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I love building early stage companies. Whether it was during my 11 years as a venture capitalist at an early stage venture fund, as founder and president of a venture-backed startup, or managing director of a BDC structuring venture debt to later stage companies, I've always been passionate about building great companies. Now, I'm in the incredible position to lead a team of investment professionals that drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the the Philadelphia region. Each year our group invests in more than 50 early stage companies and provides seed capital to another 50 companies. Our internal investment expertise includes technology, life sciences, healthcare, and physical sciences. I can honestly say that I don't think there is an organization anywhere that does more for innovations and entrepreneurship in their region.

A vision driven leader with a record of driving revenue growth and profitability by developing and executing highly effective strategies within defined risk parameters. Russ Holland has over 26 years of diverse financial services experience involving over $6 billion of consumer, entertainment and commercial loans originated across the United States. In 2013 Russ joined the executive leadership group of SouthCrest Bank NA in Metro Atlanta. At SouthCrest he established a credit culture built to produce high quality consumer and small business banking relationships within this growth oriented financial services company. In 2016, he led the bank's entry into the Entertainment Banking market segment. From 2006 to 2013, Russ Holland was an integral member of the executive management team at Seacoast National Bank, a $4+ billion bank operating 40 retail offices throughout Central and South Florida. At Seacoast he was responsible for the growth, risk management and performance of all lending functions including Business Banking and residential, consumer, commercial and commercial real estate lending. In 2001 Holland joined Union Bank of Florida (now part of BB&T). Here Holland played a critical role in developing the bank's lending teams in order to provide the appropriate platform to grow this South Florida community bank from under $400 million in assets to over $1 billion in assets at the time of its ultimate sale for four times book value in 2005. Holland's career is built on a strong commercial credit foundation beginning at the accounting firm KPMG in Stamford, CT. This foundation was strengthened by the credit policy and commercial credit roles held by Holland at Barnett Bank and it's successors NationsBank and Bank of America. In addition, Mr. Holland was the Chief Financial Officer for the Swerdlow Real Estate Group, a private commercial REIT where Holland helped raise capital and arrange debt to acquire and develop over $1 billion in assets.