Meet The Team
Led by Operators, Not Speculators
Ion Gumeniuc
Founder & CEO
Ion Gumeniuc is an accomplished investment professional with over 15 years of experience specializing in mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy advisory, and a broad range of special situations, including equity, credit, litigation finance, and other complex investment strategies.
Mr. Gumeniuc began his career at Citigroup and later joined Houlihan Lokey, where he played a key role advising the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee in the landmark Lehman Brothers bankruptcy case.
Prior to founding his current venture, Mr. Gumeniuc served as a senior analyst at a New York-based investment firm. Over the past eight years, he was instrumental in managing approximately $1 billion in assets under management (AUM), focusing on special situations across both public and private markets. His investment expertise spans distressed assets, activist equity positions, and litigation-related opportunities.
Vivek Agrawal
Chief Financial Officer & Head of Business Development
Vivek Agrawal brings over 25 years of broad-based experience in finance, encompassing leadership roles in corporate finance, equity research, asset management, and both investment and commercial banking.
Mr. Agrawal most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of EnBiorganic Technologies, where he was responsible for raising seed and growth capital, as well as developing strategic client relationships. Previously, he held senior equity research roles at Compass Point Research & Trading and Wells Fargo Securities, where he earned national recognition—ranking #2 for stock picking in the Thrifts & Mortgage Finance category of the 2017 U.S. Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Agrawal served as Vice President and senior credit analyst at Declaration Management & Research, and as Vice President in the investment banking division of H.C. Wainwright & Co.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from Fordham University.
Our Advisors
Andrew Walsh
Senior Advisor
Andrew Walsh is a seasoned financial markets professional with over 26 years of experience trading interest rate and foreign exchange products across both short- and long-duration instruments. His career has spanned key global financial hubs, including Australia, Japan, and Europe.
Mr. Walsh currently serves as Managing Director and Head of G10 Rates Trading for Australia and New Zealand at Citi, where he leads strategy and execution across sovereign debt and interest rate products in the region.
He holds an Honours Degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Melbourne.
Dan Chandra
Senior Advisor
Dan Chandra is an experienced investment professional with a distinguished track record in special situations investing. He currently serves as Partner and Portfolio Manager at Clear Sky Advisers, LLC, a U.S.-based investment management firm focused on complex and opportunistic strategies.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Chandra has held senior investment roles at several prominent firms, including Lion Point Capital and DW Partners (a spin-out of Brevan Howard), where he specialized in event-driven and credit-oriented investments across public and private markets.
Mr. Chandra holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Stiles
Senior Advisor
Robert is an innovative and experienced executive, advisor, entrepreneur, board member and investor with a proven track record of advancement and creation of shareholder value. Having served in various roles including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer, Robert brings deep experience in various strategic, operational, and capital models.
Robert started his career with KPMG LLP in 1994, initially in the audit practice but soon moved to advisory services. After spending almost two years in Ireland helping to roll out new audit initiatives, he became one of the youngest directors in the firm’s history, being promoted to such role in only six years while helping to start what is now KPMG’s Advisory Services Practice. After leaving KPMG, Robert spent almost six years in various senior financial roles at Time Warner Inc. (now part of Warner Bros. Discovery) and Viacom Inc. (now part of Paramount Global). Subsequently, Robert moved into financial services role, principally in real estate, including Controller of Centerline Mortgage, CFO of Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. and CFO of Mr. Cooper Group Inc. among other roles. After leaving Mr. Cooper Group Inc. Robert has focused on value creation either as an employee or consultant at various startups including Kiavi, CrowdStreet, Invest Every, and AcreTrader.
Robert has led, invested in, and/or served as advisor to startups in real estate, alternative investments, media and entertainment, energy, water treatment and food sectors. Currently he sits on the board of Salsa God LLC.
In his spare time, besides golf and running, Robert serves as a Canine Coach with Austin Pets Alive! which has spearheaded initiatives that have made Austin, Texas the largest no-kill city in the country. As a Canine Coach, Robert works with behaviorally challenged dogs to provide enrichment and training with the goal of making shelter dogs more adoptable. Robert currently serves as interim CFO for Austin Pets Alive!
Robert holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting with a concentration in Information Systems from James Madison University. In addition, he holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. He is an active Certified Public Accountant in Virginia, license No. 20427.
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