Meet our Executives in Residence
An Executive in Residence is a seasoned executive and subject-matter expert who generously shares their wealth of experience and profound expertise with our startup founders. Through a combination of comprehensive group sessions and tailored one-on-one interactions, these executives provide invaluable guidance, imparting both broad insights and personalized advice to empower our startup community.

Risk, Compliance, and Governance
Teresa Burton
A self-described dot collector & philomath, driven by curiosity. A strong leader with proven compliance, risk, project, and change management expertise. A Vendor Management Thought Leader with expertise in all stages of the vendor relationship lifecycle. A Fintech advocate and founder mentor. Self-starter with continuous improvement, organizational and communication skills. Adaptive to diverse business objectives and needs in fast paced challenging environments. Leads by a sense of purpose, a meaningful vision of the future and building strong relationships.

Growth architect
Marisa Petriano
Marisa brings a rare versatility to her approach, built on a career navigating corporate complexity, managing the lean realities of high-growth startups, and setting agency clients up for success. Guided by her foundational roots in consumer packaged goods (CPG), she injects a customer-centric perspective into financial services. She’s skilled at working cross-organizationally within tech organizations to help teams translate complex technical features into human-centric narratives.

risk management, strategic partnerships, & sustainable growth
Gilberto ramirez
For the past few years, Gil has been mentoring founders, helping them scale their businesses while addressing critical risk management needs. Passionate about fostering innovation, Gil has enjoyed working with the RevTech Labs team and supporting the incredible companies that have gone through the accelerator. As an Executive in Residence, he looks forward to continuing this work and helping founders build resilient businesses and achieve sustainable growth.

Sales/Business Development Strategy for Community Banking
Dave Hunkele
Advisor to Fintech founders looking to drive their next stage of growth; emphasis on improving value proposition, sales effectiveness and growth through business development and partnerships.

B2B Sales
Chip Royce
Chip Royce is a fractional revenue executive and consultant to specialized B2B technology companies. He provides sales & marketing leadership and identifies go-to-market strategies and playbooks to unlock growth.

Retired Risk Management Executive
Barry Greenblatt
Mr. Greenblatt enjoyed a 35+ year career in financial services risk management, holding various roles at money center banks and an insurance company. He held senior risk management roles in the United States and London with responsibilities for numerous financial products including all types of derivative products, corporate loans, high yield bonds, asset securitization and non-recourse project finance.

Investments/Capital Markets/Corporate Finance
Ken Gacevich
Seasoned investment professional with several years of Management and advisory experience across the capital structure including: Private Equity (public/private); private debt (lending; principal investing; workouts; special situations); tax advantaged financing; secondary mortgage backed securities; alternative investments; real estate.
