TX Zhuo

TX is the Managing Partner of Karlin Ventures and has been involved in the startup space since his college days. He started an online textbook retail company while in college, served as the CFO for an electric vehicle startup, Lit Motors, and worked for Innovation Endeavors, a seed stage venture fund backed by Eric Schmidt. Prior to Innovation Endeavors, TX worked for McKinsey & Co in their London office where he was part of their financial institutions and consumer goods practices. TX received a M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics (summa cum laude) from Wesleyan University. TX is also an Associate of Chartered Accountants (U.K.) affiliate.

Arteen Arabshahi

Arteen has always had the entrepreneurial bug. Before joining the team at Karlin Ventures, Arteen spearheaded the launch of Built In LA, an online community for digital entrepreneurs and innovators. Prior to Built In LA, his passion for startups flourished while helping run operations at Excelerate Labs, now Techstars Chicago. Arteen graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arizona with a BSBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship.

Erin Shipley

Erin joined Karlin in 2015 from The Weinstein Company, where she structured financial products for the studio and worked on developing strategic initiatives across film, television, music and digital groups. Prior to The Weinstein Company, Erin worked for Deutsche Bank in its Middle East headquarters in Dubai. She received her BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Emerging Market Venture Initiation with a minor in Entrepreneurship.

David Traversi

David M. Traversi is the Chief Executive Officer of Traversi Capital Advisors, LLC, a boutique strategic advisory and investment banking firm based in San Francisco. Previously, he has been a business lawyer, a partner with the investment banking firm of Montgomery Securities, a chief executive of several financial services and IT companies, and a founder of five start-ups. David is also the author of The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-Impact Leader (New Harbinger Publications, 2007), and a frequent speaker on leadership and business. He has also served on the boards of a number of private and public companies. He has an M.B.A. degree (Honors) from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; a J.D. degree from University of California, Davis; and a B.S. degree (Highest Distinction) in Finance from California State University, Chico.

David A. Cohen

David is the Co-Founder of Karlin Real Estate and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Karlin Asset Management, which he founded in 2005. David has over 20 years of experience in principal investing, real estate, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. David held a variety of senior executive positions with Dole (NYSE) and Pacific Holdings, which is comprised of over 25 operating companies and had revenues of over $7 billion. He also served as a Principal in an alternative investment firm with assets of more than $16 billion (acquired by Blackrock). David holds a Master's Degree in Finance with honors from Cambridge University and attended graduate school at Sydney University (Australia) as a Rotary Foundation Scholar, and holds a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Sciences summa cum laude from Boston University.