Keith Camhi, Founder and Chairman
Keith, a leading authority on the application of technology to health and fitness, co-founded FitLinxx with Andy Greenberg in 1993. He developed the idea for FitLinxx during graduate school, finding his workout card and golf pencil an inconvenient way to track his exercise progress. Before founding FitLinxx, Keith worked in various management, product development, and operations capacities for organizations including the Artificial Intelligence Lab of Digital Equipment Corp., the medical imaging group of Polaroid, and the computer infrastructure supplier for Bloomberg, LP. He earned a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University and dual MS degrees in Management and Computer Science from MIT. Keith is a frequent speaker on the impact of technology on the health and fitness industry at conferences such as IHRSA, Club Industry, YMCA COO and Major Facilities, Association of Worksite Health Promotion, Medical Fitness Association, and the MIT graduate program on product innovation. He is also the founder of
Great Play gyms for kids.
Arthur Appel
Art possesses an extensive background in the manufacturing, engineered systems and wholesale distribution sectors. His entrepreneurial skills led to the successful founding of two significant organizations, both of which were sold profitably to strategic acquirers. His management experience includes the full range of responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer, including the management of manufacturing, operations, engineering, sales and marketing, human resources, internal controls and the planning and oversight of strategic financial matters.
David Coit, North Atlantic Capital
David, the Managing Director of North Atlantic Capital, has been investing in private companies for over 20 years. Prior to founding North Atlantic Capital, he was President of Maine Capital Corporation. For six years he was at the First National Bank of Boston. He earned a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies.
David Crampton, CEO
David has spent most of the past two decades either leading investor-backed businesses through periods of rapid growth, or consulting for high-growth companies. He started by helping launch CapitaLink Securities, an electronic bond auction network. He then spent 7 years with McKinsey & Co., a leading management-consulting firm, where he worked with senior executives in a range of industries and functional areas. Beginning in 1996, he returned to working with venture-backed businesses. Since then, as CEO, he has led three different companies, including FitLinxx, which he joined in March 2003. First he turned around National School Reporting Services, building it into a profitable, nationwide-provider of independent assessment data on public schools, and partnering with such companies as Yahoo!, Cendant and Knight-Ridder newspapers. Following that, he led PC Flowers & Gifts, the first online flower and gift company, through rapid expansion and a planned public offering. In each case he worked closely with company founders to help expand the businesses, improve operations, and achieve consistent profitability. He has a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
John Warburg, Warbros Venture Partners
John is a partner in Warbros Venture Partners, a private equity investment firm he co-founded in 1996. Prior to co-founding Warbros, John spent eight years working in various marketing capacities in the consumer packaged goods industry – first at Best Foods/CPC, where he managed major food brands, such as Skippy Peanut Butter, and later as a marketing consultant to large and small companies in a variety of industries. In between, he worked at Callard & Bowser (a small candy company later acquired by Kraft Food), where he helped to build Altoids Peppermints from an unknown $7M brand into the #1 selling mint product in the U.S. with sales today of over $100M. Prior to these experiences, John worked in equity research at Lehman Brothers. John received his BA from Brown University and his MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.
M. Joshua Tolkoff, Managing Director, Ironwood Capital
Josh has thirty years of in-depth experience in research, development, manufacturing, regulatory affairs and general management of medical device companies. Josh started his career as the Vice President of Research and Development for Medi-Tech, which became Boston Scientific, and helped grow that company to 500 employees. Josh then went on to start two of his own companies, including ACT Medical, Inc., an outsourcing resource for medical device companies. He built the company to over $25 million in sales and sold it to a publicly traded company in 2000 for a 160x return on investment. From 2000 to 2003, Josh Tolkoff served as a Partner of Seedling Enterprises, an incubator fund that was created to find and develop early stage medical device concepts to a point of increased value. To date, Seedling has exited three of its investments at a significant gain and has spun off three additional projects as venture-financed companies. Josh is recognized as a leading figure in the medical device community and currently serves on the board of several privately held companies, chaired MassMedic, a 300+ industry trade group, and chairs the advisory board of the Harvard-M.I.T. Health Science & Technology (HST) program. He has a BA from Harvard College and an M.S, Biomechanics from MIT.
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