Green D Ventures Team

Bio: Emily is a seasoned business development executive with expertise in growing global businesses with a focus on strategic planning, launching new start-up operations, managing mergers and acquisitions, establishing successful business partnerships, and negotiating long-term profitable agreements. Since 2007 she has served as Sr. Vice President of International Business for The Pokémon Company International, helping guide the growth of the company outside of Asia. Prior to Pokémon she held leadership roles in business development at Microsoft in the Casual Games Group and Microsoft Office Live, at Wizards of the Coast (acquired by Hasbro), and at Disney. Emily holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Bio: Eric is an investing partner with GE Ventures and leads investments in business process automation. His technology interests include enterprise software, robotics, computer vision, geospatial intelligence, and the internet of things (IoT). He is currently a board observer at RigUp, CoolEdge Lighting, Ambyint, and Foro Energy. Prior to GE Ventures, Eric was an investor at Siemens Venture Capital focused on cybersecurity and enterprise infrastructure that included investments in CounterTack, TOA Technologies, Electric Cloud, and PowerIT Solutions. Eric was also a co-founder of SoCore Energy, a software-enabled solar energy developer later acquired by Edison International. Early in his career, he worked with McKinsey & Co as a management consultant.

Bio: Hillary is a strategy and business development executive with nearly twenty years of experience across a variety of industries. At CVS Caremark (now CVS Health), she was responsible for identifying business development opportunities in adjacent markets and leading target due diligence efforts. She also spent several years with Bain & Company specializing in strategy and operations for healthcare and retail clients as well as due diligence for private equity clients. Hillary started her career in the Transaction Advisory Services group of Ernst & Young and is currently the Vice President of Finance and Strategic Planning at GeoMark Research, a geochemical advisory services firm. She received a BA in economics and public policy from Duke and an MBA from Dartmouth.

Bio: Tom directs strategy and spearheads all product initiatives for Fiksu and FreeMyApps and is the founder and developer of MyScorecard.com. At [x+1], Tom worked with the engineering and operations teams to coordinate development efforts. Before that, he led investments in digital media and enterprise software at Advanced Technology Ventures, an early stage VC fund. Prior to ATV, he was Microsoft’s Windows Group Product Manager; Product Manager of QuickBooks at Intuit; and Business Manager of E-commerce Strategy at Capital One Financial. Tom holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, BSEE from Stanford University, and AB from Dartmouth.

Bio: Dean is Division Director, Corporate Development Joint Ventures and Acquisitions, at BAYADA Home Health Care. Previously, Dean was a Senior Principal at Green D Ventures, where he focused on deal sourcing, investment diligence, and portfolio management. Prior to Green D, Dean worked at Touchdown Ventures, where he helped lead a corporate venture capital fund for a health system in the southeastern United States. His experience spans investment banking, venture capital, and military service as a flight surgeon in the United States Navy. Dean holds a AB in Government from Dartmouth, an MBA in Health Care Management from Wharton, and an MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Bio: Mark is a partner at Five Peaks Capital Management, a PE firm focused on investments in tech-enabled services companies. He has spent sixteen years in private equity, with senior roles at DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (~$10B of capital under management) and JLL Partners (~$4B of capital under management). He has led private equity and distressed debt investments across a range of sectors, including information and business services, retail products, industrial services, and healthcare. Prior to that, he was an investment banker for Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities. Mark holds a BA from Stanford and an MBA from Tuck.

Bio: Matt has worked with emerging tech companies since 1996. Now at Ascent, Matt he focuses on investments in data analytics, business SaaS, and security. Earlier at Alex Brown & Sons, a leading tech investment bank, he helped execute IPO and M&A transactions. He then moved to Norwest Venture Partners, where he worked on enterprise technology venture investment. Matt has a double major in computer science and economics from Yale and an MBA from the Tuck (Tuck Scholar).

Bio: Chansoo is Managing Partner of Whipstock Co-Invest Funds at TPH Asset Management. Whipstock makes private equity investments in the energy industry. He is also on the board of Apache Corporation, where he chairs the audit committee; and the investment committee of Sheridan Productions Partners, a PE firm investing in oil and gas assets. Before that, he was a partner and then advisor to Warburg Pincus in the Energy Group. Previously he was head of the Natural Resources Group at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Partner and Managing Director. He graduated from Dartmouth with an AB in Physics and an MBA with High Distinction from Tuck.

Bio: Dr. Kariuki is a highly accomplished finance executive with over a decade of experience in healthcare strategy, life sciences investment banking, venture capital, and business development. He currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of VelosBio, a San Diego based clinical-stage, oncology biotech. Prior to VelosBio, he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Synthorx, where he led the company’s $151 million IPO, managed relationships with bankers, sell-side equity analysts, and investors, and headed the business development process that concluded with the successful sale of Synthorx to Sanofi for $2.5 billion. Before Synthorx, Dr. Kariuki was Vice President at H.I.G. Capital (a $40 billion private equity fund), where he led investments into, and served on the boards of, several life sciences companies. His other previous roles include Senior Associate at Leerink Partners and Associate Director at UBS Investment Bank. At Leerink and UBS, Dr. Kariuki advised healthcare companies on equity capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations. Dr. Kariuki completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in R&D Strategy and Analytics at Bristol-Myers Squibb and was a Pharmacist at CVS Caremark. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a PharmD from Texas Southern University.

Bio: Benjie is the Founder and Managing Principal of Arx Urban, a Boston-based innovative real estate investment and development firm focused on utilizing technology to create and preserve workforce housing. The firm has used its socially-minded, technology-enabled and forward-thinking approach to acquire and develop more than $250M in real estate since 2014. At Arx Urban, Benjie is responsible for the strategic direction of the firm, acquisitions, permitting and financing. He previously served as Vice President of Investments at Atlas Real Estate Partners and was an Associate at JP Morgan Global Real Assets. In these roles he oversaw a $1.5B mixed-use real estate portfolio nationwide. Benjie is a frequent speaker on co-living, hybrid financing structures and real estate crowdfunding, and he has completed real estate transactions across five different online crowdfunding platforms. He has also completed seed investments in eight real estate technology companies incubated throughout the Arx Urban portfolio. He was appointed to the Mayor of Boston’s SPARK Council (formerly One in Three), where he consulted for the City’s Innovation Housing Lab on forward-thinking financing strategies and is a member of the Mayor of Boston’s Inclusionary Development Policy Technical Advisory Group. Benjie holds a BA from Tufts University Summa Cum Laude and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business where he graduated as a Tuck Scholar and received the Julia Stell Award for Leadership. He currently resides in Boston’s Bay Village with his wife Anna and daughter Sophie.

Bio: Mark Morrissette has been a Managing Director at North Atlantic Capital since 2000. North Atlantic, based in Portland, Maine, invests in late-stage, high-growth technology companies using structured capital. Mark’s prior experience includes four years of investment experience at Advent International, a multinational private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Boston. Prior to Advent, Mark worked at CSC Index in Cambridge, a global strategy and technology consulting firm. Mark is currently serves on the board of SailMaine, a community sailing center in Portland. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Dartmouth College (1993) where he was a member of the Varsity Crew team and President of the Dartmouth Rowing Club, and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Bio: Joe lives in Portland, ME and is a Principal at Maine Venture Fund. Prior to MVF, Joe worked for a number of startup technology firms (Tesla, Zoox, Clean Marine Energy) in a variety of business-side roles. Joe also has experience as an entrepreneur (Ripso) and angel investor. Joe holds an MBA from Tuck and an economics degree from Middlebury. Joe enjoys health and wellness, playing music, and home improvement projects.

Bio: John is a seasoned senior executive who has led several innovative companies to success. Since 2011, he has served as the President and CEO of Seventh Generation, a producer of environmentally-safe household products. From 2006 to 2011, he was President and CEO of Burt’s Bees, a natural personal care products company. Prior to that, John managed the skin care division at Unilever and helped launch the Real Beauty campaign for Dove and establish the Dove Self-Esteem Fund. Earlier, he served several roles at Guinness, including President of Guinness Bass Import. John earned his AB at Dartmouth in History and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Bio: Mark Speers ‘80, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Health Advances LLC. Mark has been advising senior life sciences executives for over 35 years. He co-founded Health Advances with his wife, Paula Ness Speers ’80, in 1992 after gaining ten years of strategy consulting experience in the healthcare industry as a Partner at Bain & Company, an international management consulting firm. At Health Advances, Mark works extensively with clients to evaluate the commercial potential and develop market launch strategies for new medical technologies. He also offers expertise in M&A work for strategic and financial buyers, having now contributed to over $80 billion in client transactions. He served on the Board of Directors of MassMEDIC for six years and is a strong advocate for the industry through frequent speaking engagements and publications. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in engineering and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was honored as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Bio: Laura is COO of Mobilize, a Series A startup. She has been CEO of two venture-backed startups, selling Catch to Apple and dramatically increasing the revenue at SugarSync (acq. by J2Global). Prior to SugarSync, Laura was general manager of the ZoneAlarm division at Check Point Software and VP of Marketing. At Yahoo, she served as global General Manager of the Yahoo Mail division. Earlier, she was Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL, and led marketing programs and Latin American sales at Informix Software Corp. Laura holds an AB in Government from Dartmouth, an MBA from Harvard, and 3ian MSFS from Georgetown School of Foreign Service.

Bio: Ashley is an MBA candidate at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. At Tuck, Ashley is a Consortium Fellow; a Fellow for the Center of Business, Government and Society; the Chief Financial Officer of theBox, a student-run food truck business; a Director for the Tuck Social Venture Fund, a student-run fund focused on impact investing; and a Co-Chair for the Southern Appreciation Society. Before business school, Ashley worked at Amazon as an Operations Manager, leading two logistical warehouses’ daily operations and managing over two hundred employees. Before Amazon, Ashley worked for Schlumberger as a Petroleum Engineer in various roles, including Operations and Business Development. Ashley holds a B.S. from the University of Houston.

Bio: Hugo Naulot (TU’21) is an MBA candidate at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he leads the Technology Club and was selected as a Fellow with the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies. Prior to starting business school, he worked as a strategy consultant at Vertone, a marketing and sales consulting firm, and as a management consultant at Ernst & Young. In the summer of 2020, Hugo interned with the Corporate Strategy team at ServiceNow, a leading SaaS company. He received a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris.

Bio: Joyce is currently focused on connecting the world’s health data as part of the Marketing team at a healthcare technology startup. Prior, Joyce served as a life sciences and healthcare management consultant for 3 years, providing strategic insights and analysis for MedTech, biopharma, and PE clients. Previously, she supported immunology research efforts at the Yale School of Medicine and the Koch Institute at MIT, where she co-authored a book chapter on the potential of nanomedicine to reshape treatment of multiple sclerosis. She graduated with a B.A. in Neuroscience and WGSS from Dartmouth College.

Bio: Steven is a current MBA / MA Candidate at the Wharton School and Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, Steven worked at Facebook in a strategy capacity and at Angel Ventures, where he supported a portfolio company through capital raising in Latin America. Prior to Wharton, Steven worked in Strategy & Analytics capacities in the Media and Financial Services spaces: Univision and Vanguard. Steven has a AB from Dartmouth College.

Bio: Sam is the Head of Sales at a venture-backed SaaS startup, Paylode, where he works with B2C companies to scale ancillary offerings for their customers. Previously, Sam was the Business Development Lead at Zeus Living, a furnished living provider backed by Airbnb and Initialized Capital. A Dartmouth 2018 graduate, Sam holds a degree in sociology modified with economics.

Bio: Bala is a Senior Product Manager (Technical) at Amazon where she builds music-related experiences for Alexa-enabled devices globally. Prior to her current role, she built FinTech products for international sellers during her time in Amazon’s Consumer Payments organization, and played a key role in the successful country-wide launch of a CRM platform for Morgan Stanley’s wealth managers. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Osmania University where she graduated top of her class and was awarded a Gold Medal for academic excellence, and a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.

Bio: Erika has more than 10 years of experience in the Banking industry. She has worked in client strategy, business management and financial planning roles leading teams which support industry, product, regional and global groups. She holds a B.A. in Engineering modified with Biology from Dartmouth College, where she was a 4 year member of the Women’s Varsity Indoor & Outdoor Track and Field teams.

Bio: Morgan is a Software Engineer at Facebook where she works to bring people all over the world free Wi-Fi. Prior to Facebook, Morgan engaged in two internship programs. One as an Investment Banker at Jefferies and the other as a Software Engineer at Liquidnet, a Fintech startup. Morgan is also the founder of Bit by Bit, a tech startup whose mission is helping students prepare for interviews at cutting edge technology companies. Through these experiences, Morgan can evaluate and weigh in on investment opportunities through multiple lenses including tech stack evaluation, operational management and financial modeling. Morgan received a BA from Dartmouth College where she majored in Computer Science and minored in Art History.

Bio: Tiantian is part of the Product Strategy team at Indeed, supporting planning, operations, and other key strategic initiatives for the part of the business focused on servicing small & midsized companies. Previously, she worked in in-house consulting in financial services and enterprise software within large organizations — firstly as a member of Fidelity’s internal Strategy Consulting team, and more recently as a Value Creation & Go-to-Market consultant with Vista Consulting Group, the captive operating arm of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Tiantian graduated from Dartmouth in 2016 with a major in Economics and double minors in Geography and French.