Our Team

Black Dragon Capital is represented by a team of industry professionals with strong financial backgrounds, operational experience and track records with an emphasis on applying capital mandates for early-stage, expansion and leveraged buyout situations in both private and public companies.

Louis

Louis Hernandez Jr., Founder, Managing Director and CEO

Louis Hernandez Jr. is the founder, managing director and CEO of Black Dragon Capital. He is a primary investor and is the visionary for the firm’s unique strategy for creating market-leading companies. His focus and passion are to advance technology initiatives that enable the active collaboration between individuals, teams, and businesses to reshape industries and provide value.

Hernandez formed the private equity firm after years of successfully operating, advising and investing in companies in all phases of development, completing debt and equity financing in both private and public transactions, and advising companies, their boards of directors, investors, and entrepreneurs.

Before he started Black Dragon Capital, Hernandez created more than $2.3 billion in value and outperformed Nasdaq by 5.5 times where he monetized his investment position.  From this experience, he created his investment methodology outlined in the Black Dragon Playbook™, the Black Dragon Leadership Index ™ and the Black Dragon Way™, which are used as guideposts for building market leading companies that generated significant investment returns.

The award-winning entrepreneur has founded, invested in, and advised technology organizations from initial launch stage to large publicly traded companies. He was executive vice president at RoweCom and chairman and CEO at Open Solutions, both rapidly growing early-stage companies that he grew to hundreds of millions in revenue and guided both through their respective initial public offerings and subsequent strategic sale at exceptional value.

He also led the massive turn around at Avid, a technology and multimedia company, as its chairman and CEO, and founded Payveris, a fast-growing cloud-based money movement platform company. He was an investor or advisor to Unica Corporation, Mobius Management Systems, ScoreBig, iCongo/Hybris, and Ryff among others.

He was advisor to N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder and former CEO of Infosys, on technology strategy and global expansion and has served on numerous corporate boards, including global organizations such as HSBC North America Holdings, HSBC USA, Edison International, and on industry boards such as National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and the Berkeley School of Music. Banking Technology News Inducted Hernandez into its Innovators Hall of Fame and listed him as a Top 25 Innovator in financial technology.

He is the author of three books, “Saving the American Dream,” “Too Small to Fail,” and “The Storyteller’s Dilemma.” Given his expertise in business and technology, he often is called on to appear on Fox Business, CNBC, ABC News, and Bloomberg TV, where he discusses technology, economics, strategic planning, and globalization. He is a frequent speaker at major events in a variety of industries, including the KPMG Leadership Conference.

Through his philanthropic organization, A Little Hope Foundation, Hernandez advances equal opportunity for all children by helping to provide the tools and capabilities they need to fulfill their life purpose and become constructive members of our global community. In recognition of his efforts, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation named him a Community Leader of the Year.

Hernandez was deeply involved with regional economic development serving on numerous economic policies, technology expansion, hospital, science center and educational boards.

Louis Hernandez Jr.

Managing Director, Black Dragon Capital

“We believe the entrepreneurial spirit should be nurtured through experienced execution and is best understood and optimized by peers who have walked-the-walk and talked-the-talk in the same industries that we invest in.”

Louis Hernandez Jr.

Managing Director, Black Dragon Capital

“I founded Black Dragon Capital out of my passion for building market leading companies and working with dedicated entrepreneurs focused on shaping industries.”

Jean-Paul

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Jean-Paul Lausell
Director

Jean-Paul Lausell

Jean-Paul Lausell, Director at Black Dragon Capital, is a proven business builder with a track record in growing technology businesses in internet Infrastructure, Enterprise IT software, Service and mobile applications. He has broad experience in acquisitions capital raising and strategy.

At Black Dragon, Lausell works alongside our portfolio companies across the full spectrum of investment service, including strategy and operational improvement, sourcing and due diligence, or post transaction integration, whether liquidity events or full exits. His areas of focus includer financial leadership, operational improvement, capital raising strategy, strategic planning commercial growth, organizational planning and financial controls for Black Dragon Capital and our portfolio companies.

Previously, he was the chief Financial officer of Enterworks, a cloud based company, where he helped build a successful groth company and manage a significant exit providing a gross return of almost 7x capital investors, before that, served as chief operating  officer and chief financial officer for Rise network, where he spear-headed the company’s transition from a founder-led company to a scalable management structure. Earlier, Lausell was chief executive officer of Trunk Media, an early stage firm that offered a mobile group collaboration app. He also served as chief financial officer of laspfactor, a cloud-based mobile platform that enable field sales staff to better engage and serve customer.

Lausell began his career at Terremarl Worldwide, when he focused in FP&A, investor relations, strategic project, fundraising and M&A. At Terremark, he took part in secondary equity   raises, senior secured and mezzanine debt issuances, two acquisitions and the eventual sale of the company to Verizon.

He also worked at trivet partners LLP, a lower middle-market private equity fund.  He holds an MBA from the Yale school if Management,  a master’s degree I international Relations from Yale University, and Bachelor degree from Hunter College, CUNY and the Evergreen State college.

Tim

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Tim Greenfield
Partner

Tim Greenfield

Tim Greenfield, partner of Black Dragon Capital, is a proven business builder with a track record in growing technology businesses in financial services, mobile applications, e-commerce and software. He has broad experience in acquisitions, capital raising and strategy.

Greenfield’s role at Black Dragon spans the full investment cycle, from sourcing and due diligence to post transaction integration, strategy and operational improvement through to a liquidity event or full exit. His areas of focus include financial leadership, operational improvements, capital raising strategy, strategic planning, commercial growth, organizational planning and financial controls for Black Dragon Capital and our portfolio companies.

Previously, he served as chief revenue officer and president of mobile commerce and payment processing for Net Element, helping to build a leading mobile payment business in Eastern Europe and a growing payment processing business in the United States. Earlier, Greenfield was president of Gold Mobile, an early-stage firm that offered a mobile wallet solution, customer relationship management, mobile apps and mobile couponing products. He also acquired and successfully exited a distribution business and led the turnaround of a distressed industrial company.

Greenfield began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted on strategic and global projects for Fortune 100 clients across a wide range of industries, including e-commerce, cable, retail, private equity, food and beverage, and automotive. He also was a business unit manager at General Electric, working in various management and technical roles in GE Appliances, GE Transportation Systems and GE Power Systems.

He holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, a master’s degree in manufacturing engineering from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Daniel

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Daniel J. Consigli
chief financial officer

Daniel J. Consigli

Daniel J. Consigli is the chief financial officer of Black Dragon Capital. He has 20 years of operating experience, primarily in leadership positions with financial service firms that include banking and asset management businesses, where he specialized in turn-arounds and mergers and acquisitions. His operating experience includes all aspects of finance, strategy, reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and operations. He has experience in private banking, broker dealer, asset management, and financial custodian businesses.  He coordinates financial, accounting, reporting and strategy for Black Dragon Capital.

Consigli has worked at early-stage and large-scale businesses during his career. Before joining Black Dragon, he worked with Luminex Trading & Analytics LLC, an early-stage technology registered broker dealer, where he led the finance and accounting functions. Previously, he worked at Israel Discount Bank of New York, managing banking, investing, asset management, and corporate and commercial real estate lending for the Miami region and Latin America.

Earlier, Consigli was the divisional chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., responsible for 18 divisions, globally executing strategy, finance and infrastructure management of the business line operations.

Dan earned his executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his Bachelor of Science from Babson College.

Sarah

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Sarah Hernandez
Investor relations manager

Sarah Hernandez

Sarah Hernandez is the investor relations manager and manager of operations for Black Dragon Capital.  She has more than 16 years of experience providing project management, coordination and communications support to investors, boards of directors and senior management in a variety of sectors, from banking technology and media to defense and the U.S. military.

Hernandez manages the shared service delivery group for the Black Dragon portfolio companies. The centralized services, which lower costs and drive value, include recruiting, on-boarding, insurance, and compliance reporting. She also is the liaison between investors, the Black Dragon team, advisors, and various board of directors of the portfolio companies.

Before Black Dragon, Hernandez was project manager at Open Solutions, where she managed board of directors’ projects, press interactions and key speaking events for the chairman and CEO and other key executives.   Earlier, she served as executive assistant and project manager to the chairman and CEO of Colt Defense, where she was also the lead ISO auditor.

Hernandez has the distinction of serving in the U.S. Marine Corps as an aviation operation specialist for the presidential Helicopter Squadron One (Marine One), receiving an honorable discharge with the rank of sergeant. She earned her Bachelor of Science in criminal justice administration at Park University.

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Greg O’brien
Human Resources and Administration

Greg O’brien

Greg O’brien coordinates human resources and administrative functions at Black Dragon Capital. He has more than 40 years’ experience in high technology, primarily in the banking software and enterprise software industries. He served in a broad range of functions at the executive level as the partner to CEOs and top management in both large publicly traded and early-stage companies. He has extensive international experience and a broad range of skills that include merger and acquisition, corporate governance, organizational assessment, executive recruitment, compensation, strategic planning and finance with strong business acumen and bottom line orientation.

O’brien has held long-term executive assignments to the CEOs of Avid Technology, Open Solutions, and CashEdge/FiServ and continues to provide advice and governance support to several early-stage companies. Previous roles included senior vice president of human resources at Open Solutions; vice president of human resources worldwide for Mercator Software; vice president of operations and chief administrative officer for CSK Software, a Japanese worldwide banking software and services company, residing in Germany; vice president of human resources and administration for Micrognosis, a global trading systems and solutions provider to the financial industry; and director of human resources and administration for Control Data Corporation.

He holds an MBA with an emphasis in management science and a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting and finance from Pace University in New York City.

Charles

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Charles Gravallese
Accounting and Reporting Manager

Charles M. Gravallese

Charles M. Gravallese is the accounting manager of Black Dragon Capital. Gravallese has 20 years of work experience in multi-national companies serving in accounting, finance and operating functions. He has worked in a variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, services and nonprofit. He also has extensive international reporting experience. 

Gravallese most recently spent several years with Stellar Materials, an international manufacturer of refractory materials, where he led the efforts of the multi-national accounting and finance group. Earlier, he was with Enterprise Car Rental as a senior level accountant for the car sales division. He also was with MedVance Institute, a multi-state for profit college enterprise, where he supervised the accounting department. 

He began his career in public accounting, performing audits in numerous industries, including financial services firms and nonprofit organizations. Gravallese served in the U.S. Air Force as an account manager at Stellar Materials. He earned his Bachelor of Science in accounting at the University of Maryland and his CPA license from the state of Maryland. 

Chandrasekhar

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Chandra Sekhar Kartha
Financial Analyst

Chandra Sekhar Kartha

Chandra Sekhar Kartha is a financial analyst at Black Dragon Capital. Kartha is an experienced merger and acquisition professional with almost a decade of experience in investment banking, strategy and corporate merger and acquisition across several industries.

Previously, his worked with the corporate strategy, merger and acquisition team at IGATE, a NYSE listed information technology services company, culminated in the multibillion-dollar sale of IGATE to Capgemini. At IGATE, he was responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence and closure of inorganic opportunities in the enterprise resource planning and engineering services space. Previously, Chandrasekhar was part of the aerospace merger and acquisition team at Honeywell Technology Solutions Ltd., where his primary responsibility was portfolio rationalization and assessment of M&A opportunities. He began his career at HSBC Investment Banking, where he worked with the global auto sector team based out of London and Hong Kong, advising Europe, Middle East and Africa clients on fund raising and acquisition related activities.

Chandrasekhar has an MBA in finance and strategy from Xavier Institute of Management in Bhubaneswar, India, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Calicut University, India, in electronics and communications.

Loree

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Loree Rossi
Project Manager

Loree Rossi

Loree Rossi is a project manager for Black Dragon Capital. She has over 20 years of experience in public relations, marketing, project management, and administration. She handles a wide range of projects that support the operating and administrative activities, working closely with the managing partner, senior partners and operating leaders of the firm. She coordinates projects for sourcing new deal activity, client outreach on behalf of the portfolio, media content projects and investment activities. Originally from upstate New York, Loree migrated to South Florida in 1996 after completing her education. She began her career in the hospitality industry as an administrative assistant for an exclusive Boca Raton Hotel & Spa. She transitioned into the financial industry where she worked for 15 years as a marketing coordinator for Ameriprise Financials’ southern regional offices. She also worked in media technology as an executive project manager for the Chairman and CEO of Avid. Loree works out of the Southern Florida offices of Black Dragon Capital.