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Kai Chen

Kai helps entrepreneurs like Kuhn Capital clients find promising Silicon Valley early-stage and real estate investment opportunities.

  • Managing Director, OceanIQ Capital
  • Director, Credit Suisse
  • Analyst, Goldman Sachs and Navigant Capital Advisors
  • Board member, Fresh Lifelines for Youth. Governor, ONE Liquidity DAO
  • BA, Business Economics, UCLA

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Ryan A. Kuhn
Ryan has run, invested in, and sold companies. For more than 30 years he has worked both sides of mid-market technology M&A, advising owners on transaction preparation, market positioning, buyer selection and terms negotiation, and acquiring for corporate and private equity buyers.
  • Founder and Managing Director, Kuhn Capital. M&A advisor to mid-market technology companies.
  • Managing Director, Westbury Group, a mid-market investment bank, where he headed the technology, media and telecom practice.
  • CEO, Lilly Pulitzer, the clothing brand now owned by NYSE-listed Oxford Industries.
  • CEO, Reid Systems, an HR data firm now owned by General Dynamics.
  • Led software and data investments for Chicago private equity firm GTCR.
  • Led M&A at publisher McGraw-Hill.
  • Former board member, First Bank & Trust Company of Illinois.
  • MBA, Harvard Business School. BA in English and Psychology, Trinity College, Hartford.
Tim Williamson
Tim specializes in financial analyses, complex model building and valuation
  • Founder, TW Associates, merchant bank
  • Managing Director, Navigant Capital Advisors
  • Partner, EY Corporate Finance
  • Investment banker at Morgan Stanley, PaineWebber, Drexel Burnham, Lambert
  • MBA, Northwestern University. BA, Accounting/Finance, Southern Illinois University
Tom Flaherty
Tom has deep transaction experience with logistics, data processing and for-profit education firms
  • Managing Director, Roundstone Capital, advisor to large PE firms
  • General Partner, tech-focused PE firm Weeden Capital Management
  • General Partner, VC firm Applied Technology Partners
  • Senior ADP executive
  • Graduate studies, Econometrics/Finance, University of Pennsylvania. Instructor of Finance, Wharton. BA, Economics, Southern Connecticut State University
Patrick Richmond
Pat has led M&A and management for a number of data vendors
  • EVP, corpdev at Primark, a global information company now owned by Thomson Reuters
  • President, Primark Analytics, a collection of data/consulting businesses including Yankee Group
  • VP, Data Resources (DRI) econometrics data and consultancy now owned by IHS
  • BA, Economics, University of Kentucky. Graduate studies, Economics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Kai Chen
Kai helps entrepreneurs like Kuhn Capital clients find promising Silicon Valley early-stage and real estate investment opportunities.
  • Managing Director, OceanIQ Capital
  • Director, Credit Suisse
  • Analyst, Goldman Sachs and Navigant Capital Advisors
  • Board member, Fresh Lifelines for Youth. Governor, ONE Liquidity DAO
  • BA, Business Economics, UCLA
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