Darryl L. Laws, Ph.D. – Founding Managing General Partner
Dr. Laws brings an extensive and broad investment experience to the Fund’s management. He has been the Managing Principal of Charlotte Square Capital Ventures, a global private equity firm specializing in investing and buyouts in media, software and telecom technology companies. The firm was formed with $30M of his personal capital in 1987. Prior to his tenure he was Senior Vice President of Capital Markets at First City Industries, a NYSE listed company. A "corporate raider" in the 1980’s and 90’s, whose majority shares are owned by the infamous Canadian Belzberg brothers. While at “FCI” he was an instrumental team leader in structuring and financing hostile take-overs. Prior to this, Dr. Laws held positions at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Trammell Crow Company and E.W. Hahn, Inc. He received post-graduate degrees from Long Beach State University, Edinburgh University Graduate School of Business and a Doctorate in Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1995. Dr. Laws runs the US and European offices.

Kyuyeong Jeong, Associate.
Mr. Jeong is responsible for the valuation and financial analysis of investment opportunities at CPE. Mr. Jeong’s technical background and experience with Korea’s largest mobile carrier, SK Telecom, provided him with the opportunity to work in various areas of responsibility from systems engineering and project management, to corporate strategy and analysis of new ventures. Mr. Jeong also had the opport Access Softek Ventures, a Berkley based investment Fund specialized in the software industry. He has recently completed his MBA at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina. He also holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Chungnam National University in Daejeon, Korea. This combination of technical knowledge with practical experience in the field, and strong analytical skills make Mr. Jeong a very valuable asset to our team. Mr. Jeong will have the most advanced proprietary valuation and modeling tools available to him. The result of more than 20 years of development and fine-tuning.

Pascal Vinarnic, Investment Advisory Board Senior Member
Mr. Vinarnic holds dual English and French citizenships. He is multilingual in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Until 2000 he was a partner in a London based early stage investment PE fund, Cesmig & Co., with respectively Euro 25 million and Euro 15 million for investment. Between 1992 and 1998 and more recently, founded and managed his own investment advisory practice, Ceres Financial, (London and Paris) which specialized in hands on operational restructuring assignments. From 1984 to 1992 Pascal established Bain Venture Capital’s Paris operations and headed Bain Financial Services Group that supported the VC through advisory on LBO, M&A and corporate financial services to Bain’s Continental Europe portfolio of companies. Pascal started his career at Revlon International in 1983 after graduating from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. Pascal is 41 years old and resides in London.

Greg Bartko, Esq. Registered Broker & Dealer
Chief executive officer Capstone Partners, L.C., and a principal owner of an NASD-investment banking boutique, which was formed to assist emerging growth companies in structuring and successfully locating equity and debt capital. Mr. Bartko also practices corporate and securities law in Atlanta, Georgia as a sole practitioner and routinely represents corporations desiring to conduct public offerings and those that already are public companies trading their securities on one or more national securities exchanges. Prior to becoming an officer and principal in his own firm Mr. Bartko was a partner at Glass, McCullough, Sherrill & Harrold, in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1992 to 1996 Mr. Bartko was a partner at Graham & James’ Raleigh, N.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. His primary responsibilities included all corporate, securities, mergers, acquisition, and joint venture activities at the firm. From 1989 to 1992 Mr. Bartko was a partner with Reynolds, Bryant, Patterson & Covington, P.A., and Raleigh, NC. They are a Research Triangle-based law firm with emphasis on securities and commercial practice. Responsibilities included representation of public and privately-held emerging growth companies as well as large North Carolina-based bank holding companies and performing similar duties as with current firm.