Prior to co-founding The Nashton Company, Jason Pananos served as the Co-CEO of Vector Disease Acquisition, a holding company that provides vector-borne disease prevention programs and lake management services. Under Jason’s leadership, the company made 14 acquisitions and grew at a CAGR of 43%. Vector Disease Acquisition was acquired by Rentokil Initial (FTSE: RTO) in November of 2017.
Jason is a Senior Lecturer at The Harvard Business School, where he teaches a course on Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition.
Jason obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA in finance from the UMass Amherst. Jason and his wife Danielle have four children and live in Longmeadow, MA.
Scott Stiff is the VP of Business Development at Lincoln Woods. He contributes to theme development, sourcing execution, deal management, and fund administration.
Prior to Lincoln Woods, Scott held various operating and investing roles within the search fund ecosystem including Director of Growth at The Skin Center, Chief of Staff at Da Vinci, Junior Partner at Anodize Capital Partners, and at Search Fund Accelerator, where he began his career supporting searchers and portfolio company CEOs.
Scott graduated cum laude with a BBA in finance from Loyola University and he currently resides in the greater Chicagoland area.
Kent Weaver has invested in over 75 middle-market companies as an individual investor and with Granite Point Partners.
He has partnered with entrepreneurs to build successful businesses such as VRI (remote patient monitoring), Discover Outsourcing (HR outsourcing), Fieldedge (field technician software), mTab (database tool), Neuro International (brain trauma residential), Integra (health provider network), and CALO (teen mental health), among many investments. Kent is also currently Executive Chairman at a Northern California-based home health care company acquired using a self-funded search fund model.
Previously, Kent held executive positions for a VC-backed marketing automation startup, in Pepsico’s Pizza Hut Division, and at Ernst & Young. He received his MBA at UCLA and BS from USC.
Dan Doud is the founder and Managing Partner of Lincoln Woods. He is also the CEO and Executive Chairman of Restoration Services Group, an insurance billing provider in the disaster restoration industry.
Prior to Lincoln Woods, Dan ran Bondcliff Partners, a traditional search fund that failed to acquire a business. Despite that outcome, Dan became the CEO of One Claim Solution, which has since expanded into the Restoration Services Group. He was also a Senior Manager in the Private Equity Group at Bain & Company, and began his career in corporate finance at General Electric.
Dan received an MBA from Northwestern University and a BS in finance from Northeastern University. He and his wife, Blake, have two children and live in Charleston, South Carolina.