How to find Angel Investors in West Virginia

Stephen Rodriguez

Washington - District of Columbia, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics

Description

Venture Partner at Refinery Ventures


Stephen Rudriguez is the Founder and serves as Board of Advisors at One Defense. He serves as Advisor at Public Spend Forum. He is an Advisor of Dcc & serves as Venture Partner at Refinery Ventures. He is an Angel Investor. Prior to this, he served as Venture Partner at SineWave Ventures. He is a senior fellow with New America's International Security program. He is the founder of One Defense, an agile network of market leading, non-traditional technology companies, venture capital firms, and research universities dedicated to scouting advanced software and hardware applications and enabling their transition into the national security enterprise. Concurrently, he has served as a Venture Partner supporting the above-market venture portfolio performance of Scout Ventures, and Abundance Partners. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton shortly before 9/11 supporting their national security practice. In his capacity as an expert on game theoretic applications, he supported the United States Intelligence Community and DOD as the lead architect for the Thor's Hammer, Schriever II/III and Cyber Storm wargames. He subsequently was a Vice President at a venture-backed, artificial intelligence company (Sentia Group) and served as Chief Marketing Officer for a international defense corporation (NCL Holdings). He serves on the Board of CENSA, DMGS, HighSide, Omelas, Public Spend Forum, Training Leaders International, Uniken, and WarOnTheRocks. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, a Senior Fellow at New America and serves on the Term Member Advisory Council at the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his B.B.A degree from Texas A&M University and an M.A. degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is published in Foreign Policy, WarOnTheRocks, National Review, RealClearDefense, and Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Notably, his graduate thesis on conflict resolution in the Caucasus resulted in an invitation to join incoming Secretary of Defense Robert Gates transition team in late 2006.

Mike Rhodes

Virginia - West Virginia - Florida - McLean Virginia - Melbourne Florida - Martinsburg West Virginia - U.S.A., U.S.A.

Investing In

Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Mobile • Consumer

Description

Mike Rhodes serves as Chief Technology Officer at AppTek. He is the Chief Financial Officer at Geostellar. His diverse background includes work in corporate finance, private equity, venture capital, and start-ups. He started with Geostellar in October of 2012, and is charged with providing financial oversight to the company's strategic and operating activities, while being responsible for the finance, accounting, HR, investor relations, and business development functions. Mike's focus at Geostellar is to provide a strong financial and business foundation, and the discipline that will help drive the enterprise value of the company as its velocity accelerates from that of a start-up to a strong, vibrant, solar powerhouse. Mike was previously the CFO of Crystal Media Networks, a mid-sized media advertising and technology firm in Bethesda, Maryland. Crystal Media was a portfolio company of Arlington-based private equity firm MCG Capital (MCGC:NASDAQ), where Mike was a Portfolio Manager for more than eight years. While at MCG, Mike led underwriting teams for both debt and equity investments, managed existing portfolio investments, and assisted in turnaround situations, primarily in the Media and Communications industries. At one point, Mike managed a portfolio of over 15 companies with over $170 million of invested capital at risk. He has assisted in over $400 million of private equity and debt transactions in his career, working with MCG, C1 Venture Partners, Global Partner Ventures (GPV), and the Defense Enterprise Fund. While with GPV, Mike helped fund and create venture-backed start-up companies in the United States and Russia, in the information technology, telecommunications, and manufacturing industries. Mike began his career in corporate finance and business development at the Hamilton Sundstrand Division of United Technologies Corporation, where he worked on international financing and joint ventures. One of those start-up joint ventures, HS-Nauka, is still producing environmental control systems for Boeing 747 aircraft to this day. Mike earned a BS in Finance from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Robert Nutting

Virginia - West Virginia - Wheeling West Virginia - U.S.A., U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • IoT (& Wearables)

Description

Robert Nutting serves as Partner at TNC Ventures. Nutting serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Ogden Publications. He is chairman of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pirates Charities, and chairman of Seven Springs Mountain Resort. Bob has served as former chairman of the News Media Alliance, past president of the West Virginia Press Association, former chairman of the West Virginia Independent Colleges, former chairman of The Linsly School in Wheeling, WV, and a member of the board of The Thacher School in Ojai, CA. Bob currently serves as vice chairman of the Nature Conservancy of West Virginia and as a board member of the Green Sports Alliance.

Rick Kraich

Virginia - West Virginia - Morgantown West Virginia - U.S.A., U.S.A.

Investing In

Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Life Science