Fred is the Founder and Managing Partner of Five Elms. Fred is also the Founder and Chairman of Spring Venture Group, a +1,000 person digital insurance platform in the senior healthcare market with more than $225M in revenues.
Before founding both Five Elms and Spring in 2006, Fred was a senior investment professional with TH Lee Putnam Ventures, a $1.1 billion private equity firm focused on software-enabled businesses.
Prior to TH Lee Putnam, Fred was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in its New York headquarters. At Morgan Stanley, he helped technology-driven companies access the public equity and high-yield markets and later advised large corporates in the firm’s mergers & acquisitions department. Fred began his career in asset management with Citibank Asset Management in London. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Kansas. Fred currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Kansas School of Business and is a Trustee at the Pembroke Hill School.
Fred spends most of his free time with his wife and three teenage children traveling, snow skiing, swimming, diving, and biking.