Board of Directors
William Alessi
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
Alessi serves as Alpha Modus’ Chief Executive Officer. In 2014, Mr. Alessi formed Alpha Modus and became its initial seed investor and Founder. From 2000 through present, Mr. Alessi has taken the role as an entrepreneurial investor, focusing on real estate, small cap equities and technology markets. Mr. Alessi’s forward-thinking entrepreneurial leadership skills were critical in the operations of Andover Brokerage, one of the fastest growing proprietary trading firms which pioneered the electronic day trading era. Mr. Alessi continuously seeks out investments in early-stage technology start-ups and data driven ventures.
Michael Garel
Inventor and Director
Michael Garel is an accomplished Entrepreneur and Product Management Executive who has spent his career building disruptive products and growing successful teams. Mr. Garel has a proven track record of creating innovative products at companies such as Dell, Xplore Technologies, eyeQ, and Accruent. Mr. Garel is the founder and CEO of eyeQ, where he created an award-winning retail technology company that enabled clients such as Ford, HP, and Otterbox to optimize their in-store marketing and merchandising. Currently, Mr. Garel serves as the Director of Product for Omnicell, where he is leading product development, and go-to-market strategies for next-gen connected medication management systems for acute and non-acute care. In prior years, Mr. Garel’s tenure at Accruent generated the launch of a new data platform utilizing aggregated maintenance data to predict equipment replacement cycles and drive hospitals’ capital plans. Mr. Garel received his BS from Carnegie Mellon University and his MBA from the Texas McCombs School of Business.
Greg Richter
Independent Director
Greg Richter is the Chief Executive Officer and a Partner of Medalist Partners, an alternative investment management firm focused on credit opportunities. Prior to co-forming Medalist in May 2018, and its predecessor firm Candlewood Investment Group in 2010, Mr. Richter worked at Credit Suisse as a portfolio manager heading their structured credit effort and was previously the Global Head of Credit Suisse’s Specialty Finance Group and a member of Credit Suisse’s Fixed Income Operating Committee, where he was responsible for the combined Global Asset Finance Capital Markets and the Specialty Finance Banking Groups. Prior to this, Mr. Richter was head of the Asset Backed Securities Home Equity (ABSHE) shelf which bought and packaged mortgage loans. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Richter spent 15 years at Prudential Securities in New York as a Managing Director and served as the head of Trading and Syndicate for all structured products. Mr. Richter holds a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.
Scott Wattenberg
Independent Director
Scott Wattenberg has served as the Chief Financial Officer at SPATCO Energy Solutions since April 2023. Mr. Wattenberg has extensive experience in financial leadership roles. Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief Financial Officer at BestCo from July 2014 to April 2023. Mr. Wattenberg also served as the CFO at Prym Consumer USA from 2011 to 2014. Mr. Wattenberg served as CFO — COO at Genesis Today, Inc., from 2010-2011, CFO — COO of Microstaq from 2007-2010, and Senior Finance Director/CFO for New Business Ventures at Walmart from 2006-2007. Previously, Mr. Wattenberg served as CFO of Philips Display Solutions from 2003-2006. He is currently an Advisory Board Member at Greenstream International and Green Revolution Cooling. Mr. Wattenberg obtained his MBA in 2005 from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
William Ullman
Independent Director
William Ullman is the Chief Executive Officer of Water Street Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor. Mr. Ullman has been a board member of Van Eck Associates Corp., a New York based investment firm, since 2010. Mr. Ullman also currently serves as a special advisor to FinTech Collective Fund II, LP, a venture capital fund, and is a member of the board of directors of the Capital Returns Fund, since 2010. From 2016 to 2018, Mr. Ullman served as Chief Commercial Officer of Orchard Platform and Chief Executive Officer of its broker-dealer subsidiary (Orchard Platform Markets LLC) prior to its sale to Kabbage in 2018. From 2006 to 2016, he was the founder of Right Wall Capital Management LLC, a firm focused on investing in the financial services sector, including financial technology companies. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Ullman was a Senior Managing Director of the Global Clearing Services Department at Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. Prior to that Mr. Ullman was an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Groups of Bear Stearns (1997 — 2001) and Merrill Lynch (1989 — 1997). Mr. Ullman earned an A.B. in History from Princeton University in 1985 and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA in 1989.