Nick is an experienced private-credit veteran with more than a decade in consumer and asset-based finance. He has sourced, underwritten, and managed transactions across a broad range of specialty finance assets—including student loans, credit cards, personal loans, home equity products, and special situations—while leading capital markets activities, investor relations, and execution. Nick has established and managed a large network of family offices and high-net-worth investors, partnered alongside leading institutional firms, and executed acquisitions in both performing and non-performing consumer credit. His work spans origination strategy, asset modeling, servicing oversight, and complex capital structuring—bringing a practical, results-driven perspective to every investment decision. At Jovian Capital Management, Nick leads capital formation and opportunity generation while serving on the investment committee, ensuring disciplined access to high-quality, risk-aware opportunities across the portfolio.
Nick holds a BS and MS in Finance from Florida State University.
Ella-Tamar Adhanan is a Managing Director at Hercules Capital in New York, where she leads technology origination and business development. She brings close to eight years of experience in technology banking and venture capital, with deep relationships across the startup ecosystem and expertise in cross-border market dynamics. Before joining Hercules, Ella spearheaded business development for Technology Banking and Investor Coverage at Silicon Valley Bank, focusing on the U.S.–Israel market. There, she partnered with high-growth, venture-backed startups, providing strategic financing solutions and guiding them through critical growth milestones. She also managed top-tier VC and private equity relationships in New York and led SVB’s international expansion across India and MENA. Earlier, she worked as a sales analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York and served as Chief of Staff at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. Ella holds a B.A. in economics with a minor in mathematics and technological entrepreneurship from the University of Maryland. In 2025, she was named one of Globes’ 50 most influential women in business.
Mike is the Chief Executive Officer of Horizon Technology Finance, a leading venture lending platform and affiliate of Monroe Capital. He serves on Horizon’s investment committee and Board of Directors. Mike has more than 35 years of experience in investment management, with deep expertise in portfolio management and construction.
Mike has been a principal of the Rail-Splitter Micro Cap Rebound Fund since 2023 and previously spent a combined 30 years at William Blair & Co, LLC, a global investment bank and financial services firm. While at William Blair, he was Partner and Co-Manager of the Small-Cap Growth Fund. Earlier, Mike served as Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Magnetar Investment Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Magnetar Capital LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund, from 2005 to 2008.
Mike is the Chairman of Performance Health Systems, LLC, a fitness and health company. He also serves as an advisor and director to several other public and private companies as well as on the board of several charities.
Mike earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University.
Chuck focuses on lender side commercial financing transactions for borrowers in the biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics, health care technologies and life science industries, as well as early, mid and late-stage technology companies. He represents banks, private credit funds, public financing firms, and other investment advisors and managers in a variety of financing structures including syndicated loans, acquisition financings, asset-based loans and real estate supported transactions, senior secured, mezzanine, and unsecured financings.
Prasant Chunduru has spent 15 years in the financial services industry at the intersection of technology, startups, and banking. He is currently a Managing Director and leads the Technology Credit Solutions team in HSBC Innovation Banking. Prior to that, he was a founding member of the HSBC Strategic Innovation Investments team and had stints in Strategy & Planning within HSBC.
Prasant has dual degrees in Computer Engineering and Economics from University of California, Irvine. He subsequently acquired a MBA from the Indian School of Business.
Prasant lives in New York City with his wife and two children. His interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and financial services. His passions also include travel, tennis, and cricket.
Arthur Daemmrich is director of the Arizona State University Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO) and a professor in the ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He was previously director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and has held academic appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and Harvard Business School.
Bob Eisenbach is a business restructuring and reorganization attorney with Cooley LLP. For more than 35 years, he has guided companies and their boards of directors, as well as lenders and other creditors, through Chapter 11, out-of-court restructurings, distressed M&A, and recapitalizations. Bob also has a national reputation for helping clients deal with the intersection of intellectual property and bankruptcy law, representing licensors, licensees, and others on these complex issues.
Haley Fiallo is counsel in Manatt’s financial services practice with a background at the intersection of financial services and innovation. She has extensive experience counseling lenders, commercial banks and borrowers on financing transactions, in addition to venture capital and real estate investments and contracts. Haley focuses on representing companies in documenting technology, life sciences and middle-market financing transactions, including traditional commercial leveraged debt financings, venture debt financings and bridge loans.
Eitan Frailich is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Hypercore, a pioneering company that leads the private credit industry with innovative loan management software and agentic AI administration services. As a serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in cloud-native software development and finance technology, Eitan leads product strategy and customer success at Hypercore, ensuring the platform continuously evolves to meet the real-world demands of private credit funds. His technical foundation was shaped by six years as a Software Developer in the Israeli Air Force, where he built mission-critical applications in high-performance, real-time environments.
Eric Goldberg represents debtors both in and out of court, as well as creditors and other stakeholders, including lenders and funds, in a variety of transactions. His practice involves complex bankruptcy-related litigation, including contested confirmations, termination of collective bargaining agreements and all types of adversary proceedings. Eric also has extensive experience working with hedge funds, institutional lenders, bondholders and buyers of distressed assets.
Alexander Gorokhovskiy is a Managing Director and Head of North American Corporate Direct Lending and Venture Debt at Deutsche Bank, a longstanding multibillion balance sheet business. His responsibilities span all aspects of the principal lending activities, including underwriting, structuring, portfolio management and syndication. Mr. Gorokhovskiy has played a critical role in driving Deutsche Bank’s growing presence in the direct lending market and sits on the Firm’s Private Credit & Infrastructure business investment committee. Previously, he held multiple roles in structured credit trading and credit solutions businesses. Mr. Gorokhovskiy graduated summa cum laude from Pace University’s Pforzheimer Honors College with degrees in Computer Science and Business Management, with a minor in Mathematics. He is a CFA charterholder.
Greg joined Runway Growth Capital in 2015 and currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer.
As CIO, he leads the team responsible for due diligence, performance monitoring, and deal structuring for both prospective borrowers and portfolio companies. He also serves on the firm’s investment committee, amendment committee, and first deal review committee.
Greg was recognized as a Rising Star by both Venture Capital Journal and Private Debt Investor in 2020. Prior to joining Runway, he held roles at J.P. Morgan and HPS Investment Partners.
Arjun is a partner on the Technology team at NEA, where he is a generalist and also helps lead the capital markets function. Prior to joining NEA, Arjun was a merchant banker at The Raine Group, in New York, where he worked on M&A transactions and growth equity investments across the technology, media, and entertainment landscapes globally. Prior to Raine, Arjun worked in Sales & Trading at J.P. Morgan
Mike Lederman is the Head of Western Alliance Bank’s Innovation Banking Group. Based in San Francisco, Mike is responsible for leading the relationship management and business development efforts of the Innovation Banking, Fund Banking, Life Sciences and Startup Banking Teams. He is also a member of the Bank’s loan committee and its Innovation Banking Strategic Leadership Team.
Mike has 25 years of experience lending to innovation startups at all stages of their life cycles. He began his career at Silicon Valley Bank and has held a previous position with Horizon Technology Finance. During his tenure at Western Alliance Bank’s legacy brand, Bridge Bank, his experience includes both management and business development responsibilities in the innovation, asset-based and C&I lines of business.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a minor in Economics from the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and graduated from Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.
Heidi Lipton, a founding partner of Rock Creek Advisors, has many years of experience in banking and consulting. She worked over 10 years at Goldman Sachs in their investment banking and asset management divisions and additional years in management consulting for McKinsey & Company in their New York based Financial Institutions practice. Heidi is very talented in identifying a company’s strengths and issues, developing a strategy for improvement, building consensus with all key constituents, and leading a process to obtain a positive outcome. Heidi has extensive experience with clients in many industries and helps guide them through tough financial issues, restructuring, liquidity constraints, sale processes and insolvency matters. Heidi has an MBA from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts from University of Pennsylvania.
Sean Lynden is President of Banc of California’s Venture Banking Group. In this role, he leads a national team of bankers who provide tailored banking solutions to seed- and early-stage startups, as well as fund financing for venture capital and private equity firms. He is also a member of Banc of California’s Executive Leadership Group.
Mr. Lynden is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of experience. Before joining Banc of California, he served as President of the Venture Banking Group for Pacific Western Bank and as Senior Vice President and Risk Manager for Square 1 Bank. He began his banking career at Silicon Valley Bank, where he held various positions in technology, credit administration and finance.
Mr. Lynden also has extensive experience in venture capital and venture debt. Prior to joining Pacific Western Bank, he was a Founding Partner at Gold Hill Capital, a private venture firm that provides debt and equity capital to companies in technology and life sciences.
Mr. Lynden earned his bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stanford University.
John has over 20 years of technology industry experience across roles in engineering and debt, equity, and M&A transactions. He has previously worked at investment banks Seven Hills Partners, CIBC World Markets, and JP Morgan in New York, London, Toronto, and San Francisco. John is also a Licensed Professional Engineer. He received his Master of Business Administration from York University and his Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Mathematics from Queen’s University in Canada. John has two daughters and is an elite masters runner with West Valley Track Club and a world-ranked beer miler.
Rob is a co-founder and responsible for all aspects of the investment process at Coromandel Capital. Previously, he was a Vice President (VP) at a private credit fund sourcing and structuring deals. Prior to that, he was a VP at Credit Suisse for 4 years in Risk in the Asset Finance department, focused on esoteric, consumer, and commercial assets, spanning ~30 borrowers across ~$4bn in commitments, with responsibilities spanning due diligence, underwriting, as well as risk and portfolio management. Prior to that, he started his career as a fundamental credit analyst at Moody’s Investors Service where he produced research, analyzed, and monitored a diverse portfolio of non-investment grade specialty finance companies. He received his BBA in Finance from Loyola University Maryland.
Nate McOmber is a Managing Director at G2 Capital Advisors, where he advises distressed venture-backed companies and their stakeholders. Harnessing 25 years as a fiduciary, advisor, restructuring investment banker, and VC portfolio company executive, he implements comprehensive restructuring solutions for troubled companies, including assignments for the benefit of creditors (ABCs), expedited M&A processes, and out-of-court workouts. He oversees businesses during transitionary phases to stabilize challenging situations and minimize risk. Nate holds an MBA from Wharton.
Craig is the founding partner of Columbia Lake Partners, providing growth capital loans to technology firms based in the UK and Europe. Previously he was a Partner at Wellington Financial LP.
Prior to joining Wellington in 2005, Craig worked at a mid-market financial advisory firm providing merger, acquisition advisory and business planning services. Previously, he was a Regional Director at Russell Investments (1999-2003). He started his career as a Systems Engineer with Xerox Canada.
Craig earned his Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) degree from The University of Waterloo. He earned his Masters of Business Administration (with distinction) from the Ivey School of Business and was awarded the Ivey Scholar for academic excellence. Craig is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Philip serves as the CEO and a board member of Datavations. His passion lies in helping industrial giants adopt data science and AI. He sets the company’s vision and strategy and is deeply involved across all facets of operations — from sales to engineering. His core strengths include building exceptional teams by recruiting the right people for the right roles and forging high-value partnerships with both investors and customers.
Born and raised in Sweden, Philip gained a firsthand view of manufacturing leadership through his father’s consulting work. Before graduating from Colgate University, he spent his summers interning in IT at Deutsche Bank, working at a hedge fund, and participated in a recruiting program for three-letter agencies in North Africa — experiences that shaped his unique perspective at the intersection of industrials, financial data, and intelligence.
Philip previously worked at Vista Equity-owned 7 Park Data, where he was ranked in the top 1% of employees and served as a quantitative analyst. There, he provided financial predictions to clients like Citadel, Tiger, and Point72, leveraging both primary and secondary data to forecast consumer and industrial stock performance.
Before launching Datavations full-time, Philip built his own machine learning model to predict revenues for industrial and consumer companies — achieving a sub-1% error rate across five consecutive quarters. To keep costs down, he constructed the supporting infrastructure using Raspberry Pis stored in a basement for cooling. This prototype secured initial funding for Datavations and helped him turn down acquisition offers from hedge funds in favor of building a platform that empowers Fortune 500 manufacturers to optimize their businesses with data-driven retail insights.
Matt Pangle is a financial services associate in Manatt’s Orange County office, and a member of the Private Credit and Venture Lending Team. Matt has extensive experience representing commercial banks, private lenders and borrowers on a wide range of financial transactions, including venture debt financings, bridge loans, and leveraged acquisitions in the technology, life sciences and entertainment industries.
Mr. Pichinson, a co-founder and co-managing member of Sherwood Partners, Inc., takes a hands-on approach to working with management teams. Developing innovative ways to create and maintain profitability while gaining maximum market share is his strong suit. His management style and deep understanding of corporate structure and culture enable him to foster a sense of accomplishment within organizations, contributing to sustained growth and profitability long after his mission is complete.
Mr. Pichinson has positioned Sherwood Partners, Inc. as one of the most sought-after advisory firms for companies looking to reengineer, refocus, reposition, restructure, and monetize their intellectual property. He is recognized as one of the nation’s foremost experts in IP monetization and frequently speaks on this topic at seminars nationwide. Many clients also rely on his marketing expertise to maximize their branding efforts.
He currently serves on the board of the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian National Museum, where he brings insights from decades of work with venture-backed companies.
Jennifer Post counsels venture funds, BDCs, and other direct lenders in finance transactions with a focus on technology and fintech industries. She assists lenders in structuring secured credit facilities and documenting equity enhancement instruments and investment rights. In addition to counseling lenders on commercial transactions, she assists in structuring funds, co-investment entities, joint ventures and account management structures. She has 30+ years of experience in venture capital and venture debt transactions in the East Coast and West Coast venture markets. She is Co-Chair of Thompson Coburn’s Emerging Companies Group.
Mehak Rashid is a Managing Partner at Legal Scale LLP, where she advises private credit funds, venture lenders, and growth-stage companies on venture debt, structured credit, and sponsor-backed financings. With over a decade of transactional experience, including training at leading law firms, Mehak is recognized for her lender-focused structuring insight, practical term-sheet guidance, and ability to drive efficient execution in complex, time-sensitive transactions.
Ruslan is a Managing Director for Hercules Capital, leading technology origination out of New York City and responsible for sourcing and executing investment opportunities.
Prior to Hercules, Ruslan was a Managing Director for the Stifel Venture Lending team helping run origination and structuring efforts across the east coast for the venture bank. He also spent the prior five years at PacWest where he led the credit team across the PacWest east coast venture banking portfolio.
Ruslan has over 12 years of credit investing experience across all stages of debt and company profile, previously working on the Direct Lending team at Golub Capital, a middle market private credit fund. He began his career in Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Leveraged Finance Group.
Mr. Solovy is a Managing Director of Monroe Capital. He is responsible for co-leading relationship sourcing and the origination of new business opportunities within the software, technology and tech-enabled services industries. Mr. Solovy has 25 years of private equity, venture capital, and investment banking experience. Prior to Monroe, Mr. Solovy was a Managing Director at Hercules Capital. Mr. Solovy earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.S in Business Administration (summa cum laude) from Washington University’s Olin Business School in St. Louis. Mr. Solovy is Co-President of the Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Alumni Association.
David Teten is a Partner with Orange Collective, a fund backed by 150+ Y Combinator alumni investing in the next generation of Y Combinator founders. He is cofounder and Chair of Action Tank, which uses AI to empower advocacy groups and other nonprofits to better accomplish their mission. David is also Chair of AltsTech, a community of investors in alternatives using AI, technology and analytics to generate alpha, and Founders’ Next Move, for tech founders exploring new ideas. David is a Venture Partner (formerly Partner) with Coolwater Capital, which invests in emerging fund managers as a limited partner, into general partnerships, and into fund management companies. David was also formerly a Managing Partner with HOF Capital; Partner with ff Venture Capital; and Founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY. David has previously advised such institutional investors as Activate Venture Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Real Ventures, Right Side Capital, Tiferes.vc, Transform Investment Group, and Orascom TMT Investments (Sawiris family office). He started his career as a strategy consultant, Bear Stearns investment banker, and serial founder with two cash exits as CEO. While in college, he built an outsourced software development firm which he built to 35 clients.
Kai is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner with Structural Capital and has excelled for over 20 years as an entrepreneur in Financial Services and brings substantial lending and investing experience. As a Co-Founder of Structural Capital, Kai is heavily involved in all aspects of the firm including setting and executing the investment strategy, marketing and capital raising, and hiring key members of the firm from its inception. While at Structural, Kai has invested in and assisted various portfolio companies with capital raising, business development, corporate strategy, and recruiting. Some of the successful portfolio companies Kai has been involved with include Beyond Meat, Beauty Counter, Epic Creations, IMVU, InMobi, Kilopass Semiconductor, Sunfed Ranch, Ephesoft, BYJU’s, Noom, and Manscaped.Kai is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner with Structural Capital and has excelled for over 20 years as an entrepreneur in Financial Services and brings substantial lending and investing experience. As a Co-Founder of Structural Capital, Kai is heavily involved in all aspects of the firm including setting and executing the investment strategy, marketing and capital raising, and hiring key members of the firm from its inception. While at Structural, Kai has invested in and assisted various portfolio companies with capital raising, business development, corporate strategy, and recruiting. Some of the successful portfolio companies Kai has been involved with include Beyond Meat, Beauty Counter, Epic Creations, IMVU, InMobi, Kilopass Semiconductor, Sunfed Ranch, Ephesoft, BYJU’s, Noom, and Manscaped.Prior to Structural Capital, Kai was a Managing Director at TriplePoint Capital, a leading venture debt firm in Silicon Valley, where he was instrumental in building and launching the firm. TriplePoint Capital was involved (in many cases with Kai as lead investor) in financing the growth of breakout companies such as Facebook, YouTube, Riot Games, Gaikai, Ruckus Wireless, Beyond Meat and Krux, among others. Kai joined TriplePoint Capital in 2005 as a key initial hire shortly after its Founding.
Melissa Wasser is a partner on the Capital Network team, focused on fintech companies.
Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Melissa was head of the Private Capital Markets group at Financial Technology Partners, helping Series B through pre-IPO fintech companies on private capital raises. Before that, she was at Goldman Sachs for over 10 years, working on private placements for later-stage technology companies and advising financial institutions’ investment banking clients.
Melissa graduated from Penn State University with a degree in finance. Melissa considers herself a coffee connoisseur and, after traveling all around the world, found her favorite beans in Kyoto, Japan, and Kenya’s Masai Mara.
Simon Weintraub is a senior partner in Arnon, Tadmor-Levy’s High Tech as well as Banking and Finance Group, specializing in venture lending, venture capital, and start-ups. He advises foreign clients, including venture capital funds and multinational corporations, on cross-border lending transactions and equity investments in Israel.
Recognized by IFLR1000 and Legal 500, Simon is praised for his business-minded approach and excellent communication skills. With over two decades of experience, he provides strategic counsel to clients navigating complex financial and regulatory landscapes.
Troy Zander is a Financial Services partner on Manatt’s Private Credit, Venture Lending and Commercial Finance team. A recovering bankruptcy attorney, he pairs restructuring instincts with forward-looking deal execution. He represents banks, non-bank lenders and agents in venture debt, growth financings, and commercial loans for technology, middle-market and life sciences companies globally.
