Founding Investors and Operating Partners

Fundamental Capital is a team of accomplished financial investors and CEOs who are experienced in working with small companies with big aspirations. Every business has special needs, and we utilize our team of Operating Partners and strategic relationships to ensure our portfolio companies have access to the resources necessary to achieve their vision.

Please click on the names below to learn more about our Founding Investors and Operating Partners.

Founding Investor Executive Board

Kevin Keenley
Fundamental Capital, Managing Principal. Former Questor Partners, Chairman and Interim CEO, Schwinn Cycling & Fitness, Heller Financial.

Dan Lufkin
Founder, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), Questor Partners.

Pacific Community Ventures
Investment and services firm specializing in companies that foster creation and growth of low to moderate income jobs.

RockWood Equity Partners
Private equity firm with a focus on making investments in lower middle market companies.

Founding Investors and Operating Partners

Alex Hehmeyer
President AMH Ventures, former President of Career Choices and California Culinary Academy, Managing Director of Richard C. Blum & Associates.

Bill Oldenburg
EVP Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. Former Levi Strauss executive.

Bob Puette
Private investor, former President Apple USA, Centigram Communications, Netframe Systems, former executive Hewlett-Packard, former Cisco Board Member.

Brad Barnhorn
Former CEO, Fantasia Fresh Juice Company.

Chad Rogers
Fundamental Capital, Associate. Former interim CFO Aliph, Intertrust Technologies, Harris Williams & Company.

Charlie Walker
Former President, Cadant, Inc. Director SRAM. Founder, Allstate Venture Capital, Hambrecht & Quist Late Stage Private Equity.

Chris Mumford
Former Managing Director, Questor Partners, CFO, Arcata Group.

The David B. Gold Foundation
San Francisco based charitable foundation.

Don Reinke
Partner, Reed Smith. Former Partner Crosby Heafey, Managing Partner Bay Venture Counsel.

Emily Luchetti
Private Investor, Executive Pastry Chef Farallon restaurant.

George Birdsong
CEO SpringBoard Advisors. Founder, Systems Partners.

Jim Drury
Chairman and CEO of BenefitStreet, Inc. Previously Baxter International and Abbot Labs.

Jim Reynolds
Private investor, former Partner of Fayez Sarofim & Company.

Julio Deulofeu
Former President DDB Needham Retail ad agency.

John Hansen
President of JH Partners, a San Francisco based private equity firm.

John Kingery
Former CEO, Dominion Capital Management. Former President, Oacis Healthcare Systems, Texcel Corporation, Raytheon Medical Equipment division.

Kent Romanoff
Founder of management consulting firm Romanoff Consulting.

Mel Stuckey
CEO, CEOJumpstart. Former Chairman and CEO, Fourth Shift Corporation. President, Computer Peripherals Inc. (CPI). Senior executive roles with Control Data Corp., IBM.

Michael Hexner
Founder and former CEO and Chairman, Wheel Works, Inc.

Nitin Mehta
President Mehta & Company, Inc. Former General Partner Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners (now Lightspeed). Former McKinsey & Company.

Peter Luchetti
Managing Director, GFP Advisors. Former Bank of America executive.

Peter Molloy
Former CEO, Farmhouse Foods Company. Former Nestle Corporation executive. Visiting Lecturer Haas School of Business – UC Berkeley.

Rich McNally
Former President, PlumpJack, Armani Exchange. EVP, Banana Republic. Senior executive roles with The Gap and Bloomingdale’s.

Skip Folds
Former Ariba Software executive, Silicon Graphics (SGI).

Steve Gold
Founder, Sustainable Grant Making Partners.

Vicki Willock
Founder Willock Partners, Former KPMG Corporate Finance, Chase Manhattan.