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Tracy Poole is an attorney with over 30 years of experience in complex commercial transactions, M&A, financing, energy, hedge fund and venture capital disciplines. Tracy was corporate and outside counsel to leading energy marketing and trading companies and helped close some of the largest wholesale energy transactions in existence. He is the former General Counsel of a large energy-related hedge fund and the founder and operator of an independent upstream oil and gas producer with multiple exits. Tracy has been investing in early-stage companies for more than 20 years.
Chuck cofounded Bridgecreek Investment Management in 2004 and grew assets under management in excess of $1 Billion. Previously, Chuck managed portfolios for high-net-worth clients, corporations, foundations, and endowments for BOK Financial and Merrill Lynch Asset Management.
Chuck holds designations as Certified Portfolio Manager from Columbia University and Certified Investment Analyst from The Wharton School of Business/Investments and Wealth Institute.
Jim Barsness is a highly accomplished finance executive with more than 11 years of progressive experience across a broad range of industries and company sizes.
Prior, Jim was a Vice President at a Dallas-based middle market private equity firm where he focused on sourcing, underwriting and managing investments across the capital structure. He also spent several years at a boutique investment bank and started his career at a Big 4 accounting firm.
Prior to joining the 46VC team, Connor Sitton helped start an apparel company, beardedgoat, while studying business at the University of Arkansas. In his three years as Head of Sales for beardedgoat, Connor quickly became an expert in Customer Acquisition, Team Management, Data driven Growth Strategies, and all aspects of the start-up process.
Connor received his Juris Doctorate Degree (JD) as well as his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Tulsa.
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Paul Slosar, MD, MHCDS is an orthopedic spine surgeon who practiced for 28 years in the San Francisco Bay area. He served as Administrative Partner and President of the group from 2007-2020. Dr. Slosar has also served as the Medical Director of the Spine Care Institute of San Francisco and Director of Surgical Research at the San Francisco Spine Institute. Dr. Slosar also has extensive experience as a Health Tech operator and advisor with multiple successful exits.
Dr. Slosar holds a Master of Health Care Delivery Science from Dartmouth College, an MD from Rush University, and an Intensive Seminar Certificate in Value-Based Health Care from Harvard Business School.
Dr. Vipul Kella is a board-certified emergency physician who has been practicing for two decades in the Washington D.C. area. He has spent over a decade as a hospital executive, focusing on innovations in quality improvement and patient safety. He has consulted with several Fortune 500 companies and hospital systems in areas of operational improvement and healthcare strategy. He is currently the Chief Medical Officer of a pre-market wearables company in the remote physiological monitoring (RPM) space.
Tim is a seasoned Sales and Sales Operations Executive with over 20 years of experience driving revenue growth and optimizing strategies. Prior to 46VC, Tim led sales and sales operations at Alumni Ventures, where he focused on developing new client relationships, improving client engagement, and streamlining processes. Before that, he held leadership roles at The Predictive Index, Impact Investment Partners, and State Street Global Advisors, where he specialized in scaling operations, client engagement, and business development.
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Following a career playing professional baseball in the Detroit Tigers organization, Garrett entered the financial services industry as a financial planner working with high-net-worth individual clients on their investing and retirement needs. During his time as a financial planner, he helped start, raise capital for, and operate an NIL Collective for Oklahoma State of which he still serves as a board member.
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Kate has 5+ years of experience driving growth and scaling marketing at high-growth ventures. Before joining 46VC, Kate worked at Wefunder, an equity crowdfunding platform, where she led their expansion to Northwest Arkansas and Tulsa and gained extensive experience in early-stage fundraising. Prior to that, she was the Marketing Manager at Rejoicy, a Bentonville-based e-commerce startup.
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Before joining 46VC, Kate spent the last 8 years within venture. Kate joined gener8tor in 2016 and scaled with the company until 2022, where she helped run 9 accelerator programs, working with 45 companies total, and deployed $1.4M in capital. After gener8tor, Kate went on to work at a sports tech startup and later joined IU Ventures, the affiliate venture arm of Indiana University, where she focused on deal sourcing, due diligence and operations for the IU Angel Network.
Kate received her B.S. in Finance with a Minor in Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.