Rice Park Capital Management LP
Rice Park Capital Management LP (“Rice Park Capital”) is a Minneapolis based investment firm. Rice Park Capital’s fund, Rice Park Ventures Fund I LP, invests in Real Estate Technology (“RETech”) and Financial Technology (“FinTech”) companies run by proven founders and executives, solving significant problems in large and addressable markets, and using technology to achieve scale and create barriers to entry.
Team
Nick Smith
Nick is the founder and Managing Partner of Rice Park Capital Management LP. Prior to founding Rice Park, Nick was the Chief Investment Officer for Blackstone’s residential mortgage REIT and the founding executive and President of Incenter (Blackstone portfolio company), a technology-enabled provider of transactional and capital markets services to the financial services market. Prior to Blackstone, Nick served as Managing Director, Two Harbors Investment Corp (NYSE: TWO) where he built and led the investment platform for MSR and residential whole loans. Prior to TWO, Nick was Chief Investment Officer for Green Tree Investment Management (“GTIM”) where he was responsible for the residential mortgage investment platform. He was also the senior portfolio manager for a $1.45 billion private investment fund co-managed by GTIM.
Senior Advisors
Brad Farrell
Finance and Operations
CFO, Castlelake, L.P. is a global private investment firm managing private funds with approcimately $15.3 billion (start date December 1, 2019).
CFO and Treasurer, Two Harbors Investment Corp (NYSE: TWO)
Served in various leadership roles at GMAC ResCap, XL Capital and KPMG.
Gene Ross
Residential Mortgage Services
Served 25 years as President of LoanCare, a ServiceLink company where he led LoanCare to be one of the largest servicers in the nation.
ServiceLink is a provider of technology-enabled services to the mortgage and finance industries.
Damien Elias
Student Lending Technlogy
Founder of Campus Door, one of the nation’s largest private student lending technology platforms.
Campus Door was sold to a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group.
Investor and advisor to a variety of technology start-up’s in the U.S. and Europe.
Brian Bispala
Software Entrepreneur
Co-founded Code42 Software in 2001 and, as VP of Engineering, helped grow the company over eleven years until it raised over $135 million in venture capital.
Began his career at Accenture and most recently co-founded Rambl, a seed-funded voice AI sales solution.
Servied on the board of directors of Foodsby since 2015 and is an active technology angel investor.
