Joe Walz Manager Working in finance since the age of 18, Joe has experience in mortgages, derivatives trading, China A-Share SMAs, private equity consulting, Reg CF, and Reg A +. He is the former Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Seraph Financial, a RegA+ platform creating private securities portfolios, diversified across real estate, private credit and private equity. Joe attended Pepperdine with a scholarship for creative writing and is certified by Bloomberg in Bloomberg Market Concepts. Nate Kessell Financial Engineering Nate has experience leveraging his knowledge of advanced mathematical and statistical methods into developing investment strategies and risk models for several asset classes, including equity derivatives, private credit, private equity, and crypto-assets. Most recently, Nate worked as the Director of Financial Engineering for Seraph Financial, a Reg A+ investment platform where he managed the risk and composition of the company's newly incepted private market fund. Nate graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Pepperdine University in 2022. He is certified by Bloomberg in Bloomberg Market Concepts. Chris Dare Research and Development Chris is a former Research Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he worked on the latency of lightweight cryptographic algorithms. While working at the NIST, he implemented multiple block ciphers including AES, SPECK, SIMON, and others. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Tech, focusing on topological data science and discrete morse theory. He is currently a fourth year PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, studying how quantum field theories deform using algebraic geometry methods. Diego Andino Software Engineering Diego is a former software engineer at the University of Utah and former Lead Software Engineer at Seraph Financial. He holds an M.S. in Computing and a B.S. in Games & Computer Science, both from the University of Utah. With a passion for backend engineering, he endeavors to produce efficient, scalable, and maintainable code, to help ensure the delivery of quality software. Cam Ventura Community Director Cam Ventura is an emerging professional with a background in the world of early stage startups, capital raises, and business development strategies. He is a former Investment Analyst Intern, at The MBA Group, and a former Summer Analyst at 93North Capital. He is also a former intern at Netcapital, where he helped facilitate the onboarding of new issuers to the platform. Cam is a B.A. candidate in International Studies at Boston College.
