He sold the firm to Reuters in 1999. He is the co-founder of Battery Ventures which has raised over $4 Billion over several funds and has invested in over 350 high tech companies. Since 2000 he has taught graduate students of business at HBS, MIT, Dartmouth, Duke and now Brown. Additionally he has been the Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business, Technion University of Israel, and Skolkovo University of Moscow.
Ana has worked in early stage venture from the start of her career. She started her career as an associate at Betaworks Ventures, predominantly investing in consumer tech, straight out of Brown in 2015. She worked at RRE Ventures while at Harvard Business School, focusing on early stage consumer investing, and then founded a company while at HBS with RRE as her lead investor. She is currently a Senior Associate at RRE Ventures where she is building out the firm’s Miami office and splits her time and focus between New York and Florida. On the side she is an active angel investors with a focus on everything consumer - everything from CPG, consumer healthcare, consumer tech, future of retail. She is also an Investor in Residence at Techstars LA where helps select their new cohorts and advises founders in the program.
Steve Glenn is the founder and CEO of Plant Prefab. Plant is the first Certified B Corporation™ building technology company dedicated to sustainable design, materials, and operations. Previously, Glenn worked with the William Jefferson Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) and managed the development of a $220 million program in Mozambique, the first program CHAI launched in Africa. Glenn is founder and former Chairman and CEO of PeopleLink, a leading provider of enterprise ecommunity solutions, which raised $35 million from AT&T Ventures, GE, Goldman Sachs, idealab and others. Glenn was a founding partner of idealab, a business incubation firm that raised $1 billion and that founded or invested in a number of successful companies including GoTo/Overture (OVER), NetZero/United Online (UNTD), CitySearch (TMCS), Tickets.com (TKTS), eToys and CarsDirect. Glenn worked for Walt Disney Imagineering as co-director of the Virtual Reality Studio. Glenn co-founded Clearview Software, which was sold to Apple Computer where Glenn later served as a marketing specialist. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Brown University, studied Urban Planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was a Coro Fellow. Glenn co-founded and chaired the Sustainable Business Council, and was a co-founder and former board member of Hope Street Group, www.hopestreetgroup.org and the Brown University Entrepreneur Forum, www.brownep.org. He has served as a Judge for the US Energy Department's Solar Decathlon competition, www.solardecathlon.gov . Glenn was named the Clean Tech CEO of the Year by Clean Tech Week; Environmental Entrepreneur of the Year by LA City Council/Faith2Green; and Greatest Person of the Day by Huffington Post.
Liz is a Vice President at L Catterton. Previously, she was the Senior CRM Marketing Manager for Sweaty Betty and prior to that an Associate for L Catterton. Before joining L Catterton, Liz worked in investment banking in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Barclays. Liz graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Economics and received an MBA from Harvard Business School
Brandon Kim is the founder of Brevitē and RISD alumni. Brandon started a direct-to-consumer backpack company Brevitē as a side hustle in college with his brothers. At first, they catered to photographers, creating a stylish bag that could easily fit a professional camera and its accessories. They have since begun catering to a wider audience and now sell five styles of backpacks, ranging in price from $95 to $219. The bootstrapped company expects revenue to surpass $3 million in 2020.
Katie Galvin is an Investment Director at the Brown University Endowment. She invests across all asset classes and industries with Venture Capital, Growth Equity, Private Equity, and Healthcare sub-specialties. Prior to joining Brown, Katie worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch on the Financial Institutions ECM team. Katie graduated from Brown University with a BA in Business Economics and received her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Chris Hofmann is a partner at Bain Capital Crypto where he focuses on investing in crypto across both private and liquid protocols and private equity. Chris spent the past 7 years at Brown University’s Investment Office investing across public and private asset classes. He first became interested in crypto in 2017 and specializes in the Cosmos ecosystem. Chris graduated from Brown University with a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics in 2010.
Adam is a Partner at FirstMark focusing on vertical software and marketplaces. Prior to joining the firm, Adam spent nearly a decade in Silicon Valley, most recently as a Partner at Social Capital where he focused on early stage venture investing in enterprise SaaS and marketplaces. Before Social Capital, Adam was an early employee at Dropbox where he built and scaled Dropbox's Partner Network and Revenue Partnerships teams. Adam started his career in investment banking and private equity at Merrill Lynch and Lindsay Goldberg, respectively.
Shane is Managing Partner at Punch Capital, which invests in top (pre-)seed B2B immigrants and is a Ryan Hoover Emerging 50 fund. Shane has invested in unicorn immigrant founders and advised immigrants backed by a16z with $200M+ in exits. He was last a NextGen venture partner and Techstars all-star mentor (top 1%), and he was recently class marshal as an active alum in fundraising and entrepreneurship.
Todd is an Operating Partner at Bain Capital in the Tech Opportunities fund where he leads the investing and value creation efforts across the portfolio and partners with management teams to support their key initiatives. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Todd was Chief Strategy and Operating Officer at Cengage, a multi-billion dollar, PE backed (KKR, Apax and Searchlight) global education and technology company, where he led strategy, corporate development, channel, pricing, procurement and supply chain. Before Cengage, he was a management strategy consultant in London, Dubai and Boston, most recently as a Senior Principal in the Technology and Private Equity practices of BCG, with a focus on Go-To-Market. Earlier in his career, Todd was a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, co-founding and successfully exiting education technology and information services companies. Todd also served in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, with a focus on Micro-Finance and Small Enterprise Development. Additionally, Todd is an active angel investor with 3 friends from business school, having invested in over 15 founder led businesses.
Reece is a Partner and member of the investment committee at Propeller, where he focuses on sourcing, investing in, and supporting ocean entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of their ventures. Before joining Propeller, Reece was an active angel investor at the ocean-climate nexus, leveraging his startup experience and ocean network to source and support founders. Previously, he held a dual role as SVP of Ocean Responsibility at the World Surf League (WSL) and Executive Director of WSL PURE (the WSL’s 501(c)(3)). Prior to the WSL, Reece spent a year abroad researching and volunteering for conservation efforts around marine plastic pollution, coastal conservation, and re-wilding efforts. Reece is a 2x cofounder/CEO of two venture-backed video startups (B2B SaaS and consumer facing).
