Ken Fredrickson is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and accomplished business executive with over 20 years of experience. He has raised over 30 million leading numerous investment groups though extremely profitable exits. He has also built 6 companies from the ground up, into best-in-class organizations.

Ken is a founding partner in High Road Spirits a United States national importer focusing on the sales, marketing, and management of global artisan spirit brands. The company currently distributes in 47 States and has annual revenues over 20 million.

Prior to co-founding High Road, Ken was the Founder of Tenzing Wine and Spirits, an artisanal importer and wholesaler in Chicago, Illinois.  He built this disruptive start-up from the ground up growing to over 30 million in annual revenue before a successful exit to a large national company.  In 2014 Ken led a group of investors acquiring Brewer-Clifton winery in Santa Barbara, CA.  He accelerated the business and sold the winery 3 years later achieving a 37% annualized rate of return for all investors. Ken has held numerous leadership positions in start-ups, turnaround efforts and real estate development.

Ken attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and he attained the Master Sommelier Diploma in 2000. In 2020, he released his first book Wine: A beginner’s guide. Ken is an active member of the community and remains one of the largest individual lronman Foundation fundraisers worldwide, annual charitable efforts through the Mayo Clinic, and involvement in various non-profits.  He is an avid traveler and frequent speaker at industry events world-wide.

Josh Yelen, CPA is an established business executive, entrepreneur, and investor. He previously co-found two Biotech companies focused on drug and device discovery during which he raised angel and series A rounds of $3.1M and $15M, respectively. Josh has over 20 years’ experience in both corporate and start-up settings. He is an active venture capital investor participating in numerous investment groups across a wide array of sectors.  

Josh is currently the Vice President of Revenue Cycle Strategy and Customer Success at FrontRunnerHC, a Healthcare Revenue Cycle SaaS provider. Over his career, Josh has held executive-level Accounting, CFO, Sales, Strategy and Operations roles including having budget responsibility for over $100 million and over 400 employees.  He has taken a number of companies from startup stage to maturity and exit.

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Public Financial Accountant (CPFA). Josh also holds a Bachelors of Arts from Indiana Univiersity, a Master’s in Accounting (MAccy) from Rutgers University and an MBA with a focus in Healthcare Administration (MBA/HA) from the University of Miami. Yelen was previously recognized with the Miami Herald’s “20 Under 40 Award”, annually acknowledging 20 outstanding business and civic leaders under the age of 40.  He is active in his community volunteering for a number of different organizations in various capacities.

Carl is the retired President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and co-founder of Jefferies Finance, a company he founded in 2004. Today it is one of the leading providers of debt financing for private equity firms supporting mergers, acquisitions, and recapitalizations. Loan facilities and commitments have grown from $100 million per transaction in 2005 to over $1 billion.

In 2006, Mr. Toriello also started an asset management fund with Jefferies Finance that presently has $10 billion under management. Although he retired from his day-to-day responsibilities as CEO, he remains on the credit committee that approves all loan commitments.

With more than 46 years of Banking and Finance experience, he’s completed over 1,500 cash-flow and asset-based transactions. Before co-founding Jefferies Finance in 2004, he held various senior management positions, including responsibility for Origination and Portfolio Administration at GE Capital, Heller Financial, CIT Group, Citicorp, Bankers Trust, and Chase Manhattan Bank.

A member of the Commercial Finance Association, Turnaround Management Association, and American Bankruptcy Institute, he has been elected to the CFA and TMA board of directors.

He’s also served as an advisor to the Financial Group of Mass Mutual Insurance Company and as a board member of Ankura Trust and the Leukemia Society of America.

Not one to rest in retirement, Mr. Toriello also serves on the board of Klick Track, a software company founded in 2019 that assists in raising seed capital and bridge financing.

Andrew is an experienced operator, investor, and CPG marketer with over 15 years of experience. He has led numerous billion dollar businesses, always using executional excellence to deliver both top and bottom line results. His experiences range from P&L management, to all forms of traditional brand marketing and advertising.

Andrew's career has spanned two key industries, consumer products and sports and entertainment. Currently, Andrew is the Head or North America eCommerce Sales at Kraft Heinz.  He spent 8 years at Procter and Gamble with a variety of roles across finance and brand management. Separately, he led a successful sports marketing and athlete representation firm.

Andrew graduated from University of Virginia in 2010, with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. He has been recognized as a top leader in the CPG space, in people management, and as a media/marketing expert.

Cem is the Founder and Senior Managing Partner of KAI Volatility Advisors. He is responsible for firm-wide management, as well as its Head of Research and Risk Management.

Cem Karsan formed Kai Volatility Advisors after over two decades of experience building industry-leading derivatives businesses. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a volatility trader as part of RBC Dominion Securities’ Derivatives Arbitrage Group. From 2002 to 2005, he worked under renowned Wall Street investor John Mulheren at Bear Wagner Specialists, where Cem helped expand the firm’s fledgling derivatives arbitrage business into a competitive force within the industry. In 2005, Cem took a select group from the firm’s trading arm and founded his own proprietary market making firm, Precision Capital Management, specializing in equity index volatility arbitrage.

Cem triple majored in Economics, Policy Studies and English at Rice University and holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Indira Gallo is the Financial Reporting Manager of the Asset Management team, which provides investment advisory services to the Funds and Partnerships group of PSP Partners and its affiliates. She is responsible for reporting and analytics for funds and partnership investments, due diligence, and research.

Prior to joining PSP Partners, Indira spent 4 years at Pritzker Family Office and was an Accounting Manager. Indira earned a Master of Business Administration from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University.

Dax Rodriguez is an experienced entrepreneur with over two decades of leadership and operational expertise in high-tech data, Fintech, trading, brokerage, and exchange firms. He is currently the Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Sarna Holdings, Inc, a next-generation trading technology firm, and the Chief Operating Officer of Kai Volatility Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund.

Dax is known for his ability to develop and implement effective GTM plans, establish long-term relationships, and connect people's needs with business opportunities to drive growth.

Prior to his current roles, Dax served as the Director of Commercial Services & Solutions at The HDF Group and Head of Business Development for Victory Networks and Sumo Capital. He has also played critical roles in advancing relationships and capabilities at the Chicago Board of Trade, Deutsche Boerse, E*Trade, and Livevol.

Dax earned a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago, demonstrating his expertise at the intersection of data and business.

Tupa Gomes is a globally recognized and seasoned C-Level Executive in the Food and Service Industries, with over 30 years of senior-level leadership experience at KraftFoods, Nestle, Unilever and leading a global service provider Martin Brower since 1998 on supply chain management, temperature control logistics, and last-mile deliveries.

Since 1998 has been in various leadership positions within Reyes Holdings at The Martin Brower Company, it is currently President for Martin Brower LAMEA division, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia. Martin Brower is the largest QSR Restaurant Chain supplier in the world.

In addition to their executive roles, Tupa Gomes has also served as a strategic advisor and held board positions in various organizations. He co-founded the Instituto Food Service Brazil (IFB) and served as its first President from 2013 to 2015. Currently, they continue to contribute as an active board member, working towards improving the Food Service industry in Brazil. He has also held advisory and board positions at MMB (Mohebi & MB JV) in Dubai, UAE, NextGen Foods (TiNDLE) in Singapore, and Clique&Retire, an innovative e-box services startup in Brazil.

Education has played a crucial role in shaping Tupa Gomes's expertise. He hold a B.Sc. and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Additionally, He has completed the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) at INSEAD in France, the YPO President's Program at Harvard Business School, and the Corporate Director Program at Harvard Business School. He has also attended programs at Singularity University Palo Alto and the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC).

As a member of the Young President Organization (YPO) since 2007, Tupa Gomes actively participates in YPO Gold chapters in Sao Paulo/Brazil, and Miami. He is also part of the Harvard Business School Angel & Entrepreneurship Council in Chicago.