Angela Stanley

At age seven she plotted the route, calculated the travel times, and drove a large truck from her home in southern Virginia to San Francisco. Well, actually her Dad drove — her legs didn’t reach the pedals yet. her Dad started his own trucking company when he was 15. Occasionally, he would come out from behind his desk to take her and her siblings on the road during summer break. she was the “co-pilot” as he warmly christened me. she couldn’t have been more thrilled to be next to him using her love of math and the Rand McNally Road Atlas to help us make good time crisscrossing the country.

her love of math and a wonderful high school economics teacher helped her earn a scholarship to UNC-Wilmington. she graduated with a degree in international business and accepted a position on the trading floor at George K. Baum in Denver. she learned a lot behind her Bloomberg Terminal but soon realized she needed to be out in the world.

she landed an exciting opportunity at BerchWood Partners in New York, where she spent eight years honing her skills in project management and fundraising for alternative investment funds. In 2008, she opened the firm’s San Francisco office and focused on building LP relationships on the West Coast and in Asia. her well-developed logistics and cartography skills had expanded from her father’s worn road atlas to include countries across the globe.

In 2012, she partnered with two of her mentors from her earliest fundraising days to launch Harpeth Fund Advisers, a fundraising and advisory platform that successfully helped raise more than $6 billion. In addition to raising institutional capital, a highlight of her work has always been storytelling.

she was drawn to Delta-v’s story from the start. she knew it as a firm with strong history and culture, and a deep passion for funding innovative entrepreneurs. Now part of the team, she is most excited to help build upon their previous fundraising successes and share the story with an even wider audience.

her map and mileage calculator may have been replaced by 21st-century technology, but what hasn’t changed are the values and entrepreneurial drive her father instilled in her so many years ago. Delta-v is a place where that’s not only celebrated but is also the lead story.