Timothy E. Ladin serves as senior advisor to K2 Integrity and has served as a board observer and investor in K2 Integrity since 2010. He was also a board observer and investor in Kroll Bond Rating Agency from 2010 until its acquisition by Parthenon Capital Partners in 2021.
A solution-focused thought partner with a track record of collaborating with some of Wall Street’s best-known and most exacting investors, Tim is an expert generalist and consensus builder with 25 years of experience as an investor, board member, investment committee member, observer, or advisor, including special committees formed for M&A, corporate finance, compliance, investigations, litigation, and dispute resolution.
Tim founded and is chief executive officer of Ladin Venture Advisors, which provides fractional chief legal officer, board member, M&A, and/or family office consultant services from seed to sale, as well as ensuing wealth and family office management. Representative engagements include serving as board member and chief legal officer of Parvizi Surgical Innovation, a physician-founded medical device incubator developing breakthrough technologies to improve patients’ lives; serving as board chair and chief legal officer of CLEU Diagnostics as it develops and commercializes a revolutionary point-of-care diagnostic lab replacement solution that can transform healthcare worldwide and improve outcomes at low cost; chief legal officer of Illexcor Therapeutics as it progresses to human trials on its latest small-molecule drug for sickle cell disease; and managing director of Herald Capital, a venture investment manager with a portfolio of 100+ companies spanning from pre-seed to publicly traded.
Prior to forming Ladin Venture Advisors, Tim served as chief legal officer, chief operating officer, and chief compliance officer for MFP Investors, an SEC-registered investment advisor; MFP Ventures; and related entities of the Price family office. In this role he invested in all parts of the capital structure, from seed capital to growth equity and from public company investments and distressed debt to bankruptcy reorganizations.
Before joining MFP, Tim represented the Hearst Corporation’s venture capital arm in both business and legal roles, including serving as director of business development where he evaluated, invested in, and helped to build, early to mid-stage Internet and technology companies. He assisted several Hearst divisions in the transformation of their business through the adoption of new technology, M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and joint ventures. Prior to Hearst, Tim was an associate at Clifford Chance, Rogers & Wells, where he did corporate transactional work.
Tim received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School and a B.S. in business administration with a dual concentration in marketing and management from University at Albany.