Mike serves on our Board of Directors and is Horizon’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Advisor’s investment committee. Mike has over 35 years of experience in investment and portfolio management and construction.
Mike has been a principal of the Rail-Splitter Micro Cap Rebound Fund since 2023 and was a principal at William Blair & Co, LLC, a global investment bank and financial services firm, for a combined 30 years. While at William Blair, Mike was Partner and Co-Manager of the Small-Cap Growth Fund. He was previously a 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.
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.
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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.
Jonathan Jacobs is a Partner in Morrison Foerster’s Finance Group. He represents traditional and alternative lenders, agents, and borrowers in domestic and cross-border loan arrangements, out-of-court restructurings, debtor-in-possession financings, and other credit facilities. His experience includes cash flow, recurring revenue, asset-based, acquisition, and venture debt financings, including sponsor-backed leveraged buyouts and multi-tranche structures across a range of industries, with a particular emphasis on the innovation economy.
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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.
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.
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Jennifer Post counsels venture funds, BDCs, and other direct lenders in a variety of finance transactions with a focus on technology and life sciences industries. She assists her lender clients in structuring secured credit facilities, as well as documenting equity enhancement instruments and investment rights. In addition to counseling lenders on commercial transaction matters, she assists her clients in structuring funds, co investment entities, joint ventures and account management structures often including leverage and warehouse lines. In connection with the documentation of credit facilities, she supports her clients in due diligence, documentation, syndications, participations, portfolio management, intercreditor agreements and distressed and turnaround matters. She has over thirty years of experience in venture debt transactions working in both the east coast and west coast venture markets. She serves as the 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.
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.
A Financial Services partner in the Firm’s San Diego office, Troy Zander has extensive experience representing banks and other lenders, companies, and agents across a range of sophisticated venture debt and other commercial lending matters within technology, life sciences and middle-market financing transactions. Troy advises clients on leveraged and venture debt financings, bridge loans, restructurings, and asset acquisitions. He has extensive experience in asset-based and cash-flow lending, including complex global syndications.
