Leadership

Gerhard joined Trident Marketing in 2009 as the company’s chief financial officer. His core responsibilities are managing the finance, accounting, treasury, budgeting, and cash flow forecasting functions of the company; and ensuring that Trident’s short and long term financing needs are aligned with the company’s overall strategic plan.

Gerhard has been actively managing and financing growth companies since 1996, when he served as a principal advisor to Los Angeles based Core Capital Corporation, a venture capital fund specializing in early stage funding. In that capacity, he founded Genetic Biotechnology Ventures, a venture capital fund commercializing biotech innovations; and later, Academic Synergies Company, a state of the art analytical testing laboratory for the University of Southern California’s School of Pharmacy.

Following the dot.com bust in 2000, Gerhard co-founded Airborne 1 Corporation and served as the company’s chief financial officer. While at Airborne 1, Gerhard raised several rounds of financing, and the company was named among the 500 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies in 2003 and 2004 by Inc. Magazine. The company was successfully sold to GeoDigital, a global leader in the geospatial industry.

Gerhard received his master of business administration and juris doctorate from the University of Southern California, and has been a member of the California Bar Association since 2003. With undergraduate degrees in economics and rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, Gerhard’s early career includes several leading California law firms, where he structured venture capital and private equity transactions; as well as working in Ernst & Young’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group.

Gerhard lives in Pinehurst with his wife Brittany and their two young daughters. He’s passionate about anything outdoors, including camping and fishing, is a sports enthusiast (tennis and soccer), and loves to travel (especially to his native Austria).