The XV Team
Dave Gibbons
Dave works with global leaders to develop their competencies. He focuses on their personal goals, relationships, teams, and corporate culture which fuels a company’s ability to reach their objective and key results. His specialty is the incorporation of SQ: Spiritual Intelligence in the workplace without being religious.
Currently he works with Goodwater Capital, Rideback Ranch (the producers of IT, the Lego Movies, and recently Aladdin), Newsong, professional athletes, and Marina Abramovic and her team.
Sam Rhee
Sam is a 26 year veteran of the finance industry and a venture investor, advisor, and entrepreneur focused on company building especially in the FinTech space, with senior executive experience at global financial institutions. Sam is currently co-founder & Chairman at Endowus, a cutting edge Asian WealthTech company based in Singapore. He is also the founder of Voveo Capital.
He was formerly the CEO & Chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley Investment Management in Asia and was at Morgan Stanley group for 17 years.Sam is passionate about sharing his experiences, mentoring & nurturing future leaders. He is also focused on financial education to improve financial literacy. He is a frequent speaker at universities, corporations, and conferences.
Jenny Sohn
Jenny works with startup company founders and the teams, investors as CFO and is a finance advisor in the Silicon Valley for over 20 years in both public and private companies (Netflix, Evernote). Her expertise is to advise CEO/founding team to grow and support operational aspects of scaling.
She also serves as an LP for a Palo Alto-based venture fund, Operator Collective, and founded her own firm Evergreen Finance to serve private companies scaling up and grow.
John Kim
John is a Product, Marketing, and Growth leader specializing in product growth, personalization, marketplace dynamics, and pricing & monetization. He was formerly a Growth leader at Lyft and Udemy, helping grow both businesses starting from early stage startups.
Currently John is a marketing leader at a vertical Saas company. He received his B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior from the University of California, Davis.
Joshua Cheng
Having co-founded multiple start-ups, Joshua has considerable experience in operational management, building organizations from scratch and catalyzing initiatives to completion. He received his B.S. in Business from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst®.
Mike Vo
Mike is the founder and principal attorney at Law Offices of Mike N. Vo, APLC. For over twenty years, Mike has worked with entrepreneurs and business owners to launch their companies, guide them through growth and steer them clear of trouble. He provides common-sense, practical advice that is business oriented and not legal oriented. As outside general counsel to companies in the beauty and pharmaceutical industries, Mike plays an integral role in his client’s transactional and litigation strategies. He received his B.A. from USC and J.D. from Loyola Law School.