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Our Team
Brooks Pickering
Managing Partner/Chief Executive Officer
• 30 years experience launching, restructuring and growing multiple global businesses.
• Founder/CEO of MyStay, a hospitality technology company with a successful public exit.
• Former CEO of GoChip responsible for a successful consumer product launch of an
entertainment device and associated content platform.
• Former CEO of three public companies, including National Media Corp. ($500M NYSE).
• Board Member, advisor, and consultant for more than two dozen food, restaurant, and
hospitality companies over 25 years.
Jordan Jansen
Partner/Chief Operating Officer
• 30 years of supply chain and procurement transformation leadership.
• Chief Procurement Officer and executive operational roles across multiple companies,
market verticals, and private equity portfolios.
• Advisory board member to multiple next generation procurement technology companies.
• Successful development from concept to opening of over 13 restaurants.
• Team building and talent champion.
Rich Arnold
Partner/Chief Financial Officer
• Former CFO and VP Strategy and Corp Dev. of Charles Schwab, aiding the founder in building the company from 20 employees to over 6,000.
• Independent Director on the board of Intellisync (NASDAQ: SYNC), led the strategy committee which managed the $450MM sale of the company to Nokia.
• 40+ years experience as an operating executive and as a director and advisor to both public and privately held, high growth service businesses around the world.
Nate Larsen
President, Drive Business Services
• 15 years experience in finance and controls in a variety of industries including restaurants, events, manufacturing, and industrial banking.
• CFO for a privately held restaurant company that took a distressed 20-unit chain from losing $800,000 per month to profitability.
• Business Analyst and Project Manager at Goldman Sachs working with clients to design and build strategic processes to increase efficiency and mitigate risk.
Andrew Zwicker
President, Boy Wonder Labs
• 10 years experience in software and hardware design, development, testing, and implementation for a broad range of business needs.
• IT Administrator at NW Remarketing that managed networking equipment, servers, APs, websites, backup systems, and related electronic devices.
• Designed, co-developed, and managed development and sales team for Clutch Bowling, an advanced projection mapping technology endorsed by the #1 bowler in the world.