OUR TEAM
Robert Claassen
Rob is a co-founder of Camp One Ventures and has been a close advisor to technology companies in the Silicon Valley since 1995, working with and investing in many leading companies in the fintech and SaaS space including Mint.com (acquired by INTU), Credit Sesame, Ripple, One, Inc., Aarki (acquired by SKLZ) and Cornerstone OnDemand (Nasdaq: CSOD). Prior to founding Camp One Ventures, Rob was a corporate partner and co-head of the global capital markets practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the leading Silicon Valley corporate law firm.
Madding King III
Madding is a Founding Partner of Camp One Ventures, LLC, an early stage venture capital fund with a focus on financial technology investments. Madding also co-founded and is an owner and the Chief Executive Officer of Brookline Group, LLC and is a Managing Director of Brookline Investments, a SEC Registered Investment Advisor (RIA). At Brookline he manages in excess of $180mm in the alternative asset class. He has served in numerous Board of Director and operational roles across multiple industries. Madding received a B.A. in Psychology, with extensive work in Business Administration and Economics, from Vanderbilt University in 1997. He is currently in the process of obtaining his Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business.
Thomas P. Brown
Tom is a leading financial technology legal expert in the US and advises many of the largest companies on financial regulatory issues, including VISA, PayPal and Stripe. Tom is a frequent author and teaches the payments class at UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall, on issues facing the financial services industry. He focuses on firms in platform or two-sided industries--financial services, media, exchanges, and real estate. Tom is a member of World Economic Forum’s working group on disruptive innovation in Financial Services.
David Dove
David has more than 25 years of experience in the payments, retail financial services, and fintech. He was President of the North American Business Group at Cardtronics, Inc. (NASDAQ CATM), where he was responsible for the company’s businesses in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Latin America/ Caribbean. David was also the founder of Dove Consulting Group, where he served as CEO. In 2005, he sold the business to the U.S. consulting subsidiary of Hitachi and became Managing Vice President of both the Financial Services and Strategy practices. David holds a Masters degree from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics, an MBA from the Boston University School of Management and an undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University in Aeronautical Engineering.