Ownership,
Distinction
& Culture

Mr. Seet is one of our co-founders and has been Chief Executive Officer since our inception in November of 2021. Mr. Seet is also Chairman of RXS Enterprises, LLC, a private investment vehicle. Mr. Seet has been a director, trustee, and/or advisor to numerous private and public companies, including CellPoint Digital, the TED Residency, and CreateTOTALLY. In October 2020, RXS Enterprises led a $687 million take-private bid with Brookfield Special Investments for Iconix Brand Group, a leading brand management company.

Prior to RXS Enterprises, Mr. Seet was Chairman and CEO of Amity Entertainment, an independent film and children’s entertainment company he built in partnership with Angelo, Gordon & Co, a $43 billion alternative investment fund. In 2007, he won an Emmy Award as an Executive Producer of The Big Comfy Couch, a children’s property owned by Amity.

Prior to Amity, Mr. Seet co-founded Qiosk.com, a startup venture with equity financing led by United Business Media, a FTSE 100 company, providing digital distribution of multimedia interactive magazines. Qiosk’s clients include Hearst, Cahners Business Information, Crain Communications, American Lawyer Media, ABP International, Penn Well and CMP Media LLC.

Prior to Qiosk, he was a principal with the Carlyle Group where he initiated and led Carlyle’s entry into Asia and the creation of its first Asian focused private equity funds.

Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Seet was a research associate at the Harvard Business School where he developed and authored numerous teaching case studies on Asian competitive strategy.

Mr. Seet received his S.B. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his doctoral education in molecular genetics at Harvard where he was a Baxter Fellow.

Mr. Riotto is one of our co-founders and has been President since our inception. For over 32 years, Mr. Riotto has been a leader in the global licensing and toy industries. As President of LIMA (International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association 1997-2018), he led the organization from a small US-based association into an international powerhouse with offices and affiliates in 12 different countries and members in more than 35 countries. At the time of his retirement in 2018, LIMA (now Licensing International) was renowned globally as the hub of the licensing industry for education, business connections, industry data and networking opportunities, and was recognized internationally as the authoritative voice of the worldwide licensing industry. Mr. Riotto was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the association and interactions with the Board of Directors which featured the industry’s most prominent executives from around the world.

Prior to joining LIMA, Riotto served as Executive Director of the International Recording Media Association, a global trade group based in Princeton, New Jersey. Previously, he was Executive Director of the Toy Manufacturers of America, Inc. (now The Toy Association), the leading trade association for the global toy industry, based in New York City.

Mr. Riotto graduated from Montclair State University with a B.A. in Business Administration.

Mr. Todrin has recently joined our team as our CFO.  Since 2010, Mr. Todrin has been the President of David Todrin Consulting, the professional services firm he founded to provide CFO services primarily to early-stage companies.  In this capacity, Mr. Todrin has served as CFO and advisor for over 35 companies ranging from $1.0 million Seed capital funded through $100+ million Series C level companies, with global teams ranging from 2-100. He was responsible for accounting; treasury; business modeling; AP; taxes; etc. and built financial processes from the bottom up to ensure management had the information needed for decision making investor inquiries and overall planning.

Prior to that, Mr. Todrin led planning & analysis efforts for public and private companies ranging from $1 million to $2 billion for over 20 years, including Thomson Learning; Scholastic; Bloomberg (via Geller & Associates); Avon Products; and Save the Children.  He has built financial processes from scratch; implemented enterprise-level planning systems; led M&A and Due Diligence efforts.

Mr. Todrin earned his B.S. from Georgetown University, his M.Sc. from Brown University and his MBA in Finance and Accounting from Columbia Business School.  Mr. Todrin held his CPA license form 1990 through 2018.

Ms. Pearce has been a Senior Advisor since our inception.  Ms. Pearce is an attorney specialized in the international fashion/luxury industry.  The law firm Pearce LLP was founded in 2003.

Ms. Pearce serves an international clientele from a base in New York and business presence in Paris.  With 20 years’ in the business, Ms. Pearce offers legal experience, business acumen, industry expertise and the insight of a certified business coach.  

Ms. Pearce has represented numerous designer-founders, many in the sale of his/her company and namesake brand. Notable clients, past and present, include Alexander McQueen, Carolina Herrera, Tomas Meier, Kate Spade, Alexander Wang, Rick Owens, Kanye West, John Hardy and Ann Demeulemeester. 

Ms. Pearce has also represented over 100 creative directors and CEOs, negotiating their engagements with international luxury brands including Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Chloe, Christian Dior, Jimmy Choo, Ralph Lauren, Balmain, Coach, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Vera Wang, Nina Ricci, Schiaparelli and Ferragamo.

Ms. Pearce is on the board of Catholic Guardian Services and is a former board member of Balenciaga.  She is a member of Plum Alley, private investment platform for women-founded companies; The Forum, a U.K. Social Club for business founders; and Salmagundi, a New York arts club founded circa 1871.

Prior to founding Pearce LLP, Ms. Pearce was a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, an entertainment lawyer at two NYC firms for a decade and a clerk for a Federal District Judge in the Southern District of New York. 

Pearce has a law degree from Columbia University, a Certification in Coaching from Columbia Business School/Teachers’ College and a B.A. from Brown University.

Ms. Hazan has been a Senior Advisor since January 2022. Ms. Hazan is a co-Managing Partner of Influence Media Partners, a music catalog acquisition fund. Prior to Influence, Ms. Hazan was General Manager and CFO of Epic Records. At Epic, Ms. Hazan managed all operating divisions for Epic including Finance & Strategic Planning, Accounting, Strategic Marketing (Branding and Licensing), A&R Operations/Admin, Release Planning, IT and HR/People Planning and Development. During her tenure as GM/CFO, Epic increased revenue by over 2.5x and profits by approximately 65%; market share grew from 1.3% when the new team started in 2012 to 4.6% in 2018. Her team structured and negotiated all deals with established artists (including Mariah Carey, DJ Khaled/We The Best, Jennifer Lopez, Future, Meghan Trainor, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Camila Cabello) as well as new and developing acts and labels.

Prior to Epic, Ms. Hazan was General Manager and CFO of RED Music, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Prior to RED, she was CFO of RCA Records.

She has been selected as one of Billboard’s “Top Women in the Music Business” four times.

She received her S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her M.B.A. from The Wharton School.

Ms. Johnson has been a Senior Advisor since our inception. Ms. Johnson is Group Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of Leagas Delaney, an independent global creative communications and branding agency with offices in London, Hamburg, Shanghai, Milan, Los Angeles, and Johannesburg. During her career at Leagas Delaney, Ms. Johnson developed deep expertise in strategy and branding having worked with global brand clients such as Unilever, P&G, adidas, InterContinental Hotels, William Grant, Bosch and Timberland; and luxury brands such as Patek Philippe, LVMH, Harrods, Pictet Group, Porsche, Brown Brothers Harriman, and The Dalmore.

In 2006, Ms. Johnson was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Admiral Group, one of the most successful UK FTSE 100 insurance companies with an international portfolio of companies in Europe and the USA. During her tenure at Admiral, Ms. Johnson was a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees. In 2016, Ms. Johnson took up the role of Non-Exec Director of Admiral’s price comparison site, Confused.com, where she was Chair of Risk and Compliance. She was also a member of the other international price comparison boards of the Admiral Group until their successful sale to RVU in 2020.

Ms. Johnson was awarded an OBE in 2013 for her services to the creative industry and voluntary services recognizing her achievements as a senior female leader and her contribution to the Red Cross.

Ms. Johnson received her BSc in Economics and an MSc in Business Administration from Edinburgh University.

Mr. Klein has been a Senior Advisor since our inception. Mr. Klein is President of Atlas Media Corp, amongst the world’s leading independent producers of award-winning non-fiction content. Atlas’ acclaimed specials and series have become staple programming for such prestigious programming services as Netflix, Discovery Channel, HBO, Travel Channel, National Geographic, Investigation Discovery, MTV, E! Entertainment, Animal Planet, Lifetime, AMC, TLC, A&E, SyFy, Food Network, and History – as well as countless programming services in 100+ countries worldwide. Atlas also produces premium feature documentaries that have won numerous awards at film festivals around the globe before launching theatrically and on services like NBC, IFC, Netflix. For eleven years in a row, Atlas was named to RealScreen Magazine’s prestigious annual “Global 100” list of the most respected and influential providers of non-fiction entertainment in the world.

Mr. Klein has created, written, directed, produced and/or executive-produced series and specials such as HOTEL IMPOSSIBLE (Travel), DR. G: MEDICAL EXAMINER (Discovery Health/TLC), PLAYING WITH FIRE (E!), EPIC WIN (MTV), STALKED: SOMEONE’S WATCHING (ID), BRAINWASHED (Discovery Channel), THE MIND OF A MURDERER (ID), BEHIND THE BASH with Giada De Laurentiis (Food), BREAKING VEGAS (History), and IT CAN HAPPEN TOMORROW (Weather). He wrote & directed the TV movie WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY? (TLC) and the theatrical documentary, MEAT LOAF: IN SEARCH OF PARADISE. He recently produced the acclaimed theatrical documentary BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED with Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Jason Alexander (named on “Top 10 Films” lists by the NY Times, Newsweek, amongst others) which launched to raves at the New York Film Festival before its national theatrical run and Netflix premiere. Mr. Klein is the director of ICAHN: THE RESTLESS BILLIONAIRE which premiered on HBO in February 2022.

Mr. Klein is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, serves on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), and is a founding Board Member of the Nonfiction Producers Association (NPACT).

Mr. Klein graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from SUNY Binghamton with a B.A. in Psychology and Creative Writing.

Chris Michaels is Director of Digital, Communications and Technology at The National Gallery, London. He is a Digital Consultant for Bolton & Quinn and the Haus Der Kunst, Munich. He is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, a Bloomberg Technology Fellow and a Creative Industries Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He was named a 5G Trailblazer by Ericsson in 2021. He has acted as an advisor for the Arts Council England, the Singapore National Heritage Board and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. He has a PhD from the University of Bristol and an MPA in Innovation from University College London. He is writing a book on R&D in the Creative Industries.

Sid Mofya has been a Senior Advisor since October 2022. Mr. Mofya is the Executive Director of the Draper Venture Network, a global consortium of 20 venture capital firms investing in early-stage technologies across the globe. In this capacity, he serves as an advisor to firms that specialize in Web3 investments including Draper Associates (Coinbase, Tezos, Ethereum, Ledger, Maker), Draper Dragon (Gemini, VeChain, Nifty’s, Maker’s Place, Club NFT), Draper Goren Holm (Totle, Ownera, LunarCrush), Blockchain Valley Ventures (Artory, Keyless), as well as the DVN’s Draper Roundtable – a platform for aggregating capital for co-investment into top Web 3 companies from the Draper Network’s global portfolio.

A Zambian native, Mr. Mofya’s previous work includes strategy, finance, and operations roles with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Royal Dutch Shell, and the UK Ministry of Justice. He is a member of the Kauffman Fellows, one of the premier investment networks in the world.

He received his Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Sheffield, and an MBA from the Acton School of Business in Texas. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two daughters.

Mr. Lamstein has been a Senior Advisor since our inception. Since 2014, Mr. Lamstein has also been Vice Chairman of HCFP and Co-Chairman and Co-Managing Partner of HCFP/Capital Partners. Mr. Lamstein is also a senior officer and/or director of portfolio companies of HCFP/Capital Partners, including serving as Chairman of Scopus BioPharma (Nasdaq: “SCPS”), a publicly-traded clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Lamstein previously served as a Director of PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: “PAVM”), of which HCFP was a Co-Founder. He also serves as a Venture Partner of a seed-stage venture fund with approximately $100 million of assets under management. Mr. Lamstein has worked in venture capital and private equity for over 20 years, including as a Managing Director of GF Capital Private Equity Fund, a $240 million middle market private equity fund, and as a Partner of LMS Capital, a FTSE 250 London Stock Exchange-listed investment trust. Mr. Lamstein initiated the trust’s presence in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He began his career in private equity at Apollo Management and prior thereto was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Lamstein has been a member of the board of directors of numerous private and public companies, including Canvs.ai, Feed.fm, Rocksbox, TrueAnthem and World Education, Inc.

Mr. Lamstein received his B.A., with honors, from Colgate University and his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.