iSelect Team
Alums from M.I.T. and Goldman Sachs, successful entrepreneurs, sailors, runners, lawyers and more. We are inquisitive but disciplined, always looking and listening for the next opportunity for our founders, our network and our investors.
Carter Williams
CEO and Managing Principal
Chas Eggert
Operating Partner
Craig Goos
Managing Director, Capital Formation and Operations
Craig Herron
Managing Principal
David Yocom
Principal
Eva Tucker
Director of Marketing
Holly Hill
Director of Operations
Jay Meyer
Director of Technology
Joan LaRovere, MD, MSc, MBA
Operating Partner
Kevin Heinz
Software Engineer
Mark McCall
Managing Director, Business Development
Michael Kime
Managing Principal
Mikia Booker
Customer Success and Operations Specialist
Scott Prey
VP of Product Development
Tim Sprinkle
Content Strategy and Marketing
Tom Bunn
Principal
Portfolio Company CEOs
Engineers, agronomists, medical researchers, former tennis pros and Human Genome Project participants, the founders we work with are transforming technology into opportunity and driving change in their markets.
Ailis Tweed-Kent
Cocoon Biotech, CEO
Alex Lorestani, Ph.D.
Geltor, Co-founder & CEO
Anna Rath
Vestaron Corporation, President and CEO
Barrett Ersek
Holganix, CEO
Bill Brady
Kula Bio, Founding CEO & Director
Bobby Sandage Jr, PhD
Euclises, President & CEO
Buddy Lyons
Entac Medical, Founder, CEO
Chris Motley
Mentor Spaces, Founder & CEO
Dan Cosgrove
Growers Edge, CEO
Dan Swiger
Kultevat, CEO
Doug Wilber
Denim Social, CEO
Ed Rogers
Bonumose, CEO
Ed Spinaio
Time to Cater, CEO
Eric Taipale
Sentera, CEO
Erika Klotz
PopBookings, CEO
Jarret Glasscock, PHD
Cofactor Genomics, Founder and CEO
Jeanette Mucha
SciBac, Co founder & CEO
Jill Davies
GeneMatters, Co-Founder & CEO
Jim Ethington
Arable Labs, Inc., CEO
Jim Flatt
Brightseed, Co-Founder & CEO
Jim Howard
Readout Health, CEO
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Jim Olson
Flywheel, CEO
John Fox
Rebound Technologies, CEO
Jonathan Herrick
Benchmark, Chief Executive Officer
Joseph McGee
Harvest CROO Robotics, CEO
Kellee James
Mercaris, CEO
Lou Faust
HerdDogg, CEO
Lu Alleruzzo
Immunophotonics, CEO & Co-Founder
Martha Schlicher
Plastomics, CEO
Melissa Sherman
MOBILion, CEO
Meridith Unger
Nix, Founder/CEO
Michael Kamdar
Molecular Assemblies, President & CEO
Mike Connolly
Healionics, CEO & Chairman
Philip Strandwitz
Holobiome, Co-Founder & CEO
Renato Cataldo
Crazy for Education, CEO
Rob Hranac
PatternAg, CEO
Robert Jacks
Indalo Therapeutics, President & CEO
Salah Kivlighn
HepaTx, CEO
Sarah Bellos
Stony Creek Colors, CEO
Scott Smith
StreamLink Software, CEO
Steven Watkins
BCD Bioscience, CEO
Thomas J. Vasicek, Ph.D.
Gila Therapeutics, Co-founder & CEO
Tom Wilder
Neuros Medical, President and CEO
Travis Richardson
Flywheel, CEO
Vijay Harrell
TradeLanes, CEO
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Yuval Aviel
Autonomous Pivot, Chief Executive Officer
Selection Committees
30 PhDs, 40 startup founders, 20 exits and 400 named patents, the industry and subject matter experts who help guide iSelect’s investment decisions are a reservoir of knowledge of what has and has not worked in the past and what may or may not work in the future.
Andrew Daniels
Daniels Trading, Founder & CEO
Barry Goldman, PhD
Pluton Biosciences, CEO, CSO
Berwick Settle
Beijing, Dairy Farm Management Specialist
Bill Northcott
Agrible, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Bob Whitaker
Produce Marketing Association, Chief Science & Technology Officer (Retired)
Bobby Sandage
Euclises, President and CEO
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Brad Fruth
Beck's Hybrids, Director Of Innovation
Braden Hudye
Altrus Capital Investments, Co-Founder
Brian Buntaine
University of Missouri-Columbia, Senior Manager, Technology Transfer
Brian Fielding
Broken Symmetries, Founder & President
Bruce German
UC Davis, Professor
Bryce Rutter
Metaphase Design Group, Founder & CEO
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Cheryl A. Van Dyne
Cheryl A. Van Dyne Consulting, Regulatory Affairs Consultant
Chris Eckert
Eckerts Family Farm, President
Chris Harbourt
Indigo, Global Head of Carbon
David Christenson
BioGenerator, Entrepreneur in Residence
David Messina
Cofactor Genomics, Founder/COO
David Waserstein
SOIL Funds Management, Managing Partner
Dr. Albert Edwards
eSubmissions University, Founder
Dr. Brendan Niemira
USDA-ARS, Research Leader of the Food Safety and Intervention Technologies Unit
Emily Fassi
St. Luke's Health System, Genetic Counselor
Eric Jackson
The Yield Lab, Advisor
Gian Cavallini
Holleway Capital Partners, Managing Director
Glen Swanson
Daniels Trading, President
Hal Gentry
Denim Social, Chairman
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Jamie P. Dwyer
Utah, Professor of Medicine
Jill Davies
Genome Medical, Chief Customer Officer
John Talley
Emmyon, Inc., Partner and Vice President-Chemistry
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Katharine Winter
Readout Health, Clinical Lead
Ken Harrington
The Bayberry Group, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Researcher
Kevin Van Trump
Farm Direction, CEO
Mark Byrne
PreMedicus Development, Owner
Melissa Walker
Graematter, Founder, President, CTO
Michael Beat
Exeteur Group, Senior Partner
Michael Nichols
Smart Diagnostics Systems, CFO
Michael Tomassan
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Director, Hematolgic Malignancies
Michael Ware
Advance Capital Markets, Managing Director
Natalie DiNicola
Benson Hill, Chief Of Staff
Nathan McNulty
Matatu, Vice President of Research
Paul Beuttenmuller
Innovare Health, CFO
Paul Nelson
Saoradh Enterprise Partners, Managing Partner
Paul Olivo
Synchrony Bio, Venture Partner
PJ Piper
Far UV Technologies, Founder & CEO
Rachel Kopay
The Context Network, Senior Associate
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Renée Vassilos
The Nature Conservancy, Director of Agriculture Innovation
Roger Beachy
Kultevat, Chief Science Officer
Ron Lirette
Monsanto, Director, Global Regulatory Pipeline
Ruchir Sehra
Resonia, CEO
Russ Conser
Standard Soil, CEO
Sanjay Jain
LaserBand, (Previous) Co-founder & CEO
Steve Barr
Osborn+Barr, Chairman
Surekha Trivedi
Danaher, Strategy, M&A, Data & Analytics
Susan Richmond Johnson
The Ashcroft Group LLC, Managing Principal
Tim Woods
G.M. Lawrence and Company, VP
Todd Mockler
Benson Hill, CTO
Tom Adamitis
Yield Lab, Managing Director
Tom Willis
Conestoga Energy Holdings, CEO & President
Tony Tether
The Sequoia Group, CEO
Trey Sherman
Oak River Farms, President
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William Burnidge
The Nature Conservancy, Director, Sustainable Grazing Lands Program