Management Team

Robert Skinner, Chief Executive Officer

In addition to his responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer of Agility Capital, LLC, Mr. Skinner is COO and General Counsel of Montecito Bank and Trust and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Towbes Group Incorporated, a fully integrated real estate investment, development, and property management company. Mr Skinner joined the Towbes Group, Incorporated in 1997. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in 1999. 

Mr. Skinner also serves on the Board of Directors of Montecito Bank & Trust. In that capacity, he serves on the Board's Mergers & Acquisitions, Loan, and Trust committees. Mr. Skinner is also a member of the Bank's Asset & Liability, Executive, and Venture Lending Committees. In 1998, Mr. Skinner was named as the Bank's General Counsel. In addition to his real estate and banking responsibilities, Mr. Skinner is a Managing Member of Towbes Capital Partners, a real estate fund that he co-founded and helped to raise. 

Prior to joining The Towbes Group, Mr. Skinner spent almost seven years with the international law firm of White & Case in its Los Angeles and in New York offices. During his tenure at White & Case, Mr. Skinner was involved in a wide variety of matters ranging from corporate reorganization and insolvency matters to high profile litigation cases where he represented such clients as The Tokai Bank, Swiss Bank and Wells Fargo Bank. Mr. Skinner's legal expertise covers complex business litigation, and construction and real estate law. 

As a contributor to the community, Mr. Skinner serves on the Boards of Directors of The Towbes Foundation, Camerata Pacifica and the development committee for the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Mr. Skinner is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1985 and a Juris Doctorate in 1990. Most recently, he was appointed to the USC Law School Board of Councilors.

Daniel Corry, Chief Credit Officer phone: 805.568.0425 email:  daniel@agilitycap.com

Daniel has 20 years of experience providing structured debt products to emerging growth venture capital backed and small cap public companies. He has been involved with over 500 transactions.

In 1996 he co-founded Sand Hill Capital, a leading Venture Debt provider located in Menlo Park, California. He served as a General Partner and was involved with all facets of the fund.

Prior to founding Sand Hill, Daniel spent 10 years with Silicon Valley Bank and Bank of the West in the Technology Lending Groups of both institutions. He was instrumental in the formation of the technology lending philosophy, and was directly involved in lending, underwriting, debt restructuring and warrant valuation.

Daniel has private company operating experience serving as the co-founder and CFO of Planetweather, an internet based weather site and as interim Chairman of Paraform Corporation, a digital software company. He played a key role in selling both of these companies.

He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, an active member of the Commercial Finance Association, an organic Avocado farmer and father of three girls.

Jeff Carmody, Chief Operating Officer phone: 805.568.0424 email:  jeff@agilitycap.com

Jeff has an extensive background in venture debt financing through his years of experience at Sand Hill Capital and his current managing role at Agility Capital. Jeff is a founding board member of the Westlake Village/Santa Barbara Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels, a southern California-based angel investment capital group.

He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Coast MIT Enterprise Forum and has Chaired the Advisory Committee for the Technology Council for the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce. He is also an active member of the Selection Committee for the South Coast Business & Technology Awards Dinner, a member of the Central Coast Venture Forum Steering Committee and a panelist at many business plan competitions.

He is a graduate of UCSB and is most proud of his accomplishments as a loving husband and father of two young sons.

Staff

Leigh White, Business Development, Northern California phone: 650.804.9220 email:   leigh@agilitycap.com

Leigh White's 20-year career in finance began in Kansas with a regional mergers and acquisitions firm. Leigh came to California to attend Stanford Law School, earning her JD in 1996. She was recruited into venture capital soon after law school, consulting with Silicon Valley firms (including Sand Hill Capital) on the financial and legal aspects of formation of new funds. In 1998, Leigh joined Sunrise Capital, an early stage venture capital fund, where she partnered to raise two new investment funds and managed investments in more than 60 companies. Leigh founded Contare Ventures in 2000, a lending fund based in Menlo Park, CA participating in loans made by Agility Capital and Sand Hill Capital. Over the years Leigh has served as an advisor and as board member of numerous private companies, establishing an extensive network throughout the country and across industries. She is an active alumnus of Stanford and has committed much of her time serving on non-profit boards.

Conor Wagner, Analyst  phone: 805.568.0423 email:  cwagner@agilitycap.com

Conor is a graduate of UCSB and a Level 3 candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst program. He previously worked with a start-up telecommunications firm and understands the demands and challenges of a growing company. He is married and in his spare time he enjoys surfing, tennis and distance running.

Senior Advisors

John Cambon, San Diego phone: 858.509.9030 email:   jcambon@pacbell.net

John has over twenty five years experience in the management and financing of early stage companies, corporate finance and planning, and investment management. Since 2000 John has been an active partner in Commercial Bridge Capital, LLC, a venture lending fund based in San Diego. John has held roles as CEO and Director of Genetic BioSystems, Inc. a venture funded start up company developing products for biomedical research, and President and Director of AMBIS, Inc. a biomedical equipment company. John also served as CEO and Director of Digivision, Inc., a medical imaging equipment company.

John is former President of the UCSD Alumni Association and is a Trustee of the UCSD Foundation Board and is Chairman of the Investment Committee. In addition he currently serves on the Board of Directors of eStudySite, Inc. and MediaGear, Inc.

John holds a BA in Economics from the University of California, Irvine and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.

David Spaulding, Ph.D.

In his 20 years of research, development, marketing, and management experience in the biosciences industry, David's corporate positions have included Director of Technology & Business Development, Global Product Manager, and Vice President of R&D. His career has spanned both diagnostics and therapeutics, and he was instrumental in the construction of several ground-breaking alliances between diagnostic and biopharmaceutical companies for the development of new predictive assays for targeted oncology therapies.

As an independent consultant, David has worked with biopharmaceutical and diagnostics companies on matters of strategy, technology development, licensing, and marketing; as a Healthcare Advisor to the Los Angeles Regional Tech Alliance (LARTA); and as a due diligence advisor to bioscience investors.

David is currently Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer at Stellar Biotechnologies Inc., which is developing a biologic platform technology for therapeutic and preventive vaccines. David received his B.A. in Aquatic Biology and his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.