50 South Capital Advisors invites you to attend our fourth annual NLF Summit on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. We will lead a series of discussions and spotlight sessions with founders and management teams of exciting and innovative venture-backed companies as well as with leading venture capitalists that invest in these companies.
NLF@50southcapital.ntrs.com
55 Monument Circle, 7th Floor
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Kelli is Co-Founder & General Partner for Sixty8 Capital, a pre-seed/seed stage fund for diverse and undercapitalized entrepreneurs. For the last 4 years, Kelli has led the transformation of a more diverse tech ecosystem in Indiana, through her organization Be Nimble Foundation. Since starting Be Nimble, she has trained 40+ Black and LatinX founders through her accelerator, and has invested nearly $1M in capital and start-up resources. Before moving back to Indianapolis, IN, she lived in NY and LA and worked at organizations like Techstars, Givelify, Blavity, and HipHopDX. She is on the board of Employ Indy, Vanguard Collegiate of Indianapolis, and The Venture Club’s NextGen group.
Eric Tobias is a Co-Founder and Partner at High Alpha, a venture studio in Indianapolis, that conceives, launches and scales high-growth B2B software companies. In addition, High Alpha invests in software companies across North America where Eric serves as a Board Member with many of these companies.
Eric has earned numerous accolades for business leadership, including CIO Magazine’s Thirty Under 30, Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40, and Inc Magazine’s “Inc 500” for the Fastest Growing Companies. Eric is a passionate civic leader, serving on the Board of Directors of The Mitch Daniels Leadership Foundation, the Dean’s Council at Indiana University’s School of Informatics, and the Board of Directors at Cathedral High School. Eric is passionate about music, especially the live variety, and owns several music venues in Indianapolis, including the historic Vogue Theater in Broad Ripple and Rock the Ruins at Holliday Park.
Brandon is a founding General Partner at Signal Peak Ventures (SPV) and has an extensive background working with innovative software and technology companies. Brandon has made and managed numerous investments spanning enterprise software, SaaS, Internet, and technology-enabled services. Brandon currently serves on the boards of Degreed, Filevine, Bark, and Hubpay, among others. He has a B.S. and Master’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University and a JD from Columbia University. Brandon enjoys living in the scenic surroundings of Utah where he has many opportunities to engage in outdoor activities with his family. He is particularly fond of skiing, running, and exploring the mountainous terrain in Utah and Idaho.
Tracy is the Founder and Managing Principal of Graham Allen Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in investing in, and building, technology and technology-enabled companies. He leverages his long history of successfully acquiring and operating businesses to provide strategic and operational support to a growing portfolio of small and middle-market companies. He is currently focused on leveraging analytics and artificial intelligence to help companies evolve via digital transformation.
Prior to Graham Allen Partners, Tracy co-founded GramTel, Inc. (a managed data center provider) in partnership with The Jordan Company (a private equity firm headquartered in New York). As President of GramTel, he was responsible for the company’s strategic direction as well as aligning all internal and external resources to gain market share in the small and mid-sized business market. He led the company to become the largest provider of managed data center services in the state of Indiana and the largest privately held provider in the Midwest. In 2007, he completed the successful sale of GramTel to Cincinnati Bell, Inc. (a publicly traded telecommunications company).
Prior to founding GramTel, he founded Internet Services Management Group, Inc (“ISMG”) where he led the company to become the second largest privately held ISP in the United States (acquiring and integrating 23 companies).
Tracy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame and attended the Indiana University Graduate School of Education.
Tracy has a long history of community service, currently serving on the boards of 1st Source Bank, Beacon Health System, Davenport University, the Regional Development Authority of Northern Indiana’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee; while supporting several other civic organizations.
Max Yoder is CEO and co-founder of Lessonly, the training software company that helps teams learn, practice, and do better work. He is also the author of Do Better Work, a book about being a better teammate. Max lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife, Jess, and daughter Marina. He was cut from the basketball team two years in a row.
Don co-founded Allos in 2010, but he did some pretty cool stuff before that, too.
Don's tenacity and entrepreneurial drive exhibited itself early in his career, when he was so frustrated that Hewlett Packard had come on campus his senior year solely to recruit electrical engineers (as a production and operations management major, he was more of an industrial engineer) that he accosted the recruiter in the hallway and refused to let him leave until he'd managed to secure a job offer.
After working as an operations manager in Hewlett Packard's Circuit Technology Group, serving on the corporate-wide team responsible for the selection of a new ERP system, and having co-founded two small software companies along the way, Don left HP for business school. Upon graduation, he joined The Boston Consulting Group as a consultant, and then Diageo, where he was a manager of strategy for Guinness Americas and Caribbean (he assures us that testing the product was not part of his job responsibilities, but merely a perk).
Megan Glover is the CoFounder and CEO of 120Water, a digital water platform providing software and solutions to water professionals across the country tasked with executing critical lead in drinking water and infrastructure programs that provide safe drinking water and protect public health. To date the company has impacted over 100 Million lives across their customer base in over 37 States. Prior to founding 120Water in 2016, Megan spent over a decade as a marketing and sales executive for various venture backed start-up and scale up B2B SaaS platforms in the Indiana technology ecosystem. Megan is proud to have been recognized by the 2018 IBJ Forty under 40, 2020 E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, 2021 Inc 100 Female Founder List and the 2021 Indiana Chamber Dynamic Leader of the Year. Megan also serves as a founding Board Member of the Indiana Technology and Innovation Association (ITIA) and serves on the State of Indiana Governor’s Workforce Development Cabinet.
Oscar Moralez is a serial entrepreneur, university lecturer, mentor/coach, and venture capital investor based in Indiana. In 2020 he founded Boomerang Ventures, a venture studio and venture fund that provides a funding and resource platform for entrepreneurs to bring their healthcare ideas to life. He is also the founder and managing director of VisionTech Partners/VisionTech Angels; the largest angel investing group in Indiana and one of the largest and most active in the Midwest with a portfolio of over 60 companies and $25+ million in invested capital.
In 2002, Oscar founded and served as COO for BioStorage Technologies (BST), a venture-backed life
science services company, based in Indianapolis. BST was acquired in December 2015 by Brooks Life
Sciences for $127 million, and is now Azenta Life Sciences, (NASDAQ: AZTA).
Prior to starting BST, Oscar worked in various executive management roles in healthcare, with Covance
Clinical Laboratories, Mayo Medical Laboratories and Boulder Community Hospital.
In addition to his experience in startups, investing and capital formation, Oscar’s background includes
over twenty years of technical, operations and management experience in healthcare and life sciences
sectors. He currently serves on, or has served in the past, as a director for various for-profit and not-for-profit boards in Indiana including GeoH, OrthoPediatrics, SonarMed, Apricity, The Venture Club of Indiana, The Speak Easy, Leaf Software Solutions and the Indiana Center for Biomedical Innovation.
Oscar received his Bachelor of Science degree in medical technology from the University of Texas,
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and an MBA from the University of Colorado in Denver. He
enjoys sports, traveling, photography and spending time with his family.
Having delivered business solutions around the world as an entrepreneur, executive, corporate innovator, investor and West Point Engineer – Patrick brings a global outlook to his entrepreneurial, investor and innovation pursuits. Prior to Render Patrick started and exited three technology companies in the software, health and data analytics space and served as the VP of Growth, Startups & Technology of a $100M Venture Capital fund of funds focused on corporate innovation – Patrick’s passion is to help be a Megaphone for the innovation Ecosystem in the Midwest & South, Help Startups grow & scale, and help large corporations innovate through startups. From Silicon Valley to the Targaw Valley in Afghanistan and from Rwanda to Rural America Patrick’s leadership and expertise in leadership and foundations are built on trust, transparency and communication. Patrick’s proficiency in moving organizations from activity to impact has been evident in accolades and exits and from being an Airborne Ranger to leading the National Policy Council for Innovation with the Application developers alliance in DC. He has been published internationally in books like the “Startup Blueprint – 7 Skills for Founders, builders and Leaders” and has keynoted events like SXSW talking Big Data and Ogilvy’s CommonHealth Worldwide Marketing Summit talking everything from Innovation, to healthcare to scaling from the battlefield to the boardroom.
Christine McDonnell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Codelicious, providing K-12 classrooms with custom, algorithm-generated curriculum-as-a-service. Christine graduated Magna Cum Laude from Vanderbilt University with Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and earned her MBA in Corporate Strategy and Marketing from the University of Michigan. Prior to Codelicious, Christine led her own consulting practice, McDonnell & Associates, which focused on counseling high-growth technology ventures. She also held leadership positions at McKinsey & Company and DuPont and is a member of Women and High Tech. Christine is passionate about creating access and removing barriers to teaching and learning computer science in schools. You can connect with Christine on LinkedIn or Codelicious.com.
Omar Atia is an engineer. He started his career in consumer products after graduating from Purdue University, majoring in chemical engineering. Omar worked for and progressed within fortune 500 companies like Kraft, Conagra Foods, Mead Johnson and others.
After a long career in corporate America, Omar felt the desire to build something himself and started his entrepreneurial journey where he is now a Co-founder and CEO of ZeroCarb LYFE: a company that sells low carb, high protein foods and is on a mission to put the joy back into healthy eating.
Omar’s always been entrepreneurial ever since he was in grade school. Even when he was out of college and got a full time job at a great company, he actively partnered with an individual to open a restaurant. He always worked with a very entrepreneurial mindset and thought this is what he was born for. Which was what led him to take the jump from very secure pay checks to being an entrepreneur in 2013.
Omar believes that the biggest thing that could inspire others is the fact that he never doubted himself or the impact that he thought he would have. He’s always had this faith that no matter what happens, no matter how impossible things seem, if you believe in something and you have a mindset where you're stubborn and you're willing to read the market, read the signs, pivot and be humble to adjust any decision that the world is telling you isn't the right decision.
As long as you have that mindset and never give up, it doesn't matter what the struggle is or what the low point looks like. There's going to be a high point that eventually presents itself.
