Who Are We?

VTHP was founded by Mark Abbott. Mark has significant senior executive, investor and advisory/board experience with start-ups, early stage, and small to mid-sized companies.

Mark’s background includes helping build, and later running, Heller Financial’s industry-leading merchant banking platform, which he helped grow from <$2 billion and 120 employees to >$5 billion and >200 employees. Mark also helped take Heller public (NYSE: HFI) and sat on a number of its leadership committees. Mark was also a senior partner of a successful middle-market oriented private equity firm, as well as the founding CEO of a >$450 million commercial finance company.

Mark’s investor experiences include >$12 billion in leveraged loans to >450 companies, direct private equity investments in >100 companies (>2.5 times return on monies invested), and investing in >40 different private equity funds.

Mark’s board experiences include serving as Chairman of the Board of five companies, board-level positions on an additional eight, and a number of advisory board positions.

Mentoring Leadership Teams

Entrepreneur, CEO and coach with decades of experience across startups, early-stage, small and mid-size companies. Visionary/Founder of Ninety.io and a sought-after business leader, writer and executive-team coach. Track record includes generating over $1 billion in gains for his colleagues and investors. Dual passion is teaching visionary leadership teams how to build extraordinarily productive, humane and resilient companies AND building every one of the core cloud-based tools needed to make the associated journey almost easy.