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.

Jack Cartmel

CFO & Head of Business Development

Mr. Cartmel is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 20 years of experience in the technology and mining industry, as well as extensive experience in M&A, public and prospectus offerings, public company accounting and disclosure, as well as financial and risk management.
 
Previously the CFO of Battery Mineral Resources Corp which is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and is a battery minerals exploration company with a copper producing asset in Chile.  Mr. Cartmel was also CFO of Resource Capital Gold Corp. and Altair Resources Inc.
 
Prior to is c-suite experience, a senior manager of Financial Reporting and Internal Audit for Monument Mining Ltd., a mid-size gold producer in Asia listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Cartmel obtained Chartered Accountant designation from the Chartered Accountant School of Business and obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Capilano University.

Our Advisors

Anthony Garcia

Senior Advisor

Co-founder of Overwatch Holdings a global AI and hyperscaler data center development firm.

11 years in the data center industry, including 3 years at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, deploying cloud regions globally with close customer engagement along with 8 years in the US Army.

Mr. Garcia holds a BS in Economics from the University of Texas San Antonio.

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.

Vic Rose

Senior Advisor

Currently Director of AI Inferencing at Microsoft where he leads 50+ people to contract and deliver inferencing GPU deployments globally (300+MW)
 
Previously principal of cloud engineering at Microsoft, where he proposed, designed, and launched Azure’s first AI regions to support the largest inferencing clusters.
 
Before that edge compute manager at AWS.

The Opportunity

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