David Abrams

Managing Partner at Velocity Capital Management

David Abrams is a founding partner at Velocity Capital Management, an alternative investment firm focused on developing leading sports, media, and entertainment companies. With extensive experience in investments, David previously served as Chief Investment Officer at Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, where investments spanned sports, entertainment, media, and technology. David's career also includes a tenure as Managing Partner at Apollo Global Management and Head of Specialty Finance Investment at Credit Suisse. An alumnus of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, David holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics, Finance, and Entrepreneurial Management.

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Velocity Capital Management

Velocity Capital Management is an operationally intensive Middle Market Private Equity firm specializing in the sports, media and entertainment ecosystem. Velocity was co-Founded in 2021 by David Abrams and Arne Rees who collectively have more than 60 years of institutional and domain operating expertise. The Fund seeks to capitalize on the disruption and commercialization of Intellectual Property in the SME industries. The power and stability of IP, combined with this disruption, and the evolution of new industries, has led to an explosion of compelling and institutionally investable companies.