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Properly grown.

Gary Kucher brings more than 25 years across private equity, venture capital, and securities, and holds FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 licenses. He has founded and led ventures spanning media, technology, advertising, and entertainment, including founder and senior principal roles at the Auspicious Fund and leadership at Auspicious Capital. His advisory work has covered acquisitions, stock offerings, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, and joint ventures for both financial and strategic buyers. He sets the firm's strategic direction and chairs its most complex, high-stakes client engagements. He is founder of the nonprofit, Align AI Foundation.

Dr. Joseph Geraci is a mathematician and medical scientist specializing in machine learning, with PhD and graduate degrees in mathematics from the University of Toronto and three post-doctoral programs across medicine and AI. He is co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and CTO of NetraMark and has served as Chief Scientific Officer of Nurosene, developing novel machine-learning methods — including small-data and quantum machine-learning techniques — applied to oncology, neuroscience, and other complex systems. He is recognized for technology that stratifies complex populations into actionable subgroups and has presented at major scientific conferences.

Mitchell Browne is a finance executive and a finance lead for the Auspicious Fund, with deep experience building and optimizing finance, accounting, and corporate-development functions across public and private companies. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of eResonate Media and as Director of Corporate Finance at AECOM — running budgeting and FP&A for a 90,000-employee public firm — with earlier finance roles at Hulu and Yahoo and an investment-banking start at Wells Fargo Securities. His consulting practice spans buy- and sell-side M&A, early-stage fundraising, and ERP implementations for technology and entertainment companies. A Claremont McKenna College graduate who has held the FINRA Series 7, he leads financial-model design, returns analysis, and capital planning.

Ryan Kieffer is an operations and partnerships executive with over a decade scaling technology, AI, and entertainment ventures. He is currently Vice President of Operations & Partnerships at AE Studio, an AI development firm, and previously served as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Metaverse Officer, and business-development lead at TerraZero Technologies — where he helped facilitate BIGG Digital Assets' acquisition of TerraZero, generated over $1M in first-year revenue, and built partnerships with organizations including PwC, Plug and Play Ventures, and Napster. His focus spans operations, commercialization, and converting early-stage concepts into revenue-generating partnerships. A University of Southern California alumnus, he oversees delivery and the firm's operating and partnership architecture.

Allen Bryant is an investor and finance professional, currently fund manager at the Auspicious Fund, where he leads investment diligence and portfolio strategy. He was formerly a partner at Knightsbridge, investing in early-stage software companies alongside co-investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Bezos Expeditions. Earlier he was an investment professional at Palladium Equity Partners (~$3B AUM), executing transactions such as the $535M acquisition of Spice World, and worked in consumer and retail investment banking at Credit Suisse, supporting over $20B in deals including the $14.3B sale of Keurig Green Mountain. He provides hands-on diligence, fundraising, and strategic support to growth-stage companies.