Meet our Leaders

Dan Goodwin

CEO

Dan Goodwin is the CEO of GrammaTech. He was formerly the General Manager for the Research Division at GrammaTech. Dan is an experienced Technology Executive, Program Manager, and Digital Engineer with a diverse customer and industry background. His professional experience includes a diverse portfolio of technologies including cyber security, software, systems, FPGAs, microelectronics, telecommunications, networking, and hardware in domains such as Information Assurance, SIGINT, and Platform Missions.

Dan has an M.S. in both Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Business Information Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a PMI certified Project Management Professional and participated in the University of Maryland’s Entrepreneurship Citation Program.

Dan enjoys running, biking, skiing, playing piano, and spending time with his wife and three small children.

Marshall White

Board Member

Marshall serves as a Director of GrammaTech and is a Managing Partner of Five Points Capital and a member of Five Points’ Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Five Points Capital is a partnership-focused private equity investor dedicated to bringing patient capital to support the unique needs of business owners and management teams in the U.S. lower-middle market.

Prior to joining Five Points Capital in 2014, Marshall worked for American Capital, formerly a publicly traded $4.4 billion business development company, in its Dallas office. During his nine-year tenure at American Capital, Marshall focused on originating and structuring middle-market equity and debt investments while working closely with the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining American Capital, Marshall worked in New York for J.P. Morgan, focusing on M&A and financings for large-cap, diversified industrial companies.

Outside of work, Marshall enjoys spending time with his family and following various sports interests.

Marshall received an BS in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.

Tom Reps

Board Member

Thomas W. Reps is the J. Barkley Rosser Professor & Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin, which he joined in 1985. Reps is the author or co-author of four books and more than two hundred papers describing his research (see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~reps/). His work has concerned a wide variety of topics, including program slicing, dataflow analysis, pointer analysis, model checking, computer security, code instrumentation, language-based program-development environments, the use of program profiling in software testing, software renovation, incremental algorithms, and attribute grammars.

Professor Reps received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1982. His Ph.D. dissertation won the 1983 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Scott Snow

Board Member

Scott serves as Chairman of the Board of GrammaTech and is a Managing Partner of Five Points Capital and member Five Points’ Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Five Points Capital is a partnership-focused private equity investor dedicated to bringing patient capital to support the unique needs of business owners and management teams in the U.S. lower-middle market.

Prior to joining Five Points Capital, Scott was an investment banker in the Media and Communications Corporate Finance Coverage group at Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo Securities), where he provided leveraged and equity capital raising and merger and acquisition advisory services to both public and private companies. Prior to Wachovia Securities, he worked for GE Capital and GE Plastics in various corporate finance and business development capacities.

Scott received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Brigham Young University.

James Vandervelden

Board Member

James is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pleasant Bay Capital Partners (“PBCP”) and has over 25 years of private equity experience.  In 2012, James teamed up with Covington Associates to form PBCP, a private equity firm focused on working with family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors in the acquisition, growth, and recapitalization of lower middle market companies.

Prior to Pleasant Bay Capital Partners, James was a Co-Founder and General Partner of Ticonderoga Capital Inc., an investment firm that managed three funds with total committed capital of over $250 Million.  As a General Partner, he focused on equity and subordinated debt investments in healthcare, business services, and software companies.  Throughout his career, James has been an active Board member in many companies and has assisted portfolio companies in management recruitment, strategic and operational issues, raising equity and debt financings, identification and due diligence on acquisition targets, and sale/merger/IPO discussions.

Prior to Ticonderoga, James worked at Dillon Read & Co.’s venture capital group making growth equity investments for its fund.  He worked previously with TA Associates where he focused on management buyouts, recapitalizations, and minority growth capital investments of lower middle market technology and service-related businesses.  Prior to TA Associates, he was employed by APM Inc., where he specialized in strategic and operational consulting to hospitals and managed care companies.

James received a B.A. in Economics and Organizational Behavior & Management, with Honors, from Brown University.

Ken Clark

Board Member

Ken received his MBA from Columbia Business School, and his BA in History and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ken enjoys traveling, playing golf, reading, and spending time in the North Carolina mountains with his wife and young son. Ken is a passionate sports fan who never misses a Tar Heels or Panthers game.