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As a company, we pride ourselves on our people.  We have a dynamic team of professionals who possess diverse but extremely relevant backgrounds.
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Scott Murphy

Managing Director/Chief Investment Officer
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Scott Murphy
Managing Director/Chief Investment Officer

Scott Murphy rejoined Advantage Capital as a managing director and the chief investment officer after serving in the United States Congress representing New York from 2009 to 2011. He previously worked at Advantage Capital from 2001 to 2009, overseeing the firm's $88 million New York portfolio. As chief investment officer, Scott oversees the firm’s entire portfolio.

Scott is an experienced venture capitalist and highly successful entrepreneur with a robust background in public service. Prior to his tenure at Advantage Capital, he co-founded three high-tech companies, including a game company that brought fantasy football and baseball to the Internet. He also founded an online auction company that was sold to eBay and a website building company that was sold to iXL. He earlier spent two years as a structured finance associate at Bankers Trust, where he focused on the insurance industry. In addition to his time in Congress, Scott previously served in the administrations of two Missouri governors.

Scott received his bachelor’s from Harvard College and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. As a former president of the Upstate Venture Association of New York, he maintains a strong commitment to civic affairs.

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Madeline Bale

Senior Analyst
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Madeline Bale
Senior Analyst

Madeline Bale is a senior analyst at Advantage Capital. As a member of the investment team, she provides due diligence support, helps underwrite new investments, and aids in growth initiatives at the firm's portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Madeline spent two summers as an institutional equities sales & trading intern at Morgan Stanley, where she used statistical techniques to help finetune the dynamic margin policy used by the prime brokerage business.

Madeline received her master's in statistics and her bachelor's in statistics & data science from Yale.

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Pete Grum

Venture Partner
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Pete Grum
Venture Partner

Pete Grum serves as a Venture Partner for Advantage Capital and continues his career of investing in private companies. He has spent the past 25 years president, chief executive officer and director of a publicly traded investment company.

Pete received his MBA in finance from Rochester Institute of Technology and his bachelors in economics from Eisenhower College. He is currently an adjunct professor at University of Buffalo where he teaches corporate finance. His various community activities include board roles as trustee of Buffalo State College, Community Foundation, Horizon Health, 43 North and a variety of investment committees.

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Colin Kelly

Vice President
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Colin Kelly
Vice President

Colin Kelly is a vice president of solar energy development at Advantage Capital. As a member of the solar development team, he focuses on implementing utility scale solar projects from inception through development and construction to operations.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Colin developed wind, solar, natural gas combined cycle, combined heat and power, and renewable natural gas plants for Exelon, EDL Energy, Brightmark, and Noble Environmental Power. Colin is also a combat veteran having served as an officer in the U.S. Army in South Korea on the demilitarized zone and in Anbar Province, Iraq.

Colin received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Seton Hall University, Stillman School of Business and his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business.

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Peter Lu

Senior Associate
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Peter Lu
Senior Associate

Peter Lu is a senior associate at Advantage Capital. As a member of the firm’s investment team, he focuses on sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions, and managing portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Peter was an investment banking associate covering healthcare services M&A at Guggenheim Partners.

Peter received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Tiffany McMahon

Executive Assistant
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Tiffany McMahon
Executive Assistant

Tiffany Mc Mahon is the executive assistant to the CIO at Advantage Capital. Along with providing executive support, she serves as the office manager handling day-to-day functions of the New York office.

Prior to joining the firm, Tiffany worked as an operations specialist in the staffing industry supporting fortune 500 companies. Tiffany was responsible for processing payroll, preparing audits, and managing the communication flow to operations boxes.  

Tiffany received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Buffalo State University.

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Katie Nath

Analyst
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Katie Nath
Analyst

Katie Nath is an analyst on the Solar Development team at Advantage Capital. Within this group, she focuses on energy modeling, project layouts and other EPC due diligence. Prior to joining Advantage, Katie interned with Onyx Renewables as a Project Engineer on their Operations team.

Katie graduated from Williams College with a BA in Physics and Art History.

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Johanna Neggie

Analyst
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Johanna Neggie
Analyst

Johanna Neggie is an analyst at Advantage Capital. As a member of the investment team, Johanna is responsible for sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions, and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Advantage, Johanna worked as an investment banking summer analyst at Credit Suisse within their Leveraged Finance Group and Bank of Montreal within their Financial Institutions Group.

Johanna received a BBA with a concentration in finance and minor in sustainability at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

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Farah Neha

Associate
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Farah Neha
Associate

Farah Neha is an associate at Advantage Capital, where she supports the solar development team in all aspects of development, performs QA/QC and, support EPC workstream. Farah received her master's degree in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from North South University.

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James O'Rourke

Venture Partner
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
James O'Rourke
Venture Partner

A seasoned investor and portfolio manager, James O’Rourke is a managing director in Advantage Capital’s New York office. He is focused on developing the firm’s reach in the northeastern region of the U.S.

James brings 12 years of investing experience in a wide variety of sectors. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a managing director at Lampe, Conway & Co., an investment fund based in New York where he focused on private equity and debt, and special situations investments. He has sourced and helped manage a large portfolio of investments in the consumer, food, manufacturing, technology, clean tech, health care and telecommunications sectors. James began his career clerking for Judge Adrian Duplantier, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He also worked for several years as a corporate associate at Davis Polk, and as an investment banker at Thomas Weisel Partners and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

A native New Jerseyan, James holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was awarded First Years Honors; a J.D. from Stanford Law School; and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude.

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Jack Plaster

Senior Analyst
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Jack Plaster
Senior Analyst

Jack Plaster is a member of the solar group, focused on development. Within this group, he focuses on new business development, financial and budgeting and due diligence. He has previously had internships in Wealth Management with Stifel and was an ESG Analyst at Aristeia Capital.

Jack received his bachelor’s degree in business with a major in finance from Miami University.

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Marjorie Reed

Associate
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Marjorie Reed
Associate

Marjorie Reed is an associate with InState Partners where she focuses on the firm’s economic development, public policy and public finance initiatives at the state and local levels.

Prior to joining the InState team, she was a Project Assistant on the Intellectual Property team at Latham & Watkins LLP. Marjorie previously served as an Associate Director in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).

Marjorie received her bachelor’s in Economics with a minor in Development Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Gabe Rosen

Vice President
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Gabe Rosen
Vice President

Gabe Rosen is a vice president  at Advantage Capital. As a member of the firm’s investment team, he focuses on sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Gabe worked at Goldman Sachs where he held roles analyzing and evaluating several asset classes.

Gabe received his bachelor’s degree in economics as well as his MBA from Harvard University.

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Aryamaan Singhania

Analyst
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Aryamaan Singhania
Analyst

Aryamaan Singhania is an investment analyst at Advantage Capital, where he focuses on due diligence and deal structuring on the firm’s investment team.

Prior to joining at Advantage Capital, Aryamaan worked as a summer Analyst at a hedge fund Meteora Capital, supporting underwriting efforts for arbitrage-oriented, event-driven SPAC investments.

Aryamaan received his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in Finance, and Data Science from NYU Stern.

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Michael Sponseller

Vice President
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Michael Sponseller
Vice President

Michael Sponseller is a vice president at Advantage Capital, where he focuses on oringinating, structuring and executing investment for the firm's renewable energy platform.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Michael was a vice president at Lazard Frères & Co. in the Global Power, Utility and Infrastructure team, where he advised clients in the context of capital raising, M&A and strategic advisory.

Earlier in his career, Michael was the director of structured finance at Sungevity, Inc., where he led the structuring project finance commitment while supporting the company's Series D equity raise. Michael has also held positions at Green Lake Capital and Borrego Solar, where he performed investment analysis and due diligence for C&I and utility-scale solar projects. Michael began his career with Teach for America where he taught middle school math, science and social studies.

Michael received his MBA from University of Texas at Austin and his bachelor's degree in economics and international development from Vanderbilt Unidersity.

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Rose Ann Watson Ansty

Community Outreach Manager
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Rose Ann Watson Ansty
Community Outreach Manager

Rose Ann Ansty is a member of the solar team where she is responsible for stakeholder relations both internal and external in support of solar projects by conducting local community outreach initiatives with landowners and governmental officials. Project development management by monitoring financial and budget obligations, site control, schedules, permitting and due diligence.  

Previously Finance Project Manager, at International Rescue Committee where she prepared and maintained project budget and financial reporting ensuring data was complete and all donor related information was disseminated to project, finance and logistics staff and partners. Prior to IRC, Rose Ann was a Program Officer at World Education where she provided technical, financial and contract management for $13mm projects in Mail, Benin, and Guinea. And prior to that an Analyst and Brokerage trader at Fidelity Investments.

BS in Economics from University of Utah and Certificate in Financial Accounting from NYU SPS and was in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa

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Carl Weatherley-White

Senior Advisor
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Carl Weatherley-White
Senior Advisor

Carl Weatherley-White is a managing director at Advantage Capital where he leads the firm's renewable energy investment platform.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Carl was the chief executive officer of VivoPower International PLC. He also served as president of renewable energy company Lightbeam Energy, Inc, and the chief financial officer for utility scale solar developer K Road Power Holdings, LLC. During this period, he led the acquisition, development and financing for approximately 3 GW of renewable energy projects, primarily utility scale solar, including more than $2 billion of project debt, tax equity and development capital.

Earlier in his career, Carl was global head of project finance at Lehman Brothers and Barclays. In that role, he was responsible for all non-recourse financing of energy infrastructure assets, leading his team to a Number 1 ranking in U.S. project finance league tables for both high-yield loans and investment-grade bonds in 2009 and 2010.

Carl received his bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Brown University and held a Rotary Graduate Fellowship at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

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Adam Constantinides

Vice President
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Adam Constantinides
Vice President

Adam Constantinides is a vice president at Advantage Capital. As a member of the solar investment team, Adam focuses on sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Adam worked for Altus Power America, a renewable energy investment firm, where he was responsible for the development, underwriting and execution of solar investments. He also previously held a position at Regional Plan Association where he evaluated financial impacts of climate change in the New York metropolitan area.

Adam received his bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with a minor in social innovation/entrepreneurship from Tulane University where he graduated cum laude.

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Anaëlle Croteau

Vice President
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Anaëlle Croteau
Vice President

Anaëlle Croteau is a vice president at Advantage Capital. As a member of the solar investment team, Ms. Croteau is responsible for performing due diligence efforts, screening potential investment opportunities and monitoring portfolio companies. Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Anaëlle held positions with the ArcelorMittal Treasury in Paris, France, Meridiam in Dakar, Senegal and the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg.

Ms. Croteau received her MSc in Financial Markets and Management from the EDHEC Business School in France.

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Thomas Keaveney

Advisor
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Thomas Keaveney
Advisor

Thomas Keaveney serves as a board member and senior advisor for Advantage Capital. He has extensive experience in all phases of private finance, including deal origination, structuring, pricing and documentation.

Thomas previously served the firm as an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was Chairman of the Private Finance Department, and a member of both the Investment and Investment Banking committees. Prior to CSFB, he worked in the private finance department of Salomon Brothers and at the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. He is a director of the Gregorian University Foundation in Rome, Italy.

Thomas earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics at Fordham University.

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Josh Rogers

Principal
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Josh Rogers
Principal

Josh Rogers is a principal at Advantage Capital. As a member of the investment team, he is responsible for helping to source investments, perform due diligence, structure transactions and manage portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Josh was an equity research associate covering mid and large-cap U.S. banks at ISI Group, now Evercore Partners. At UBS Investment Bank in New York, he was an investment banking analyst and an equity research associate director covering financials and healthcare services, as well as IT.

Josh received his MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College.

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Sam Schlichting

Associate
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Sam Schlichting
Associate

Sam Schlichting is an associate at Advantage Capital. As a member of the firm’s investment team, he is responsible for sourcing investments, supporting business development efforts and providing due diligence support.

He graduated from Colgate University with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. While attending Colgate, Sam was a member of the football team.

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Alexandra Twyman

Vice President
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Advantage Capital - Investment Capital for Small Businesses - United States, Finance, Capital, Investment, wealth, local community
Alexandra Twyman
Vice President

Alexandra Twyman is a vice president at Advantage Capital. As a member of the firm’s investment team, she provides due diligence support and monitors portfolio companies.

Ms. Twyman received her bachelor’s degree in commerce with a concentration in finance from McGill University.

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