Mr. Ben Mahdavi is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He Founded Sivia Capital Partners. He also serves as Board Member at Tacit Salon Holdings. He is an Angel Investor. Over the last 10 years, he has established himself as a trusted advisor to founders and investors, leveraging his experience and professional network to unlock value for Quiet's diverse portfolio companies. In addition to investing across strategies at Quiet, he has also partnered with a number of entrepreneurs and investors to build three companies. He launched Tacit Salon Holdings, the largest independently owned salon operator in the US. As a founding board member and investor he successfully built and sold the Veterinary Care Group, a fast-growing tech-enabled veterinary services roll-up. In addition to his work with Tacit companies, he is a founding board director and investor of Veterinary Care Group, a fast-growing tech-enabled veterinary services platform. In the early days of Quiet's Build program, he co-founded Flow, a SaaS platform for alternative investments. Before Quiet, he founded Sivia Capital, a multi-family office, and spent several years between Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, after playing two years in the NFL. He received his BA and MBA from the University of Washington.