Volume I

Kyle Brown is the CEO, President, and Chief Investment Officer of Trinity Capital (Nasdaq: TRIN), where he directs the firm's lending policies and investment strategy. He joined Trinity in 2015 and became CEO in January 2024.

Before Trinity he founded Sharp Equity and led Brown Equity, real estate financing companies that deployed over $250 million in capital. He has also held partner and executive roles at Point Financial Capital Partners, InvestLinc Financial Services, and Cornerstone Equity Partners. He is a Baton Rouge native, a lifelong LSU fan, and a father of five.

At The Table, Kyle brings the capital side of the table: what he looks for when he backs a company, and what separates the businesses that get funded from the ones that do not.

Jason Richardson is the founder and CEO of Bad Birdie, the golf apparel brand he launched from his apartment in 2017 because he felt golf was boring. The brand is now carried in country clubs and pro shops nationwide and sponsors PGA Tour players.

Bad Birdie was built on the belief that you can honor the game and still show up as yourself. Jason has scaled it from a solo operation into a national brand, a shift that required him to move from hands-on founder to leader of a team.

At The Table, Jason brings the perspective of a founder who built a brand in a category that resisted change, and who had to outgrow his own role to keep it moving.

Caleb Berkey owns 21 Dutch Bros locations across the Phoenix metro. He opened his first shop in Peoria in 2017 and built out the West Valley from there.

Most of his time now goes to Dreamcoat, the Phoenix nonprofit he founded, which runs weekend Encounter events and ongoing discipleship for young adult Christians. The name comes from Joseph, who was given a coat and then given a dream, in that order.

At The Table, Caleb brings the question most owners run into eventually: what the business is actually for. He built one, then found the work he wanted it to make room for.