The Island SDG Impact Fund will power a Bermuda-based venture studio, to support and scale portfolio ventures.
Our mission is to save the world’s oceans by developing sustainable ventures for our planet’s blue economy.
Bermuda is unique for a venture studio because of geo, political and business opportunities:
President
Mr. Kevin Richards is a dynamic leader with a passion for sustainability, mobility and fintech. With over 15 years of experience in financial services, he brings a wealth of international experience to companies looking to scale their businesses globally. Mr. Richards currently serves as the Managing Director of Bermuda Asset Management (BAM), where he is focused on investment advisory and building circular economy ecosystems built on a renewable energy foundation. He is also the Founder of BAM Tech Advisors, providing advisory and non-executive directorship
Chief Investment Officer
Sol is the CEO and founder of Data Innovation Labs, a full-service Data Science, and Decision Intelligence consulting group deploying 4IR technologies and implementing digital transformation across business verticals. Sol was the Chief Economist and Head of Fundamental and Quantitative Research at Trevinci Capital Partners—liquid Ag Hedge Fund, and she was the Managing Partner and Head Quant for Oracle Management—a proprietary global macro trading firm.
Chief Financial Officer
Theodore Waz (Ted) is a Partner at Titan Global Group and his ability to identify and deliver opportunities across industries and geographies enables transformative & economically sustainable dealmaking & venture identification. Ted serves as a Council Member to the IWF (CH) and leads a Portfolio including Government, Finance, Oil & Gas, Mining, Agriculture, Aerospace & Defense, Sports Management, Healthcare and Cybersecurity Interests. Ted is Vice President of the Board of Directors, World Smart Cities Economic Development Commission and is a G20 affiliated Global Partner for Financial Inclusion (GPFI).
General Counsel & Chief Scientist
Dr. Rand Neveloff, MA, MA, JD, MBA, PhD, is an Environmental Scientist, Mathematician, Seasoned Developer, Investment Banker and Attorney who has specialized in International project development, finance and consulting for past 35+ years. An ex-executive at the IMF and World Bank, with a specialization in “nation building” in conjunction with large scale infrastructure developments and trade, particularly in the Emerging Markets.
Chief Operating Officer
With a background in building and leading implementation, product consulting and operations teams, Greg also has extensive experience in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, using the power of the network to launch, grow and connect investments to promising companies. He has over twenty years of business-to-business relationship management at the corporate level, operations leadership and product consulting in HealthTech and technology start-ups from other industries.
Chief Innovation Officer
Mark Roth’s deep experience in founding and funding technology companies will provide significant insight as we originate, invest and scale high potential opportunities. As an experienced entrepreneur, he has over 25 year’s experience in the launch, development, and financing of technology businesses. Prior to Spinnaker Venture Partners he took two companies from concept to significant revenues. He has raised over $100 million of venture capital for early-stage companies from Charles River Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Norwest, Zero Stage Capital and others.
Chief Commercial Officer
Throughout his career, Andrea brings experience from positions ranging from academic research to American finance, always with a strong link to high-tech startups. This helped him to drive value within complex processes that can create new business models. Andrea is able to create a clear vision of the value that data can create and how to increase the impact by combining data with AI. He deeply believes in the concept of serving leadership, and his career has demonstrated his ability to build high-performance teams from scratch.
Mr. Kevin Richards is a dynamic leader with a passion for sustainability, mobility and fintech. With over 15 years of experience in financial services, he brings a wealth of international experience to companies looking to scale their businesses globally.
Mr. Richards currently serves as the Managing Director of Bermuda Asset Management (BAM), where he is focused on investment advisory and building circular economy ecosystems built on a renewable energy foundation. He is also the Founder of BAM Tech Advisors, providing advisory and non-executive directorship services to Family Offices, Fintech, DeFi & Digital Asset businesses, and Shipping and Aircraft businesses and registries.
Mr. Richards is a Member of the Institute of Directors (IoD), a Director of the Bermuda Shipping & Maritime Authority (BSMA), Chairman of the E-Commerce Advisory Committee (ECAB) and Member of the Currency Standard Initiative to the Bermuda Government, Member of the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BBDA) Legal & Regulatory Subcommittee, Co-Founder of the Bermuda Innovation & Technology Association (BITA), and Member of the Irish Angels investment group.
Mr. Richards is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Undergraduate and Master’s programs, with a double major in English and Political Science and an M.B.A. focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship.
Sol is the CEO and founder of Data Innovation Labs, a full-service Data Science, and Decision Intelligence consulting group deploying 4IR technologies and implementing digital transformation across business verticals. Sol was the Chief Economist and Head of Fundamental and Quantitative Research at Trevinci Capital Partners—liquid Ag Hedge Fund, and she was the Managing Partner and Head Quant for Oracle Management—a proprietary global macro trading firm.
Sol is an International Mathematical Economist and CAIA—Charter in Alternative Investments Analyst—Data Scientist and Quant. Sol’s extensive education spans top higher learning institutions from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile (Commercial Engineering, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Finance, Management), Indiana University—Kelly School of Business (MBA specializing in Derivative Securities), and Harvard University (Computer Science concentration Data Science, and Financial Crisis). Sol graduated top of her class from Harvard University, and she holds Head Teaching Fellow positions for Data Science courses at Harvard’s Engineering School—SEAS—and Harvard Extension School.
Her financial career spans almost 3 decades with domain knowledge in alternative investments. Sol has traded, modeled, and developed trading strategies for all universes of securities and contracts—including derivatives. She has been one of the few quants worldwide who has successfully modeled a wide spectrum of agrarian commodities in the Hedge Fund space, and she was one of the first Data Scientists to embrace Blockchain and DLT technologies to leverage AI and Deep learning. Her training as a Data Scientist and her deep knowledge of AI helps her in learning how to overcome her unfortunate new hearing disabilities. For that, she found motivation in how Artificial Neural Networks learn, and she is successfully defying severe neuro-sensorial hearing disabilities for which there’s no help with the current state of medical advancements.
Theodore Waz (Ted) is a Partner at Titan Global Group and his ability to identify and deliver opportunities across industries and geographies enables transformative & economically sustainable dealmaking & venture identification. Ted serves as a Council Member to the IWF (CH) and leads a Portfolio including Government, Finance, Oil & Gas, Mining, Agriculture, Aerospace & Defense, Sports Management, Healthcare and Cybersecurity Interests. Ted is Vice President of the Board of Directors, World Smart Cities Economic Development Commission and is a G20 affiliated Global Partner for Financial Inclusion (GPFI).
Ted is a Harvard Kennedy School (NIS &DTG) and Harvard Medical School (SQIL) Postgraduate Senior Policy Advisor, a Doctoral Candidate at Liberty University (Strategic Leadership), and is a celebrated global thought-leader regarding Smart-City-Technologies, Advanced Digital Integration & Transformation(AI, IOT, Blockchain-DLT, RPU).
Dr. Rand Neveloff, MA, MA, JD, MBA, PhD, is an Environmental Scientist, Mathematician, Seasoned Developer, Investment Banker and Attorney who has specialized in International project development, finance and consulting for past 35+ years. An ex-executive at the IMF and World Bank, with a specialization in “nation building” in conjunction with large scale infrastructure developments and trade, particularly in the Emerging Markets.
Dr. Rand spent 5 ½ years as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization, a United Nations chartered IGO helping to establish the world standards for the implementation of renewable energy solutions around the world. Dr. Rand has visited 126 countries, has led or assisted projects from inception to successful completion in over 50 countries worldwide and has worked in carbon credit administration in over 20 additional countries. He is a leading expert on solar micro and mini grids with over 640 solar projects completed in rural African villages; co-developer of the only solar powered international airport in Cochin, India; and co-developer of the Xcell Gold Standard, a United Nations approved program to supply solar powered mining equipment to Artisanal mining communities to increase production while lowering environmental damage and child labor issues.
Dr. Rand is presently implementing a broad based solar renewable energy mini-grid system in Africa that now supplies solar power and clean water to over 2 Million people in nine countries.
Dr. Rand Author and co-author of over 200 patents, over 75 of which are in renewable power production. He is the primary author of 32 technology patents and has co-developed over 200 others.
With a background in building and leading implementation, product consulting and operations teams, Greg also has extensive experience in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, using the power of the network to launch, grow and connect investments to promising companies. He has over twenty years of business-to-business relationship management at the corporate level, operations leadership and product consulting in HealthTech and technology start-ups from other industries.
Greg is an early-stage technology startup founder, investor, advisor and operator, with a focus on digital health and international startups. He is currently a co-founder of AccelHUB Venture Partners, ScaleUp LatAm Fund, and Accelerate Italy in the international ecosystem. Greg also advises multiple healthcare technology startups. He received an MBA from Bentley University.
Specialties: Digital Health startup strategy, international startup expansion, venture capital financing of early-stage startups, startup business development and operations development.
Mark Roth’s deep experience in founding and funding technology companies will provide significant insight as we originate, invest and scale high potential opportunities. As an experienced entrepreneur, he has over 25 year’s experience in the launch, development, and financing of technology businesses. Prior to Spinnaker Venture Partners he took two companies from concept to significant revenues. He has raised over $100 million of venture capital for early-stage companies from Charles River Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Norwest, Zero Stage Capital and others. On the technology side Mark is a thought leader in the areas of knowledge management, group collaboration, AI and the industrial IoT. He brings a strong network of technology resources as well as an extensive business network to the team. He was founding CEO for Framework Technologies Corporation, an early pioneer in team collaboration tools. Framework is now part of Dassault Systems. As founding CEO of Advanced Systems Design, he brought innovative electro-optical instrumentation to the semiconductor and industrial chemicals markets. ASD was acquired by Honeywell.
Mark has a strong record of international experience. He actively participates in the development, internationalization, and scaling of emerging businesses in Latin America and Europe. He has led efforts for venture development in the emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Russia as well.
Mark has served on the boards of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Microelectronics Computer Consortium, and the Software Engineering Institutes. He holds engineering degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Throughout his career, Andrea brings experience from positions ranging from academic research to American finance, always with a strong link to high-tech startups. This helped him to drive value within complex processes that can create new business models. Andrea is able to create a clear vision of the value that data can create and how to increase the impact by combining data with AI. He deeply believes in the concept of serving leadership, and his career has demonstrated his ability to build high-performance teams from scratch.
Since January 2021, Andrea has dedicated his time to setting up an innovation and investment network that connects Italy with the United States. He is a co-founder of 42N Advisors, a member of the Board of Directors and a co-founder of Accelerate Italy, a partner of AccelHUB Studio, and an advisor for Seven Funds Train Ventures. Andrea also collaborates with Italian investment funds, such as Vertis Fund, where he is a director of VRMedia.
Throughout his professional career, Andrea has founded several high-tech startups. In the last startup, Rulex, a company specialized in AI, Andrea was involved in Rulex’s entire life cycle, from product creation, the company internationalization from Italy to Boston, and the acquisition of its first global customers. Through Rulex, Andrea became highly connected to the world of American finance and venture capital. In January 2021, he sold his shares in Rulex to focus on originating and funding companies through AccelHUB Studios.
Andrea is a researcher in Physics. At the University of Genoa, he had been involved in projects in the investigation of complex systems and the construction of electronic devices for measurements in the biophysics sector. In 2019 Andrea obtained an EMBA from Hult International Business School in Boston.