is a director on our board and a board chair. Mike will lead our Partner outreach and evaluation activities, working closely with Matt. He is currently the
Co-Founder
and CEO of Bullet Point Network (BPN). BPN provides research and software to Alpha Partners’ current Funds and special purpose vehicles. Mike is a
co-investor
in many of Alpha’s portfolio companies and is a Fund LP. An active private investor, entrepreneur and board member, Mike has almost 30 years of investment, capital markets and management experience and is the CIO of MDR Capital, his family office. Before founding Bullet Point Network, Mike served as Head of Public Equity and Absolute Return at the Harvard University endowment, Head of Global Securities (overseeing equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities) at Credit Suisse, and Partner and Head of Global Equity Products at Goldman Sachs, where he spent the first 18 years of his career, and where he became a partner in 1998. Mike has served as a director, committee chair, and board chair on numerous corporate and
non-profit
boards. Mike graduated summa cum laude with a BA in economics from Yale University where he was an academic
All-American
in basketball. We believe Mike’s experience as
Co-Founder
and CEO of BPN makes him well qualified to serve as a director on our board and a board chair.
is a director of our board. Steve
is the founder and Managing Partner at Alpha Partners. Steve also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Pritzker Group‘s venture arm, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Prior to Alpha Partners, Steve was the
co-founder
and Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP (GSAVP), Greenhill & Co’s venture capital unit (which was spun out as Tribeca Venture Partners), a technology- and business information services-focused venture capital fund. Prior to GSAVP, Steve founded Silicon Alley Venture Partners. At his prior funds, Steve led investments in over 20 companies and was among the first institutional investors in LivePerson (Nasdaq: LPSN, market cap $4.7 billion currently) and Medidata Solutions (formerly public Nasdaq: MDSO before being acquired by Dassault Systèmes for $5.8 billion). Prior to starting his venture career, Steve was also the
co-founder
of a venture-backed company, AdOne, the pioneer online classified advertising platform. AdOne was backed by Venrock and acquired by Hearst. Steve graduated from Duke University with an Economic Degree and has a JD/MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. Between graduate and undergraduate studies, Steve was trained as a COBOL/DB2 programmer for Accenture.
Steve assists Matt and Mike’s origination efforts, leveraging the extended Alpha team and our network of 500+ VC firms to originate suitable opportunities amongst their 27,651 portfolio company universe. Subsequent to the business combination, Steve’s relationship network will be tapped to assist our partner in myriad ways, from business development to sourcing potential acquisition opportunities. With Mike, Steve will lead efforts to develop allied institutional relationships in support of the transaction. We believe Steve’s experience as a Senior Advisor to the Pritzker Group’s venture arm, Pritzker Group Venture Capital makes him well qualified to serve as a director.
has been a member of our Board of Directors since our initial public offering. He is the
co-Founder,
Executive Board Chair and former CEO of Cardlytics (Nasdaq:CDLX), having previously served as the company’s CEO from inception to March 2020 including for the company’s initial public offering in February 2018. Before
co-founding
Cardlytics, Scott was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Payments at Capital One Financial Corporation. Earlier, Scott was a Senior Vice President at FreeMarkets Inc., and a Principal at McKinsey & Company. From 2014 to 2020, Scott also served as a member of the Board of Directors for electric services company Evergy, Inc. (NYSE: EVRG). Scott graduated from Union College with a degree in electrical engineering and has an MBA for the Stanford Graduate School of Business. We believe Scott’s experience as the
co-Founder,
Executive Board Chair and former CEO of Cardlytics makes him well qualified to serve as a director.
has been a member of our Board of Directors since our initial public offering. He is the Founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national
non-profit
organization that fights racial and economic disparities by empowering a new generation of diverse leaders. MLT has partnerships with many of the leading companies in the technology sector and elsewhere and John personally advises many CEOs on how to attract, develop and retain diverse talent. Building on more than 15 years of experience and deep partnerships in developing and implementing diversity, equity and inclusion strategies, MLT launched the MLT Black Equity at Work Certification, a
clear standard and roadmap for companies. Prior to MLT, John was an executive with the National Basketball Association, and with the Walt Disney Company in new business development and marketing. John serves on the board of Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD). John received his BA from Yale University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. We believe John’s experience as the Founder and CEO of MLT makes him well qualified to serve as a director.