Baird

James R. Allen serves as Vice Chair at Baird and a member of its Executive Committee, based in the firm's Louisville office. He spent his career at Hilliard Lyons, a Louisville wealth management firm, where he was Chairman and CEO from 2004 until its 2019 merger into Baird, and served as 2019 Chairman of the Board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Allen holds a bachelor's degree in economics from DePauw University and an MBA in finance from Ohio State University, along with the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

John G. Taft is Vice Chair of Baird, an employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private equity firm. He previously served as CEO of RBC Wealth Management–U.S., president and CEO of Voyageur Asset Management and of Dougherty Summit Securities, and as managing director at Piper Jaffray & Hopwood, with earlier roles as a Senior Advisor to Deloitte & Touche LLP, assistant to the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, and a journalist. He chaired the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) in 2011, has testified before Congress on a federal fiduciary standard, and authored the books "A Force for Good" and "Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street."

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Erik Dahlberg is President of Baird Capital, where he oversees the firm's direct private investment business making growth equity and buyout investments in lower-middle market companies in the U.S. and U.K. He joined Baird Capital in 2001 as a partner in its venture capital and U.S. private equity groups and became President in 2012; he also chairs the Investment Committee for the firm's venture and global private equity funds and serves on Baird's Executive Committee. Before Baird Capital, he was a principal at One Equity Partners and founder and CEO of The Pangaea Group; he holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Geoff Mackey is Head of Global Equities and Director of Equity Research at Baird, where he also serves as Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets and sits on the firm's executive committee. In these roles he oversees the equity sales, trading, and research teams, having previously worked as a Senior Analyst covering transportation and logistics. He serves on the boards of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, PAVE, and Marquette University High School.

Jon Langenfeld is Chief Financial Officer at Baird, where he also serves as Head of Global Equities, Director of Equity Research, Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets, and a member of the firm's executive committee. In these roles he oversees the equity sales and trading and research teams, including analysts across sectors such as Consumer, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial, and Technology & Business Services; he previously worked as a senior analyst covering transportation and logistics. He serves on the boards of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, PAVE, and Marquette University High School.

Laura Thurow is a Founding Partner at Plus Partners, a pre-seed and seed venture capital firm operating in Southern Europe, which she launched in 2024 with Oriol Juncosa. She was an entrepreneur from 2009 to 2020, founding the fintech company Captalis, which was acquired in 2014, and co-founding letgo, a secondhand marketplace, where she built the product, tech, and customer care teams and later the sales and marketing teams; letgo's US operations merged with OfferUp in 2020. Thurow has invested in eleven startups, teaches at IE University's entrepreneurship school, and serves as an Endeavor mentor.

Stephanie L. Warren is the Founding General Partner of THENA Capital, where she invests in early-stage healthcare companies and works with founders on areas including strategy, governance, commercialization, international expansion, and exit readiness. She holds a DPhil in Medical Sciences and an Executive MBA from Oxford Saïd Business School, with a career spanning venture investing, healthcare strategy, and commercialization. She also serves on the Investment Committee of the Jesus College, Oxford University Endowment.