Meet the team.
Our team provides operational depth to founders navigating the inflection point from early traction to structured growth. We bring experience scaling revenue organizations from $0 to $5B ARR.
Mike Gamson
Prior to co-founding Permanent Capital Ventures, Mike had a 20+ year career as an operator and investor. Most recently, Mike served as CEO of Evozyne, an AI biotechnology company that aims to create novel proteins to solve long-standing challenges in therapeutics and sustainability.
Jason Duboe
Prior to co-founding Permanent Capital Ventures, Jason had careers as both an operator and an institutional investor. He started his career at Summit Partners, where he focused on infrastructure and application venture capital software investments.
Jessie Abrams
Prior to joining Permanent Capital Ventures, Jessie served in both operating and investing roles. Jessie launched her early stage investing career at Valor Equity Partners, an operationally focused venture and growth equity firm.
Wenz Xing
Prior to joining Permanent Capital Ventures, Wenz served in both operating and investing roles with an enterprise software focus. He was an Associate at Emergence Capital where he invested in Series A and B enterprise software companies.
Brian Frank
Brian is a Partner at Permanent Capital Ventures focusing on platform, investing, and operating support for our founders. His operating experience spans industries, functions, and growth stages: he started as a corporate attorney, then moved into finance, and finally sales. He ran Revenue Operations at LinkedIn, leading a global team of 1,300 across GTM functions as revenue grew from $75 million to over $6 billion. Later, he was COO at Cameo, leading all GTM functions, and founded Farm-Hand.AI, an agricultural AI robotics company.
Ivaldo Basso
Ivaldo’s thirty years of alternative investment experience includes having served as Chief Financial Officer of GCM Grosvenor, an asset management firm with approximately $70 billion in assets under management.
Rosi Bodnar
Prior to joining Permanent Capital Ventures, Rosi built over 20 years of Executive Assistant experience supporting C-suite leaders across investment banking, internet, legal technology, and biotechnology industries.
Nakesha Jasper
Nakesha Jasper is an Executive Assistant at Permanent Capital, where she supports the firm's leadership team and day-to-day operations.