The throughline that ties it all together.

Laura is co-founder of Red Thread Capital, bringing marketing rigor, industry fluency, and the ability to translate strategy into action to founders building the future of health and wellness. For Laura, Red Thread is the answer to a question she's carried for years: how to bring the strategic muscle built at the world's largest brands to the founders whose missions matter most — at the stage where doing the work well makes the biggest difference. Where Ian sees the systems and the connections, Laura brings the practitioner's discipline — aligning purpose with execution and helping founders build companies where every function moves in the same direction.

Laura's foundation is more than twenty-five years in senior marketing leadership, most of it as a Partner at Grey NYC, where she anchored the senior team through seventeen years of year-over-year growth. Her health-focused portfolio spanned C-suite work with UPMC, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, and GSK, along with retail pharmacy (Walgreens, Boots), health insurance (Aetna), and OTC and Rx categories; she launched Grey's consulting practice for emerging health-tech companies, and her versatility extended into beauty (Sephora, Estée Lauder), spirits (Diageo, Crown Royal, Ketel One), and entertainment (Disney).

Laura's passion for health and wellness isn't only professional — it's how she lives. She holds Yoga Teacher Training Certification, completed the Harvard Medical School Executive Education program in Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching, and trained in compassionate listening through Community of Hope International, adding practitioner insight to the strategic and commercial fluency she developed at Grey.

Outside the office, Laura lives what she practices — hiking, skiing, running, surfing, and yoga. Health and wellness permeate her household, too: she is a proud single parent to two teenage daughters — both aspiring nurses, one already in nursing school and the other trained as a Certified Nurses Assistant.

Ian is co-founder of Red Thread Capital, where he brings intellectual, financial, and relational capital to founders building the future of health and wellness. He and Laura came together around a shared conviction: that the discipline scaled across the world's largest brands is precisely what entrepreneurial, purpose-driven founders need — at the stage where thoughtful guidance compounds. Ian's role is to see the systems and the connections others miss, pull the thread that runs through a company's potential, and help build something meant to endure.

Ian's foundation is more than thirty years of executive leadership, primarily with Green Stamp America, Inc., a diversified global investment and management firm across real estate, retail, sport, and hospitality. Leading Green Stamp's Asian business, he facilitated Le Labo Fragrances' launch in Japan (positioning it for its later acquisition by Estée Lauder) and Via Quadronno's expansion into Hong Kong and Tokyo. In the U.S., he developed Golf Club of Purchase (a Jack Nicklaus signature course), led The LS Collection luxury brand, partnered with YOU Technology on loyalty deployment in Japan, and shepherded the W Hotels launch with Victoria International Corporation (later RavenHouse).

His years at Green Stamp left Ian fascinated by the diversity of people, organizations, and enterprises he encountered — a curiosity that eventually led him back to the classroom for Master's degrees in Organizational Development (American University) and Marriage and Family Therapy (Southern Connecticut State University), plus mediation certification from the Center for Understanding in Conflict. In the chapter that followed, Ian drew on that combination of business rigor and therapeutic insight to build a practice as a therapeutically informed Personal Development and Leadership Coach, lead a small family office through more than a decade of double-digit growth, and deepen his forty-year involvement with STAR Retreats (Self-Transformation through Awareness and Reconnection) as facilitator and board advisor. He co-founded Soundview Empowerment Alliance and Save Westport Now, and serves on the board of the Aquaya Institute, advancing global health through universal access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.

American-born to a Canadian mother and English grandparents, Ian spent his formative years in the Philippines and continues to explore the world with restless curiosity. He is a dedicated father to six adult children whose global pursuits keep him busy — and, as he puts it, keep his own learning very much alive.