The Material team.

Founders, operators, engineers, designers, and specialists in sales, marketing, partnerships, and finance. We shape the team around each company.

  • Blake Engelhard
    Blake Engelhard
    Managing Director

    Serial venture builder. Scaled revenue 20x and enterprise clients 7.5x across portfolio companies.

  • Ryan Moore
    Ryan Moore
    Strategic Operator

    Took a new PwC product from $0 to $1M ARR. Runs AI-enabled operations and modern go-to-market.

  • Olivia Feterman
    Olivia Feterman
    Chief of Staff

    Investment banker at Macquarie Group. Runs strategy and holds our standard of excellence.

  • Tom Vestenicky
    Tom Vestenicky
    Senior Product Engineer

    Exited founder. Product engineer and designer with over ten years of experience.

  • Jesse Grodman
    Jesse Grodman
    Technology

    Software architecture and data infrastructure. Guides executives through the technical decisions that matter.

  • Peter Moot
    Peter Moot
    Product

    Directed global incentives for 100M+ users, then founded an AI commerce platform (YC S24).

  • Tomas Jasovsky
    Tomas Jasovsky
    Design

    Exited founder. Product, marketing, and brand at Twilio, InVision, Parabola, SauceLabs, and Temporal.

  • Dale Amler
    Dale Amler
    Marketing

    Growth marketing for Fortune 500 C-suites. GTM engineering and marketing automation.

  • Chaim Frenkel
    Chaim Frenkel
    Partnerships

    Decades structuring partnerships across technology, finance, and enterprise.

  • Michael Friedson
    Michael Friedson
    Finance

    PE diligence, M&A modeling, and transaction structuring for CEOs and CFOs.

Built on experience from
  • Wharton
  • Accenture
  • Uber
  • Harvard
  • Palantir
  • Y Combinator
  • Stanford
  • KPMG
  • Citi
  • Credit Suisse
  • PwC

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