Bradley Palmer is Chairman of Palm Ventures which he founded in 1992. Previously, Mr. Palmer was a Senior Associate with James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., a strategic advisory and investment banking firm with an extensive client base of multinational corporations. While at Wolfensohn, Mr. Palmer worked for James Wolfensohn, Paul Volcker and other firm partners on numerous acquisitions for major clients. Before Wolfensohn, Mr. Palmer was a Vice President in the Acquisition Finance division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company where he financed numerous management-led buyouts. Mr. Palmer began his career as an entrepreneur, starting a multi-location restaurant concept in the Midwest which he sold successfully. Mr. Palmer holds a BS from Indiana University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Palmer serves as Chairman of Project Drawdown, the leading climate solutions nonprofit.

Rob Pflieger is Chief Investment Officer at Palm Ventures focusing on the firm's private equity and public equity investments. Prior to joining Palm Ventures, Mr. Pflieger was the General Partner of Crystal Brook Capital Partners, a small cap focused hedge fund, which he founded in 2014.  Prior to that, Mr. Pflieger was a Portfolio Manager and Senior Analyst at Artha Capital Management, Inc., a long/short Emerging Market hedge fund, from 2011 until 2014. Prior to joining Artha Capital, Mr. Pflieger was a Managing Director at Coeus Capital, a long/short US focused hedge fund, from 2006 until 2011. At Coeus, Mr. Pflieger was responsible for the firm’s investments in a number of sectors including technology, media and telecom.  Prior to joining Coeus, Mr. Pflieger was a Partner at Generation Partners, a private equity firm focused on providing capital to growth companies through buyout and growth equity transactions, from 1996 until 2006. Mr. Pflieger holds a BBA, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School. 

Joshua Horowitz is a Portfolio Manager at Palm Management (US) LLC and Palm Management (UK) LLP, overseeing hedge fund and constructive activist investments. He previously served as Director of Research for Inverlochy Capital, an asset management firm. Prior to Inverlochy he worked with a boutique European investment bank in Berlin and London. Mr. Horowitz also spent several years at Berggruen Holdings in New York, sourcing and working on several of their private equity deals, and helped oversee their entire public markets portfolio. He began his career at Crossway Partners LP, a value strategy hedge fund. Joshua holds a BS in Management, magna cum laude, from Binghamton University and also studied at the Bath School of Management in the U.K.  He completed the Business of Insurance program at St. John's University.  Mr. Horowitz has previously served as a Director of The Lincoln General Insurance Company as well as 1347 Capital Corp (Nasdaq: TFSC), now Limbach Holdings (Nasdaq: LMB).  He is currently a Director of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings (Nasdaq: PIH). 

Matt Wiant is  an Entrepreneur in Residence with 30-year of experience in consumer products and services working across multiple functions ranging from R&D, Engineering, Marketing, Biz Dev and Finance to running companies as President and CEO. In 2014, Matt started working on projects with Palm Ventures where he has participated in a number of businesses,  often taking a temporary C level role until a permanent team or person is hired. Prior to this, Matt was President and COO of Murray’s Cheese , served as CEO of The True Citrus Co., was North American marketing head for Allied Domecq , CMO of Atkins Nutritionals, and SVP of New Ventures for Starwood Hotels. Earlier in his career, Matt launched Dannon Spring Water into a $200M company (now Dasani water) and started at Kraft/General Foods as a Food Process Engineer. Matt holds a BS in Engineering from Cornell University and holds several patents in food processing and packaging design as well as a HACCP certifications for quality control systems.   He also earned an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship from Wharton with high honors.  

Karen Johnson Orphanos is a Director at Palm Ventures where she manages administration, finance and provides transaction support. Prior to joining Palm Ventures Ms. Johnson was Director of Operations for Reach Financial, LLC where she managed the financial operations for a specialty finance company that provided working capital to small businesses. She also coordinated all operations for a venture fund with fifty limited partners. Previously, she held several media-related positions in the advertising industry, including ad sales for Family Circle Magazine, and Vice President, Group Supervisor of Print Services at Young & Rubicam. She holds board positions with several community non-profit organizations. Ms. Johnson has a BA in English and Economics from Bucknell University.