Our
Team

Bret is a Managing General Partner at MK Capital. He is also the Managing General Partner on three of the Productivity Funds totaling $200 million in committed capital. Bret has been a decision-making partner in six other fully invested funds, representing over $300 million in committed capital. Prior to founding MK Capital, he was the co-Founder of First Analysis’ venture capital practice in 1985. Bret’s areas of expertise include outsourced business services, telecom and internet infrastructure, and energy and power infrastructure. Bret is a graduate of The McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University and Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management. He has served as the Chairman of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, and is a director on the board of Mount Sinai Hospital and on the finance committee of the Jewish United Fund. He is also Certified Financial Analyst.

Mark Koulogeorge is Managing General Partner of MK Capital where he leads the firm’s digital marketing and software investment practices and has over eighteen years of venture capital experience. Mark’s functional expertise is in developing sales, marketing and distribution strategies to achieve market leadership and in the building of high performance executive teams.

Mark has served on the boards of directors of over 20 technology companies which have generated over $400 million of realized gains for his investors. He has been the lead or first institutional investor in a number of significant technology companies including: Tradex Technologies (sold to Ariba for $1.8 billion), Aprimo (sold to Teradata for $540 million), Initiate Systems (sold to IBM for $424 million) and The Cobalt Group (sold to ADP for $400 million).

Prior to founding MK Capital, Mark was a managing director at First Analysis and served as a general partner of The Productivity Fund III & The Productivity Fund IV. Prior to his career in venture capital, Mr. Koulogeorge was an Executive Officer of Eagle Industries, a $1.5 billion diversified manufacturer, controlled by Chicago entrepreneur Sam Zell and earlier a consultant with Booz Allen. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Kirk is a Partner with MK Capital and focuses on enterprise software-as-a-service investment opportunities. Prior to joining MK Capital, Kirk was an early-stage employee and field operations executive at Ariba, led the construction of the first business-to-consumer online store at Motorola, and worked at Accenture serving clients in the telecommunications sector. Kirk currently serves on the boards of OneCause and Kollective. Kirk received his MBA from Stanford University and his Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Josh is a Partner at MK Capital, operating out of MK’s Ann Arbor, Michigan office.  Josh leads the firm’s supply chain technology investment practice and also contributes additional expertise in the broader enterprise software category.  Prior to joining MK Capital, Josh served as a Director and Chief Financial Officer with Arbor Partners, an Ann Arbor, Michigan based venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise software opportunities.  He also has prior experience managing mergers and acquisitions transactions in the healthcare services industry, and also previously worked as an equity analyst covering various companies operating in the technology, manufacturing and energy sectors.  Josh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Hillsdale College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan.

Sultan Mehrabi is a Venture Partner at MK Capital. Prior to joining MK Capital Sultan co-founded Zensurance, a commercial Insurtech startup. The company was acquired by The Travelers Companies Inc. in 2018. Prior to starting Zensurance Sultan was Head of Strategy at Kijiji, Canada’s largest consumer to consumer classifieds marketplace. He began his career as a software engineer. Sultan is passionate about building high performing product teams.

Sultan graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Computer Science degree and has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Anthony Trufanov is a research analyst at MK Capital. Prior to joining MK Capital, Anthony helped build nationally competitive intercollegiate speech and debate teams at Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, the University of Kentucky. Anthony was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, establishing an island-wide competitive debate circuit and teaching professional development seminars on research, speech, and online information literacy. Anthony holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky.