Brandywine’s Management

Michael P. Dever
Founder & CEO
As an internet entrepreneur, Mr. Dever founded and ran spree.com, which became the 7th most-trafficked internet commerce site by 1999. Among other pioneering accomplishments, Spree was the exclusive ecommerce partner for the PGA Tour. Mr. Dever led spree through a $13 million funding round (led by Patricof & Company) in 1999.

Robert Proctor, CFA
Head of Trading & Operations
Mr. Proctor was also active in the venture development area with companies such as SailNet.com & Marine.com, which he founded. Most recently, from 2015 until 2020, he has served as an investor and CFO at Vermont Natural Beef, LLC.
Mr. Proctor is a member of the Harford CFA Society and the CFA Institute. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter and holds the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation. Mr. Proctor holds a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Vermont. He serves on the board of Honduras Children’s Project and is the treasurer of the Lions Club of Durham, CT. See Rob on LinkedIn

Joseph M. Grosodonia
Associated Person
Joejoined Brandywine in 2021 and helped to create Brandywine’s Marco Polo Stewardship Fund (“Marco Polo”). He is involved in portfolio management decisions for the Fund. Marco Polo is designed specifically for institutions and family offices and takes a generational approach to building and preserving wealth. Through true diversification and hedging, the fund seeks first to protect invested capital from large, unrecoverable losses including hyperinflation, and also maintains convex exposures to profit from large moves across a range of global financial and commodity markets.
Joe was previously a principal at a Commodity Pool Operator and has worked in financial management since 2012 – even longer if one counts reading off stock quotes as a child to his grandfather. He holds a certificate from Nassim Taleb’s Real World Risk Institute and is a graduate of Georgetown University with a BS in Mathematics and BA in Economics.

Doug Bloom
Associated Person
From 2006 through 2016, Doug was CEO of RealWinWin, a venture-backed, energy-efficiency services company (sold in 2016). RealWinWin identified and captured energy efficiency rebates and incentives in support of more than 100 “national brand” retail and retail service companies.