Leadership
Greg Brown, Administrator of CAF I and CAF II
Greg performs contract CFO and other consulting services via his company, Cardinal Finance. He has domestic and international venture capital investing experience, and has been CFO of numerous venture capital-backed and early stage public companies.
Camille Cunningham, Investment Operations
Camille cultivates and screens investment opportunities as well as conducts due diligence for Charlotte Angel Fund. Camille held various operational management roles in the financial services sector before devoting her efforts to the North Carolina entrepreneurial community.
CAF I Board
CAF II Board
Ed Hamilton, Director
Ed is a private investor focusing on residential real estate, early stage venture capital and the public equity and option markets. He spent over 20 years in investment banking, running debt trading desks at Bank of America and Bank of Boston. Ed also served as a director of IMAF Charlotte, an angel fund investing in the Carolinas.
Maria Mascia, Director
Maria is a managing director at Salem Lake Capital, a private asset management firm headquartered in Charlotte. She has a decade of investment banking and investment analysis experience, including portfolio management of a multi-billion dollar fixed income portfolio and as a research analyst responsible for the origination and execution of all non-agency RMBS research produced for institutional investors.
Tony Philipp, Director
Tony is CEO of adsLOCAL, which is a mobile advertising service. He has multiple successful exits from early stage startups that he founded, and previously served as COO for Lycos Europe.
Ken Rogich, Director
Ken wa CFO of ScentAir, the global industry leader in sensory branding and comprehensive scent marketing solutions. He is an experienced financial and operations executive with industry experience in consumer goods and services, real estate, and financial products.
Rob Cummings, Director
Rob is a Managing Director and CTO at Falfurrias Capital Partners, a middle-market Private Equity firm in Charlotte, NC. Rob is also the Co-Founder of DealCloud, Inc. DealCloud has raised more than $10m through institutional and angel investors.
Spencer Disher, Director
Spencer currently serves as an angel investor, advisor and volunteer in a finance capacity for various not-for-profits. He also serves as an adjunct instructor in the business college at Johnson and Wales University. He previously co-managed the startup and ongoing operations of a multi-billion dollar investment subsidiary of a multinational French financial institution.
Maria Mascia, Director
Maria is a managing director at Salem Lake Capital, a private asset management firm headquartered in Charlotte. She has a decade of investment banking and investment analysis experience, including portfolio management of a multi-billion dollar fixed income portfolio and as a research analyst responsible for the origination and execution of all non-agency RMBS research produced for institutional investors.
Luke Walling, Director
Luke is the CEO and president of Temprano, which helps successful emerging market software companies go to market in North America. He founded Walling Data, which he sold to AVG Technologies in 2010. He has held board positions with startup successes like SharpSpring. Walling holds board member experience in several multi-million-dollar business exits.