The Business of Vices: Gambling, Cannabis, Pornography, Firearms - To Invest or Not?

Panelist Rick Cope is an entrepreneurial executive delivering high-tech, high-impact growth from research to sustainable revenue, propelling bottom line results. He is a team motivator and innovation driver building vision-focused producers in dynamic environments, with 40+ issued/filed patents. Lauded by the Hudson Institute as the creator of the best Public-Private DARPA Partnership in history.
He currently serves as Founder and consultant with MARA6. He previously served as Founder and CEO of NanoLumens, a company who designs and manufactures digital visualization solutions for industry influencers, technology leaders, sports franchises and travel providers.  A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Cope has been involved in several other companies throughout his career.
Rick spent many years as a United States Marine and served as an advisor to General Schwarzkopf in Desert Storm. He and his wife Karen Robinson are active members in the philanthropic community here in Atlanta and abroad.

• 20+ years of Leveraged Finance and M&a experience

• Closed over $1B in distressed syndicated loans for Private Equity Firms

• Successful Real estate and Cannabis Investor

Managing Director Wachovia Bank - Tiffany has been a seasoned leveraged finance professional her entire career. She is responsible for originating, underwriting, syndicating and closing some of the largest leveraged loans in the market at the time. Tiffany’s coverage of the M&A markets to the private equity firms allowed her network to expand to large national and international syndicated transactions where she was responsible for closing over $1B in leveraged loans.

Managing Partner TPL Analytics - After her retirement from leveraged finance, she founded a firm specializing in investing in real estate and Cannabis investments on behalf of private equity, legal and high net worth professionals.

Tiffany is responsible for all facets of the deal process from cultivating deal flow to underwriting and closing deals on behalf of her network of investors. Tiffany has brought over $20MM of capital to 8 transactions over the last 3 years in the Cannabis space.

Florida State University, BS in Finance.

Tiffany is married with two children and lives in the South Florida area where she enjoys training for Ironman and Marathon Races

Subhadra joined Chatham in early 2016. She brings over 15 years of investment banking experience having worked as a Director and Vice President in the Leveraged Finance groups at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, respectively, where she was integral in leading and executing over 250 leveraged buyout, dividend recap, acquisition and other financing deals in the healthcare, media & telecom, chemical, consumer & retail, technology and general industrial sectors. Prior to that, she worked at Deutsche Bank and BNP in Singapore covering project financing for infrastructure projects in Asia. Subhadra started her career as an auditor at KPMG and has a Bachelors and Masters of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as well as an MBA (with Honors) from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania majoring in Finance and Accounting.