Pasadena Angels

Chris Wadden is President of Veraison LLC, where he advises businesses on operational and strategic issues across areas including sales, marketing, distribution, operations, finance, product development, contract manufacturing, and quality management. His specialties include mergers and acquisitions, financing, and branding. He is also a member of Pasadena Angels.

David Moffat is a Board Member at C2FO and has worked with Internet companies since 1998, with experience in paid search at organizations including GoTo.com, Overture, Yahoo Search Marketing, Smarter.com, and ValueClick. He works with startups on business model development and financing, and advises non-profit organizations on sustainability and effectiveness. His areas of focus include operational analysis, data insight, and management.

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Eric Rodli is Chair at SimGraphics and a member of the Pasadena Angels. His background spans entertainment technology and theme and leisure industries, where he has held President, general manager, CFO, and consulting roles focused on financial and business strategy across companies of varying sizes. His experience includes traditional and digital media, licensing, and the content value chain from production through post-production and consumer and theatrical distribution.

Gabriel Fitch is a partner and patent attorney at Loza & Loza, LLP, where his practice covers the acquisition and enforcement of intellectual property protections, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. His patent work concentrates on electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering technologies, with experience in areas such as magnetic storage systems, radar systems, semiconductor chip design, networking, telephone switching, and power transmission, distribution, and generation. Additional areas of his practice include communication protocols, power line communications, hardware description languages such as VHDL and Verilog, printed circuit board technologies, and FCC emissions testing and standards.

Jennifer Le Blanc is Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at the Los Angeles Angels, where her responsibilities include the annual budget process, monthly analysis, parking financial operations, and planning for special projects such as system implementations, internal control assessments, ticket pricing evaluations, and vendor contract negotiations. Before joining the organization, she spent eight years as a financial auditor at a public accounting firm and two years in an internal audit role at a publicly traded company. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from California State University, Fullerton, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Anaheim Transportation Network.

Justin Chou is Chair at SimGraphics and a member of Pasadena Angels. He has held President, General Manager, and CFO roles at small, medium, and large companies in the entertainment technology and theme and leisure sectors, in addition to consulting on financial and business strategy. His work spans traditional and digital media, including licensing, production, post-production, and consumer and theatrical distribution, and he mentors emerging business leaders with an emphasis on diverse executives.

Kestrin Pantera is a Founding Partner at WestBridge Capital LLP, a private equity firm that invests in and partners with management teams of portfolio companies. The firm is currently deploying its third fund.

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Kiem Tjong is Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at the Los Angeles Angels, where responsibilities include managing the annual budget process, overseeing parking financial operations, and conducting financial analysis on projects such as system implementations, ticket pricing evaluations, and vendor contract negotiations. Prior to this role, Tjong spent eight years as a financial auditor at a public accounting firm and two years in an internal audit position at a publicly traded company. Tjong holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from California State University, Fullerton, earned in 2000, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Anaheim Transportation Network.

Lee Gordon is a member and former Vice Chairman at Pasadena Angels, working as an angel investor and startup advisor. At Serpentine Partners LLC, he developed a risk management technology tool and delivered consultancy engagements to Wall Street investment banks and legal clients. His prior experience at Bank of America included overseeing the Loan Modifications Control Tower, an organization of over 1,500 people, and leading the implementation of a SaaS workflow platform.

Marcus Filipovich is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pasadena Angels, Inc., an early-stage investment group of approximately 100 investors, and serves as Managing Member of Pasadena Angels Fund III, LLC. The group invests primarily in Series Seed companies with a minimum viable product and customer traction, as well as Series A companies with growth in customers and revenue.

Mike Krebs is a private investor and Chairman Emeritus of the Pasadena Angels, a 100-member angel investing group affiliated with the TCA network. As former Board Chair, he has focused on identifying and mentoring early-stage companies working to scale. The group considers applications across industries from throughout North America.

Mustapha Baha is an investor at Repurpose, Inc. He founded MDB Enterprises, a construction management and development consulting firm established in 1995 that assists clients with strategic planning, construction, and move management. The firm has managed projects across the commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors, including education and healthcare.

Richard Chino is a board member at C2FO. He has worked with Internet companies since 1998, with a focus on paid search at firms including GoTo.com, Overture, Yahoo Search Marketing, Smarter.com, and ValueClick. He currently works with startups on business model validation and financing, and dedicates time to nonprofit organizations, with specialties in operational analysis, data insight, and management.

Susanne Hayes is the founder and Managing Partner of WestBridge LLP, working in the investment management industry with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, due diligence, business strategy, and private equity. She is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate of Warwick Business School.

David Mandel brands himself an emerging-tech super angel outside Silicon Valley, known for hands-on seed investing in 500–800+ early-stage tech startups and for building, operating, and exiting four businesses.