Sequoya Borgman is the Founder and CEO of Borgman Capital, a Milwaukee-based Independent Sponsor platform with offices spanning Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Portland, and South Florida. A CPA who spent nearly two decades advising buyers and sellers at RSM and KPMG before founding Borgman Capital in 2017, he has since completed more than 20 acquisitions without ever raising a traditional fund, building a network of retail investors that has kept every subsequent deal oversubscribed. He also founded Pass the Hat, a platform giving accredited investors direct access to deals once reserved for institutions.

John Cannon is the Founding Partner of Spring Rock Capital, a Chicago-based investment platform he launched in 2009 to back companies across security, life safety, defense technology, and niche manufacturing, now with eleven portfolio companies spanning private equity and venture capital. A former Goldman Sachs analyst who spent the next decade investing across Waud Capital, American Capital Strategies, and Silver Point Capital, he moved his family to Hawaii in 2009 to run Alert Alarm Hawaii as CEO for seven years before returning to Chicago to invest full-time with the operator's perspective he says he could only have gained in the chair.

Kelvin Harrylall is the Founder & CEO of Harrylall Industrial Holdings Group, a platform he built in 2018 to acquire and operate precision CNC machine shops, and President of its first acquisition, Byford Machine-Tool in Valley Mills, Texas. A mechanical engineer who spent more than fourteen years at Keyence selling machine vision and measurement technology on factory floors, he earned his CM&AA, spent eight years building toward a deal, and closed Byford in 2026, taking the operating seat himself as he works to assemble a group of shops serving the oil and gas, energy, aerospace, and defense sectors.

Tamar Schreiber-Daniel is the Founder & CEO of Liv Brands, a Philadelphia-based Independent Sponsor platform focused on apparel, consumer, and garment manufacturing acquisitions in the lower-middle market. She brings over two decades of operating experience, including founding and selling Tuxe and acquiring J'envie in 2025, and partners with PE firms, searchers, and family offices as Operating Partner, Board Member, or Interim CEO on deals involving apparel brands, wholesale and DTC businesses, and contract manufacturing.

Kevin McAllister is the Founder & Managing Partner of Access Holdings, a Baltimore-based private equity firm that spent seven years as an Independent Sponsor before raising its first institutional fund in 2020. The firm focuses on essential services businesses with enduring market demand and today manages over $2.3 billion in AUM across a concentrated portfolio of nine platforms.

Jack Vander Leeuw is the Founder & Managing Partner of Token Capital Group, a Charlotte-based Independent Sponsor focused on the intersection of demand-resilient businesses and AI-driven operational transformation. Token Capital Group targets platform acquisitions in the $20–75M enterprise value range.