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Mick Eddy Linkedin

Co-founder of Ethos

Mick Eddy is a co-founder of Ethos. He founded Night Owl Ventures, which has invested across all stages across multiple sectors. He is known for his broad range of strategic relationships.

Prior to Night Owl, Mick was an early employee at a pioneering Augmented Reality company and ultimately played an integral role in its sale of intellectual property to Microsoft (MSFT) in 2013 that yielded a 9-figure exit.

Mick graduated from the University of Southern California and studied at the London School of Economics. Mick serves as an advisor and mentor to numerous companies. He lives in San Francisco.

Justin Ho Linkedin

Partner

Justin Ho is the former co-founder and CEO of rideOS, an enterprise software co powering mobility-as-a-service technologies for a variety of dispatch, optimization, and routing use cases. rideOS raised $34M of capital from Sequoia and next47, before Gopuff acquired rideOS for ~$175M. At Gopuff, the inventor of the instant needs category, Justin led a team of ~150 technologists to build products to serve Gopuff’s delivery partners, operations associates, and increase the company’s profitability. Prior to rideOS, Justin led the ideation and creation of Uber’s self-driving and mapping business units. Justin has also worked for Citadel as an investor, managing a $1B long/short equity portfolio focusing on transportation and automotive stocks, and at Goldman as an investment banker.

Justin is passionate about doing good through serving people, and is actively advising other entrepreneurs and investing in start-ups at every stage of growth. He serves as an advisor for Humanity Forward, a non-profit bipartisan org to address our nation’s biggest problems, the USC Credit Union, Justin and his wife Melody are avid musicians, serving the community through playing violin and cello for Reality San Francisco.

Anthony Zepponi Linkedin

Investor

Anthony joined Ethos in 2021 and focuses on investing across early to late-stage businesses. Prior to joining Ethos, Anthony worked at ICONIQ Capital – a premier growth-stage tech VC with investments including Datadog, Zoom, Robinhood, Uber, Airbnb, Snowflake, Crowdstrike and Procore amongst others.

Before ICONIQ, Anthony worked as a valuation consultant at Frank, Rimerman + Co. – an accounting and consulting firm specializing in venture capital, where he was primarily focused on early to pre-IPO stage startups in B2B SaaS, as well as numerous other industries in technology and beyond. Anthony also worked as an investment management associate at an RIA acquired by First Republic.

Anthony graduated with a BA in Economics and English from Occidental College, where he was the captain of the rugby team and was a mentor for Play Rugby USA, a non-profit focused on developing youth through rugby. Anthony currently sits on the St. Anthony’s Young Professionals Council in San Francisco, where volunteers to help combat the crisis facing the most vulnerable population in the city.

Phil Taylor Linkedin

Strategic Advisor, Venture Partner

Phil Taylor joins Ethos as a GTM advisor specializing in sales, partnerships, and Go-To-Market initiatives. He brings eight years of experience alternating between startups ranging from seed (pre PMF) to the enterprise, at Microsoft.

As the first revenue hire at an HR-analytics startup, he helped the company raise their series A and landed their first enterprise contracts with companies like Novartis and PG&E. Additionally, he managed strategic partnerships at Microsoft with companies like SAP, Adobe, and Asana and led various initiatives including product integrations, co-marketing efforts, and strategic Cloud alliances. He also brings corporate development experience from Guru, where he led partnerships, product integrations, and Cloud programs marketplace projects.

While at M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, he assisted with deal diligence, partnership efforts with early-stage focused VCs, and executive connections for VC partner portfolio companies.

He is incredibly passionate about enterprise productivity, developer and infrastructure tools, and what the future holds for the intersection of AI in these spaces.

Kate Reilly Linkedin

Chief Operating Officer

Kate Reilly is a seasoned operations and marketing professional, whose 28 years of experience lends tremendous value to private fund managers as they deliver attractive and unique investment opportunities to high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors.

Kate serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Ethos. She provides leadership, vision and compliance to the strategic planning process, stimulates new ideas, and evaluates the financial impact of new business opportunities. Kate works closely with the Ethos Executive Team and trusted 3rd party providers to oversee the venture fund operations and investor relations, policies and work flows. She is relied upon to propose streamlined and effective ways of doing business to minimize risk, improve operational efficiencies and financial results, and provide transparency to investors.

Previously, Kate served as Chief Operating Officer at PPB Capital Partners LLC and was instrumental in the firm’s success. With the firm since its inception in 2007, she was an integral and driving force in the development and growth of PPB’s multi billion dollar alternative, hedge fund and private equity funds platform.

In her free time, Kate enjoys spending time with her husband and son (much of which is spent on the lacrosse and soccer fields). Kate is an avid tennis player, golfer and yogi.

John Andreini Linkedin

Co-founder of Ethos

John is a co-founder of ethos where he leads both early & growth stage funds. Prior investments include Spotify Alector, Virgin America, and Palantir to name a few that went public. Prior experience includes being GP of venture capital, private equity, and venture capital funds.

John has a wonderful wife and 3 kids. In addition to spending time with them, he enjoys bike riding, golfing, and mountain towns.

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Glenn Myles Linkedin

Partner, Strategic Advisor

Glenn Myles is a leader in the financial community and has built a 35-year track record in which he executed nearly $35 billion of transactions as an investor, principal, and advisor. He has engaged in significant transactions in the real estate, energy, and media sectors with a variety of operating companies.

Glenn has a strong commitment to philanthropic activities, for the last five years has acted as co-host of Michael Milkin's Cancer Foundation's, annual Hamptons gala fundraiser. He served as a board member for The Prostate Cancer Foundation, The Grameen Foundation, Planet Finance, Project Hope, Walt Frazier Youth Foundation, and the March of Dimes. Glenn was a member of the Young Presidents Organization and was a director of the Fairchild Corporation.