Jay Hass

Jay is a Generalist Partner whose responsibilities include the firm’s finance and administrative operations and strategic business initiatives, as well as sourcing and supporting new business incubations and portfolio investments.

Jay joined AlleyCorp from RRE Ventures, where he served as a partner and remains a strategic advisor. Earlier in his career Jay was a Managing Director at Brown Brothers Harriman, and previously spent several years in national political campaign management. Jay graduated with a BA from Princeton University and completed the CFA Institute’s Investment Management program at Harvard Business School.

Jay is CEO of Ionic Recording Company; serves as a director of Department Studios, Bridgetown Holdings Ltd. and Bridgetown 2 Holdings Ltd.; is a board observer of Silvertree; and is a strategic advisor to Raftr, Inc., Decode_M and the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation. He is a former director of the J.P. Morgan China Region Fund Inc. and Cheetah Korea Value Fund, and is a board member emeritus of the Tory Burch Foundation and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Jay has completed 22 marathons, including multiple finishes at Boston and Death Valley.

Brenton Fargnoli, MD

Brenton leads AlleyCorp’s healthcare investments and incubations as managing partner of the AlleyCorp healthcare fund. Prior to AlleyCorp, Brenton was an executive at Flatiron Health. He worked previously at J.P. Morgan and Blue Cross & Blue Shield. He is a practicing physician, board certified in Internal Medicine.

Brenton completed his residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, earning his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School.

Diana Health, Fund for Public Health NYC, OMNY Health, Orange Grove Bio, Pearl Health, Positive Development, Reside Health and Transcend Therapeutics, Thyme Care and Vori Health.

Marshall Porter

Marshall is managing partner of the General Tech fund at AlleyCorp, focusing his time on early stage investments and incubations. Prior to Alleycorp, Marshall most recently was the US CEO at Gympass. Previously, he served in senior leadership roles at Spring and Gilt Groupe.

Marshall holds an M.Litt from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and with a BA summa cum laude from the Honors College at TCU.

Tanya Beja

Tanya is managing partner of AlleyCorp’s social impact fund, leading AlleyCorp’s investments and incubations in the social impact space. Tanya has extensive experience at the intersection of venture capital, venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. Prior to AlleyCorp, she worked at Blue Marble Microinsurance, Robin Hood Foundation, and IGNIA Partners.

Tanya holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BA summa cum laude from Tufts University.

Wendy Tsu

Wendy joined in 2017 when the team was just Kevin Ryan and Alison Hill. She joined as the first Partner where she focused her time on AlleyCorp’s early stage investments and incubation methodologies for new ventures in over a third of their portfolio. She currently leads up and focuses on Collaborative Foundership at AlleyCorp which is how we have founded companies like Nomad Health, Transcend, and a couple stealth companies.

Wendy graduated with an MBA from Stanford Business School and B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley. In her spare time, she serves as a guest lecturer for Harvard and Stanford Business School.

NewCos, Meetup, RippleMatch (Series A), Properly (Series B), Mosaic (Series A), Smallhold (Series A), Nara Organics (Series A), and more

Susannah Shipton

Susannah is a Partner at AlleyCorp, focused on general tech investments with an emphasis on ecommerce, marketplaces and consumer-facing software and products. Susannah also spends significant time with AlleyCorp incubations and early portfolio companies in their earliest stages.

Prior to AlleyCorp, Susannah was Director of Strategy & Operations at Artsy, where she was on the leadership team for 5 years from series A through series E. Susannah graduated from Princeton, where she was captain of the women’s varsity rowing team.

Florencia Herra Vega

Floh is the CTO of AlleyCorp’s Montreal-based development team, supporting AlleyCorp’s incubations as their technical right hand.

Floh was previously Director of Architecture & Platform at WorkJam, Co-Founder and CTO of Peerio Technologies.

Jorge Colindres

Jorge is a Venture Lead at AlleyCorp, where he works on incubation, identifying new investment opportunities, and supporting portfolio companies. Before AlleyCorp, he worked as a software engineer at early-stage technology companies in the New York area.

Jorge graduated with an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was a Consortium Fellow. He also completed his undergraduate studies with high honors at Boston University.

Jay Kao

Jay Kao is Partner & General Counsel at AlleyCorp. Jay hails from the D. E. Shaw group, where she was Vice President and Counsel for the last 10 years. Jay is an avid angel investor and advisor to social entrepreneurs, and is an Executive Board Member at Birthright Africa and a Board Member at AirTrain. Jay holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Jeffrey De Flavio, MD

Jeff supports the growth of AlleyCorp’s healthcare practice as a co-founder and mentor for AlleyCorp’s founding CEOs and broader network, focusing on a range of projects across maternity care, digital therapeutics, and behavioral change – with an emphasis on pushing current thinking on the relationship between social forces and healthcare. 

Jeff has dedicated his career to broadening access to healthcare, particularly for the most vulnerable patients. His first company, Groups, has become the leading provider of value-based opiate addiction treatment. Launched while he was still a medical student, Groups was conceived as a space for patients to heal and discover common solutions to their shared problems. Having completed a 2019 growth round led by Kaiser Permanente, Optum Ventures and Leerink/SVB, Groups has become an important forcing mechanism for our collective acknowledgement and action towards one of the most troubling systemic healthcare issues facing our country.

Jeff is also a co-founder of Tempest, a holistic alcohol recovery program founded by Holly Whitaker that brings feminine-centric care to people poorly served by traditional addiction treatment.

Bill Georges

Bill Georges was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. In his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Bill was responsible for developing and overseeing the Company’s corporate strategy, expanding its business development and leading the Strategic Initiatives Group, which develops and implements key business programs. He also led the Company’s Enterprise Project Management Office and Business Process Improvement functions, and managed the Company’s venture fund investments. Prior to his nearly 15 years at Horizon Blue Cross, Bill was Vice President and Senior Analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities, where as a sell-side analyst, he covered the managed care industry. Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in Economics from Brown University, a Juris Doctor degree from Villanova University and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michelle Garland

Michelle is the Founder and CEO of Soul Search Partners, a boutique firm of headhunters specializing in building the CXO teams for Seed-to-VC-to-PE backed digital health companies.

Michelle is also a partner at AlleyCorp, an early stage venture fund and incubator launched by Kevin Ryan, (Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, MongoDB and Zola) where she will seed companies and invest check sizes of $1-3M.

Michelle built her reputation as the leading headhunter for digital health companies at Daversa Partners where she spent 19 years growing the practice.

Prior to Daversa Partners, Michelle spent a decade at Dow Jones for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones International. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.

Abe Murray

Abe leads Alley Robotics Ventures (ARV), a separate robotics and automation fund unaffiliated with AlleyCorp. Kevin Ryan and Eliot Horowitz (Kevin’s co founder at MongoDB) are initially the sole limited partners.

Prior to ARV, Abe led AlleyCorp’s robotics and AI efforts, and remains an advisor to AlleyCorp.

Previously, Abe was product and engineering leader in various roles at Alphabet, where he worked on Android, built the Verily Life Science product teams, and built the Google Research product management team. Before this he founded a Web 2.0 startup and worked on unmanned aerial vehicles in the defense industry.

Abe holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Rhode Island. Prior to all of this, he dropped out of high school to run fishing boats and factories in the family aquaculture business.

Michael Maccariello

Michael leads Talent at AlleyCorp helping to identify, attract, and engage with entrepreneurs, investors, operators, and advisors. Michael has a strong passion for helping to encourage and better the entrepreneurship ecosystem in NYC and beyond.

Prior to joining AlleyCorp, Michael led GTM Recruitment for MongoDB helping to scale the organization from a small private company to a public company with revenues over $600MM a year.

Sercan Ozcan

Sercan serves as a Financial Controller at Alleycorp, where he is responsible for the finance and accounting operations.
Prior to joining Alleycorp, he was the founder and CIO of Mergen Capital Management. Earlier in his career, he worked at Brown Brothers Harriman, Nomura and Is Investment Securities.

Sercan holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School and a BSc degree from Bogazici University.

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Jane Suh

Jane Suh is an Investor on the AlleyCorp Healthcare team and spends her time on incubation, identifying new investment opportunities, and supporting portfolio companies. She was previously a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the a16z Bio Fund, backing entrepreneurs at the intersection of healthcare, bio and tech. She was on the founding team of the Bio/Healthcare GTM Network group and advised portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy, business development, sales and product marketing.

She was trained as a stem cell biologist, and combines her scientific expertise with her experiences in startups, finance and strategic partnerships to transform companies at the intersection of healthcare, bio and tech.

Omar Njie

Omar is a third-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and has demonstrated commitment to healthcare innovation and addressing health inequities. Omar will spend his time at AlleyCorp as an Associate focused on incubation, identifying new investment opportunities, and supporting portfolio companies in the healthcare space.

Prior to matriculating to Mount Sinai he worked as a healthcare consultant for Deloitte and was an early employee at Clover Health. He has consulted for various healthcare startups and most recently worked as a Venture Fellow for Rock Health.

Joseph Krause

Joseph is a Material Sciences Associate at AlleyCorp, where he focuses on sourcing, investing, and incubating future materials science companies with an emphasis on nanotechnology. He is a PhD student at Rice University in NanoEngineering, and has conducted research at the US Army Research Lab building novel neuromorphic computing chips for advanced army applications. He is an advocate for scientific entrepreneurship, and is focused on helping AlleyCorp become a leader in this space.

Outside of work, Joseph serves in the US Army National Guard as a CBRN specialist, responsible for ensuring unit readiness against chemical, biological, and nuclear attacks. He is a two-time honor graduate and has held leadership positions throughout his career. He cherishes the opportunity to serve our nation.

Najib Jai

Najib is an Operator in Residence on the AlleyCorp Healthcare team. His passion lies at the intersection of tech-enabled healthcare services, health equity, and patient-centric innovations. In his role he supports current healthcare incubations and is developing his own incubation that he will go on to co-found with AlleyCorp’s support.

Prior to AlleyCorp, Najib completed his MD/MBA training at the University of Chicago and has experiences across startups, private equity, and most recently was leading specialty care strategy as a Director on the Population Health team at Oak Street Health and RubiconMD.

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Alison Hill

Alison Hill is a top-level Executive/Personal Assistant with more than twenty years experience supporting some of New York’s most prestigious executives at GILT, Cole Haan, GUCCI, Citicorp, and Cushman & Wakefield. As a result of many years working alongside, and learning from, some of New York’s best and brightest, the scope of Alison’s responsibilities have expanded far beyond that of a traditional Executive Assistant role. When she isn’t glued to a laptop, she enjoys spending time at the beach, exploring other countries/cultures, and relentlessly trying to develop a passion for running.

K Oppus Ganade

Kym touches all public related issues for any company in AlleyCorp’s portfolio that’s transitioning from idea to “click’ and mortar. Using culture as working tool, he implements company head’s visions for their respective emerging company.

Along with a past career as a dancer, Kym has designed and built facilities nationally and internationally for MongoDB, Gilt, Business Insider, amongst others.

Michelle Guengue

Michelle is the Office Manager for AlleyCorp’s New York office. She handles the day to day operations of the AlleyCorp office. That can include anything from vendor management to onboarding depending on the day. Previously she worked for Vewd Software and Mosaic Sales Solutions before joining the AlleyCorp team. Michelle was born and raised in Jersey City and has a BA from Rutgers University.