Prior to being a restaurateur Geller has started, owned and managed seven multi-million dollar businesses, mostly in the logistics and distribution fields. He is the former CEO of the America’s of Deutsche Post, the world’s largest logistics company that now operates under the DHL/Global Mail name. Four of his companies have been named to the INC. 500 list of fastest growing companies, the most recent one in 2009. He was named the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1992.

Geller grew up in Montgomery County and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. He currently serves on the President’s Advisory Board there and is an active mentor of Entrepreneurial Students at the Smith School. He has held various volunteer positions including Chairman of his Logistics Trade Association and Treasurer of Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Geller is married to a successful entrepreneur Nicole, and they have two children, residing in McLean, Virginia.

Prior to founding Shadow Point, LaPides spent nearly 30 years as CEO of Snow Valley, a leading regional bottled water company. He served for more than 20 years in the leadership of the International Bottled Water association and was the founder and president of QBC, Inc., the largest bottled water purchasing cooperative in the United States. He started, ran and sold several other businesses during this time before helping to found InPhonic, Inc., which soared to $450 million in sales and $1 billion in market value in less than five years. He sits on several boards, both public and private.

He lives in his home town of Annapolis, Md., and is an avid boater, musician and golfer and holds his private airplane pilots license.

Prior to CM Equity, Roth held several key senior management positions in the high technology and government services industry. Roth was COO and cofounder of Onyx Government Services, Inc. He was President of WFI Government Services, Inc. (WGS) and Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for both Plateau Systems and Riverbed Technologies (now Aether Systems). He was also Vice President & General Manager of 3Com Corporation (now part of Extreme Networks) and Vice President of Federal Systems for Octel Communications Corporation (now part of Lucent Technologies). Roth spent considerable time in the computer workstation market where he launched Silicon Graphics Inc. He also served as a member of the original management team of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Earlier in his career, Roth also helped form a strong base for systems engineering, technical consulting and information technology services in the sales and marketing area to key customers during his tenure at M/A-COM and DATATEL.

Roth is a graduate of the University of Maryland. He is a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and AFCEA Board of Directors and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. Roth currently holds a Top Secret Clearance.

Selvin then became CEO of Global Village Communication, a Macintosh modem and communications software company. He grew Global Village from $20M to $140M in three years, and went public in 1994. By “making communications easy,” Selvin built Global Village into the leading Macintosh communications company, with over 70% market share.

Since then, Selvin has run a number of small companies, including OneWorld Systems, which produced integrated communications servers for small business, and Pivia, which developed web acceleration software for large enterprises. He has also served on a number of boards of directors. After 25 years in Silicon Valley, Selvin and his family recently moved to Northern Virginia, where he became the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Approva, a compliance software company.

Now, Selvin is using his brand and marketing expertise to assist small companies with strategic positioning and rapid execution of marketing programs. His independent consulting practice focuses on formulating strategic positioning to customers, creating strong brand clarity for small companies, and then implementing comprehensive marketing programs that consistently reinforce the brand. Selvin possesses a rare skill in being able to create brands that establish an “emotional hook” with the end customer, and then developing compelling sales and marketing strategies that leverage this bond.

Selvin lives with his family in Great Falls, Virginia. In his spare time, Selvin collects wine, is an avid though terminally mediocre golfer, and enjoys travel.

He has been in the internet industry for over twenty years, heading up consumer internet efforts for GE, running AOL’s internet and business to business efforts, and as CEO of VerticalNet, a business to business internet company which he took public in early 1999. At its peak, and under his leadership, VerticalNet’s market value exceeded $12 Billion.

Since 2001 he has been active in politics, serving as the first Chief Technology Advisor for the Democratic National Committee, internet head for the John Kerry for President Campaign, and then as founding CEO of Air America Radio. For the last five years he has also co-hosted a weekly talk show called “Left Jab” on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio.

He is also active in a number of non-profits, serving or having served on the boards of the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony, In2Books, and The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, New Leaders Council, and others.

He started his business career in television, as anchorman and News Director of a CBS-TV affiliate, and as New Business Development director for HBO in New York. He is a graduate of Union College (where he serves as vice chair of the Board of Trustees) and Harvard Business School, where he was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

From 1993 to 1996, Barrientos served as Managing Director of Max Schlatterer GmbH & Co KG, a leading German manufacturer of products for the food, drug and machine tool industry with headquarters outside of Munich, Germany. From 1991 to 1993, he was an international marketing consultant for Management Partner GmbH, a boutique management consulting firm based in Stuttgart, Germany. He started his professional career with IBM in 1986, serving in a number of technical and marketing related positions. Barrientos holds a B.S. in Management from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MBA from the George Washington University.

From 2000 to 2007, Shrensky was the founder and President of Reqwired, Inc., the leading learning management system among top 250 law firms and top 100 accounting firms. He sold the company in 2007 to Thomson Reuters and remained a consultant with the company through 2009. Prior to founding Reqwired, Shrensky was an intellectual property litigator in the New York office of the law firm Paul Hastings LLP. Shrensky holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Cornell Law School.

Shrensky lives in Rockville, MD with his wife and two children. He loves ice hockey, and while ideologically a vegan, he is probably more correctly labeled a vegetarian.

From 2001 to 2004, Grovic served as the Deputy Director of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, where he created and managed a successful University wide program in Technology Commercialization, launched a Capital Access Angel Network, and oversaw a 10 times increase in service revenues to the Center.

Grovic was a Professor of International Business at Howard University from 2000-2002, and was voted "Professor of the Year" for the 2001-2002 school year. In 2000, Grovic was a Teacher for the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), where he received NFTE's New Teacher of the Year Award. From 1997-1999, Grovic was a top-rated Professor of International Business at the Estonian Business School in Tallinn.

Prior to joining the New Markets Growth Fund, Grovic was Portfolio Manager of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF). SEAF manages $150 million in small business equity investment funds operating in a total of 10 countries, with over 150 portfolio companies. From 1997 to 1999, Grovic was based in Tallinn, Estonia as Director of the Baltic Small Equity Fund, managed by SEAF, where he sat on the Board of Directors of ten of his portfolio companies in industries such as software, biotechnology, medical equipment, distribution, and light manufacturing.

Grovic is Co-Founder of the Templeton Emerging Europe Fund, a $60 million Central European private equity fund, and a Principal of the Fund Manager, Templeton Direct Advisors, a wholly owned direct investment subsidiary of the $150 billion Franklin Templeton Group. From 1993 to 1995, Grovic was the Associate Portfolio Manager of Private Equities at the Calvert Group, a $5 billion socially responsible mutual fund. During this time, Grovic worked with Booz Allen in Romania, helping develop a mutual fund industry. Prior to Calvert, Grovic worked for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, in both their finance and general counsel's office. In 1992, Grovic lived and worked in South America as a Ford Foundation Fellow, where he provided financing to small businesses and helped set up Profund, a $20 million fund investing in South American banks. Grovic continues to serve on Profund's Board.