ROCKSPRINGS - Key Persons
Mr. Rothstein is currently a Founder and General Partner in five Israeli venture funds under the Disruptive Technologies masthead. Additionally, Mr. Rothstein is a Venture Partner for Subversive Capital Ventures in the U.S and an Executive Producer and Board Member with A Tiny Audience, LLC. Previously, Mr. Rothstein served as the Chief Investment Officer of Intana Management, a market neutral hedge fund focused on technology, media and entertainment. Mr. Rothstein was also a Partner of the Select Technology and Software Fund at Robeco Investment Management (the parent company of Weiss, Peck & Greer).
Adam has over 20 years of investment experience, previously performing analysis of the technology and media sectors for Weber Capital Partners/Bluewater Capital Management, Scripps Ventures/United Media, and UBS Securities. Adam began his career in the Banking and Tax Advisory Group at Arthur Andersen & Co.
Mr. Rothstein graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and has an MPhil in Finance from the University of Cambridge.
Job Titles:
- Founder of the Vinnik Companies
Mr. Vinnik is the founder of The Vinnik Companies and Rock Springs Investments. He received his BA in both Economics and English from Colorado College. Following his time at Colorado College, Mr. Vinnik earned a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics before entering the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for his MBA. Prior to founding The Vinnik Companies and Rock Springs Investments, Mr. Vinnik worked in Zug, Switzerland, and Moscow, Russia at Marc Rich and Co (now Glencore) and Gerald Metals. His expertise is in non-ferrous metals, having been the head of aluminum for Marc Rich in Moscow.
Additionally, Mr. Vinnik serves as the Consul General for the Republic of Serbia to the State of Wyoming.
Job Titles:
- Global Equities Portfolio Manager at Rock Springs Investments
Mr. Yu is the Global Equities Portfolio Manager at Rock Springs Investments. Before joining Rock Springs Investments, Mr. Yu was at Credit Suisse where he managed the bank's portfolio of middle-market lending facilities as well as managed the disposition of non-core equity and debt assets of the bank. Prior to Credit Suisse, Mr. Yu was a managing director at Corsair Partners which managed opportunistic funds focused on investment opportunities in rescue financing, distressed debt and equities (both private and publicly traded), and middle-market loans.
Mr. Yu also operated his own real estate private equity firm in a JV partnership with Cronus Capital/HIG Capital. Mr. Yu began his finance career at JP Morgan (formerly Chase) in the restructuring group and spent several years at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as a high yield research analyst focusing on the metals/mining, paper, homebuilding, and consumer products sectors. Following DLJ and his graduate studies, Mr. Yu worked for Chanin Capital Partners advising companies and creditor committees on restructurings in both bankrupt and pre-Ch.11 situations.
Mr. Yu received his BA from Boston University in International Relations with summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors and received his master's degree in International Affairs / International Finance at Columbia University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor to Rock Springs Investments
Stuart is a senior advisor to Rock Springs Investments. He cofounded and served as Co-CEO of Rising Tide Games which was was acquired by Zynga in 2015, and subsequently served on the Zynga executive staff. He is currently a cofounder of Mitosis Games, a VC-backed mobile gaming company based in NYC, and a cofounder of Signal Fox, a marketing tech company based in Princeton NJ. Prior to these roles Stuart served as SVP, Innovation at High 5 Games, creating IP in the casino genre and helping to build the company to a nine figure valuation.
Stuart has consulted for a wide array of companies in mobile apps, ecommerce, FinTech, crypto, SaaS, and other spaces, in the areas of financial modeling and forecasting, data science, product strategy, IP licensing, fundraising and M&A.
Stuart was a faculty member in Mathematics at the University of Toronto and at Wesleyan University, and a Research Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
He graduated from the University of Kansas, and earned a Ph.D in Mathematics from Berkeley and an M.A. in Economics from Yale where he was a University Fellow.