"At FEP, we focus on helping to unlock founders, employees and early investors liquidity while providing the most innovative, experienced, and company-focused team in the secondary market."
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.
Founder & Executive Chairman
The FEP Team
Executive Chairman
Robert (Bob) R. Ackerman, Jr.
Bob is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Equity Partners and the Founder and Managing Director of Silicon Valley-based Cyber Security venture... >MORE
Managing Director
Howard Lee
Howard is a Founder and Managing Director of Founders Equity Partners. Howard has more than twenty years of experience in venture capital and private equity... >MORE
Director
Rob Ackerman
Rob is a Founder and Director of Founders Equity Partners and the Founder of Ackerman Capital Management. Rob is an experienced Direct Secondary investor... >MORE
Financial and Compliance
Karen Eliadis
Karen is the Founder and CEO of Laurel Advisors, LLC, which provides financial and compliance consulting to Founders Equity Partners. Prior to starting... >MORE
Our Venture Partners
Kirk Dizon
Kirk Dizon is a Co-Founder and a Director of Ma Nian and ACM (the pre-cursors to Founder’s Equity Partners). Mr. Dizon is also Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Sentinel Dome Partners LLC, ("Sentinel Dome"), an event-driven hedge fund. Prior to working with Sentinel Dome, Ma Nian and ACM, Mr. Dizon was Co-Founder and Managing Director of Birdseye Partners LLC, a boutique platform...>MORE
Bruce C. Gibney
Mr. Gibney began his investing career with an early investment in Confinity, Inc. (the predecessor to PayPal), which was co-founded by his college classmate, and has made early and follow-on investments personally and through Founders Fund, where he was a general partner, in start-ups including Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, DeepMind (acquired by Google) and others...>MORE
Cole Sirucek
Cole Sirucek is an investor and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience founding, investing into and otherwise supporting entrepreneurial ventures on a global basis. Cole has founded a diverse range of business in his career. He is a Co-Founder of DocDoc Pte. Ltd., which is Asia’s largest real-time online doctor discovery and appointment reservation system...>MOREOur Portfolio Companies
The FEP team have invested in excess of $125M in direct secondary investments.
