URBAN CAPITAL NETWORK - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- President of Vernonville Asset Management
Eric S. Tait brings over 17 years of work in direct investments and advisory services. His experience includes capital raising and fund creation, operations management, content marketing and lead generation.
Concurrent to co-founding UCN, Eric serves as President of Vernonville Asset Management (VAM), an alternative investment firm that helps high net worth individuals and institutions diversify their portfolios into private markets. With a primary focus on income-producing real estate and early-stage startup firms, VAM currently has over $250M of assets under management. In his free time, Eric likes to relax by the water reading, listening to music and spending time with his family.
Felix Chevalier has worked with emerging enterprises, governmental agencies, and Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and internationally in a cross-section of industries including energy, transportation, agriculture, engineering, and technology. Past and present clients include AT&T, Southwest Airlines, United States Gypsum Corp., Aramark, HDR, and UnitedHealthcare.
Felix is adept at facilitating business development and structuring public-private partnerships by leveraging his business and legal experience. His work includes public finance transactions in excess of $4 billion.
The son of Cuban immigrants, Felix is fluent in Spanish. He enjoys traveling, golf, and coaching his kids' sports teams.
Job Titles:
- Network Partner at Mercury Fund
Heath Butler is a Network Partner at Mercury Fund, where he manages the organization's network platform, including corporate, service provider, and startup community relationships. Heath's investments focus on themes within B2B SaaS, Marketplaces, and Tech-Enabled Services.
Prior to joining Mercury, Heath co-founded Gestalt Theory Venture Partners, a venture studio and angel investing group. Prior to Gestalt, Heath held leadership roles as a seasoned go-to-market and corporate development executive at Insperity (NYSE: NSP), the nation's leading HR outsourcing services provider. Prior to Insperity, Heath led business development for EnergyWorkspace.com, founded a fin-tech startup, and developed his foundational management skills at UPS.
Outside of Mercury, Heath is an active angel investor and mentor in the Houston innovation community and was a founding investor in Station Houston, the programming partner of The Ion. Heath enjoys traveling with family and likes to read, golf, cycle and is an avid poker player.