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Partners

SRS Capital Partners, under the direction of its Managing Partner, assembles expert advisors and resources from SRS Capital’s network or relationships to meet the needs and demands of its clientele.

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David L. Parker

General Partner & Principal

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Mr. Parker, as General Partner of SRS Capital Partners, has oversight for all engagements of the partnership and is further responsible for bringing together the necessary resources for success.

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Mr. Parker currently serves on the boards of several of its portfolio companies and selected non-portfolio companies, while also serving as CEO and Managing Partner of SRS Family Office Partners, a company dedicated to single family office management and advisory. Mr. Parker is also a Managing Partner of SRS' affiliate SRS Capital Advisors and SRS & Co.

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Mr. Parker has had an impressive career in entrepreneurship and investing ever since graduating from Brigham Young in 1974 with a BS in Business. With a 40+ year career in investment banking and private equity, and having built and sold two successful investment banks, David has a wealth of experience that he applies in his current mentoring roles with companies and entrepreneurs. His investment banks were innovative in financial structures having funded over $60 billion in capital market debt securities globally. Further, some of his private equity and venture exits have included Richmond Technologies and Richmond Holdings which was sold to Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW), Moneyline Lending which was sold to Genpact (NYSE: G), Special Risk Services Group, plc which was sold the St. Paul Insurance Group, and Fiser which was sold to Wedbush Securities.

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SRS Capital’s affiliate, SRS Family Office Partners, is a collaborative Family Office Advisory and Partnership organized with the express purpose of organizing, advising and/or managing Single Family Offices. Mr. Parker organized and managed the family office structure for one of the nation’s pre-eminent entrepreneurs whose startup was acquired by AT&T for 24 billion dollars in the late 1990’s.

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David Senior

Operating Partner

David Senior joined SRS Capital Partners in 2022 as an Operating Partner and has also taken on the role of Managing Partner in SRS' affiliate SRS Capital Advisors and SRS & Co,. He is currently teaching upper-level and graduate coursework in International Business and International Finance at the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business. Holding board seats at institutional academic and non-profit organizations.

He began a professional career in the investment banking industry, working in the IB division of the Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation. As the only English speaker on a team of 8 executives, I co-developed, originated, and managed a $6 billion portfolio.

David joined the Yamagata Corporation as the CEO of the family office investments and subsequently formed Pronaia Capital Partners, a Private Equity company located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pronaia held investment assets of roughly $800M primarily in the Far East (Japan and China) and in the Western US. Invested in a large-scale manufacturing business in China.

After selling his private equity company, he formed Concentus Global Partners, a small hedge fund, and merged the assets into the Apollo Fund, a FinTech company applying an engineered approach to investment management.

David has devoted a significant portion of my life to humanitarian service spending two years in Japan for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2012, he and his wife lived in Thailand for three years, presiding over the humanitarian and proselyting activities of over 450 young volunteers aged 18-25 and over 50 adult volunteers in Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. He directed the delivery of clean water wells to small villages, delivery, and training for neonatal resuscitation equipment, and provided natural disaster relief, and English language instruction. Directed and was a lead participant in diplomatic and religious relations with the governments of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar.

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Stephen W. Harper

Operating Partner

Formerly Senior Vice President of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), a private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting job and business growth in Los Angeles County, and President and CEO of the World Trade Center Association Los Angeles – Long Beach, Mr. Harper has joined SRS Capital Partners to lead its Asian initiatives as an Operating Partner. 

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Prior to joining the LAEDC, Mr. Harper was Vice President of AMRESCO Japan, the Japan subsidiary of Sydney-based Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, a publicly traded global real estate and financial services firm with 40 offices on five continents and over US$70 billion in assets under management. As the senior American executive in Tokyo for AMRESCO, he was responsible for the 1998 start-up and operations of the company, which specialized in the acquisition and management of distressed and under-performing commercial real estate assets. At the time of his return to Los Angeles, assets under management exceeded US$500 million. Mr. Harper also served on the boards of two AMRESCO-affiliated companies, one of which was co-owned with Merrill Lynch Japan, and the other with Cargill Japan.

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Mr. Harper has been active in Asia since 1982. Including his tenure with AMRESCO Japan, he has had three expatriate assignments totaling some seven years, having also held the post of Senior Research Analyst in the U.S. Department of Commerce/U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service in the U.S. Consulate General, Hong Kong.

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Additionally, Mr. Harper, since 1985, has arranged over thirty successful U.S. real estate projects as principal, advisor or arranger of debt and/or equity capital. Aggregate value of completed projects is approximately US$200 million and includes retail, multi-family, industrial, office and specialty-use properties.

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Mr. Harper holds a B.S. in economics, summa cum laude from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and an MBA in international business from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business IBEAR Program. He has served on the Board of Governors of the USC Alumni Association, and currently serves on board of the Asia Society Southern California Center. He has served previously on the National Board of Directors of the USC Marshall School of Business Alumni Association, and in Japan as a USC Ambassador on appointment of then USC President Steven B. Sample.

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Andrew Whitney, Cobb Charles, LLC

Operating Partner

Andrew is a prinicpal in CobbCharles, LLC and is a strategy and investment banking professional with significant experience at senior executive level in multiple technology sectors and fields that include energy, infrastructure, biotechnology, materials, national security and aerospace. Ex-Bain & Co consulting, ex-Bain Leveraged Buyout Practice, and with extensive private equity experience, he has spent more than 25 years as technology entrepreneur and investor.

 

Andrew has been active in the energy space since 1989 when he trained as a market maker for FTSE energy stocks on the London market. Andrew wrote his Masters and PhD dissertations on the topic of the post-Soviet Russian energy sector at Cambridge University and has since advised, run or owned multiple concerns in the energy and renewables spaces, from oil E&P to pipelines and LNG to waste to energy and hydropower renewables across multiple international markets. His three decades of experience in every aspect of the sector from materials and engineering to commerce and finance give him a uniquely broad understanding of the core issues.

 

Andrew has advised multiple national governments and governmental agencies and had the honor of briefing a sitting U.S. President in the Oval Office on matters pertaining to technology and national security. Andrew has developed technology solutions and led research projects for government agencies that include the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and the Army Science Board (ASB).

Andrew’s skills, capabilities and interests stretch beyond the traditional private equity model through adroit identification and implementation of effective strategies to achieve commercial success, and the optimization of organizational design to drive valuation. He has strong leadership skills and believes that success is ultimately a function of solid strategy, effective motivation, integrity and a pure focus on results in the absence of ego.

Chris Stewart (Congressman Retired)

Operating Partner

Chris Stewart joined SRS Capital Partners in 2023 as an Operating Partner. 

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Chris is an American politician, author, and businessman who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 2nd congressional district from 2013 until his resignation in 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his bestsellers Seven Miracles That Saved America and The Miracle of Freedom: Seven Tipping Points That Saved the World, as well as his series The Great and Terrible.

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Mr. Stewart graduated from Utah State University in 1984 before joining the United States Air Force. In 1995, Stewart was awarded the Mackay Trophy for "significant aerial achievement" for the combat capability operation known as Coronet Bat. On June 3, 1995, Stewart and a flight of two B-1s set the world record for the fastest nonstop flight around the world. He was the mission's senior project officer. The mission's purpose was to demonstrate the B-1 Lancer's capability with live bombing activity over three bombing ranges on three continents in two hemispheres. In the process, the team set three world records, flying 36,797.65 kilometers in 36 hours and 13 minutes. Later, he began writing novels and became president and CEO of the Shipley Group. He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 and was re-elected five times.

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Chris also serves as the Managing Partner of a new government affairs firm, Skyline Capitol. The boutique firm, focused on government relations and geopolitical consulting, acts in strategic partnership with American Global Strategies LLC, an international advisory and consulting firm founded by former national security adviser Robert O’Brien.

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Dan Gifford

Operating Partner

Dan Gifford recently joined SRS Capital Partners in 2024 as an Operating Partner.  Dan has over 30 years building companies and leading organizations. He excels at strategic planning and operations.

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Dan is also an Operating Partner with RLG Capital, a private equity firm focusing on growth companies. 

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Mr. Gifford served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah (EDCU), having been at the forefront of attracting venture capital funds to the State of Utah and the development of Utah's Silicon Slopes. He also served as past Chairman of the Washington County Economic Development Council that led to the development of the commercial airport in St. George, Utah.

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Dan has significant international experience, serving for over fifteen years as Chairman of Cause for Hope (CFH) in six latin countries. CFH was a self-reliant accelerator mentoring 20,000 families that enabled them to triple their income and earnings. From 2018-2021 Dan and his wife lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he led a group of 500 full-time volunteers. Recently Dan and his wife were assigned to serve in Europe to promote economic development and self-reliance.

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Mr. Gifford hold both a BS in Management (cum laude) and MBA from Arizona State University.

Dewey Mackay

Operating Partner

Dewey Mackay, CPA, is a successful private equity and venture capital investor. Having been at the forefront of various companies in Silicon Slopes, Dewey has significant operational expertise in the C-suites of a number of unicorns in Utah, serving as CFO and member of the C-suite.

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Dewey has been instrumental in developing operational and capital strategies for pre-seed and seed startups and helping to establish foundational strategy for success. The Founders of these successful companies have turned to Dewey when is has been at a critical juncture in their company's evolution.

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Mason Fink

Operating Partner

Mason Fink joined SRS Capital Partners in 2023. He was a member of the founding team at Solamere Capital primarily responsible for the general fund and capital strategy.  He is a premier strategy consultant whose activities have led him to key engagements with many leading private equity and venture firms. Mason's innovative collaborations have benefitted novel approaches to improve healthcare outcomes of factory workers in Asia. 

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Mason has also assembled expert teams and architected initial finance strategies for a patented hair growth pharmaceutical company and a neurotoxin pharmaceutical research firm. Mason's diverse background in private equity, venture capital, and entrepreneurial markets has keenly positioned him as a Principal of SRS Capital Partners and a Partner in SRS Capital Advisors.

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Mason also served in leadership roles in Romney for President in 2012, overseeing budget support and capital campaigns for all campaign efforts.

 

Associates

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Scott Senior

Senior Associate

Scott Senior joined SRS Capital Partners in 2022 as its Senior Associate. Scott has been a key analyst for 924 Partners and continues in that role while assuming the additional task of managing internal accounts and analytical roles with SRS. 924 Partners and SRS collaborate on investments and investment strategies, Hence Scott's dual role.

 

Scott has a unique ability to expertly and timely deconstruct and reconstruct analytical models and identify relevant data sets ,and clearly delineate them into a concise and comprehensive model is invaluable to the SRS team. Additionally, Scott heads up SRS' due diligence efforts.

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Jack Parker

Associate

Jack Parker is a business student at Utah Valley University, having just spent two years in community and church service in the Spokane, Washington, and Idaho communities.

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Jack led a number of teams in their community service and has an acumen for business and analytics. He is a valuable member of our due diligence and analytic teams.

 

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Corporate Operating Partners

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Clarke Capital Partners (CCP)  is a Family Office that invests in levered buyouts, intellectual property portfolios, university-licensed/acquired technologies, and fast-growing founder-run businesses with real profits – but most of all CCP invests in exceptional management teams and defensible business strategies through a variety of allocation strategies.

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Clarke are operators first, and investors second. The team at Clarke Capital consists of many Wall Street veterans, but ALL have run their own P&L. They get the “how” of running real businesses. With the operator always in mind, Clarke excels in partnering with existing management teams to give them the tools to grow, strategic support, access to multiple forms of capital and access to our unparalleled network for business development.

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In 2018, Clarke exited in what was reported as one of the largest Intellectual Property transactions of the prior decade. Directed by an exceptional legal and technology team, Clarke believes in building IP for our portfolio companies. We have a specialized team dedicated to building, defending, enforcing and litigating IP assets.

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Clarke obsesses over growth. Whatever the stage of a business, Clarke Capital leverages expertise with one focus in mind—profitable and sustainable growth.

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New Horizon is a privately-owned real estate firm, dedicated to investment and development of property in China. New Horizon acquires and executes on its own development projects in close cooperation with a select group of capital partners.  New Horizon also sponsors, structure and manages the associated investment vehicles and project entities to assure smooth in-bounding of capital, repatriation of profits, and maximum after-tax returns to its investors.

 

New Horizons add value to China real estate for its capital partners through the acquisition of non-competitive opportunities, superior execution and risk management, tax-advantaged investment structures, and by strategic application of its relationships to the projects they acquire.  The Company executes its projects independently or by partnering with other uniquely capable local organizations.

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Elliott R. Parker

Elliott Parker joined SRS Capital Partners in 2005 as an Operating Partner and is an expert in intellectual property commercialization and investment and venture capital investment. Since founding and becoming CEO of High Alpha Innovation in 2020, Mr. Parker has become a passive capital partner in SRS through his family investment interests. High Alpha Innovation partners with leading organizations to innovate through systematic startup creation. They apply the venture studio model successfully developed at High Alpha, and the principles of disruption theory to rapidly build and scale software companies.

Prior to his current role at High Alpha Innovation, Elliott worked in strategy consulting, corporate ventures, and as an entrepreneur to bring new ideas to market. He was a Principal at Innosight, the strategy firm founded by Clayton Christensen, where they helped companies develop innovation capabilities, design growth strategies, and launch new ventures. Early in his career, he became interested in the application of disruptive innovation while working with large corporations to develop alternative uses for their intellectual property. Later, as manager of new ventures for a global medical device firm, he helped pilot several innovative corporate startups. As a strategy consultant, he advised dozens of leading organizations around the world. As a founder, investor, or advisor, he helped launch dozens of startups.

Mr. Parker is passionate about unlocking tangible innovation through engagement between large companies and startups. Innovation is much more distributed than it used to be, and corporations' traditional, centralized forms of innovation are not as effective as they once were. The degree of success most corporations achieve over the next decade will be determined largely by the quality of their engagement with startups.

ADDRESS

727 North 1550 East, Suite 405

Orem, UT 84097

PHONE

714-745-1005

EMAIL

FAX

949-861-9888

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