Randall Kane

Managing Partner/CEO @Profec Partners

🧑‍💼 C-level Executive💰 Investor & VC🔥 Startup FounderBusiness Owner🧨 Consulting🏦 Finance🧮 EducationAngel✨ Business OwnerCOOManaging PartnerGeneral PartnerLecturerPortfolio ManagerPartnerCEOCSOAdvisorFounder

Randy Kane is an entrepreneur turned investor with over 25 years of experience building, managing, and investing in leading-growth companies. At Profec Partners, Randy identifies unique businesses with potential for scale and provides growth capital to early-stage companies from their inception through traditional venture capital investments. As a strategic advisor and entrepreneur at heart, Randy works directly with entrepreneurs to ensure their continued success, from financial advisement to re-inventing processes, exploring every angle so that Profec Partner’s member companies can execute their business strategies successfully, and to their fullest potential. He advises management teams while providing precise customizations of business models — all with the same energy and passion as if it were his own company. Randy is currently an Adjunct Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business as well as an advisor to eLab, Cornell’s renowned student accelerator. Previously, Randy started in investment banking and eventually moved into management consulting, which led to him co-founding a strategy consulting firm, Acquis Consulting Group. As the Managing Partner of Acquis, Randy designed creative, custom solutions for global clients and ensured they were executed successfully. The result was a leading boutique consultancy famous for its ability to deliver extraordinary results, time and time again. Randy has worked with some of the world’s leading enterprises across an array of industries — including many of the Fortune 500 — as well as varied early-stage companies through Solidea Capital – the private equity practice he incubated at Acquis. Most recently, Randy served as the COO and Advisor to the CEO and founder of DanceBody, a dance-inspired fitness company, helping to build and grow the company from inception. He furthered the company’s growth on a global scale by launching DanceBody@Home in early 2016 — an innovative, proprietary digital platform — featuring

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Work Background

Cornell eLab AcceleratorInstructor / Mentor / Advisor

Nov. 2020Ithaca, New YorkCornell is a top-ranked school for entrepreneurship and eLab is one of the reasons the University leads the nation.

SWERVE FitnessBoard Member

Aug. 2019New York City Metropolitan Area

Cornell UniversityVisiting Lecturer

Aug. 2023Ithaca, New York, United StatesUndergraduate & Graduate Instructor - The Business of Entrepreneurship

Cornell Johnson Graduate School of ManagementVisiting Lecturer

Aug. 2022New York & Ithaca, United States• Leadership Insights in Building Ventures • The Business of Entrepreneurship • Building and Leading New Venture Teams

Profec PartnersManaging Partner

Jul. 2019 - Mar. 2023New York, New YorkAs Managing Partner of Profec Partners, Randy seeks to build enduring partnerships with Profec Partner’s member companies, reinforcing each venture through the firm’s stable, yet flexible capital program.

DanceBodyCOO / Advisor

Sep. 2013 - May. 2019New York, NYDanceBody organically developed a devoted following in New York City. From there, the classes quickly expanded to Miami, Los Angeles, and The Hamptons. Part of the mission to bring dance fitness to everyone was actualized in 2016 when the online platform, DanceBody LIVE, launched. DanceBody’s mission is to provide a fun and effective workout by infusing functional training with the playfulness of dance. Our dancers-turned-instructors move clients’ bodies in new ways through dance-inspired fitness. Clients come to DanceBody, virtually and in person, for a workout that strengthens both body and mind. We believe that your workout should build confidence and bring you joy. The most important measurement is how you feel - that is why we strive to improve your quality of life through movement.

Deerfield Capital ManagementStrategic Lead - Early Stage Practice

Sep. 2015 - Aug. 2016New York, New YorkStrategy lead responsible for crafting an early-stage investment and support structure that included; A Transaction Capacity Optimization Framework, management structure and roles, an Institutional Partnership Model, and an Incubation Model. Deerfield is an investment firm dedicated to advancing healthcare through information, investment and philanthropy—all toward the end goal of cures for disease, improved quality of life and reduced cost of care.

Room to GrowTreasurer, Board of Directors

Jun. 2008 - Apr. 2015Greater New York City AreaThe mission of Room to Grow is to enrich the lives of babies born into poverty throughout their critical first three years of development. Room to Grow's program provides parents raising babies in poverty with one-on-one parenting support and essential baby items throughout their children's critical first three years of life.

Acquis Consulting GroupCo-Founder, Managing Partner

Feb. 1998 - Aug. 2013Acquis is a boutique management consulting firm that feels strategy is nothing without execution. We help ambitious organizations design strategies and put them to work. We get close to our clients. We learn their business. We develop precisely tailored, custom strategies that serve them best. Our clients are our partners. They have a stake in our solutions and we have a stake in their success.