Jeff Samberg

Jeff Samberg is currently managing director at Acadia Woods Partners. Previously he was vice president, corporate strategy of PeopleSoft Inc., vice president, business development of Wily Technology, and an Entrepreneur-In-Residence of Greylock Partners. He received his M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and his B.A., with high honors, in economics from Princeton University.

Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons is currently Director of Research at Purchase Capital.  In this role, Mr. Lyons focuses on due diligence, financial modeling, general research, and assisting portfolio companies with operational matters.  From 2010 to 2016, Mr. Lyons was a buy-side consultant specializing in global macro-economic research.  During this period, Mr. Lyons worked with numerous institutional asset managers.  Between 2001 and 2010, Mr. Lyons was a US interest rate bond and derivatives trader at Deutsche Bank and Citigroup.  At both firms, Mr. Lyons’ specialty was in global macro-economic trends and their impacts on the financial markets with a subspecialty in inflation and US inflation linked bonds and derivatives.  Mr. Lyons holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Nicholas J. Singer

Nicholas J. Singer

Nicholas J. Singer has over 20 years of experience in finance and investments and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Purchase Capital. He is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of United Parks, Chairman of IntegriCo Composites, the Chairman of OWYN (Only What You Need), a Board Member of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, a Trustee of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and a member of the James Madison Council at the Library of Congress.

 From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Singer was the Co-Founder and Co-Managing Member of Standard General, an SEC registered investment advisor which managed over $1 billion of assets during his tenure. Prior to that, he was a Founding Partner of Cyrus Capital Partners, a Principal at Och-Ziff Capital Management, and an Analyst in High Yield Trading and in the Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs & Co. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A.S. in Electrical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Doug Fox - Chief Executive Officer

Doug Fox is the CEO of IntegriCo Composites. In this role Fox develops and oversees all aspects of business operations at IntegriCo. Fox has previously held several leadership positions in the railroad industry including Senior Vice President at Stella-Jones Corporation where he developed initial US business acquisitions in 2005 and continued to secure an acquisition each year for the next ten years. Fox’s business acumen propelled Stella-Jones Corporation from a single plant operation to a multi-plant enterprise. His other prior leadership positions include Vice President of Operations at Progress Rail Canada overseeing all Canadian operations. This position included monitoring manufacturing facilities such as the Railway wheel shop, Trackwork shop, Transit and Railcar repair. Aside from his leadership roles, Fox also spent 30 years in the railway industry working in design construction and maintenance functions. In his position as General Manager at Canadian Pacific Railway, Fox participated in two major railway expansions involving $500 million Capital projects for both overland and tunnel construction. At the end of his time at Canadian Pacific, Fox was responsible for Supply Chain Management of the railroad’s engineering spend of $600 million a year. Fox holds an MBA from Richard Ivey School of Business and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from McGill University.