Our Team.

Our Team

Kent McCammon

Kent McCammon graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce at University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce concentrating in Finance and Management Information Systems in 1989. [+]

He started his career in software development (database design) then transitioned into Investment Banking (biotechnology and health care). He then went to earn his MBA at Darden where he was a Shermet Scholar and was awarded the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence. [+] (if somebody hits the plus sign, what’s below will pop up.

He returned to Investment Banking (Lehman Brothers) which led to a career in Investment Management. He formed a hedge fund at Atlantic Capital that was ranked number 5 in the
country in 1999. He then transitioned into venture investing by working for Trader Ventures (AutoTrader, Inc.). After venture investing, he was recruited to form the Shamrock Activist Fund for the Disney family in Los Angeles and helped raise $1.5 billion. He successfully ran the fund before being recruited to start the Corporate Development team at Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRA) Group. During his 14 years at PRA Group, he led all acquisitions, doubling the footprint and revenues of the company and leading their expansion into 17 countries while also diversifying then divesting of fee service businesses. He consequently returned more capital to investors than the base business when calculated using total capital and internal rates of return. His time at PRA Group was highlighted by winning the 2014 Atlas M&A Deal of the Year with his $1.3 billion acquisition of Aktiv Capital based in Oslo, Norway. When the new CEO decided to de-emphasize the importance of Corporate Development, he formed an investor group to inject capital into Vertican Technologies and became the CFO and the Investor Group representative on the Board in November 2021.

As a Managing Partner at First Landing Capital, Kent is in charge of both sourcing and executing on investment ideas, with an emphasis on publicly-traded companies.

When not crunching the numbers, Kent is an avid tennis player and a better-than-decent golfer.

Matthew Roiz

Mr. Roiz has over 20 years of transaction advisory, principal investment and operating experience primarily focused on the middle market. [+]

He has worked extensively with boards and senior management teams on strategic growth and value creation initiatives, as well as numerous financing and change-of-control transactions. Prior to his current role at Vertican, Mr. Roiz was at Shamrock Capital a $1.25b hedge fund. While there he worked on over a dozen investments and helped facilitate the sale of multiple companies through activist Board interaction.

He also has operating experience having been the acting head of M&A for Belkin, a $1 billion consumer electronics company, as well as the CFO at KLEAN Treatment Centers, where he helped oversee the tripling of both residential and outpatient facilities. He started his career as an investment banking analyst at Bear Stearns.

Outside of his professional commitments, Matt is actively involved with various not-for-profit organizations including the American Legion, the Portsmouth, Virginia Historic Preservation Committee, as well as the Swimming Point Conservancy. He is an active member of both The Army Navy Club of Washington D.C. as well as the Marines’ Memorial Club in San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Southern California (magna cum laude) and was a Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal diver in Coronado, California.