Greg's current for-profit venture is as Founder and Managing Director of Outpost Capital, a private investment and consulting firm. Outpost focuses on strategy and business development services for micro-cap clients in media, education and real estate.

John Hoffmire
Chairman

John Hoffmire is the Director of the Center on Business and Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business and Faculty Associate at the Puelicher Center for Banking Education. Before starting the Center on Business and Poverty in 2004, John had a twenty-year career in equity investing, venture capital, consulting and investment banking. His work has had a particular focus on employee stock ownership plans. As founder and CEO of his own investment banking firm, he helped employees buy and manage approximately $2.2 billion worth of ESOP stock. He sold his firm to American Capital, which then went public. John left American Capital as Senior Investment Officer when the company reached $1 billion in assets. After leaving American Capital, John was vice president at Ampersand Ventures, formerly Paine Webber's private equity group. After he finished his Ph.D. at Stanford University, he was a consultant at Bain & Company. John is also Chairman of Progress Through Business, an organization that he founded with others interested in economic development tools that can used by companies to assist low-income individuals and communities.