TEAM:

The EMG family brings together seasoned professionals (and entrepreneurs-at-heart):

  1. •A distinguished group of proven executives, investment bankers, entrepreneurs & venture capitalists

  2. •Experience guiding hundreds of companies through every phase of development

  3. •Entrepreneurial backgrounds with expertise in fulfilling growth potential

  4. •Success across a wide range of enterprises: start-ups & industry leaders; from low-tech products through high-tech solutions; niche

  1. players & global brands; revolutionary ideas or simply a better mousetrap

  2. •Leadership, relationships & guidance based upon integrity & ethics

The collective experience of our leadership team is extensive; they’ve worked together for many years and with numerous successful emerging growth companies including Starbucks, Apollo Group, Google, and First Solar. 

Our three co-founders and principals have been involved with over 100 IPOs and over $10 billion in transactions.

MORE ABOUT EMG:

  1. •Purpose

  2. •Team

  3. •Portfolio Companies

  4. •Inspiration

  1. Michael T. Moe

  2. CHAIRMAN

  3. Michael Moe was the co-founder and CEO of ThinkEquity Partners, which grew to $70 million in revenue in six years prior to being sold to London-based Panmure Gordon.  Before starting ThinkEquity, Michael ran Global Growth Research for Merrill Lynch, and he has been named “Best on the Street” by the The Wall Street Journal and to the “All American Team” by Institutional Investor.  In 2006, his first book Finding the Next Starbucks was published and went through three printings in five languages.  He is also a former partner at Montgomery Securities.

  1. Michael M. Carter

  2. PRESIDENT & CEO
    DIRECTOR

  3. Mike Carter was Managing Director of The Musser Group before founding EMG, where he worked alongside legendary investor Warren V. "Pete" Musser helping entrepreneurs to finance, structure, and build growth companies.  During that time, he served as president and CEO of clean-tech lighting leader Ceelite, where he successfully restructured operations.  A former technology entrepreneur and executive, Mike was the founder and CEO of both Dashboard Systems and Ajunto, the first online marketplace for the IT Industry (now part of SOA Software), and was CMO of US Interactive, helped take the company public as the youngest ever office of a Safeguard Scientifics partner company.  Carter began his career as a business analyst at Cambridge Technology Partners.

  1. Mark L. Moe

  2. COO
    DIRECTOR

  3. Mark Moe was a partner at ThinkEquity Partners where he was Head of Consumer Investment Banking, Co-Head of Wealth Management, a top institutional salesman, and member of the Operating Committee.  Previously, Mark was a Principal at Piper Jaffray and top institutional sales and banking professional and an attorney in Minneapolis working with closely held corporations and entrepreneur driven companies.

Board of Directors:

  1. Michael Abbott—VP of Engineering, Twitter; Former Senior VP, Palm; General Manager, Microsoft; Founder, Composite Software

  2. Admiral Thomas Lynch—Former Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy; Former President, CompuComm; Former Executive VP, Safeguard Scientifics


  1. Warren V. "Pete" Musser—CEO, The Musser Group; Former Founder, Chairman & CEO, Safeguard Scientifics; Founding Investor behind Comcast, Novell, Cambridge Technology Partners & Internet Capital Group

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