LEADERSHIP

TEAM

As a team, we have over 40 years of combined experience executing disruptive technology-related investments. This translates to more than a billion in capital being put to work across 30 direct investments, 40 fund investments, and 500-plus portfolio companies. Each of us contributes distinguished technology investing experience spanning an array of industries and markets. What excites us most about this work? Investing at the nexus of transformational technologies, exploding markets and where we can tap our extensive C-level connections at Fortune 200 companies.

LEISL KLEINDL-SCHELLING, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

MEG O'CONOR

Director, Communications

VENTURE PARTNERS AND ADVISORS

ROBERT (BOB) H. BALK

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

Led Boeing's Fund of Fund Investmens. Currently, a mentor at The Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences at Cornell .


JEFF GENG, PH.D.

Venture Advisor

Investor - LRG Ventures, 

Managing Director, IP and Research, Emory

DENNIS LIOTTA

Venture Advisor

Chair –The Emory Institute for Drug Development

Chair -  Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory

ONIX RAMIREZ

Venture Advisor

Investor, LRG Ventures

Chief of Staff and  Director of Financial Operations, 

Liotta Research Group.

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REWA GOYAL

Venture Fellow

Rewa harks from Indiana University, majoring at the Kelley School of Business, with a minor in criminal justice, and is focused on a career in finance and law.  She has worked with a PE firm, and leads the Women’s Financial Association and Financial Services clubs at IU.  She will be a force to reckon with when she graduates.

RIA PAI

Venture Fellow

Ria is a Computational Biologist, with a strength in  product innovation from USC. She has already worked with  a couple of startups, holds  patents, and leads a tech4good club at USC.  As she explores data and innovation in conjunction with health, we are convinced that she will be a leading player in the field of health analytics.

JOHN GRIMM

Venture Fellow

John is an Economics major with a minor in Biology at Cal Poly. He is a keen soccer player, who has worked with the VA hospital here, everything from pushing gurneys to helping develop a dialysis app.  John has discovered that fostering innovation in health tech can satisfy both his interests: health and    business.

MIHIKA JAIN

Venture Fellow

Mihika is an Economics and Public Policy major at UChicago with a keen interest and prior involvement in non-profits and social causes. She is fascinated with innovation and its power to drive social change, both as a nonprofit and as a business.

ANJELI MAYORAZ

Venture Fellow

Anjeli, is a Math/CS major from Harvey Mudd College and shares a passion for innovation and social change. She has been involved in tech startups since high school, and has helped develop a social emotional learning app for middle schoolers.

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“Fortune 1000 companies in the top quartile of ethnic diversity among their senior management outperformed their peers in EBITDA margin by 35%.”

– McKinsey & Company 2017 Study “Delivering Through Diversity”

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