With extensive domain experience in corporate finance, Robert Reis provides the Funk Ventures advisory board with significant turnaround and M&A expertise.

Mr. Reis has utilized his bottom line approach, task accomplishment and corporate finance knowledge to build, and in some cases rebuild, value for companies he has overseen. For the past eighteen years, Mr. Reis has been President of private equity firm Bristol Capitol, where he increases shareholder value through turnarounds, financial restructurings, Mergers and Acquisitions and the sourcing of debt & equity financing. Notable projects include Environmental Protection Systems, Jamestown Sterling & Bent Bros, International Health Care and Fairfield Paper.

Mr. Reis has been a founder, early stage manager, or buyer of several companies including iLanguage.com, Star Cinema Nocal, American Baltic Capital, Kramer Scrap and Capidyne Systems.  He holds a BSME from the University of Illinois, an MBA from Loyola University Chicago, and has completed Harvard Business School’s OPM program and teaches finance classes for the University of Phoenix.