Green Visor Capital

Simon Yoo is a venture capitalist, and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Green Visor Capital. Based in San Francisco, he and his colleagues are on a mission to help re-invent the financial services industry for the 21st century — one startup at a time. The Green Visor team looks to back passionate entrepreneurs, in the US and abroad, that challenge the status quo — to better promote inclusion, transparency and efficiency — through the innovative use of technology. Simon received his MBA from Cornell University and BA from Kenyon College, where he also served as a Trustee for six years.

Prior to joining Green Visor Capital as a General Partner, Joe was the Chairman and CEO of Visa Inc., one of the world’s largest, most recognizable and valuable brands. He is credited with transforming Visa into one of the most preeminent organizations by strengthening Visa’s position as the leading global payments technology company. Even though much of Joe’s tenure as head of Visa overlapped with the Global Financial Crisis, Visa still successfully completed its initial public offering in 2008, which was then the largest in the history of the United States. Furthermore, under Joe, Visa consistently exceeded analysts’ expectations for each earnings period. The financial community praised the resilience of the company’s business model, diverse product set, and senior leadership’s ongoing commitment to expense management. Joe’s benchmark as a leader is reflected in Visa’s stock price performance, which was up more than 250% during his time as CEO and Chairman.

Rich Marin has over 37 years of experience as a finance industry executive and long-time financial entrepreneur. Rich is an executive in residence at Green Visor. After 23 years with Bankers Trust, ending his tenure as a member of the Management Committee and Vice Chairman of BT Alex Brown, Rich became Chairman and CEO of Deutsche Asset Management, then the 4th largest asset manager in the U.S. Rich went on to be a founder and partner of Beehive Ventures, an early stage venture firm focused on financial services and new media that has generated a 4X net return to date with more being currently harvested. Rich went on to be Chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns Asset Management, a role which included being responsible for all of Bear Stearns’ venture capital funds and a position as head of the investment committee of 4 venture capital funds with combined asset of approximately $1.5 billion. He was Chairman and CEO of a $3 billion distressed real estate operation, successfully restructuring 22 major projects with over $2 billion in debt. He started and ran Ironwood Global LLC, a distressed mortgage hedge fund. Rich now serves as President and CEO of The New York Wheel, LLC and is a Clinical Professor of Finance at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of a Management, where he teaches and writes about alternative investment management. Rich received his BA and MBA from Cornell University.

Prior to joining Green Visor, Lou was Senior Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus”). Based in Tokyo from 1998 until 2010, Lou built and led Cerberus’s Japan office and was the senior ranking executive in Asia. From 2010 until April of 2014, Lou led Cerberus’s activities in Asia from New York, serving as Chairman of Cerberus Asia Pacific Advisors Ltd. and Senior Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management. Prior to Cerberus, Lou served in senior roles at Angelo Gordon and Co., L.P. and the LeFrak Organization, Inc. Lou began his career at Goldman Sachs & Co. after graduating with his J.D. from Harvard University. Lou earned M.A. and B.A. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, where he now serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Lou is also a board member of the Japan Society.

Michael Walsh has over 13 years of financial services industry experience, including 10 years of institutional investing experience. Prior to joining Green Visor Capital, Michael was a partner and founding member of Lusman Capital Management, a hedge fund that was capitalized with approximately $400 million. His investment experience extends across assets classes (equity, distressed debt, derivatives, convertibles, private investments), industries (financial services, energy, mining, industrials, telecom, healthcare), and geographies (US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Latin American, Asia, Africa.) Michael also spent three years at Citigroup in the Investment Banking Division where he helped raised billions of dollars in equity and debt transactions for financial institutions (banking, insurance, asset management) as well as assisting in M&A advisory work. Michael received his BA in Economics from Harvard College.

As a Venture Partner, Sam will help the Green Visor team assess emerging technologies, work as an adviser to portfolio companies, and mentor young engineers within the group. Before joining Green Visor, Sam was a founding team member and senior engineer of Square, the revolutionary mobile commerce platform and point-of-sale system for small merchants and individuals. Among his many achievements at Square, Sam was responsible for creating the software algorithm that enables the card reading capabilities of all Square devices on iOS and Android phones and tablets. Sam’s efforts helped lead to 7 issued patents and one patent pending. Prior to Square, Sam worked for Boeing as a munitions systems engineer. Sam holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and is a member of the Founder’s 50.

Jim McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, investor, public speaker, and glass blower. Jim is the founder of Mira Digital Publishing, Third Degree Glass Factory, Square, Inc., and LaunchCode, among many others. Jim graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis with dual degrees in Computer Science and Economics.

Ted is the founder and CEO of Cloudstitch, the revolutionary web development platform powered by your office suite. He has a PhD from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he focused on web systems architecture and machine learning. Ted's publication record includes two books on web application architecture, research papers spanning several fields, and two machine learning patents for Google. Prior to MIT, Ted worked at BBN Technologies doing research and development in distributed information processing.