BENEFUNDER - Key Persons


Ake Persson

With more than 3 decades in executive positions in the global telecom and information's technology industry, most recently as the President of Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc., Ake serves across industry sectors as CEO advisor and board member.

Beth Sirull

Job Titles:
  • President / CEO, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego / Advisor

Charles Froland

Job Titles:
  • CEO at Performance Equity / Advisor

Christian Braemer

Christian's background is a unique combination of global wealth management. entrepreneurship, and non-profit experience. Christian is responsible for the mission and growth of Benefunder.

Dan Pingaro

Dan is a senior management professional with leadership, operations and policy experience that bridges the private, public, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. With multiple CEO leadership roles, Dan also has direct experience with Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the World Bank Global Partnership for Oceans.

Darren Lipomi

Job Titles:
  • Professor at University of California San Diego / Advisor

Dina Shoman

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO at InherQuests and Nahji / Advisor

Farahnaz Forozan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Translational Science at Atara Biotherapeutics / Advisor

Gert Lanckriet

Job Titles:
  • Head of Machine Learning @ Amazon Music / Advisor

Jim Patrick

Job Titles:
  • Group President Envestnet PMC at Envestnet, Inc / Advisor

Karen Landry

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director at Silver Leaf Partners

Kevin McCluskey

Job Titles:
  • Director of Innovation, Intuit Futures / Advisor

Mike Dorsey

Job Titles:
  • Independent Investor and Advisor / Advisor

Pamela Jacobs

Job Titles:
  • Chief Sustainability Officer at Spouting Rock Asset Management / Advisor

Paul Kent

Paul's experience has spanned 3 decades in senior level roles within boutique and global investment banks. Prior to joining Benefunder Paul was the Founder of a private placement business dedicated to emerging funds and companies as well as 501c3's.

Reid Carr - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
Having focused on multi-channel, integrated marketing for nearly 20 years, Reid Carr is the CEO of award-winning marketing transformation agency, Red Door Interactive. He also sits on the boards of several corporations and nonprofits across several industry sectors.

Rob Densen

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Tiller LLC / Advisor

Roger Arnemann - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Product Officer

Steve Adler

Steve is a serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years in successful high technology and software development industry creating solutions in the fintech, connected device, cloud-based media, SOA microservices, streaming video, IoT, Blockchain, AI and app ecosystems.

Tom Paparatto

Tom is a pioneer in the data and information industry having a wealth of experience building information businesses and monetizing data assets in the financial services sector.