Principal

Crowdfund Capital Advisors

April 2012 - present

Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) is a crowdfunding advisory, implementation and education firm founded by Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss, the leaders of the securities-based crowdfunding movement. CCA provides comprehensive advisory solutions to both public and private institutions. As a by product of their work with the SEC, FINRA, Capitol Hill, the US State Department, crowdfunding platforms, multilateral organizations, and government globally, CCA can help you succeed in this new era of financing, in a way that few can match. CCA works with a variety of groups from professional investors, crowdfunding platforms, professional services firms, governments, multilateral organizations and entrepreneurs.

Principal

GUARDD, Inc.

January 2018 - present

Principal and co-founder of GUARDD, Inc. GUARDD, standing for Global Utility Archival and Retrieval Disclosure Database helps companies be compliant with state Blue Sky laws by assisting with public disclosures of private company data.

Founding Board Member

Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA)

April 2012 - present

CFO

PQS, LLC

November 2003 - January

PQS is a real estate development company headquartered in the USA with investments in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & New York City. The company is in the business of buying residential units in prime locations (Ipanema & Chelsea) and renovating them for both rental and sale.

General Partner

Crowd Capital Venture Fund

January 2015 - present

CCVF is a venture capital firm that invests into today's innovations that are creating the new infrastructure of the global private capital markets.

Chief Advocate

Startupexemption.com

January 2011 - January 2012

Sherwood Neiss is a co-author of the CrowdFund Investing (CFI) framework. This framework was proposed as an exemption under Regulation D Securities Offerings to allow startups and small businesses to raise a limited amount of seed and growth capital from their social networks using SEC-registered websites. The framework was the basis of the two Crowdfunding bills passed by Congress as well as President Obama’s proposal, passing the U.S. House on November 4, 2011 (407-17) and the U.S. Senate on March 22, 2012 as part of the JOBS Act (73-26). He was a leader of the legislative change for Crowdfunding in Washington and collaborated with the White House, the US House and Senate as well as industry experts. He provided testimony to 3 Congressional hearings (both US House and Senate) on Crowdfunding and has been quoted in numerous articles on the subject. 

CEO

Sherwood Speaks, Inc.

June 2007 - January 2012

Consulting services for small businesses with revenues less than $25mn and Private Equity looking to acquire small businesses both domestically and internationally. Over 10 years experience in organizational structure, employee motivation, bank financing, private equity funding and M&A.

Team Lead

IslaViento

October 2009 - January 2010

A student-led initiative between the University of Puerto Rico and Thunderbird to build a wind farm on the island of Puerto Rico.

Tulane University

Bachelor's Degree

1987 - 1991

Political Science, Japanese

University of South Carolina-Columbia

Master's Degree

1993 - 1994

International Finance

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

1994 - 1996

International Finance

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2003 - 2006

Advanced Certificate, Birthing of Giants