Fundviews Podcast

Today’s guests are Ruth Amundsen and Alden Cleanthes. Ruth is an engineer spending most of her career at NASA and Alden runs a digital art company and has always advocated for clean air, clean water, and environmental awareness. These two rockstars combined efforts to launch Norfolk Solar Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund. 

Norfolk Solar installs solar at no cost to local businesses and non-profits in Qualified Opportunity Zones.  The owner of the building gets the benefit of the free solar electricity after the system payoff period of about 7 years, while investors get to reap the rewards of a tax break on capital gains and modest investments returns. 

Ruth and Alden are continuously building into new markets, and are building a team of like minded individuals to tackle solar installation at a national level. Their impact is incredible and changing the way people finance solar panels.

Today’s guests are Ruth Amundsen and Alden Cleanthes. Ruth is an engineer spending most of her career at NASA and Alden runs a digital art company and has always advocated for clean air, clean water, and environmental awareness. These two rockstars combined efforts to launch Norfolk Solar Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund. 

Norfolk Solar installs solar at no cost to local businesses and non-profits in Qualified Opportunity Zones.  The owner of the building gets the benefit of the free solar electricity after the system payoff period of about 7 years, while investors get to reap the rewards of a tax break on capital gains and modest investments returns. 

Ruth and Alden are continuously building into new markets, and are building a team of like minded individuals to tackle solar installation at a national level. Their impact is incredible and changing the way people finance solar panels.

Greg interviews Kevin Wojton on this week's episode. Kevin moved to New York city after graduating with a double major in Finance and Mandarin. He worked in Banking at Citibank for a couple years before moving to Hong Kong, travelling china, authoring a book called “Climb China” and then moving back to Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

Kevin is constantly learning new things. He learned to code as a full stack software developer, and now runs an Opportunity zone fund and a technology VC fund in Cleveland, while simultaneously building a rock climbing gym within an old masonic temple. Kevin is a very entrepreneurial spirit always looking at the true impact he’s making in local communities.

Greg interviews Kevin Wojton on this week's episode. Kevin moved to New York city after graduating with a double major in Finance and Mandarin. He worked in Banking at Citibank for a couple years before moving to Hong Kong, travelling china, authoring a book called “Climb China” and then moving back to Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

Kevin is constantly learning new things. He learned to code as a full stack software developer, and now runs an Opportunity zone fund and a technology VC fund in Cleveland, while simultaneously building a rock climbing gym within an old masonic temple. Kevin is a very entrepreneurial spirit always looking at the true impact he’s making in local communities.

Greg interviews Mike Zlotnik on the second episode of season 2. 

Mike moved to the US from Moldova (USSR) at a very young age. After a 15 year career in IT and Risk Management, Mike made the shift over to Real Estate Investing. Mike joined the Tempo Fund in 2009, and eventually went on to launch several other real estate focused funds with Tempo as CEO. 

Mike speaks about the importance of keeping fees low, and diversification. Mike hosts the BigMikeFund Podcast and consults as a business coach on the side.

Greg interviews Mike Zlotnik on the second episode of season 2. 

Mike moved to the US from Moldova (USSR) at a very young age. After a 15 year career in IT and Risk Management, Mike made the shift over to Real Estate Investing. Mike joined the Tempo Fund in 2009, and eventually went on to launch several other real estate focused funds with Tempo as CEO. 

Mike speaks about the importance of keeping fees low, and diversification. Mike hosts the BigMikeFund Podcast and consults as a business coach on the side.

Greg interviews Eros Resmini on the first episode of season 2. Eros speaks about the early days growing up in Silicon Valley, and how he naturally gravitated towards startups and entrepreneurship. Eros launched his career at Hewlett Packard through an MBA rotational program, before joining a gaming platform company run by Jason Citron called OpenFeint. 

OpenFeint was sold to a Japanese company called GREE for $104 Million. Eros then went on to help shape Discord in an operational role as CMO. Finally he fell back to his roots of helping young startups grow through his group called The Mini Fund focused on angel investing and advisory.

Greg interviews Eros Resmini on the first episode of season 2. Eros speaks about the early days growing up in Silicon Valley, and how he naturally gravitated towards startups and entrepreneurship. Eros launched his career at Hewlett Packard through an MBA rotational program, before joining a gaming platform company run by Jason Citron called OpenFeint. 

OpenFeint was sold to a Japanese company called GREE for $104 Million. Eros then went on to help shape Discord in an operational role as CMO. Finally he fell back to his roots of helping young startups grow through his group called The Mini Fund focused on angel investing and advisory.

Molly Canfield-Poapst interviews Greg Poapst. Greg is the host of the Fundviews Podcast and Head of Operations for Glide Capital. Greg grew up in Brockville, Canada and moved to Ottawa, Canada to study at Carleton University. 

Greg speaks about his time studying at Carleton, and how he figured out his career path. He switched majors three times and went back for an additional year of finance courses in order to learn more and find a foot in the door in investment management. 

Greg speaks about how important it was for him to speak with investment professionals to discover what he wanted to do, and the persistence that kept him going throughout those years. Greg founded Fundviews in order to give other students and professionals the ability to learn from the experience of others.

Today, Greg resides in Miami, Florida with his wife Molly. He looks forward to continued stories and conversations on Fundviews in the future.

Molly Canfield-Poapst interviews Greg Poapst. Greg is the host of the Fundviews Podcast and Head of Operations for Glide Capital. Greg grew up in Brockville, Canada and moved to Ottawa, Canada to study at Carleton University. 

Greg speaks about his time studying at Carleton, and how he figured out his career path. He switched majors three times and went back for an additional year of finance courses in order to learn more and find a foot in the door in investment management. 

Greg speaks about how important it was for him to speak with investment professionals to discover what he wanted to do, and the persistence that kept him going throughout those years. Greg founded Fundviews in order to give other students and professionals the ability to learn from the experience of others.

Today, Greg resides in Miami, Florida with his wife Molly. He looks forward to continued stories and conversations on Fundviews in the future.