Marc is the Co-founder & Chief Investment Officer of Open Field Capital, an SEC registered investment advisor managing over $100 million in emerging technology assets with 14+ year track records managing both public and private emerging technology companies.  Marc co-founded Open Field in 2005 to invest exclusively in emerging technology companies, capitalizing on the partners’ deep experience and networks, with the objective of maximizing capital growth for their investors.

Prior to Open Field, Marc was the Director of Research at Amerindo Investment Advisors, Inc., a multi-billion dollar institutional advisor managing public and private emerging technology companies. Prior to Amerindo, Marc worked as an engineer at IBM Corporation.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell University, and an MBA from Columbia University.

Co-Founder, General Partner

Amir Weitmann, an experienced licensed investment advisor and asset manager, has been involved in asset management since 2004. Amir brings with him a strong banking and finance background with a disciplined approach to investments. Between 2010 and 2017, he worked for Bank Hapoalim, the largest Israeli Bank, as a Senior Investment Advisor. In 2017, he created Champel Capital with Arié in order to invest in Israeli technology companies.

Amir holds a BA and an MA in International Relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He lives in Jerusalem with his family.

Ted White – Managing Director

 

Ted White is co-founder and a Managing Director of Legion Partners Asset Management.

Prior to founding Legion Partners, he most recently served in various functions with Knight Vinke Asset Management, a European-based activist fund manager. Positions included Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for finance, operations, legal, marketing and client service functions. He is a former Deputy Director of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), where responsibilities included policy development and implementation. Previous to Knight Vinke, White was a Portfolio Manager, Director of Corporate Governance, for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”), where he was responsible for all components of its Governance Program, including $3 billion in active management, policy development and implementation, proxy voting and focused engagement activities. Prior to CalPERS, White was an Investment Officer – Deputy State Treasurer at the California State Treasurer’s Office, where his duties included fixed income portfolio analysis and trading, among other responsibilities.  He is a current member of the Council of Institutional Investors Corporate Governance Advisory Council.  White served as Co-Chairman of the Executive Remuneration Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) until December 2014 and is a former member of the Standing Advisory Group for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).

White earned an MBA from California State University in Sacramento with a concentration in finance. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Legion Partners is a deep-value oriented activist investor focused in the small/mid cap space in North America.  It was seeded at the beginning of 2014 by CalSTRS with a $200MM commitment.

Legion Partners believes that shareholder engagement/activism can help to catalyze change and is critical for long term investment success.  The firm tends to work behind the scenes so that ideally no one even knows that they are involved with a company, but they have and are willing to be publicly involved, take board seats, and run proxy contests when they believe it is in shareholders’ best long-term interests.  In addition to the fund, they make co-investments (single stock funds) where they want to own a greater percentage of a target company.

 

 

 

 

Jason Wild is the President and Chief Investment Officer of JW Asset Management, LLC.   The firm has a strong history of finding opportunities within the healthcare sector, investing in both private and public companies.  Since inception in 1999, JW Partners, LP has gained 27.31% annually net of all fees and expenses compared to 6.27% for the S&P 500 during the same period. (Ending 8/31/18)  Mr. Wild is the Chairman of the Board at Arbor Pharmaceuticals, a private pharmaceutical company based in Atlanta, Georgia where JW Asset Management along with KKR are the company’s two largest investors.   JW has been an active investor in the Cannabis sector since 2014, investing in many of the sector leaders, including Canopy Growth, Cronos Group and TerrAscend Corp., where he is the Chairman of the Board.

Amy Rosen Wildstein is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Springboard Growth Capital. She has twenty five years of direct investment experience. Ms. Wildstein started her career at the Blackstone Group, working on principal investments as well as mergers & acquisitions. Subsequently, she joined Morgan Stanley Capital Partners where she evaluated and structured investments for the firm’s $2.0 billion investment fund, focusing on buyouts and growth equity investments across a range of industries, including consumer, media, technology and healthcare. In 1999, Ms. Wildstein co-founded Solera Capital, a private equity fund with an all-women team. She was involved with fund formation, capital raising and the development of the Fund’s investment strategy. In 2001, Ms. Wildstein co-founded Boldcap Ventures, investing in early to mid-stage companies in media/technology and life sciences and leveraging an investor base of women entrepreneurs and executives.

Ms. Wildstein has played key roles in developing and executing financing strategies for portfolio companies, including public equity and debt financings, bank facilities, and private equity placements. She is also experienced in managing and monitoring existing portfolio companies and has served on the board of directors of private and public companies. Ms. Wildstein serves on the National Advisory Board of Springboard Enterprises and is a member of the NY Fashion Tech Lab Expert Network. She is on the Board of the University of Michigan Social Venture Fund and the Board of Advisors to the Dean of the Ross School of Business. Ms. Wildstein received a Bachelor of Business Administration with Distinction from the University of Michigan.