Our Board of Directors

Kent Weaver

Chairman & Former CEO
Progressive Home Care

Mr. Weaver is currently Executive Chairman and former CEO at Northern CA-based home health care company, Progressive Home Care. Mr. Weaver has invested in over 100 middle-market companies and served on the board of over 20 operating businesses across the manufacturing, services, distribution and software space.

Lacey Wismer

Founder
Hunter Search Capital

As Founder of Hunter Search Capital (HSC), Ms. Wismer has partnered with over 135 entrepreneurs and has invested in and acquired more than 60 private companies across healthcare, software, and business services sectors. Prior to founding HSC, Ms. Wismer spent ten years investing in operating businesses at family office Hunter Trust with a particular emphasis on the manufacturing and industrial sectors, including infrastructure and traffic safety management.

As CEO of Integra Partners, a technology-enabled healthcare services company, Mr. Saltoun grew revenues and earnings by over 400%. Since his time at Integra, Mr. Saltoun has invested in over 75 entrepreneurs and 50 operating companies. He is now an active board member and operational advisor across several companies spanning a variety of industries and business models.

Andrew Saltoun

Former CEO
Integra Partners

Additional Partners

We are backed by a number of seasoned operators and professional investors, meaning you have partners on our team that have been through the small business journey before. In addition to our Board of Directors, below are a handful of the folks we have around the table with us.

  • David Berkal

    CEO, Banyan Software
    Over his 8-year tenure, David has grown Banyan to a global company with over 1000 employees.


  • Jay Davis & Jason Pananos

    Former CEOs, Vector Disease Control
    Over their 7-year tenure, Jay and Jason grew revenues at VDC by over 43% annually and completed 14 acquisitions.


  • Sam Hyde & Steu Botchford

    CEOs, Circle Surrogacy
    Over their 7 year tenure to date, Circle Surrogacy has grown to include multiple premiere brands within the fertility industry under the holding company, Northstar Fertility, helping over 500 families start their journey to parenthood each year.

  • Michael Horowitz

    Former CEO, Buckeye Restaurant Group
    Over five years, Michael built Buckeye Restaurant Group into one of the largest brand partners of Wingstop, with annual revenue growth of nearly 40% and an over fivefold increase in profits.

  • Ryan Robinson & Lucas Braun

    Former CEOs, OnRamp
    Ryan and Lucas are active investors and former operators of OnRamp, a data center services company focused on high security application workloads in healthcare and financial services that the pair ran for 9 years before exiting to a strategic.

  • Max Artz

    Partner, Peterson Partners
    With a decade of investing experience, Max co-leads the micro-cap investment strategy at Peterson Partners. Prior to Peterson, Max spent three years in manufacturing outside of Shanghai China.