Brad Corona

Brad Corona is the Managing Director at Vertical Venture Partners. Brad has 14 years of investment, operating, and corporate advisory experience, including roles as an investment banker, entrepreneur and early-stage investment professional. He is actively involved with portfolio companies Ordermark, Profitect, Redeam, SOCi, and Zipari. In addition to his role at Vertical Venture Partners, Brad is a Venture Partner at Lakewood & Company, where he focuses on the execution of venture capital investments. Representative investments include SOCi, Profitect, RiskSense, and IdentityMind Global. Before Lakewood, Brad worked with multiple family offices on the execution of early-stage investments in technology and healthcare. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of an e-commerce business in the retail vertical. He began his career as an investment banker at Jefferies in the New York office, where he spent six years in the Financial Sponsors and Healthcare groups on capital raising, advisory, and M&A engagements. Brad received his BA in Business Economics from Brown University.