Prior to co-founding Haymaker in 2013, Mr. Brensike served as the Senior Managing Director of Cornerstone Acquisition & Management Company, where he helped develop and launch the Caritas Royalty Funds, the industry’s first and only vehicle that managed a leveraged, hedged, and audited royalty portfolio for domestic and foreign institutional investors, offering semi-annual liquidity. Before Cornerstone, Mr. Brensike worked at its parent company, the Argent Funds Group, where he held FINRA licenses 7, 24, 55, and 63. Prior to Argent, Mr. Brensike was the CEO of netHESIVE, Inc., a venture-backed software company specializing in artificial intelligence-based search applications that merged with Channel Intelligence, Inc. in 2001 which was later acquired by Google. Mr. Brensike currently serves on the board of the Independent Producers Association of America (IPAA) and is a graduate of the University of Southern California, with a B.S. in Business Administration.