John W. Polis Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

Investing in the Growth Engine of America ® – Star Mountain provides: (i) Strategic Debt & Equity Capital to private businesses that have at least $15 million of revenue and under $50 million of EBITDA and (ii) Liquidity Solutions to investors and fund managers (“Secondaries”) including purchasing LP interests and direct investments in lower middle-market private credit and private equity funds in addition to providing fund managers with NAV loans. Star Mountain’s data-driven approach, bringing large market expertise and resources to private equity and private credit investing is powered by its custom-built technology and its Collaborative Ecosystem ®.

New York City, Us

Visionary Access Inc. is an investor and business development platform. Clients hire Visionary when they are looking to raise capital to expand their business and Visionary helps them find investors and arrange financing.

New York City, Us

Visionary Access Inc. is an investor and business development platform. Clients hire Visionary when they are looking to raise capital to expand their business and Visionary helps them find investors and arrange financing. Specific accomplishments include:• Redefined product offering and re-launched business.• Redesigned all messaging, primary marketing, and email/drip marketing campaigns.• Redefined inter-organizational structure.• Developed 3 year business plan and budgets.• Cleaned up cap table; authored investment offering; raised capital.• Website re-design and deployment.• Enhancing and managing existing SalesForce CRM platform while a custom CRM portal is being built.

New York, Ny, Us

Guidepoint Global (competitor to GLG - Gerson Lehrman Group) is a primary research firm serving the world's leading Institutional Investors, Private Equity Firms and Corporations.Guidepoint delivers insight to business decision-makers through on-demand interactions with their worldwide network of over 150,000 industry experts via private telephone consultations, customized surveys, and in-person meetings and events, as well as proprietary data products.Guidepoint is unique in combining a powerful expert network with sector-focused research managers and a high touch service model.Headquartered in New York, Guidepoint has additional offices with dedicated client service professionals in London, Singapore, and Shanghai.

MergeSkillz.com was a matchmaking toolset for business experts, entrepreneurs, and investors. It used proprietary matchmaking technology to help business experts, entrepreneurs, and investors find one another and collaborate on new ideas, ventures, and startups or posted private and government opportunities.

New York, Ny, Us

Coleman Research Group, Inc. (CRG) is an international primary research firm (expert network/financial services) servicing institutional investors, consulting firms, and corporations. It is a top competitor to GLG - Gerson Lehrman Group. Brought on in January 2005 in a dual COO/CTO role to oversee the engineering and development of Knowledge Broker™ and to build out the company's operational and technology infrastructure, John was also responsible for building and overseeing all operational areas at CRG including professional services, recruiting, account management, compliance, human resources, and data management. CRG also had a broker-dealer arm, Coleman Brokerage Group, for which John was also responsible and became Series 7 and 24 licensed for.Was the 1st employee hired after company secured $1m financing and immediately led the product management and development effort on their custom built, Web based CRM, Payment Processing, and Management Information System, Knowledge Broker™. Implemented Accura Financials, developed the General Ledger, and integrated Accura with ADP. Because of these initiatives Coleman Research was able to grow and scale from 5 employees and approximately $250k annually in revenues in 2005 to a run rate of $30M+ annually with 140 employees in 4 cities worldwide and in 2009 was voted one of Crain's New York "Best Places to Work in New York City".

Edison, Nj, Us

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Ba, Economics

Mba, Management

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