Kevin M. Rendino
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Rendino has served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager of the Company since March 2017. He has served as a member of the Company's Board since June 2016. Mr. Rendino is a financial services leader with three decades of Wall Street experience in capital markets, value investing and global equity markets. For over twenty years, Mr. Rendino worked on one fund, Basic Value Fund, with a consistent Graham and Dodd focus, at the same firm, BlackRock/Merrill Lynch. He was the value team leader, overseeing 11 funds and $13 billion in assets, a member of BlackRock’s Leadership Committee and a frequent contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. For the entirety of his money management career, Mr. Rendino ranked in top quartile and beat competitor average and SPX by over 100 basis points. He received numerous Lipper awards for Investment Excellence during his tenure. Since December 2023, Mr. Rendino has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., a portfolio company in which we have an investment. From March 2019 to April 2021, Mr. Rendino served as a member of the Board of Directors of Synacor, Inc., a portfolio company in which we had an investment. From November 2017 to August 2019, Mr. Rendino served as a member of the Board of Directors of TheStreet, Inc., a portfolio company in which we had an investment. Mr. Rendino graduated from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College (B.S.).
Daniel B. Wolfe Ph.D.
President, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Wolfe has served as President of the Company since January 2009, as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer since July 2016, and as Portfolio Manager and a member of Company’s Board since March 2017. He served in varying other positions within 180's predecessor company, Harris & Harris Group, Inc., since 2004. Mr. Wolfe led efforts to build an alternative investment platform within 180's predecessor company, including PIPEs, publicly traded securities and debt. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of multiple privately held and publicly traded companies. From September 2021 to December 2023, Mr. Wolfe served on the board of Parabellum Acquisition Corp., a blank check company sponsored by a company in which we had an investment. Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, he served as a consultant to Nanosys, Inc., CW Group and to Bioscale, Inc. while completing his graduate studies at Harvard University. He graduated from Rice University (B.A.), where his honors included the Zevi and Bertha Salsburg Memorial Award in Chemistry and the Presidential Honor Roll, and from Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D., Chemistry), where he was a NSF Predoctoral Fellow.