Team

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  • Ryan Castle

    CEO / Founder

  • Expert in cyber crime and software development
  • Former FBI Special Agent working Criminal Computer Intrusions & Organized Crime
  • Palantir engineering team lead
  • TraceSecurity COO responsible for 100 employees and $12M P&L
  • Vanderbilt University MS in CS
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  • Dave Adams

    COO / Co-Founder

  • Institutional investment professional with history of operating businesses
  • Has nervously wired a billion dollars over the course of his career
  • Managing Director at a real estate private equity fund
  • Family office professional overseeing operating business and investment portfolios
  • Head of due diligence at $3.8B fund of hedge funds
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  • Brian Novelline

    Vice President of Business Development

  • Investor/Advisor for the last 5 years at a software company that grew revenues at a 50% CAGR
  • Buy-side experience across hedge fund and proprietary trading investing in equities, real estate and convertible bonds
  • Head of direct investing at Fund of Funds sourcing co-investments across alt managers
  • Dartmouth BA Econ and Kellogg MBA in Finance
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  • Jon Vaughn

    Director of Customer Success

  • Treasury operations professional with 10 years of experience working at both Hedge Fund and Private Equity firms
  • Hazeltree Implementation Specialist overseeing large-scale projects with some of the largest alternative firms in the world
  • Has made thousands of callbacks over the course of his career
  • Expertise in wire instruction formatting, bank payment files, SWIFT, and ISO messaging
  • Has sent many high priority deal funding wires at 4:30PM on a Friday
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  • Luke Wilson

    Operating Partner

  • Managing Partner Auxo Advisors
  • 20 years leading business and commercial functions to drive sales and marketing initiatives
  • Drove sales and GTM strategies as Chief Commercial Officer for ACA Group
  • Built and launched private markets practice within ACA Group
  • Former SEC Examiner, focusing on compliance for registered investment advisers, companies, and transfer agents
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  • Casey Clark

    Strategic Business Advisor

  • Managing Partner Cultivate Brands / CEO Cultivate Advisors
  • Has grown multiple companies to 8 figures and beyond
  • 6-time Inc 5000 Award winner
  • Winner of "Best CEO" from numerous third-party organizations
  • Strategic Advisor, and early investor, in Conduit Security
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