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Steve Brown, President and Founder of Trinity Capital Investment, LLC (TCI) brings 26 years of lending, investment and leasing experience to TCI. Prior to starting TCI, he was a General Partner with Point Financial Capital Partners, which managed a Venture Leasing Fund and he led both originations and lease financing efforts for all early stage lease finance at Point. Prior to Point he served as the President and CFO of InvestLinc Financial Services, which was an early-stage Private Equity Fund Manager and Business Consulting Firm. Prior to InvestLinc, he was a partner in Cornerstone Equity Partners, a private equity fund manager, and was co-founder/manager of Cornerstone Fund I, a private equity fund based in Phoenix, Arizona.
In addition, Steve has worked with private investment companies and banking institutions in both real estate and commercial lending and investment roles. He has served on the board of directors of numerous operating companies and also served on the advisory counsel for the School of Business at Grand Canyon University, located in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Brown holds a B.S. degree from McNeese State University in Business Administration and Marketing.
Scott Peters brings 25 years of executive management experience and a proven track record in launching and growing new businesses in the financial services, payment processing and data marketing technology industries. Scott recently served as Managing Director for CoBiz Financial Leveraged Finance/Corporate Banking Group in Arizona, which he started in 2008, raising capital for growth companies, acquisitions and leveraged re-caps. Prior to CoBiz Financial, Scott’s entrepreneurial background included founding The Loyalty Concept, a software technology and services company with a patented end to end rewards management system and early stage Corporate Development executive of BANKFIRST, a start-up sub-prime credit card company. BANKFIRST grew to become one of the top 25 credit card issuers approaching $1B in assets and was successfully sold for $600MM. Prior to BANKFIRST, Scott’s career spanned 13 years structuring and managing leveraged transactions for Continental National Bank of Illinois and Bank of America.
Mr. Peters holds a Masters in Business Administration, from DePaul University Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in Business and Finance, from the University of Alabama.
Jason Hamlin has 12+ years of experience in investment management, back office support and accounting for investment funds. Prior to joining Trinity he spent two years with Cavan Commercial as Vice President of Capital Markets and nine years as the Senior Vice President of Finance for Majestic Capital, the management company to a hedge fund. While at Majestic Capital he was responsible for running investor relations, accounting and tax coordination for multiple corporate entities. Mr. Hamlin holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management with an emphasis in international capital markets and a Bachelor of Science from Arizona State University.
Alex Erhart has 25 years of high-tech business experience from top to bottom and is currently the Executive Vice President of Products at Validity, a biometric sensor manufacturer. He served as startup-CEO of Validity from 2003 through 2006. Mr. Erhart's experience includes his position as General Manager, Biometrics Division of National Semiconductor Corporation, and founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vivid Semiconductor, Inc., a venture backed LCD panel technology start-up that was purchased by National Semiconductor. Mr. Erhart holds 39 patents, has authored ten technical publications, and has presented technical papers at several major semiconductor industry conferences. Mr. Erhart has also served on the Board of three private technology companies and one charitable organization.
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