ACTIVANT CAPITAL - Key Persons
Adam Geisler - CFO, Chief Compliance Officer
Job Titles:
- Chief Compliance Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
Trusted advisor to founders. Passionate ecosystem builder. Recognized fintech expert.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- CEO and Founder of Do
Joshua Browder is the CEO and Founder of DoNotPay.com, the world's first robot lawyer. DoNotPay has automated over 200 consumer rights processes for consumers, including cancelling subscriptions, lowering bills and obtaining refunds, among many others. To date, the company has won over 2m cases for its customers. Browder has been named as one of the "35 Innovators Under 35" by MIT Technology Review and one of the top legal innovators in America by the Financial Times.
Before starting DoNotPay, Browder studied Computer Science at Stanford, dropping out after 3 and a half years to take the Thiel Fellowship. He has since invested in over 150 companies, including Figma, Mercury, Owner.com, Riverside and Jeeves. He focuses his investing on first time entrepreneurs, such as college and high school dropouts.
Activant's resident technical expert. Brings his engineering background to finding and partnering with founders and their teams.
Job Titles:
- Director of Research
- Engineer
- Senior Advisor
Helps management teams through the challenges of scaling by focusing on the biggest value drivers.
Richard is an engineer-turned-corporate strategist with 25+ years of experience helping large, established companies and smaller startups scale in the consumer goods and information services industries globally. A 5-year stint as managing partner of McKinsey's Stamford office piqued Richard's interest in growing a professional service organization - his role at Activant supporting partner companies to grow as well as developing the firm is a dream job.
Richard was the location managing partner in McKinsey's Stamford office for 5 years and held global leadership roles in the Consumer Goods and Capability Building practices. He served global and local clients in the consumer goods, retail banking, and B2B information services industries on issues of strategy, performance management, and capability building.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Professor of Marketing at NYU 's Stern School of Business
- Senior Advisor / Professor and Provocateur Connecting and Advising Activant 's Incredible Founders
Professor and provocateur connecting and advising Activant's incredible founders.
Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. In 2012, he was named one of the world's best business professors by Poets & Quants. He has founded nine companies, including Prophet, Red Envelope, L2, and Section4. He is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, and Post Corona. He has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Panera Bread, and Ledger. He is a CNN+ host of a show on business and tech premiering Q1 2021. His Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy / No Malice blog, and Prof G YouTube channel reach millions.
As Activant's founder, Steve oversees all investing efforts and pushes boundaries - not just for Activant, but for our outstanding entrepreneurs.