Team

David is a Founding Partner of Irrational Capital, focusing on the development of investment strategies and business growth.

David was the Founder of the impact investment firm which incubated Irrational Capital and previously co-founded a leading alternative asset sponsorship firm. Earlier in his career, David was MD and CEO of a large financial institution’s private equity and venture group and CEO of the European division of a large training and strategy firm. David began his career in technology, where he held business development roles and helped establish several new, large-scale businesses.

Ryan serves as Chief Operating Officer, lending his insights to the operations, legal and compliance aspects of the business. Prior to joining Irrational Capital, Ryan co-founded GrowthCounsel LLC (2010), a boutique law firm providing transactional support and general counsel services to growth companies and started his career as an M&A attorney at an AMLAW 100 firm.

Our Chief Investment Officer, Scott, covers a range of research and portfolio management activities. He previously served as Vice President at a multibillion-dollar asset management firm, designing equity strategies and leading product and data teams. Scott was also the director of research to a corporate finance consulting firm and began his finance career in venture capital.

Michael covers a range of advanced data analytics and investment research activities. He previously served as a manager at Ernst & Young’s Quantitative Advisory Services Group, leading a series of Artificial Intelligence research initiatives and providing development and validation services on capital market models for various global financial institutions. Prior to that, he had quantitative research and development experience with trading firms as well as within the aerospace industry. Michael holds a MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a PhD focusing on physics of fluids from the Oregon State University.

Katie Daniel, Chief of Staff, brings more than a decade of administrative and business development experience to our financial, marketing, and relationship management functions. She has served in fundraising and operational leadership roles at mid- to large- sized nonprofits across the country, raising tens of millions for charity. She is thrilled to contribute her social-impact related experience to the financial sector.

Prior to joining Irrational Capital, Pete founded Melgren Analytics, a boutique Data Science consulting firm that focuses on making Data Science projects accessible to startups and small businesses. Pete has also worked as an analyst for the Cincinnati Reds and began his career as an Economist for Moody’s Analytics.

Pete holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in Economics and Applied Mathematics

Zachary David advises Irrational Capital on critical research projects relating to model development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and statistical analysis. Zak is the co-founder and CTO of Urvin Finance where he heads development of a new market data and collaborative research platform for individual investors. He previously co-founded Urvin AI, creating AI software solutions in domains from predicting drug efficacy for FDA trials to product classification for global-scale e-commerce. In addition, he supervises academic research on agent-based modeling of financial markets in a partnership with PSU's Smeal College of Business, and he served as the Machine Learning and Market Microstructure editor of the Journal of Algorithmic Finance.

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