As Senior Partner at Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP, one of the most active venture law firms in the world, Ed is one of the leading venture attorneys in the country and has represented dozens of venture funds and hundreds of venture backed companies. Notable venture funds include Greycroft, Las Olas, Armory Square, Tishman Speyer Proptech, Spark Capital, FTV Capital, Safeguard Scientific, Edison Partners, Starvest, First Round Capital, Milestone Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, New Spring Capital, New Atlantic Ventures, Osage Venture Partners, Paladin Capital, SJF Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Krillion Ventures, Vocap Ventures, Gather Ventures, Chartline Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Health Catalyst Capital, Contour Ventures and IA Ventures. Notable portfolio company clients include Ollie, Leaf Logistics, Rhino, BFS Capital, Warby Parker, MediaMath, 7 Park Data, Triple Lift, Magnetic Media, BillTrust, LifeStreet, Service Channel, Spongecell, Yieldbot, Kemp Technologies, MSL Direct and Aspire Financial.

In addition to co-founding ARC I and ARC II, Ed is also a co-founder of the Female Founders Fund, L.P., a seed fund investing in women led businesses and Reitler Opportunity Capital, L.P., a micro-venture fund that invests in strategic opportunities. Ed is also an investor in several venture funds including Tribeca Venture Partners, SJF Ventures, Las Olas Ventures and StartFast Fund II. He is a frequent speaker and panelist on issues affecting the private equity and venture capital markets and has guest lectured at Harvard University and Columbia University.

Ed graduated from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he was an Editor and a contributor to the Journal of Law and Public Policy and a contributor to the Harvard Journal of Legislation. After a clerkship with the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit), he joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 1991. He joined Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP in 1998 as a member.

For more than 15 years, Michael Kelley has been executing and managing principal investments in private equity. Currently a Director at Merion Investment Partners, a subordinated debt and equity fund with assets under management of $240MM. Prior to Merion, he was the founder and principal of Formation Capital, Inc. ("Formation"), which managed capital in excess of $50 million in equity invested in 30 investments. Formation's venture portfolio includes Foxfire Printing and Packaging, iProcess Online and Performance Systems Development. Prior to Formation, Mr. Kelley was a principal with HK Special Situations Group, where he provided advisory services to the US Small Business Administration regarding a troubled Small Business Investment Company. He was also a principal with GSA Management and with Intrust USA. At Intrust he was responsible for raising and investing 4 real estate tax credit funds and one venture capital fund. In addition to serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Delaware Innovation Fund, Mr. Kelley sits on the boards of Foxfire Printing, Early Stage East, and the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League. Mr. Kelley received his BA degree in History magna cum laude from the University of Delaware.

Joyce is a Director in the Reitler Advisory Group, which provides financial and business consulting services to early stage companies and emerging venture funds. She has over 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry – primarily in international investment banking and venture capital. She began her career at Bankers Trust Company in the Dutch Auction Securities Group. She then went on to head the Mergers & Acquisition practice of Price Waterhouse Corporate Finance where she was responsible for all M&A and finance raising activities for Russia and Central and Eastern European regions. Upon returning to the U.S., she was Senior Vice President of Orbit Capital, a venture capital fund based in New York. Joyce has held a number of senior management positions in venture-backed companies and has served on several boards of directors. Joyce has been a member of ARC I and II where she was actively involved in sourcing, evaluating and diligencing many investment opportunities. She is a co-founder of Reitler Opportunity Capital, L.P., a micro-venture fund that invests in strategic opportunities.

She holds a Masters Degree in International Business Studies from New York University and a Bachelors Degree in Finance from New York University.

Thierry is a member of the Board of Directors of TalonX, a cybersecurity start-up, and Liquidaty, a software provider of factoring solutions for financial institutions. Thierry is also a member of the Investment Committee of the Reitler Opportunity Capital Fund, LP, a micro-venture fund which invests in start-up opportunities. Prior to that, Thierry was a member of the founding team, a Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee of Lightyear Capital, a private equity investment firm with over $3.5 billion in invested capital. He served as a director of the Piedmont Community Bank and the Yadkin Bank, state chartered banks based in North Carolina; and served on the board of directors of eCommission, a fintech company in residential real estate, Argus Software, a publicly listed company that provided software solutions to the commercial real estate market, and Athilon Group, an asset based financial guarantor with over $700 million in capital.

Formerly, Thierry was a Vice President and member of the efinance venture fund team at PaineWebber, Inc., and a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income Division. Thierry started his career at American Express Company where he was Assistant to the President of its European Travel and Credit Card Groups. Thierry graduated with an MBA in Corporate Finance from the Wharton School and with a BA in Economics magna cum laude from Harvard College. Thierry joined the Reitler Advisory Group in 2020.

Joe Rubin has been organizing VC & Angel Investor Conferences across the US for over 20 years. Joe has also invested in over a dozen seed deals over the past several years, such as Sticky, Inc. (acq Splashtop), Senscient (acq MSA Safety Inc), Giftworks (acq Frontstream Payments), was an investor and on the advisory board of Offermobi (acq Moko.mobi), Human Demand (acq IgnitionOne) and an advisor to Gozaik (acq Monster) and currently on the Board of RxBra.

Joe is also a Founding Partner of ARC I and ARC II, seed tech funds based in NYC with over 40 investments such as Upnext (acq Amazon), Prognos, mojo vision, Partpic (acq Amazon), Sidecar, Kanvas (acq AOL), YieldMo, Cuebiq, Sustain (acq Grove), Lynq, Skywatch, Ocrolus, Made In Space (acq Redwire) and Akash Systems.

Early in his career, Joe raised $2.5M for his dot.com start-up producing a family-friendly network & 100+ flash-based video games which were playable online and sold in stores like Comp USA. Joe was also the Webmaster at Knight Securities (NASD: NITE), where he helped to design its online trading platform and website. Previously, Joe worked in television and graphic design for companies such as NBC and MTV, doing 3D animation professionally starting at 15, and graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelor's in Communications.