Director of Marketing and Communications

Tom Blandford

Tom Blandford joined the Inveniam team in November of 2020 as the Director of Marketing and Communications. In this role, he works alongside Inveniam’s leadership team to set, manage and execute on the company’s marketing strategies and varied communication needs. Collaborating with the marketing team, Mr. Blandford creates content for social media, advertising, sales collateral and marketing/public relations outreach efforts to increase global brand awareness.

Mr. Blandford is a successful content creator/creative lead with over 25+ years of experience in marketing. His work covers a diverse range of integrated national campaigns, across numerous product, business, and marketing categories, like banking, healthcare, consumer goods, B2B, experiential and the occasional television pilot. From strategy-based conceptual thinking to story structured narratives, Mr. Blandford’s creative drive has always been to share an authentic vision, communicate a meaningful message and connect to what really matters in the lives of clients, customers and individuals.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Blandford spent 18-years in Chicago as a freelance creative lead and artist. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from Brown University.

Global Head of Distribution

Mark Bourgeois

Mr. Bourgeois is the Global Head of Distribution for Inveniam. In this capacity, Mr. Bourgeois represents Inveniam as a global ambassador, while articulating Inveniam’s vision of providing data integrity and independent third-party expert valuation and pricing transparency to private and alternative asset investors.

In addition, Mr. Bourgeois is also the Vice-Chairman and Senior Managing Director of Courage Capital and Vice Chairman of Prophet Equity. He has been involved in the private markets industry for over 24 years and has held several senior management positions during that time. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Atlantic-Pacific Capital; Global Head of Distribution and Chief Executive Officer of The Americas for Credit Suisse Asset Management; Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Institutional Distribution at Lehman Brothers Asset Management; and was a Managing Director and one of the founders of the private equity funds business at UBS. Mr. Bourgeois has led the raising of over $250 billion of new assets for private equity, hedge funds, infrastructure/real assets and non-investment grade credit funds across 150+ individual funds and more than 100 GPs. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix and a B.A. from Tennessee Temple University.

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.

VP Engineering

Rick Bunker

Rick Bunker joined Inveniam in December 2020 as VP Engineering, managing a team of more than 40 software developers. Mr. Bunker brings over 25 years of executive experience to Inveniam, specializing in general management and software development team leadership, especially in innovation and market leading companies. He has held executive level technology positions (CIO or CTO) for three publicly traded companies – SEIC, ICGE, GSIC (now a division of eBay) – and was CEO of Reality Online, a Reuter’s subsidiary that was a pioneer in internet delivery of consumer financial services. Prior to this role, he was at State Street Global Advisors.

In addition to his technology leadership, Mr. Bunker has worked on over 100 M&A transactions. He is a veteran of the United States Army Security Agency, a graduate of the Defense Language Institute and attended Boston University — studying Russian Language and Literature. In his personal time, he is active in local politics and is Vice President of the Jenkintown Borough Council.

Mr. Bunker’s specialties include IT & IS strategy and architecture. Facilitate complex organizational change, drive operational improvement, support change events such as reorganization, process optimization, strategy change, major vendor negotiation, outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions.

Managing Director - Investor Calculation

Brian Cassidy

Brian Cassidy brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge to Inveniam, including more than 15 years of Alternative Investment accounting, operational systems team leadership, and client solution management. During this tenure, Mr. Cassidy implemented and enhanced automation solutions for Private Equity, Real Estate and Hedge fund structures with an emphasis on complex client incentive and management fee calculations coupled with client financial reporting requirements.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Cassidy was a Senior Investment Analyst and Project Manager Consultant with the Pennsylvania State Employee Pension Retirement Funds, Rubenstein Real Estate Partners, and Voya Financial. In these roles, he delivered operational transformation of fund legal structures, incentive and management fee calculations for client financial reporting requirements.

Additionally, Mr. Cassidy worked more than 10 years for JPMorgan, Citco Funds Services and Bank of New York Mellon as Director of Fund Administration for Private Equity, Real Estate and Hedge Funds. In these capacities, he was responsible for client services and relationship management of $95 billion of AUM client financial reporting requirements while overseeing a team of business analysts for vendor systems client fund implementation. He achieved contin-uous process improvements including enhancing automation of existing accounting and financial reporting processes.

Mr. Cassidy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Accounting from West Virginia University.

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.

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.

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.

Chief of Staff and Head of ESG Initiatives

Kirsten Evans

Kirsten Evans comes to Inveniam with over two decades of executive leadership and management experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. She excels in growing strong, agile and integrated teams positioned to meet rapidly changing demands and evolving needs in growing organizations.

Most recently, Ms. Evans served as Director of the Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives as Senior Advisor to the Administrator at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where she led the agency’s outreach to global non-profit and community organizations on shared international development goals, drafting the agency’s first evidence-based policy on Strategic Religious Engagement in International Development.

Prior to USAID, Ms. Evans was the Chief Operating Officer of Educando by Worldfund, a non-profit organization building public-private partnerships to deliver STEM and English curriculums, enhancing the quality of public education in under-resourced communities of Mexico and Brazil. Before 2016, Ms. Evans served as the Executive Director of a leading Washington DC based organization advocating for the protection of religious and ethnic minorities in Northern Iraq and Syria, shaping US foreign policy to recognize the war crimes of ISIS as genocide. In this capacity she spoke internationally- including at the UN, EU, US Congress, and in TV, radio and print media- on the plight of targeted communities. She led a coalition team providing war crimes documentation, working hand-in-hand with international policy makers to secure political commitment for the protection of international human rights. Prior to this, Ms. Evans spent over a decade directing both educational institutions in Mexico, and education focused non-profits globally.

Ms. Evans holds Master Degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in International Public Policy (SAIS), the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University of Rome in Religious Studies, the Anahuac University in Mexico City in Education and Development, and a specialization in human rights law from the University of Oxford.

Intern, Inveniam Solutions

Ryan Hicks

Ryan Hicks joined Inveniam in February 2021 as an intern for Inveniam Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for onboarding and client services.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Hicks interned at a financial literacy camp where he challenged students to expand their knowledge of financial planning and investing. He is passionate about community leadership and interested in artificial intelligence and big data.

Mr. Hicks is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics from the University of Georgia.

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.

Program Manager, Pricing

Scott Landers

Scott Landers joined Inveniam in February 2021 as Program Manager, Pricing. In this role, he works cross functionally with senior leadership and the software development team to build Inveniam’s pricing and valuation processes and procedures. Mr. Landers is a commercial real estate professional with over 9 years of experience transacting and analyzing CRE assets throughout the United States.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Landers was a senior financial analyst at Colliers International where he managed a team of analysts providing valuation and sales services for CRE owners. He developed the valuation process and underwriting standards used by the team. Mr. Landers also worked for a public REIT, Agree Realty, where he sourced CRE investments for the company and managed the transaction pipeline for the company. In his career, Mr. Landers has been a part of CRE transactions and valuations in excess of $750MM.

Mr. Landers holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and environmental studies from the University of Michigan.

Director, Inveniam Solutions

Delsean Littlejohn

Delsean Littlejohn joined Inveniam in November, 2020 as a Director and Sales Engineer for Inveniam Solutions. In this role he is primarily responsible for managing and the process for servicing clients.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Littlejohn has experience in the automotive, construction, banking and marketing segments.

Mr. Littlejohn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Saginaw Valley State University as well as a Masters of Management and Masters of Information Technology-Cybersecurity degrees from Walsh College.

President, Inveniam Solutions

David Loffredo

David Loffredo joined Inveniam in October, 2020 as President of Inveniam Solutions. In this role he is primarily responsible for driving Inveniam’s growth through the facilitation of onboarding and servicing clients. Through its ‘Engineering DNA’ and innovative strategy, consulting, and design capabilities, Inveniam Solutions works in collaboration with its customers to deliver next-gen solutions that turn complex business challenges into real business outcomes.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Loffredo split his career between the management consulting profession with Accenture and EY – and financial services with Lehman Brothers, Bloomberg Tradebook, and Broadridge Financial Solutions. As a Capital Markets Consulting Partner, he was at the forefront of both retail banking and electronic commodities trading over the early days of the internet. Mr. Loffredo has opened business operations centers for clients in the US, the UK, and China. In Industry, he was the Managing Director of Change Management for Lehman Brothers where his global team defined and executed the bank’s strategy, and as the first ever Chief Operating Officer of Bloomberg Tradebook, David helped guide the firm to three consecutive “best agency broker” awards by Waters Technology.

Mr. Loffredo holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

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.

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.

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.

Chairman & CEO

Pat O’Meara

Patrick O’Meara is the Chairman and CEO of Inveniam. 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.

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.

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.

Director, Inveniam Solutions

Patrick Sprows

Patrick Sprows joined Inveniam in November 2020 as a Director for Inveniam Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for onboarding and client services.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Sprows was a senior business consultant at Sapient Consulting, where he specialized in developing new technologies and processes for large financial institutions.

Mr. Sprows holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Tulane University.

Chief Revenue Officer and Chairman, Inveniam Advisory Board

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. Vatsa 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.

Product Manager

Quentin Vidal

Quentin Vidal joined Inveniam as a Product Manager in December 2020. In this role, he is responsible for managing the product backlog, identifying customer requirements and developing the corresponding technical requirements. Mr. Vidal is a former software engineer with years of experience in blockchain technology and solutions development. His foray into the blockchain world began with Jimmy Song’s Programming Blockchain intensive, where he garnered the skills necessary to program and develop blockchain applications.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Vidal was lead developer and product manager at eSend Inc. He was the architect for eSend’s blockchain based payment service and led the successful development of eSend’s payment rail for third party money transfers from U.S. to Mexico by leveraging RippleNet ODL for payment execution and settlement on SPEI.

Mr. Vidal holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Purchase.

Associate, Inveniam Solutions

Steven Volchek

Steven Volchek joined Inveniam in February 2021, as an Associate for Inveniam Solutions. In this role, he is primarily responsible for onboarding and client services.

Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Volchek worked as a Senior Associate at RSM US LLP in the National Commercial Real Estate Advisory practice, providing an array of lease advisory services, data validation, and financial analysis to Telecom, Retail, Office, and Industrial clients.

Mr. Volchek holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Miami University (OH).

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.

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.

UX Expert

Joe Yelochan

Joe Yelochan is a UX designer and researcher who comes to Inveniam with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology, healthcare, HR, financial (fintech), pharmaceuticals, services, and military/government industries. Having previously worked in software design and user experience at both JP Morgan Chase and Nationwide Insurance in Columbus Ohio, he has also been a designer/researcher at three different startups. Mr. Yelochan utilizes a Design Thinking process in his approach to messy or wicked problems, and empathizes with people in order to create human-centered designs.

Mr. Yelochan is skilled in UX Research, Design, Sketching, Wireframing, Personas, Usability Engineering and Testing, Mockups, and Prototyping. His past clients include: US Air Force, JP Morgan Chase, EmergeOrtho (Triangle Region of NC), Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., Bank of America Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, Roche Diagnostics.

Mr. Yelochan holds a Master of Science (M.S.) in Human-computer Interaction/design from Indiana University, Bloomington.