Michael Chorske
Michael has served as a member of the Board since 2021 and is a senior investment and operating executive with a record of building entrepreneurial enterprises and managing alternatives funds and portfolios. Michael is a Managing Partner at Cryder Partners, a consulting and investment firm and a former Operating Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, LP, a private markets impact investment management firm. He was also a founder and executive managing director of Emergent Holdings, LLC, an investor in and developer of aquaculture businesses. Michael is a former partner of GCM Capital LP, where he managed a $100 million investment fund pursuing a public and private structured convertible debt and private investment in public equity strategy. Michael was also a Vice President of Finance of InterTrust Technologies Corp., where he managed corporate finance activities, and gained ten years of venture capital, growth equity and leveraged buyout experience with Victory Capital/East River Ventures, where he invested across the capital structure in technology, healthcare services, biotechnology, consumer packaged goods and natural resources. Michael earned an Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.