B. Douglas Morriss – Mr. Morriss is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Acartha Group, LLC (Acartha Group) and is a Manager in the general partner of ATP. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kinexus, a financial services technology firm, which was sold to Advent Software in 2001. Mr. Morriss is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of several private investment holding companies, as well as several family controlled private equity holding companies. He has served on the Board of Directors of Kinexus, PlusFunds, X.Eye Inc. (Ontario) and Kanbay International (NASDAQ: KBAY) and currently serves on the Boards of Multiplus Finance S.A. (Switzerland) and Cirqit (New Jersey).
John S. Wehrle – Mr. Wehrle serves as a Director of Acartha Group and is a Manager in the general partner of ATP. Before joining Acartha, Mr. Wehrle was President and Chief Executive Officer of Heartland Capital Partners, L.P., a Dallas based private equity fund, from July 1997 through September 1998. Prior thereto, Mr. Wehrle served as Managing Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. from 1994 to 1997. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Wehrle was a Vice President and Partner of The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation ("DKM"), a New York based private equity firm. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Wehrle served as a Managing Director of the Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. where he led a structured finance product group in execution of leveraged acquisitions. Mr. Wehrle has served on the Board of Directors of Kinexus, PlusFunds and CampusDoor and currently serves on the Board of several Acartha portfolio companies.
Ameet Patel – Mr. Patel is the Chief Technology Officer of Acartha Group. He is also a Manager in the general partner of ATP. Prior to joining Acartha Group, Mr. Patel spent seven years at JPMorgan Chase, most recently as Managing Executive of LabMorgan. Prior to this role, he was CTO of LabMorgan where he provided business & technology direction on their $500MM+ e-finance venture capital portfolio (Archipelago, MarketAxess, Dealertrack, IntraLinks, Tradeweb, Creditex, RiskMetrics, FxAll, Financial Engines, Kinexus, Yodlee, Tantau, and Home Advisor). Prior to his senior role at JPMorgan, Mr. Patel had a distinguished eight year career at BASF. Among the many accolades Mr. Patel has achieved are as ComputerWorld's "Top 100 IT Leaders" in 2004, InfoWorld's "Top 25 CTOs" in 2001, CIO Magazine's CIO-100 award for innovative business practices in 2001 and Crain's "Top 40 under 40" young executives in 2000. Mr. Patel currently serves as Director on the boards of several Acartha portfolio companies.
Hany Teylouni – Mr. Teylouni is a Managing Director of Acartha Group. Mr. Teylouni most recently served as the VP of Professional Services at NorthStar Software. Prior to that, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Kinexus Corporation, where he managed all aspects of the design, development, implementation rollout and day-to-day operations of an ASP based consolidation and aggregation platform servicing a number of large financial institutions involved in wealth management. Prior to joining Kinexus, Mr. Teylouni led the Financial Industries Solutions Group at Cambridge Technology Partners, where he directed IT relationship and projects with a large number of financial institutions (Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Bank of New York, State Street Global Advisors, etc.) and served as Senior Vice President and Director of Investment Systems for Putnam Investments, where he was responsible for the deployment and support of technologies serving Putnam's Investment Management process. Mr. Teylouni has over 25 years experience in the design, development, and implementation of large-scale investment management, performance, risk management, data aggregation and trading systems. He earned a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Dixon R. Brown – Mr. Brown is Corporate Secretary and a Director of Acartha Group. Before joining Acartha, Mr. Brown was Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Administration of Kinexus Corporation and its predecessor, the Witan Group, Inc. Prior to establishing the Witan Group with B. Douglas Morriss in 1994, Mr. Brown was the Chief Executive Officer of a major East Coast family office. During his 17 year tenure there, Mr. Brown developed and implemented a wide variety of family office services including strategic and investment planning, fiduciary, philanthropy, legal, tax and financial services for individuals, trusts and estates. Mr. Brown served as an independent fiduciary and investment advisor to several charitable trusts and private foundations with significant assets established by his family clients. He earned a B.A. from University of Virginia.
Christian V. Leedy – Mr. Leedy is a Managing Director of Acartha Group. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Leedy acted as the Vice Chairman of HTV industries, a holding company with portfolio companies in the healthcare, gaming, manufacturing and mining industries. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Leedy was the Chairman and CEO of Leedy, Slusar & Co., LTS, an Ohio based Registered Investment Advisor. During that time, he was also the Managing Partner of BA Limited, Cayman Islands; a Director of Banco Comafi S.A. and Comafi Bursatile, Argentina; and, the Managing Partner of the Gates Mills Investment Group, Cleveland. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Leedy owned and operated several international manufacturing concerns having operations in the United States and Italy. In addition to his responsibilities at the Acartha Group, Mr. Leedy serves as the Managing Member of the Leedy Investment Company and is Trust Advisor to several charitable foundations. Mr. Leedy received a B.A. in economics from DePauw University.
T. Wynne Morriss, Jr. – Mr. Morriss is General Counsel of Acartha Group. From 1999 through May 2008, held a variety of senior positions at XL Capital Assurance Inc. (now renamed Syncora Guarantee), a NY based monoline financial guaranty company. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Morriss served as associate general counsel of CapMAC Holdings, Inc., and subsequently at MBIA Insurance Corporation when it acquired CapMAC in 1998. Mr. Morriss practiced law for seven years with Sidley & Austin and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Mr. Morriss received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Matthew J. Penneycard – Mr. Penneycard is a Managing Director of Acartha Group and has been investing in venture capital and private equity transactions since 2002. Prior to joining Acartha, Mr. Penneycard was an Associate Director with Octopus Private Equity in London, where he was responsible for all aspects of sourcing, executing, managing and exiting buyout and expansion capital investments in the UK lower mid market. Prior thereto, Mr. Penneycard was an early stage venture capital investor with Octopus, and also a Limited Partner investor in private equity funds with Hermes Private Equity, also in London. He has an LLB (Hons) Law Degree from Durham University.