Meet the FEP management team
Our team’s experience with direct secondary transactions dates back to 2002, establishing us as one of the early pioneers in providing liquidity to entrepreneurs while allowing them to focus on building their businesses.
Robert R. Ackerman - Founder & Executive Chairman
Bob is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Equity Partners and the Founder and Managing Director of Silicon Valley-based Cyber Security venture capital firm Allegis Capital. Bob is not only an experienced 20-plus year investor in venture capital, but he is also one of the pioneers of Direct Secondary investments in technology companies...>MORE
Howard Lee - Managing Director
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 investing in Silicon Valley, and more than a decade of experience in research, development, and marketing in emerging and established technology companies and research institutions. Howard brings this extensive...>MORE
Rob Ackerman - Director
Rob is a Founder and Director of Founders Equity Partners and the Founder of Ackerman Capital Management. Rob is an experienced Direct Secondary investor, having invested over $200M across 20+ deals in the past 4 years. Rob has built a reputation as a company and employee focused investor who understands the many nuances of structured secondary transactions and programs...>MORE
Karen Eliadis - Finance and Compliance
Karen is the Founder and CEO of Laurel Advisors, LLC, which provides financial and compliance consulting to Founders Equity Partners. Prior to starting Laurel Advisors, Karen was the Chief Financial Officer of BlueRun Ventures, a global venture capital firm with more than $1 billion in assets, based in Menlo Park. She was previously Director of Finance of Sofinnova...>MORE
Meet our venture partners
Kirk Dizon - Venture Partner
Kirk Dizon is a Co-Founder and a Director of Ma Nian and ACM (the pre-cursors to Founder’s EquityPartners). 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...>MORE
Bruce C. Gibney - Venture Partner
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...>MORE
Cole Sirucek - Venture Partner
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...>MORE