Angela Blatteis
Co-CEO, CFO, Director
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Angela Blatteis
Co-CEO, CFO, Director
- 30+ years of experience in private equity and investment banking
- Managing Partner of TKB Capital
- Co-founded Soupure, a start-up food company that distributes soup to consumers and businesses
- Formerly a Managing Director and Ambassador at The Gores Group, where she led several high-profile acquisitions and divestitures and co-headed Global Equity Capital at The Gores Group
- Led purchase and sale of Verifone to GTCR and took Verifone (NYSE:VFI) public with GTCR
- Actively involved in taking Anker Systems (AIM:ANK) public through London Alternative Investment Market
- Other transactions include Sound Design Technologies, Scovill Fasteners, the take-private transaction of The Clark Group (AMEX: GLA), and the take-private transaction and subsequent merger of Halifax Corporation (OTPCK: HALX)
- Prior to The Gores Group, worked in investment banking focusing on mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies and risk arbitrage at First Boston and Cowen & Company
- Previously served on the board of Interlink Electronics (OTCMKTS: LINK), Hyperspace and First Foundation’s Los Angeles based private bank and is a council member for GLG Associates
- M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago – Booth School of Business and B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley
Greg Klein
Co-CEO, Director
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Greg Klein
Co-CEO, Director
- Serial entrepreneur with 35+ years of deep operational experience building scalable and sustainable companies in the industrials, software, engineering services, supply chain, payments, and marketing services sectors
- Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TKB Capital
- Founded and formerly led middle-market investment firm KleinPartners Capital Corp, where he completed 30 transactions and divestitures in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East
- Prior, he founded and sold multiple companies before the age of 30, including Premiere Marketing, which was listed two times on the INC 500 Fastest Growing Companies, originally listed at #64, when he was the age of 25
- Co-Founder Chairman Emritus of YPO Pacific Coast Gold, a global leadership community of chief executives
- Former Chairman of Epec LLC and currently is a Director on multiple non-profit boards
- B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles
Philippe Tartavull
Executive Chairman & Director
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Philippe Tartavull
Executive Chairman & Director
- 35+ years of experience leading public and private global technology companies in the infrastructure, industrials, payments and telecommunications, convergence of technologies, hardware and software sectors
- Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TKB Capital
- Highly experienced CEO, president and director of leading public and private global technology companies, including: Xura/Comverse (NASDAQ: MESG), Hypercom (NYSE: HYC) which increased revenues from $294M/yr to $504M/yr during his tenure, Oberthur Card Systems North America and Syseca USA – A Thales Company
- Current and previous board experience on both public and private companies including Composecure, Hypercom, Xura/Comverse, MRV Communications and Wilcox
- On board of trustees of American University in Paris
- MBA from the Institut d’Administration des Enterprises, Sorbonne University, M.S. in Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Pétroles et des Moteurs and B.S. in Engineering from SUPMECA (previously called Centre d’Etudes Supérieures des Techniques Industrielles)
Director
- President and CEO of American Defense International, a Washington-DC based defense government affairs firm providing lobbying, business dev. and strategic consulting to over 80 clients in the U.S. and overseas
- Quoted as political and defense expert in many national and Washington publications
- Recognized as one of top 100 influential people in U.S. Defense by Defense News, and one of the top lobbyists in Washington by Hill newspaper
- Serves as a director of many national security and defense-related organizations and charitable organizations
- Awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service
- M.S in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law and B.A. in American Government from Georgetown University
Director
- Active venture investor, seasoned entrepreneur and inventor on 50+ patents, with experience in fiber optic components, communication networks, optical sensing, and “clean tech”
- General Partner and Active Investor of Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP), an investment firm with 4 funds, with more than $344M in AUM and focuses on material science and photonic innovation companies
- Co-founded and served as CTO & Chairman of Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ:FNSR), where he led the Company from self-funding to an IPO in 1999
- Prior roles include Optical Systems Manager of Ericsson Raynet and Technical Staff Member of Bell Labs
- Prior and current board experience includes Fabrinet (NYSE:FN), Sentinel Monitor Systems, Rapsodo and Vixar
- Ph.D and M.A in Astronomy from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Butler University
Director
- Extensive leadership and general management experience across a range of technology, including serving as CEO for 3 companies: Shutterfly, Realtor.com and Topps Company
- Deep understanding of product, content, corporate development, business operations and strategy, M&A, advertising sales, packaged goods and profit and loss mgmt.
- Current board member at Thryv Holdings (NASDAQ:TRHY) and Stanford Longevity Center
- Prior public company board member at REA (ASX:REA) and Shutterfly (NASDAQ:SFLY). He was also a private board observer at Matterport.
- M.B.A in Business Administration and General Management from Harvard Business School, B.A. in Economics from Stanford University
Director
- Accomplished financial executive and business operator with over 20 years of building and scaling companies through an IPO, including leading 3 companies to an IPO
- CFO of ACV Auctions (NASDAQ:ACVA), a vehicle dealer auction technology
- Prior CFO experiences include Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ: LAZR), FitBit (acquired by Google), Vocera Communications (NYSE:VCRA), Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell) and Infinera Corporation (NASDAQ:INFN)
- Former director at Chaserg Technology Acquisition Corporation and GroundTruth
- M.B.A. in Finance from New York University – Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Accounting from New York Institute of Technology
Advisor
- Founder and Chairman of Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies LLC, a consulting group that works with clients to advocate their interests with decision-makers at all levels of government
- Prior to starting CPS, he was chairman of WolfBlock, LLP, a U.S. law firm and lobbying group
- Current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
- Former board of director roles include NASDAQ Futures Exchange and the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute
- Served on the Presidential Inaugural Committee, National Finance Committee of Democratic National Committee, the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team, the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Co-Chair of the Kerry for President National Finance Committee
- J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in History from Brown University
Advisor
- Overseen numerous M&A and financing transactions over a 40-year career, demonstrating an extensive knowledge and understanding of global financial markets and investing
- Active investor and served on the board at Albany Road Real Estate Partners LP, a private real estate investment and management firm
- Co-founded Savian LLC, an M&A advisory firm which he and his partners built and took public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Held various positions, including Head of Corporate Finance at Robert Stephens & Company
- Invested and served on the advisory boards at dozen of technology companies and venture capital funds, including ChaSerg Technology Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:CTAC), which acquired Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ:GDYN)
- M.B.A from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Stanford University
Advisor
- 25+ years of experience in the Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill, and as a business owner
- President & Co-Founder of J.A. Green & Company, a boutique government relations Company, which assists clients in the U.S. defense industrial base with their government relations
- Staff Director and Counsel to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, where he was primarily responsible for all matters related to supply chain, acquisition policy, etc.
- Legislative Director for the Coalition Provisional Authority Office of Legislative Affairs, working directly with senior CPA, Department of Defense, Department of State, Office of Management and Budget and White House
- Author of supply chain, defense industry, government procurement and strategic materials articles as well as appearances on many news networks
- Retired Air Force Colonel and past Co-Chair of the ABA Public Contract Law Section’s Legislative Coordinating Committee
- J.D. from the University of Miami, a Masters of Law in Government Contracts from George Washington
Advisor
- General Partner SummitView Capital: $3B Private Equity funds focused on semiconductor industry, responsible for majority of US and European deal flow, international LP relationships and investment committee member.
- Founder and CEO of four companies, InnoComm Wireless (acquired by NYSE: NSC 2000) , Quorum Systems,(acquired by NASDAQ: SPRD 2007) Linear Silicon Solutions (acquired by NASDAQ: MCHP 2010) and Modesat (acquired by NASDAQ: XLNX 2011).
- Developed, operated and grew all aspects of business in Asia , Europe and the USA
- Managed and Built operations, R&D, Sales from the ground up.
- Oversaw the development of first cellular/WiFi Handset and chipset, early Bluetooth and WiFi chipsets,
- Led four successful sell-side and two successful buy-side transactions and was a Board nominee of STEC (NASDAQ) and PLX (NASDAQ) as part of an activist investor intervention.
- Fund Manager of the venture capital fund SmartCap Europe
- Chaired international conferences in Electronics
- Published 20+ papers in learned peer reviewed journals and conference
- Taught technical courses at UCSD
- PhD Brunel University UK, CFA charter holder