Dennis is a seasoned financial services and FinTech and Financial Services start-up executive with more than 20 years of executive management experience encompassing both line and staff functions within large regional financial services firms. More than 15 years of entrepreneurial, executive management, and sales experience in building four successful start-up companies. Proven abilities in developing and recruiting highly qualified staff. Successful record of accomplishment building effective marketing/sales programs and sales cultures. Direct line management experience in supervising electronic banking, banking, securities brokerage, and insurance subsidiaries. A visionary, action-oriented team builder who quickly moves ideas into profitable results.
Tom’s professional career has focused on company building, venture investing, private equity, and public and private initiatives to foster entrepreneurship and job creation. In addition to his role at MedLiquidity, he acts as director and advisor at several biotech, healthcare, and technology companies. He was formerly Chief Investment Officer of Cellphire Therapeutics, Inc., a groundbreaking biotech company and Managing Director of the Maryland Venture Fund, the $120M early-stage venture program funded by Maryland which has invested into private venture funds as well as scores of start-ups and early-stage companies across a wide range of industry sectors. He previously founded ECentury Capital Partners, a $90 million early stage venture fund and he was a Venture Partner and Director of GIV Venture Partners. Tom holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a JD from the American University Law School.
Ann Rutledge and Sylvain Raynes are widely trusted and respected global debt capital market analysts. Collaborators since 1995, they first worked together in the Moody’s Investors Service Structured Finance Group. In 2000, they founded R&R Consulting, now Credit Spectrum Corp – a credit rating agency.
Sylvain, a PhD in aerospace engineering from Princeton University, developed eight workable methodologies for new asset classes, giving the firm a clear competitive edge in rating CLOs and new ABS collateral.
Ann is credit ratings expert with cross-market experience in middle-market lending, exchange margining and credit structuring. A Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, as head of non-Japan Asia for Moody’s, she modernized their structured methods to weather the Asian Crisis.
Sylvain and Ann have been variously tapped to lead new structured ratings departments at DBRS, Kroll, Capital Intelligence, and Egan-Jones Ratings. Still, they have stuck to their mission of modernizing and creating a unified platform of credit analysis that protects investors’ money without constraining asset growth.
Darren is a driven and top-performing Senior Financial Services Executive with comprehensive global and domestic expertise in strategic business growth, team leadership, client development, continuous improvement, organizational design, acquisition management, and reporting and documentation. A distinguished career includes serving as President, Corporate Banking at Capital One and President & CEO (GE Company Officer) at GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services. Delivers well-balanced results across a broad array of business opportunities. Emphasizes consistent and repeatable processes, risk management excellence, and strategic stakeholder alignment to achieve and exceed goals for key metrics while emphasizing operational excellence. Proven success in ensuring long-term growth, profitability, and market competitiveness via effective leadership.
Darrell, a former Goldman Sachs senior investment management professional, is the founder of Green Square Wealth Management which offers independent, boutique wealth management focusing on cash-flow oriented investment strategies that create long-term value. Green Square serves the needs of approximately 120 families and institutional clients across the United States and manages approximately $3 billion in client assets. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Darrell served as the Senior Vice President and Manager of the Investment Services Division of SunTrust Bank, as well as the Executive Vice President, head of Capital Markets and member of the Executive Management Committee for First American Bank in Nashville, Tennessee.