Team Ross Baird Ross Baird helped create the Capital Access Lab initiative as an innovator-in-residence in Entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Read Ross Baird’s full bio > Brendan Cosgrove Brendan Cosgrove is an investment director at the Capital Access Lab, where he leads the investment due diligence, strategy development, and deal sourcing. Cosgrove has been a member of the CAL team since its inception at the beginning of 2019. Read Brendan Cosgrove’s full bio > Lisa Murray Lisa Murray is the chief investment officer for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. She leads the team that oversees the Kauffman Foundation’s globally diversified $2 billion portfolio. Read Lisa Murray’s full bio > John Tyler As general counsel, corporate secretary, and chief ethics officer for the Kauffman Foundation, John Tyler understands, develops, and translates theory into practice while complying with the law across the Foundation’s program areas, administration, and Investments. Read John Tyler’s full bio > Ross Baird Ross Baird helped create the Capital Access Lab initiative as an innovator-in-residence in Entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Baird is founder and CEO of Blueprint Local, a venture that helps people invest in their communities, and co-founder of Village Capital, a venture capital firm that has been a pioneer in supporting entrepreneurs worldwide. He is author of the best-selling book The Innovation Blind Spot. He has a Master of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia, where he was a Truman Scholar and a Jefferson Scholar. Brendan Cosgrove Brendan Cosgrove is an investment director at the Capital Access Lab, where he leads the investment due diligence, strategy development, and deal sourcing. Cosgrove has been a member of the Capital Access Lab team from its inception at the beginning of 2019. Prior to joining Capital Access Lab, Cosgrove worked as an associate investment director at global investment firm Cambridge Associates helping a wide range of institutional clients build and evaluate their private investment portfolios. He also co-founded the Resource Efficiency Group and conducted due diligence on venture capital and private equity funds focused on addressing sustainability challenges as a member of the Impact Investing Research team. Cosgrove earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics and geology from Colby College.