Sabin Burrell
Founder & Managing Partner
Entrepreneur, founder and veteran investor with 25+ years of experience leading structured solutions across a diverse set of industries, including technology, real estate and financial services.
- Founded Forza to assume investment and wealth management activities of his former family office.
- Founder, Boom Commerce, a global financial technology and payments company.
- Co-Founder, Ovvi, a software technology company sold to a public acquirer in 2022.
- Co-Founder, Counselytics, an early AI and machine learning company providing business intelligence, analytics and insights into legal contracts and other business documents for enterprise customers which sold to Conga in 2018.
- Partner, SG Credit Partners, a structured credit investor serving software and technology companies which sold for $113 Million in 2019.
- Founder, BlueSquare, a leading electronic payments company which sold for more than $150 Million in 2018.
- Created and self-capitalized a real estate investment vehicle and built it into one of the largest private capital providers for single family residence investors in Arizona.
John Hynes
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Entrepreneur, lawyer and experienced equity and credit investor in a wide range of sectors, including technology, real estate, and financial services.
- Co-founded Forza to assume investment and wealth management activities of family office he previously managed.
- Co-Founder, Boom Commerce, a global financial technology and payments company.
- Partner, Ovvi, a software technology company sold to a public acquirer in 2022.
- General Counsel to major electronic payments company which sold to a public acquirer in 2014.
- Created and self-capitalized real estate investment vehicle in the Midwest which successfully exited its single and multi-family portfolio in 2021.
- Responsible for overseeing more than $100 Million in M&A transactions in the financial technology and payments industries.
- Former attorney with the global law firm Sheppard Mullin specializing in corporate law and white collar defense litigation.
Marc Cole
Principal
20+ years of experience building and investing in innovative technology and finance companies.
- Co-Founder, CEO, Board Member and Loan Committee Member, SG Credit Partners, a leading non-bank lender to the software and technology industries with investments totaling over $200 Million.
- Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Bluefin Payment Systems, a recognized leader in encryption and tokenization technologies for payments and data security operating in approximately 40 countries, where he led the company’s debt and equity financing and M&A strategies.
- CFO and Chief Credit Officer, Super G Capital, a boutique lender in the electronic payments industry, where he raised $150 Million of capital and built the framework for what is now SG Credit Partners, including the launch of its SaaS financing product.
- Alumni, Mellon Ventures, where he led investments in software, tech-enabled services and financial services.
- Alumni, Hamilton Investment Partners, where he managed direct investments and mezzanine financing for more than two dozen positions.
- Led the launch of Pay Factory, a tech-enabled payment facilitator for software platforms which allows software vendors to effortlessly integrate payment acceptance into their solutions while minimizing risk.
Jason Gabbard
Principal
20+ years of experience investing in the technology and other sectors, including investments in Lyft, Square, Matterhorn (now Lexis Nexis), Automotive Mastermind, Axial and Thuzio.
- Founder and CEO, Counselytics, an early AI and machine learning company providing business intelligence, analytics and insights into legal contracts and other business documents for enterprise customers which sold to Conga in 2018.
- Alumni, Morgan Stanley MSREF private equity fund where he managed a group of London-based lawyers and bankers responsible for closing billions of dollars in private equity transactions throughout Europe and Asia.
- Former corporate attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, where he handled IPOs, mergers, stock and asset dispositions, joint ventures and debt issuances.
Danny Swick
Principal
Investor and entrepreneur with specialized experience in alternative investment classes, insurance and investment technologies.
- Founder, Kango Group, an established alternative investment management firm that targets opportunities in the longevity asset class on behalf of private equity and hedge fund clients.
- CEO, Life Distributors of America, a life settlement firm specializing in the distribution of longevity risk insurance products to institutional investment portfolios, where he was responsible for the closing over $4 Billion in life settlements.
- Vice President, American International Group (AIG), where he was responsible for developing and executing marketing strategies for life and annuity products in alternative distribution channels, which included product distribution through broker-dealers and third-party administrators in both the U.S. and international markets.
- COO and Executive Director, Wallmine, a platform providing investors with tools and analytics to build and monitor stock investments to maximize insights and understanding of stock market data.
Tim Smith
Principal
Investor and real estate industry leader with an extensive investment portfolio in a variety of sectors, including real estate and technology.
- Founder, Smith Group Real Estate, the #1 Coldwell Banker team in California and among the top 20 real estate groups in the country with over $5 Billion in career sales, and over $782 Million in 2022 alone.
- Principal investor across a diverse set of industries, including CPG, software and real estate.
- Active participant in several charities throughout Orange County, CA, including Miracles for Kids, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with life-threatening illnesses.
Evan Sypek
Principal
Entrepreneur, lawyer and investor in a wide range of industries including real estate, entertainment, finance, aerospace, and agriculture.
- Senior Business & Legal Affairs Executive, NBCUniversal, with responsibility for negotiating and structuring financing, production and distribution deals for television, film, and podcast projects.
- General Counsel and Board Member, The Motoring Club, a premiere private automotive club based in Los Angeles.
- Founder and CEO, TMC Fleet, a private exotic and collector car rental agency.
- Successfully built and exited single and multi-family real estate investment portfolio based in the Midwest.
- Former attorney with the global law firm Sheppard Mullin specializing in corporate finance, restructuring and bankruptcy.
Jay Keller
Principal
Entrepreneur, investor and alternative lending expert with an established history founding and building FinTech and software companies.
- Founder and CEO, Wall Street Funding, one of the country’s largest technology driven business and alternative lending firms serving small and medium-sized businesses across the US.
- Founder and CEO, Onyx IQ, a tech-enabled digital lending platform that automates lending decisions and workflows end-to-end.
- Co-Founder, Big Think Capital, a direct lender and financial services marketplace that matches business owners with the best working capital options for their businesses, including SBA loans, term loans, equipment financing, business lines of credit, invoice financing, short-term loans, merchant cash advances, and small business start-up loans.
- Co-Founder, Birch, a tech-enabled lending platform founded to help small businesses get approved and funded within hours.
- CEO, 2nd Source Funding, a leading provider of merchant cash advance funding to small and medium-sized businesses.
Kayla Jantz
Principal
Entrepreneur, investor and operator with a proven track record growing FinTech and real estate companies from the ground up.
- Director of Operations, Boom Commerce, a global financial technology and payments company.
- Co-Founder and Director of Operations, BlueSquare, a leading electronic payments company which sold for more than $150 Million in 2018.
- Built real estate investment vehicle into one of the largest private capital providers for single family residence investors in Arizona.
John Choi
Principal
Investor, real estate finance expert and entertainment executive responsible for financing more than $1 Billion in real estate financings.
- Director, George Smith Partners, where he is responsible for originating and structuring debt and equity for acquisition, development, construction, bridge and permanent financings across all CRE asset types, with more than $290 Million in transaction volume to date.
- Strategic Development Manager, Google/YouTube, where he was responsible for negotiating and closing multimillion-dollar content licensing deals, and managing YouTube’s partner relationships with Disney/ESPN, NBCUniversal, CBS and Fox.
- Director, Fox, where he achieved 20% annual revenue growth by leading market research and analyses efforts and shaping content distribution strategy.
- President, Premier Capital Services, where he founded, built and ran a team of real estate and loan agents that generated $64 Million in loan volume and $1.6 Million in revenue in less than four years.
John Richter
Principal
Investor, founder and real estate development and finance expert with 25+ years of experience building successful real estate companies across the US.
- Co-Founder and President, Manufactured Homes of Arizona, one of the largest full service manufactured home dealers in Arizona.
- Managing Partner, SSCE Holdings, a major real estate holding company and asset based lender based in Arizona.
- Founder and Managing Partner, The Flying E Ranch, an authentic Arizona dude ranch located in the Sonoran Desert that provides corporate retreats, outdoor concerts and other events to corporate and individual clients.
- Chief Executive Officer, Alliance Financial Resources, one of the fastest-growing mortgage bankers in the Southwest.
- Chief Operating Officer, SWH Funding, a leading provider of short term, asset based financing to investors for acquisition of investment properties.