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Claire joins Antler from an internship at Pax Momentum, a B2B sales accelerator. Her work prior was in NGO as the Director of Operations for Teton Adaptive Sports in Jackson Hole, WY. Claire graduated Summa Cum Laude from Utah State University with a Bachelors of Science in Geography. She grew up skiing and mountain biking in Salt Lake City, UT and looks forward to continuing both in Boulder, CO.

Kasim is a venture associate for the Boulder program. Before Antler, Kasim was a senior analyst at Goldman Sachs, working in both Asset Management and Client Wealth Management. Kasim is also experienced with saas in early-stage startups. Kasim is focused on developing a robust scouting strategy and driving Antler's vision to create a growing community in the Boulder and Mountain west regions.

Ryan is an entrepreneur and business development professional that has built and scaled ventures in the financial services, apparel, technology, and food/beverage spaces. For the past few years, he has focused on simultaneously growing a financial services start-up and a nonprofit organization that provides pro-bono services to empower lower-income entrepreneurs. He brings experience spanning the start-up ecosystem to Antler's founders where he will be focused on building Antler in the US.

Sam is a management professional with over 7 years progressive experience in customer experience, operations, team building and project management for the hospitality industry. She joins us from WeWork where she was a Community Lead. Prior to WeWork, Sam worked for the Four Seasons Hotels as a Guest Experience & Operations Manager.

Roslyn is a strategy and business development specialist with a background in hypergrowth sales, financial markets, and international policy. Prior to Antler, she helped launch the enterprise segment at WeWork and partnered with financial services accounts to develop custom innovation solutions. Previously, she held positions in structured derivatives at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and U.S.-China trade policy at the Executive Office of the President. Roslyn holds a BA from Cornell University and an MBA with an emphasis in strategy and product management from NYU Stern.

Rio is the Director of the Boulder program and residency. Prior to Antler, Rio was focused on growth strategy and innovation at frog where he was a Senior Strategist, shaping ideas into commercially viable products and services. Previously, Rio had experience in both growth equity and early-stage VC. He is now developing Antler’s footprint in the Rocky Mountain Region, hoping to grow the Boulder/Denver startup ecosystem.

Prerna is the recruiting director at Antler and oversees founder recruiting efforts globally. She was an early employee at Uber Asia, where she hired hundreds of high performing individuals to help scale Uber’s growth in the region. After Uber, Prerna successfully laid the entire framework for the HR & Recruitment function of Flow Traders Asia (Singapore & Hong Kong), a leading Dutch proprietary trading firm, specialising in ETFs.

Navi is Global Partner at Antler in New York and Head of Technology at the Antler U.S. fund where he guides Antler startups and holds several board positions. Previously, Navi was a deeptech focused researcher at MIT and Entrepreneur in Residence at TandemLaunch, an aspiring startup foundry and seed fund in North America. As a former co-founder of a MIT-backed startup that invented and commercialized novel imaging technology, Navi has experienced all facets of the tech startup journey. He is a Web3 enthusiast and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Sciences from University of St. Andrews in the UK.

Lisa joins Antler with over 16 years of experience in Venture Capital. Before Antler, Lisa was the CFO of Tribe Capital. Prior to Tribe, Lisa served as VP of Finance for Khosla Ventures and as the part-time CFO for several smaller firms including Asset Management Ventures & Prospect Ventures. She started her career at Morgenthaler, based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Johnny is a business development specialist and serial entrepreneur with a knack for turning ideas into action. Prior to Antler, he focused on the growth of early-stage technology companies, spanning from fintech to digital health to Web3. Johnny is a certified business coach and strives to help others reach their ambitious goals as they navigate the founder journey. He is dedicated to scaling this impact with the Antler community, in Colorado and beyond.

Joe joins Antler with a background in sales and business development. Throughout his career, he’s had the privilege of cultivating and managing relationships with the world's largest organizations in an effort to support their key strategic initiatives at hyper-growth companies like Forter and Okta.

Jeff is a sales leader and investor. Over a nine year run at LinkedIn, Jeff held a series of roles launching new business units and leading sales teams to best-in-company performances as the business grew to 770 million members and $10B in revenue. Separately, Jeff launched his own company, Earhoox, scaling it across the globe. He is also an active angel investor focused on health, wealth, and happiness. Before coming to Antler, he was a General Partner at Forum Ventures, focused on early stage B2B SaaS.

Ivan is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has spent his career developing technology and business solutions around the globe. He gets really excited about creating scalable solutions to complex problems delivering impact on a global scale and mentoring founders. His career spans 30 years across the USA, Europe, APAC and LATAM. He has founded 8 companies in e-commerce technology, and men’s personal care products. Prior to Antler he was with Techstars as General Manager for Americas West, APAC and LATAM. He has been in leadership roles at Amazon, Disney, Sony Pictures and Hutchison Whampoa amongst other executive roles around the globe.

Charlie Hayley Bell (Associate Partner) leads Capital and Investor Relations for Antler US. Charlie has 20 years of alternative investment experience in the US, and Latin America across both public and private markets advising investors and raising capital for hedge funds, real estate, PE, and venture capital. Charlie is an investor in early and growth stage technology and CPG companies. He previously was with HSBC, Archstone Partners, and Old City Securities. He holds a MA from Edinburgh University.

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Annie is an investor focused on identifying founders at the early stages across a multitude of verticals including business and consumer technology and CPG. After graduating in 2019, Annie spent time in growth equity at Spring Lake Equity Partners where she focused on sourcing growth stage private technology businesses. Prior to Antler, Annie was an investor at BBG Ventures investing in seed stage women founded businesses.

Caroline works with founders in Antler's Austin office and leads Antler's US marketing and growth functions. Prior to joining Antler, Caroline worked at NationSwell as an associate producer and in finance at Visa. Caroline graduated Cum Laude from the University of San Diego, where she obtained her BBA in Finance and Business Economics.

Tyler is a business development specialist and entrepreneur with a strong focus on the growth and geographic expansion of early stage companies. With close to a decade of experience under his belt, Tyler prominently lead the rollout of a comprehensive marketplace business model across over 10 countries in Southeast Asia for both Zalora and Global Fashion Group (GFG). The former Head of Business Development at GFG also spearheaded one of the largest private e-commerce acquisitions to-date involving India’s e-commerce fashion site, Jabong.