The Pathfinders

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada. On this episode, host Dhani Jones is speaking with the Managing Director of the Next Level Fund at Morgan Stanley. This impact-focused private equity business focuses on early-stage investments in women-led enterprises and enterprises with underrepresented founders. With over 20 years of direct investment and advisory...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada. On this episode, host Dhani Jones is speaking with the Founder and CEO of Lafayette Square, Damien Dwin!  Lafayette Square is a model investment platform that deploys services-backed capital to local communities, independent businesses, and diverse investors. Before Lafayette Square, Damien held roles at Goldman Sachs...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada. On this episode, host Dhani Jones is speaking with the Founding General Partner and Managing Director at Latimer Ventures, Luke Cooper! Latimer Ventures is a VC firm dedicated to helping Black and Hispanic Founders build and exit. Before Latimer, Luke founded and exited two companies, to Fortune 300 acquirers. Luke joi...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada. On this episode, host Dhani Jones is joined by Latif Peracha, Managing Partner of M13 where he is responsible for overall investing strategy and has led numerous deals across money and health verticals with a large focus on web3. He shares what he looks for in a potential new opportunity and how he approaches investing...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada. On this episode, host Dhani Jones is speaking with globally recognized negotiation expert, and author of “Bring Yourself: How to Harness the Power of Connection to Negotiate Fearlessly,” Mori Taheripour! With more than 20 years of experience in negotiations, DE&I, and sports business, Mori offers her impressive roster...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada. On this episode, host Dhani Jones is speaking with Managing Partner at 1863 Ventures, Melissa Bradley! With over 20 years of entrepreneurship, investment and leadership experience, Melissa is on a mission to help as many diverse entrepreneurs achieve business success as she can. She joins Dhani to discuss working for t...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani is speaking with the Senior Director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute, Blair Smith! With more than 20 years of financial services and capital markets experience, Blair leads the Center’s Access to...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani is speaking with Entrepreneur and Director, Investment Committee Member, and Philanthropy Lead at the Green Bear Group LLC, Vishnu Amble! A fellow  Michigan Wolverine, he can be described as an investor who is at the inters...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. For this episode, Dhani is joined by Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships at Riskalyze, Clifton Schaller! Before Riskalyze, Clifton spent five years at Morningstar, working his way up from a UX Designer to a Manager of Product Growth. Clif...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani is speaking with the CEO of Aero Technologies, Uma Subramanian! Prior to joining Aero, Uma was a pioneer in the urban air mobility space, as the CEO of Voom. Flights, an airbus company, which built an urban air mobility net...

It’s time for a new episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani is joined by Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor, and Investing with Impact Director of the Conscious Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley, Noel Pacarro Brown! Together, the duo speak about the work Noel does to help...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani chats with Michelle Gadsden-Williams, the Managing Director of & Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at BlackRock. She is responsible for further strengthening and accelerating the company’s efforts to foster an...

Welcome back to another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani talks with Akila Raman-Vaseghi, the COO of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division where she runs an operational strategy focused on international expansion and growth in new products. Akila is a trailblazer in the trues...

It’s time for another episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani speaks with the Chief Financial Officer of DraftKings, Jason Park, about how technology is revolutionizing the gaming industry. Hear the pair discuss Jason’s experience with Bain Capital where he focused on technology investm...

It’s time for a new episode of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. On this episode, Dhani speaks with co-founder and partner at Assembly Ventures, Chris Thomas, about the importance of connected communities and the future of transportation innovation. The pair speak about why micro-mobility options and vertical airc...

It’s time for another edition of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones.  On this episode Dhani is joined by the President of The Drone Racing League (DRL), Rachel Jacobson.  Rachel is a trailblazer in the world of professional sports league management and with Dhani she shares stories and insights from her 20 plus year...

It’s time for another edition of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones.  On this episode Former NFL Player, Investor & Entrepreneur Dhani Jones speaks with the CEO of the Pharmaceutical Segment at Cardinal Health and member of the Board of Directors of The Hershey Company, Victor Crawford about fostering change and cre...

It’s time for another edition of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones.  On this episode Dhani is joined by the Founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares.  Sherrese brings over 20 years of experience leading across corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, and private equity w...

It’s time for another edition of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones.  On this episode Dhani is joined by Capital Raiser and Board Director, Marcelia Freeman.  Marcelia works in Investor Relations & Product Management at Clearlake Capital Group and is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Florida A&M University F...

It’s time for another edition of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host, former NFL Player, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones.  On this episode Dhani is joined by Executive Vice President and Global Real Estate Advisor at TTR Sotheby’s International Realty and leader of the HEIDER team, the Washington, DC area’s preeminent white glove residential real estate concierge, Dan...

It’s time for the all-new second season of the Pathfinders podcast, a series dedicated to modern dealmakers and trailblazers. We are trying to uncover and tap into stories of dealmakers carving paths forward. A Pathfinder is a person who is a leader, a transformer, an innovator, a rainmaker – an M&A legend. A person illustrating the journey to success. They have accomplished the path from grit to...

This week, former NFL Player, Investor and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones is joined by Head of Growth Equity and general partner at ZX Ventures, Bert Navarrete. Bert has invested in over 100 private companies during his more than 20 years of venture and private equity experience. Hear about investor psychology, his deal-making strategies, what makes a good VC, and how his team of investors is empowering...

It’s time for another edition of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host former NFL Player, Investor and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones and this week he talks with Richard Kerby, a General Partner at Equal Ventures. In 2012, Richard joined Venrock where his investments included 6Sense, Amino Apps, Beckon, Burner Luxe Valet and Salsify. He is here today to share some of his dealmaking...

Welcome to another episode of The Pathfinders with former NFL Player, Investor and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones. This week we’re joined by the “Fashion Banker” of New York, world traveler, Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of BDA Partners, and all-around renaissance man, Euan Rellie. Euan has lived in Singapore, New York, and London as well as worked in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India, and Th...

It is time for another episode of The Pathfinders with former NFL Player, Investor and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones and this week he speaks with General Partner of Intel Capital, Trina Van Pelt! For seventeen years, Trina has been helping Intel Capital expand and grow their diverse portfolio with her focus on late-stage equity investments across industries like intelligent edge, mobility, artificial i...