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Meet Our Team

We are a team of experienced VC investors and passionate entrepreneurs committed to shaping the future of retail. We leverage our unique investment thesis and industry expertise to catalyze the growth of early-stage startups in the evolving ecosystem.
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David Matthews

Founder and Managing Director

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David Matthews has a background as an entrepreneur, a lead investor in emerging investment funds,
and as a venture capitalist. As an entrepreneur, he launched several successful start-ups including
Intelecon and Green Mountain Dallas. He has led dozens of investments in early-stage teams, and brought the initial capital to launch emerging private
equity and venture funds such as Red River Ventures, Elm Creek Partners, Trailblazer Capital, and
RevTech Ventures. 

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Rachel West

Director of Business Development

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At RevTech, Rachel leads the early stage investment team. Previously, she developed deep expertise as a management consultant in connected commerce and product development. She has served as both a founder and operator, starting and scaling a preventive health concept across TX and helping spearhead the national expansion of a college recruiting startup to to 800+ campuses.

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Loc Nguyen

Senior Investment Associate

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Loc brings both an investment and operational perspective, with a background in portfolio management and entrepreneurship. Before joining the team, Loc founded and managed a hotel in Vietnam.

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Mike Whitaker

Co-Founder and Investor

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Mike started RevTech with David to invest in the next generation of founders that can transform industries. He is a serial entrepreneur that brings 25 years of experience, founding and growing startups to $100M+ of annual revenue. He is currently the CEO of GuestX.

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Stewart Matthews

Director of Operations

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Stew manages all of the moving parts at RevTech. Previously, he managed the Kirsch Art Studio and ran a production company.

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May Lee

Controller

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A self-described “recovering CPA”, May Lee is an Accounting professional who is committed to excellence and maintaining integrity.  She is currently passionate about working with an energetic team at RevTech to help establish structure that will continue to maintain the current financial integrity that benefits the investors and portfolio.

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Mike Barnes

Board of Managers

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Michael W. Barnes, also known as Mike, co-founded Fossil and was part of the management team that took it public in 1993. Afterward, he stayed on as President and COO of the company. Later, he served as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Francesca’s Holdings Corporation as well as the Chief Executive Officer of Signet Jewelers Limited.

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Jim Skinner

Advisor

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Jim Skinner lead CompUSA through its turnaround as CFO and worked as the COO and CFO of the Neiman Marcus Group. He serves as board member of Fossil and The Hudson Group.

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Deborah Weinswig

Advisor

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Deborah Weinswig is the CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, formerly Fung Global Retail & Technology. She was consistently ranked among the top analysts in her field by publications such as Institutional Investor, where she was ranked #1 for nine years, and by publishers StarMine and Business Insider, which named her one of Wall Street’s top 36 analysts.

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Steve Dennis

Advisor

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Steve has 30+ years of experience as a strategic advisor, board member, general manager and C-level executive at two Fortune 500 retailers. He is the author of the #1 Amazon Best-Seller "Remarkable Retail" and is a Senior Contributor to Forbes. His insights are regularly featured in the media including Bloomberg/BusinessWeek, CNBC, CNN, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, amongst many others.

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Charles Turner

Advisor

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Charles (Cary) Turner is the Chairman of Hawthorne Turner Investments, a private investment firm. Previously, Cary was  Chief Financial Officer of Pier 1 Imports.Jim Skinner lead CompUSA through its turnaround as CFO and worked as the COO and CFO of the Neiman Marcus Group. He serves as board member of Fossil and The Hudson Group.

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Brooks Terrel

Board of Managers

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Brooks has demonstrated success building and implementing FinTech technologies. As the former Chief Technology Officer of Heartland Payment Systems, Brooks led the development of the company’s front-end and back-end payment platforms for processing credit card payments. Currently he is President of The Tierra Advisory Group.

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Monica Coney

Board of Managers

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Monica has spent 25 years working with start-ups to Fortune 200s in Corporate America, focusing on business development and sales. She is a 5th generation Texan, and serves on boards of companies that can catalyze growth in the DFW community.

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Jeff Donaldson

Advisor

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Donaldson is a founding management team member and the former CIO of GameStop. He automated complex processes and data science driven decision-making over the span of a decade in the retail and airline industries. He developed Intriosity Automation Design in 2016 before launching the company in early 2017.

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Catherine Seeds

Head of Public Relations

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For more than 17 years, Catherine has helped leading companies in the retail, grocery, hospitality and technology industries create and manage comprehensive and unique PR and marketing communications, and generate national press.

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Kevin Vela

Chief Legal Counsel

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Kevin focuses on M&A, venture financing, and fund formation. In recent years, he has represented both startups and investors in over $250M in venture financing. Kevin was named a 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Super Lawyer Rising Star, was honored by D Magazine as a Best Lawyer in Dallas in 2016 and 2020, and is a Texas Bar Foundation Fellow, an honor granted to 0.33% of Texas attorneys. 

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Chase Murphy

Head of Accounting

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Chase’s primary disciplines include tax planning and consulting for high growth businesses, with a particular emphasis on the M&A space. His clients have ranged from closely held entities to publicly traded companies, with extensive industry experience in the technology space. 

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