Asymmetric Capital Partners

Partner focused on horizontal and vertical SaaS, fintech, and insurtech.

Akshay Nathan is an engineering manager at OpenAI, and previously led engineering for the Enterprise team at Airtable. He cofounded walrus.ai, an automated testing company acquired by Airtable in 2021, and earlier worked as a technical lead building a brokerage and banking stack at Wealthfront. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Yale University.

Alexander Blessing is an engineering leader who most recently worked in product development at Palantir Technologies, which he joined in 2013. He contributed to the early development of Palantir Foundry and served as technical lead for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland before moving into product roles across several Palantir offerings. He previously co-founded a YCombinator-backed company that Palantir acquired, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Andrew Furman is a software developer and AI architect focused on enterprise software in the healthcare and insurance sectors. He previously spent over a decade as a developer and systems architect at Accenture and PwC, leading development for insurance and healthcare organizations, with expertise in core insurance platforms and healthcare data standards such as HL7/FHIR and EDI X12. He holds a BS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

Annie Dean is Chief Strategy Officer at CBRE and previously served as VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian and Director of Remote Work at Facebook, where she focused on global remote work strategy. Earlier in her career she was a Vice President at Deloitte and a corporate attorney on Wall Street, and in 2016 she cofounded Werk.co, a remote work data and analytics startup that raised $5M and was acquired in 2020. She holds a BA from Syracuse University and a law degree from Fordham University.

Aron Szanto is Head of Technology at Redesign Health, where he leads technology innovation focused on healthcare. He has previously founded and led teams at OccamzRazor, PathAI, Kensho, Harvard, the Zerobase Foundation, and MarketFactory, working on problems in areas such as Parkinson's disease, cancer, misinformation, Covid-19, and machine learning.

Ben Slater is CMO at Cogna and a marketing executive. He previously served as SVP Marketing at Beamery, joining pre-revenue as employee #5 and building the marketing organization from a team of one to about 50 as the company grew from pre-seed to a Series D unicorn valuation.

Beth Clymer is President and Chief Operating Officer of Canada Goose and previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Jobcase, Inc., a social platform focused on workers. Earlier, she spent a decade at Bain Capital Private Equity working with companies including Canada Goose, Bob's Discount Furniture, Burlington Stores, WorldPay, and HD Supply, and began her career as a consultant at the Parthenon Group. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University.

Brian Benedict is an early-stage sales and growth operator focused on helping startups build and scale their sales organizations and revenue strategies. He previously served as Head of Global Sales at Tecton and Hugging Face, and co-founded the AI infrastructure company Arcee. He works with founders on areas such as defining ideal customer profiles, refining sales processes, and structuring sales teams.

Brian Fishbein is Chief Investment Officer at Column, a developer-oriented national bank offering financial services infrastructure, where he oversees the bank's investment and lending strategy and treasury function and works with companies across stages seeking to offer lending products. He previously invested in U.S. financials at Sixth Street Partners and earlier held roles at Wafra and Goldman Sachs, focusing on lending to financial services businesses and underwriting asset-backed securities and high yield debt.

Chris Lloyd is a consumer technology strategist who currently works at Google Health, where he previously led Fitbit's strategy team. Before Google, he held finance and strategy roles at Meta, McKinsey & Company, and UBS Investment Bank. He holds a BA in History and Spanish Language from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, with expertise in strategy development and scaling finance and operations in consumer, media, and tech businesses.

Chris Watkins established the Data & Analytics function at DeepMind, where he works with leadership on research and technology strategy related to AI. He joined DeepMind in 2018 as a Founder's Associate to CEO Demis Hassabis after working at Bain & Company across the private equity, airline, and industrial service sectors. He holds a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

Debbie Simpson is a former PwC partner and spent 12 years as senior partner and CFO of Boston Consulting Group, where the firm grew to $8.5B in revenue during her tenure. She brings finance, international, and operating experience to board roles at software companies Trax Retail and Formation. She additionally serves as a senior advisor to several startups and a private equity fund, and advises BCG's Digital Ventures and Green Ventures teams part-time.

Ezgi Bereketli is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and lives in London after 12 years in the US. She studied Applied Mathematics and has worked across several small to medium data startups throughout her career. She currently works at Stripe, building products in open banking and local payment methods, with a focus on the use of data—particularly alternative data—for organizational and investment decisions.

Gary Pelissier is Head of Americas and Bank Methods at Stripe, where he has also worked across Product, Finance, Strategy, and Operations. Before Stripe, he held roles at SoFi, Social Finance, and Morgan Stanley. He earned an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Harvard University.

Grant Evans is the AI + ML Partnerships Lead at Stripe, where he has also worked on seed and early-stage VC partnerships and supported founders on go-to-market, product development, pricing, and financial infrastructure. He previously served as Strategy and Operations Lead at Radar, which builds an integrated hardware and software solution using RFID and computer vision, and earlier worked in structured products at Goldman Sachs. He graduated from Princeton University.

Hadley Callaway works as a Senior Software Engineer at Doppel, an AI cybersecurity startup that addresses phishing, impersonation, and disinformation attacks. Doppel's clients include United Airlines and Fidelity Investments.

James Evans is Head of AI at Amplitude. He was co-founder and CEO of Command AI (formerly CommandBar), a user experience software company acquired by Amplitude, and earlier worked on enterprise software investments within Bain Capital's technology private equity group. He holds a Computer Science degree from Princeton University.

James Lee is VP of Finance & Operations at Productboard, which he joined after its Series B round to build and lead its finance and internal operations functions, including Accounting, Strategic Finance, Legal, IT, Deal Desk, and Business Analytics. Earlier he led Strategic Finance and Business Operations at GitHub from its Series B through the Microsoft acquisition, and previously worked as an investor at Accel-KKR and as an investment banker at JPMorgan and Jefferies. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jason Park is CFO of DraftKings, which he joined in June 2019, where he oversees Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Investor Relations and contributed to the company's business combination and Nasdaq listing. He previously served as an Operating Partner at Bain Capital Private Equity focusing on technology investments, and spent eight years at McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a MAcc and BBA from the University of Michigan.

JJ Agha is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and IT at FanDuel. He previously held the CISO role at Compass, led information security at WeWork, and worked as a security engineer at Vimeo, Priceline.com, and Edgecast. He advises security companies on operations, go-to-market, product roadmap, and technology, holds a bachelor's degree in Information Science from SUNY Albany, and is a certified CISSP and CompTIA Security+.

Joe Ellis joined Palantir in 2015 as a founding engineer of the Foundry Platform, working on backend products spanning batch and streaming compute, transaction storage, and security. He now leads the technical direction and execution of the Foundry Platform, having grown the team into an organization of 150+ engineers. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.

John Nylen is the Chief Revenue Officer of nOps, a FinOps platform offering cost visibility across cloud, SaaS, and AI for engineering and finance teams, where he works on channel development, sales effectiveness, and revenue operations. He previously spent about a decade at Catalant Technologies as one of its first hires, building the mid-market team and eventually serving as VP of Sales and Revenue Operations while the company grew from $0 to $100M in revenue. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance and marketing from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

Kange Kaneene is a technology and growth executive with 16 years of experience in enterprise software, spanning business development, sales operations, and startup investing. She led SAP's accelerator for the Americas, managing 69 startups and guiding expansion into Latin America and the Caribbean, and earlier worked on supply chain digital transformations as a consultant at Manhattan Associates. She also led SAP's partnership with Amazon and drove go-to-market strategy for SAP's S/4 HANA launch in Asia Pacific during an assignment in Singapore.

Kate Gulliver is CFO and CAO at Wayfair, where she oversees finance, legal, talent, real estate, and corporate affairs, and previously led the company's talent function and built its investor relations team, including work on Wayfair's IPO. Earlier in her career she spent nearly five years as an investor at Bain Capital and began in consulting at McKinsey & Company. She holds a BA in political science from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Libby Hauser works at the intersection of technology and healthcare. She is currently SVP, Strategy & Ops at Auxilius, a financial and operational technology company built for healthcare businesses, and previously worked in venture capital at Bessemer and Activant with a focus on B2B tech, as well as in healthcare investment banking at JPMorgan and Bank of America. She holds a B.A. from Columbia and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Lisa Coca is a partner at Toyota Ventures, where she leads its Climate Fund focused on carbon neutrality solutions. She previously served as a managing director and entrepreneur-in-residence at Intel's emerging growth and incubations division, and was a founding member of GE Ventures, where she launched its enterprise software investment practice and the EDGE portfolio program. Earlier, she led sustainability efforts at GE Real Estate and began her career as a financial analyst on Wall Street. She holds a degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Melike Abacioglu Gunes is VP of Marketing at Mixpanel and previously served as Director of Product Growth at Rippling. Before that, she was a GM at Alto Online Pharmacy, where she scaled the Chronic Care business from $3M to $400M ARR, and she is a former Y Combinator founder who built B2B2C digital health products for self-insured employers, provider networks, and health plans. Earlier in her career she was a management strategy consultant at BCG. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford.

Michael Paterson is a CTO, advisor, and angel investor who co-founded Beamery in 2013 and helped grow it into a unicorn focused on talent lifecycle management. As CTO he scaled the engineering team to over 130 people and led development of Beamery's AI-powered SaaS platform used by large enterprises. He now focuses on advising and investing in early-stage startups.

Mike Monovoukas is Co-Founder and CEO of AcuityMD, an enterprise SaaS company building CRM technology for the medical device industry, backed by investors including Benchmark Capital and Ajax Health. He previously worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company, focusing on commercial strategy for biotech and medical device clients, and was an early hire at PatientPing, where he led business development and finance from Seed through Series B. He holds degrees from Harvard Business School and Princeton University.

Nathan Lian works as a fractional operator and strategic advisor to startups across B2B SaaS, tech-enabled services, consumer fintech, and AI applications, focusing on scaling finance, operations, and go-to-market functions from early stages and occasionally supporting growth-stage capital raises and M&A. He previously built and led strategic finance, BizOps, growth marketing, and revenue teams at AI startups HiredScore and nate. He began his career as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan covering aerospace, defense, transportation, and logistics, and holds a B.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University.

Former Engineering Leader at Klaviyo.

Head of Sales and Partnerships at Column.

Head of Product Finance at Ramp.

Director of Revenue and Supply Chain Financial Planning and Strategy at Checkr.

Marketing professional at OpenAI.

Head of Insights at Capsule.

Artificial Intelligence Platform Engineer at Clay.

Product professional at Rippling.

President at Pavillion, formerly Klaviyo.

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Amdahl AI, formerly at Databricks.

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Chapters, acquired by Clay.

Executive in Residence who helps portfolio companies improve and accelerate their go-to-market strategies; previously scaled Klaviyo's sales organization from 15 to 300 people and grew ARR from $25M to over $450M.

Chief Marketing Officer at The Realreal.

Product Strategy and Operations professional at Stripe.

Head of Pricing Strategy for SaaS and BaaS offerings at Stripe.

Former Chief Revenue Officer at Klaviyo.

Director of Engineering for Workspace at Databricks.

Product professional at Stripe.

Regional Vice President for EMEA at Beamery.

Founding Product Manager at Savvy.

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Pom Health.