Cam is a native of Atlanta, GA, and attended Duke University as an undergrad and soccer student-athlete, and as a post-grad for his MBA, where he majored in Finance. After his MBA, he joined Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division, where he worked across the Technology, Media & Communications and Financial Sponsors Coverage Groups, executing M&A and LBO transactions, as well as debt and equity financings. After a 2-year stint at Morgan Stanley, he joined Prosperity7 Ventures as a Senior Associate, where he now focuses on Venture and Growth Equity Investments. Cam currently covers AI Infrastructure, Software, and Cybersecurity at P7. Cam is an avid Arsenal fan and can be found doing long runs through Golden Gate Park or working on his golf game at any of the driving ranges in The Bay.

What is a value, principle, or philosophy that has meaningfully shaped your journey? How does it continue to influence how you invest, lead, or approach challenges?

    Meeting people where they are while being genuinely empathetic has shaped who I am personally and professionally. By being intentional in your interactions, whether with founders, co-investors, or in a personal setting, you open yourself up to lessons that shape your journey for the better. The best conversations are the ones where authenticity is plain to see among everyone involved, and that same authenticity tends to lead to favorable outcomes for investors, founders, and other stakeholders in a deal. In investing, leading with authenticity is a massive edge. Capital is increasingly commoditized, and a founder raising a Series B, D, or F sees term sheets that look similar enough that price is not the deciding factor. What differentiates is whether they believe you actually understand the business they are building and the company they are trying to become. That comes from meeting them where they are, asking the question behind the question, and listening for what they are not saying.

    Empathy sharpens diligence rather than softening it. In many cases, the insights that actually move a deal do not come from a data room; they come from a former employee being candid, or a founder who trusts you enough to walk you through what is really going on under the hood of the business. Authenticity unlocks the information asymmetry that good investing depends on, and in this business, better information is the whole game. Ultimately, the best returns and the best relationships come from the same source. Capital compounds, but so does trust, and over a career, the second is what gives you access to the first.

Is there a technology, idea, or movement that most people overlook (or dismiss) which you believe will define the next era of innovation? What draws you to this perspective?

    The overlooked layer, in my view, is AI orchestration: the coordination infrastructure beneath agents that turns probabilistic model outputs into systems an enterprise can actually trust, along with the security layer that governs what those agents are allowed to do. Most people are transfixed by what they can see, the chat interface or the agent that books the flight, but that is the front of the house, and the real ROI gets answered in the kitchen: state persistence, retries, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, observability, and the identity and permissioning that keep an autonomous agent from becoming an attack surface. I am drawn to it because every prior platform shift rewarded the invisible layer rather than the visible one, the way AWS captured cloud economics while SaaS got the attention, and good infrastructure is always felt as an absence: things simply work, and no one asks why. That invisibility is exactly where the value accrues, because the layer everything depends on is the layer with switching costs, and once a company's critical workflows and security posture route through it, ripping it out means re-proving reliability from zero. The next era will not be defined by a smarter agent but by the orchestration and security infrastructure that makes a thousand mediocre agents dependable enough to trust with real money and real consequences.

Is there a company, initiative, or resource you’d like to highlight for readers (for example, your writing, a portfolio company, or a project you’re involved in)?

    One resource I rely on to stay on top of general capital markets news is the Prof G Markets Podcasts, hosted by Professor Scott Galloway and Ed Elson! The podcast has episodes daily from Monday to Friday, with Monday focusing on the previous week in review, Tuesday through Thursday tying in daily news updates that move public and private markets, and Friday focusing on major topics, most recently the cost of AI. The hosts are fantastic at weaving humor into both simple and complex discussions and are adept at tying their insights back to how they affect the everyday person. The podcast is a great daily listen, whether you're on a run/working out to start the day or commuting to and from work!