Chairman & CEO

Pat O’Meara

Patrick O’Meara is the Chairman and CEO of Inveniam Capital Partners, a finance and technology firm. He leads the business development efforts and is product manager for the firm’s proprietary and patent-pending transaction platform – Inveniam IO. Inveniam IO is a powerful SaaS technology platform that assists financial professionals in digitizing and modeling securities as data not code. Inveniam Capital Partners lays the foundation for digitizing Private Markets at the intersection of Capital Markets, Blockchain and Big Data.

Mr. O’Meara began his career at Raymond James and Bear Stearns & Co before founding his own financial advisory firm and building it into a niche leader for more than 14 years and employing over 80 finance professionals. As founder and President of O’Meara, Ferguson, Whelan & Conway he ran the firm’s advisory services; leading the structuring and execution of transactions for 42 Catholic dioceses and dozens of other faith-based, donation-driven nonprofits in the US. Prior to founding Inveniam Capital, he served as Chief Investment Officer for the University of Mary.

Over the past 20+ years, Mr. O’Meara has been a principal in transactions or advised on:

• $1+ Billion of equity financing
• $800+ million of merger and acquisition transactions
• $2+ Billion of new debt financing
• $1+ billion of debt re-financing

An internationally recognized thought leader on the functioning of the Capital Markets, he frequently provides insight on finance, strategic planning and the intersection of the capital markets with underserved market segments. He has delivered talks in more than 45 states and provinces in the U.S. & Canada and countries around the world including regularly lecturing on the connections between canon and civil law on Church financing, at the Vatican, addressing over 600 economists from five continents and discussing a more robust understanding of risk and the allocation of capital.

He has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal as well as Bloomberg, TIME, The Chicago Tribune, The Bond Buyer, Politico, The National Catholic Register, and many others, and he’s regularly appeared on Fox, CBS, ABC affiliates, EWTN and Catholic Answers Live.

Mr. O’Meara earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville and lives with his family in Michigan.

Executive Vice President

Bobby Yablunsky

As Executive Vice President of Inveniam Capital Partners, Bobby Yablunsky is responsible for administrative management of the company, overseeing stockholder relations and assisting in leading the company’s internal fund-raising initiatives. He is also responsible for internal human resources and assists Inveniam client teams in providing clients with tactical and strategic advice.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Yablunsky’s experience includes time as a venture capitalist, providing capital to build enterprise value, and as a clinical therapist, applying positive and clinical psychology to patients. Mr. Yablunsky is keenly aware of the intersections of psychology and finance and brings this experience to Inveniam personnel and clients.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Yablunsky has been directly involved in raising over $150 million in capital. His past clients include Progressions Behavior Health, New Sky Capital, SCP Partners, CIP Capital, Fourth Wall Media, Seven Echo, Company Voice, Actua Corporation, Safeguard Scientifics, CPL Solutions, Gift Certificates.com, and Mobility Solutions. With more than 20 years of experience executing venture capital deals, Mr. Yablunsky has a deep understanding of the strategic and tactical guidance required when raising capital, considering an M&A opportunity, or pursuing an exit strategy. His robust board experience has also led to the development a keen eye for deals that achieve the growth objectives of both issuers and professional services providers.

Mr. Yablunsky holds master level degrees in management from The Pennsylvania State University, applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University. He received his undergraduate degree in accounting from St. Vincent’s in Latrobe, PA.

CFO & President, Inveniam Principal Investing

Patrick J. Murphy

Patrick J. Murphy, CFA is the Chief Financial Officer of Inveniam Capital Partners and Co-President of Inveniam Securities. In these roles Mr. Murphy lead the firm’s efforts in the origination, structuring, and distribution of investment banking business. He is also responsible for financial management and reporting while supporting corporate capital raising activities and the firm’s principal investing.

With over 20 years of investment and transaction analysis experience, he has earned marked expertise across a range of asset classes including equities and fixed income, commercial real estate debt and equity, private equity and debt, commercial MBS, mortgage REITs, municipal derivatives, and public finance. Mr. Murphy leverages his robust knowledge of complex financial modeling and in-depth market research to identify key value-add partnerships for the firm’s clients.

Prior to Inveniam, Mr. Murphy worked for General American, Hanover Capital, Love Savings, and O’Meara Ferguson, Whelan, & Conway. Acting on behalf of both employers and as an individual investor, Mr. Murphy has started, operated, raised capital, and served as Chief Financial Officer for businesses in the retail, service, industrial, and commercial real estate sectors. He also has served on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer for a national non-profit.

Mr. Murphy received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame and his master’s degree in finance from St. Louis University. He is also a CFA Charter holder and a member of the CFA Society of St. Louis.

President

Kerry Rudy

Kerry Rudy joined Inveniam as Acting President in May 2020. His responsibilities include oversight of revenue generation, assisting in capital formation, marketing, pricing, and customer support. Mr. Rudy is a former investment banker with over 25 years of experience in tax-exempt debt capital markets. He has a proven record of success generating business, developing strategic capital formation strategies, and raising capital for high grade not-for-profit healthcare companies. He has raised both debt and equity venture capital for startup companies and has significant experience evaluating investment opportunities in multiple industries.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Rudy was Managing Director and Head of NFP Healthcare Investment Banking for PNC Capital Markets. Prior to PNC, he served as Managing Director and Head of NFP Healthcare Investment Banking for BMO Capital Markets. He spent over 19 years at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in various positions in tax-exempt debt capital markets raising billions of dollars for 501(c)3 corporations and governments representing healthcare, cultural institutions, municipalities, and state governments.

Mr. Rudy was Chief Financial Officer of PurchasePooling Solutions, Inc., a web-based technology solution to aggregate purchases of major capital equipment. He is a member of the board of Pathogen Detections Systems, DBA, Crystal Diagnostics, a system to identify pathogens in food and water supply. Mr. Rudy holds an MBA from SMU’s Cox School of Business and a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Chief Technology Officer

Gary Maier

Gary Maier joined Inveniam Capital Partners as Acting Chief Technology Officer in July 2020. In this capacity, he contributes to the Inveniam.io product roadmap and is responsible for overall technology leadership, planning and delivery. He is a senior technology leader and innovator with a 30+ year track record of success in delivering enterprise-class front, middle and back-office solutions to financial services companies, across a wide range of investment products and strategies.

Additionally, Mr. Maier is the Managing Principal of Fintova LLC, an advisory and consulting firm specializing in digital strategy, leadership, planning and execution within financial services. Prior to founding Fintova, he served as Head of Asset Management Technology, at UBS; as Chief Information Officer of Investment Management, at BNY Mellon; and as Head of Global Application Engineering, at Blackrock. At Blackrock, Mr. Maier was instrumental in the original concept, architecture and development of Aladdin, an industry-leading portfolio management platform. He has additionally served as CTO at several prominent hedge funds, and as an advisor to fintech companies.

Mr. Maier is a frequent lecturer at major industry conferences in the US and abroad, and has been regularly interviewed by the financial technology press. He has also authored numerous articles and white papers, published worldwide. Mr. Maier has a B.A. in Public Policy and Economics from Duke University.

Chief Revenue Officer

Sanjay Vatsa

Sanjay Vatsa joined as Chief Revenue Officer in September 2020. In this role he provides oversight of all revenue generation and serves as one of the Company’s thought leaders and collaborators to achieve best in class services from Inveniam operations. He is also responsible for preparing and maintaining Inveniam’s sales pipelines.

Prior to Inveniam, Mr. Vasta was Partner and Advisor, Princeton Growth Accelerator (PGA) and Partner & Chief Strategy Officer, Global Accelerated Venture.

Mr. Vatsa has more than 25 years of experience in senior “C’ level global leadership positions having served as Managing Director, Global Head of Transformation, COE, Data & Ops Strategy, – Securities & Fund Services at Citibank, as well as holding similar positions at BlackRock, Merrill Lynch, etc. He has been instrumental in modernization & transformation of financial firms and has realized value of over ~$3bn through various initiatives.

Mr. Vatsa is a global expert and has executed innovative solutions in areas of data and analytics, end to end investment trade life cycle, operational risk, business transformation and has managed and set up Shared Services globally. He has led transformation & disruption through innovation, leveraging leading edge solutions & technology that address business issues and in evolving / creating new business model & solutions. Throughout his career, he has focused on bringing in disruptive models and technologies to enhance organization value.

Mr. Vatsa has been a key player in transforming the industry and has been Chairman of multiple industry committees such as Bond Market Association, Asset Management Forum, Securities Industry Association, etc. transforming financial infrastructure and reducing risk on trade date. As Chairman of Advisory Board, he was instrumental in building OMGEO– a transformative financial industry utility.

Mr. Vatsa is focused on creating an echo system for startup and early stage revenue companies to realize their potential by scaling and growing. He is a Partner and Mentor of Princeton Growth Accelerator (PGA) and a partner and Chief Strategy Officer of Global Accelerated Venture (GAV). He is a founding member of Global TIE Women fostering that is Women Entrepreneurship on a global basis across 90 locations – Embrace, Engage and Empower. Mr. Vatsa is also a driver / angel investor / advisor to firms and startups that is providing innovative and disruptive solutions in health care, in fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Chief Operating Officer

Larry Corbett

Larry Corbett joined Inveniam in December, 2019 as Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he is primarily responsible for driving Inveniam’s growth through implementation and development of new business opportunities. Larry is an executive with over 25 years of experience helping organizations achieve their financial and operational goals. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Corbett has a track record of optimizing organizational structure and developing highly efficient processes. He has held executive positions in several fortune 100 companies including Tech Data, Hewlett Packard and JP Morgan Chase.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Corbett was Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis and Treasury at Apollo Education Group. In this role, Mr. Corbett was responsible for all corporate financial planning and analysis processes including the strategic and annual operating plans and monthly forecasts with global annual revenue of $3.0B. At Apollo, Mr. Corbett restructured the corporate financial planning department and streamlined reporting and financial processes. He was also instrumental in reducing $165M in technology costs and led the effort to provide financial modeling and analysis to support the sale of Apollo to a private equity group. Prior to Apollo, Mr. Corbett served as Vice President and CFO of IT at Hewlett Packard and Vice President and Controller of Real Estate Projects at JP Morgan Chase.

Mr. Corbett holds an Accounting degree from the University of Iowa and a Masters of Arts in Counseling from the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Chief Data Scientist

Kevin Cuddeback

Kevin Cuddeback is Chief Data Scientist and comes to Inveniam with a background in Data Science and Marketing.

Previously working at Salary.com and Briefcase Analytics, he has built, grown, and marketed data-filled Software as a Service. At Salary.com he managed products that delivered estimates on 1,800 job titles covering 102 million workers in the U.S. Workforce. For Briefcase Analytics, he produced a data-and-software platform to produce global risk assessments and background checks on more than 20 million individual companies in the worldwide supply chains of Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Cuddeback has also held consulting and systems positions at the IXL Center’s Innovation Olympics, Arthur D. Little, Fitch Inc., and Price Waterhouse. He earned B.S. in Physics from Georgetown University, and an MBA in Decision Science, Transportation, and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Global Director, Business Development

Frank Walczak

As Global Director, Business Development, Mr. Walczak is responsible for expanding Inveniam Capital Partner’s (ICP) footprint globally through Strategic Partnerships and identifying and capturing long term revenue-producing opportunities; and the development of sales teams and processes for the distribution of ICP software and sales teams to sell specific ICP sponsored deals.

Mr. Walczak is a successful relationship builder with over 25 years of experience with top financial firms. He has spent his career providing firms with substantial streams of revenue by establishing new lines of business, cultivating long term alliances with key players, and building well-rounded diversified first-rate teams in sales and relationship management. Mr. Walczak has a proven record of exceeding revenue objectives by creating high impact business strategies and capitalizing on market opportunities.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Walczak spent 22 years at Cantor Fitzgerald where he was originally hired from Tokyo Forex in Japan to create and manage a foreign exchange team in London. With Cantor Fitzgerald, he managed all aspects of the start-up operation including a budget, staffing, coordination of technology, telecommunications and P&L. Mr. Walczak established a viable business in just one year, building more than 250 active accounts in Europe and Asia in 5 years. After the 9/11 tragedy that decimated the Cantor workforce, he was brought in to help to rebuild the Cantor Equities team to the global player they are today.

After leaving Cantor in 2016, Mr. Walczak was introduced to tZERO where he led business development before joining ICP in 2018.

Director of Sales

Michael Creadon

As Director of Sales, Mr. Creadon is responsible for expanding outreach efforts to private family offices looking to unlock value from balance sheets through the application of Inveniam’s SaaS offering. He also works closely with leading global exchanges and custodians to further expand the digitization of assets on the Inveniam platform. Additionally, Mr. Creadon is spearheading efforts with Jump Start Africa, a microfinancing charity in Uganda using Inveniam software.

Mr. Creadon spent over 20 years in capital markets serving as CEO of Traditum Group, a proprietary trading firm specializing in U.S. interest-rate trading and energy-market making. As co-founder of the company, he grew the firm to 75 employees with offices in New York and Houston to become one of the most respected midtier prop firms in the industry. Prior to working in the futures and options markets, Mr. Creadon worked as a journalist at TIME, Bloomberg and Voice of America. Today, he continues to blog regularly on LinkedIn and is a widely followed thought leader on blockchain, bitcoin and numerous other topics. In 2019, he worked at DrawBridge Lending on global marketing and sales, and he is a frequent guest on podcasts and speaker at leading blockchain industry events.

Director

John W. Brady

John W. Brady is an accomplished executive leader with a strong track record of guiding North American divisions of multinational companies through the competitive consumer goods landscape. Mr. Brady has significant expertise in enhancing brand awareness, product innovation, operating efficiencies and optimizing team dynamics.

With decades of executive experience, Mr. Brady has held key leadership roles at a variety of consumer products companies including RECARO Child Safety, LLC, Fisher-Price, Inc., Casio, Inc., and the Fundimensions division of General Mills Inc. He also ran JWB&A LLC, Business Consulting, a consumer goods consulting firm. Mr. Brady has built a successful track record of launching, growing and turning around promising product lines in both the mass distribution and specialty leisure-time market spaces.

Mr. Brady’s primary focus has been working with entrepreneurs, private equity owners and boards of directors to drive company values by enhancing product, distribution, promotion, sourcing and process. He has been able to drive new and incremental growth by exploiting product and licensing opportunities and recognizing consumer trends at their outset.

Mr. Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Wayne State University with co-majors in Journalism and Marketing, and performed post-graduate work in Marketing and Finance.

Senior Marketing and Operations Manager

Sean Rutherford

Sean Rutherford has more than two decades experience in marketing and communications management across multiple industries. He has broad experience driving mass media, communications, and public relations campaigns across multiple marketing channels, and significant experience providing technical and operations management leadership for start-ups and small businesses.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Sean managed operations for Valentine Industries consulting services and spent 15 years managing communications and information systems for O’Meara, Ferguson, Whelan and Conway and Stark State College in North Canton, Ohio.

Sean holds a B.A. from Franciscan University of Steubenville and resides in Colorado with his wife Julie and their four children.

Financial Analyst

Jenna Koppinger

Jenna is a rising senior at Michigan State University from Port Huron, MI. She is a finance major and is pursuing minors in computer science and entrepreneurship & innovation. She is also a filmmaker, and has owned a freelance videography company for the past 4 years. Jenna is passionate about effective leadership, philanthropy, and new ideas in all categories. She loves the possibilities that big data, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence bring to the table for markets of every kind.

Managing Director, Consulting & Advisory Services

Robert Chronowski

Robert Chronowski brings 40+ years of expertise to the Inveniam team. Mr. Chronowski has worked with diverse clients including the World Bank, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Climate Change Capital, C-Quest Capital, the Dutch Government, the U.S. Government, and multiple private companies. Since 1982 he has worked with or for multilateral, bilateral, and private entities that are engaged in major program and project finance activities. He has been directly responsible for initiatives involving policy development, legislative development, regulatory reform, technology applications, finance structuring, and environmental and social assessment.

From 2002-2006, Mr. Chronowski has worked as Advisor to the Funds Manager of the World Bank’s Carbon Finance Business and was directly involved in the procurement of $1 billion (US) in Carbon Emission Reduction Credits globally from many types of qualified projects, including projects in Africa. From 2006-2007, Mr. Chronowski was on retainer as a senior advisor to the World Bank Carbon Fund Manager. From 2006-2010, he was also on annual contract as an Energy Advisor to the International Finance Corporation for project evaluations globally. For two years, beginning in August 2010, Mr. Chronowski assisted the firm of O’Meara, Ferguson, Whelan and Conway in structuring the business plan for a unique Africa Social Development Fund. Mr. Chronowski has also owned and successfully sold several start-ups.

Mr. Chronowski graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy with a B.S. in Marine Engineering in 1964. He did graduate work in Environmental Pollution and Business Administration at Long Island University and the University of North Carolina in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Mr. Chronowski has been awarded three patents relevant to Conventional and Alternative Energy and has assisted others in securing technology patents. Mr. Chronowski was on the Development Advisory Board for six years from its inception for the Franciscan Sisters TOR of the Sorrowful Mother of Penance that grew out of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.

Intern, Data Analytics

Emma Cummins

Emma is a senior studying politics and journalism at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI. She is originally from Dallas, TX, but now spends most of her time in Michigan. Emma is a writer for the college’s newspaper, and spends her free time running and practicing her French.

Intern, Data Analytics

Andrew O’Meara

Andrew is a rising junior at Benedictine College from Ann Arbor, MI. He is majoring in finance with a minor in data analytics and plays varsity soccer for the college. This is Andrew’s second internship with Inveniam. He is excited about the innovative work the company is engaged in and is looking forward to gaining a deeper understanding of blockchain and data analytics.

Intern, Data Analytics

Max O’Meara

Max is a recent graduate of Father Gabriel Richard HS in Ann Arbor, and in the fall he will be enrolled at Benedictine College in Atchison KS. Max was on the Tennis and Golf teams at FGR.