PeakSpan CGP

Jay Lance oversees financial operations, compliance, legal, tax planning, and structuring for PeakSpan Capital and its investment funds, and has worked in private assets since 2006. He previously worked at The Carlyle Group in its Global Market Strategies segment focusing on distressed and mezzanine debt strategies, and before that at Ernst & Young LLP in the asset management practice. He is a CPA in New York, a CFA charterholder, and a Certified Financial Planner, and holds MBAs in Accounting and Financial Management and a BBA in Accounting from Pace University.

Matt Melymuka co-founded PeakSpan Capital and has spent his career investing in growth-stage software and technology companies. He previously worked on the growth-stage investment team at Greycroft Partners and on the B2B software team at Investor Growth Capital, and began his career in the Technology, Media, and Telecom group at Piper Jaffray. He graduated cum laude in Finance from Georgetown University.

Phil Dur is co-founder and managing partner at PeakSpan, with over 25 years of software investing experience and board service at more than 40 growth-stage companies. Before PeakSpan he spent a decade at Investor Growth Capital and earlier held roles at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners; he holds degrees from Princeton and Stanford GSB and served in the U.S. Army Reserve.