Investors, founders
& enterprise leaders.

Christian Gammill

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Investment and thesis lead across NXP’s fund platforms, with a path from pharma bench chemistry through IBM, XPRIZE, Technicolor Ventures, and Industrious Ventures. 2026 GCV Top 50 Emerging Leader in Venture Capital.

Camden McRae

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Co-founder of NXP and full GP across Cultivate Next and Grow Together. Built the industry-capital model with Christian — a founder-first operator who partners closely with companies from first check through scale.

Brooke Boucaut

Partner · GP, CXF

Leads consumer and packaged-goods sourcing from a deep CPG background — from family snack manufacturing through Innosight and Rocana Ventures. Backs founders in the corners of food and ag where venture capital is structurally underserved.

Matthew Murch

Vice President

Runs Grow Together’s operating cadence and diligence workflow. Two decades across strategy, investing and venture capital, pairing valuation modeling with a cross-sector thematic lens on where food, ag and health converge.

Mark Linao

Head of Growth & Portfolio Impact

Sharpens what makes a company acquisition-ready. A founder-focused investor with a path from Raytheon and Amazon through Technicolor Ventures. GP of the Progression Fund and NXP’s bridge between portfolio and corporate.

James Conlon

Venture Partner · AI

Former GP at Bullpen Capital and founder of Vera AI. Applies probabilistic thinking — sharpened through a career at the professional poker table — to how NXP evaluates AI and enabling technology across every vertical.

Tristan Butt

Venture Partner

Food, FMCG & Retail

CEO, board director and investor with 25+ years across food & beverage, FMCG, retail and e-commerce. Senior roles at Unilever, Mars, L’Oréal, Amazon, Woolworths and Kerry Foods — full P&L accountability across $3B+ in revenue.

Roberto Ayala

Venture Partner · Corporate Innovation

Launched Prisma Ventures, Ulta Beauty’s corporate venture arm, closing 12 investments across AI, consumer and wellness. Previously led Strategy & Business Development inside Schneider Electric’s Digital Buildings business. Partners with C-suites on build-partner-invest-acquire calls.

Adam Lurie

Founder Coach

Coaches ambitious founders through the messiest inflections of company-building. Co-founded Based (a web3 social platform that pivoted into Winslow) and Creator Rising; earlier a Senior Associate at Next 10 Ventures investing in the creator economy.

Charles J. Ryan, MD

Strategic Advisor

Biotechnology & Medicine

Internationally recognized GU oncologist who led development of abiraterone, now the standard of care in prostate cancer. Former CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering; 240+ peer-reviewed publications.

Tim McAfee

Strategic Advisor

Food & Agriculture

Founder of Visionary Vegetables with 25+ years in produce. Chipotle Produce Supplier of the Year (2022) and Sustainability Award (2023). Board member of the Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement — a working operator’s read on the grower economy.

Igino Cafiero

Strategic Advisor

Farm Robotics & Autonomy

Co-founder and CEO of Bear Flag Robotics, the autonomous-tractor company acquired by John Deere in 2021 and run as an independent subsidiary through 2025. Y Combinator W18. Deep pattern-match across physical AI, robotics, and agriculture.

Jim Lactaoen

Strategic Advisor

Innovation & Consumer Strategy

28 years at Coca-Cola across sustainability, innovation and franchise leadership — most recently VP & GM for Sustainability and VP of the Global Freestyle Innovation Center. Now Founder & CEO of Monarch Capital Ventures.

James Saretta

Strategic Advisor

Retail Strategy & AI · JB Hi-Fi

Group Strategy Director at JB Hi-Fi, Australia’s dominant consumer-electronics retailer. Previously Partner at Ernst & Young and Director at Capgemini. A live operator’s read on how AI, data and commerce are reshaping retail at national scale.

Neil Rafer

Strategic Advisor

AI-First Commerce & Venture

Strategy co-founder of EverythingMachines, building infrastructure so brands are discovered and selected by LLMs and agents. Partner at Cloudery. Prior CEO of PANTASTIC; earlier senior roles at Nanigans, Zemanta/Outbrain and MyBlogLog.

Al Guerrero

Strategic Advisor

Venture Banking & Capital Formation

Managing Director, Venture Banking at Stifel Bank; previously Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank across LA and the Southwest. Co-founder and GP of Technicolor Ventures and former SVP New Ventures / COO at Technicolor Digital Productions.