Our Team

Interested Trustee and President of the FNEX Ventures Fund. Managing Director of FNEX Advisor, LLC, the advisor to the FNEX Ventures Fund, and Founder of FNEX, LLC.  Mr. Ryden is primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio. Mr. Ryden is an experienced entrepreneur and manager, having founded and sold several enterprises. FNEX, LLC has participated in over $4B in transactions since 2015. After practicing law, Mr. Ryden co-founded StarCom Broadband, a cable and high-speed data provider, which was sold to Comcast®. Mr. Ryden co-founded ViaStar Energy, Inc., which provided business processing outsourcing services nationwide. ViaStar’s technology division was acquired by Motorola®, and its utility services division was acquired by NWP Services Corp.®. Mr. Ryden co-founded Cole Marketing, acquired in 2006, and Caldera Development, a real estate investment company.

Prior to entering the business world, Mr. Ryden’s legal career included litigating at the Indiana Supreme Court and representing the State of Indiana in the tobacco litigation. Mr. Ryden obtained his Juris Doctorate from Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, has a certificate in International Contract Law from Tulane University, Paris, France and obtained his B.A. from Purdue University.

Randy Linscott is the Vice President of the FNEX Venture Fund, and Chief Executive Officer of M3Sixty Administration, LLC. He is charged with growing Administration, Accounting and Transfer Agency clientele.  Randy also serves as an interested trustee on the M3Sixty Funds Trust (“MFT”).

Randy has over a dozen years of fund auditing experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he served as the Senior Audit Manager on PIMCO, American Century, Frank Russell, State Street Bank, and DST Systems. Prior to this, he was the Senior Audit Manager at PwC’s Dublin office, an international center for fund administration due to its tax and regulatory environment.

After PwC, he served another six years as a division vice president in charge of the institutional, real estate investment trust (REIT) and middle market fund operations and relationships which included J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Calvert, RS Investments and many other fund complexes serviced by Boston Financial, a legacy joint venture between State Street Bank and DST, now owned by SS&C.

Nick Horvath serves as Chief Compliance Officer of the FNEX Ventures Fund and M3Sixty Administration, LLC.  In this capacity he performs annual Rule 38a-1 reviews, provides quarterly board meeting reporting on compliance matters and interacts with advisors with respect to regulatory matters.  Nick is a CPA with 36 years’ experience in asset management who came to M3Sixty from DST.  At DST, he was responsible for risk, compliance, and best practices for DST’s Asset Manager Product line and CCO support services.  He also led their Regulatory Compliance Advisory Group Steering Committee and managed DST’s last five SEC examinations.

András Teleki serves as the Chief Legal Officer of M3Sixty Administration, LLC.  He advises the firms on internal and external legal and regulatory matters and works closely with the fund’s outside legal counsel and investment advisors on matters impacting the fund.

He is a former partner at K&L Gates in their Washington DC office where he worked from 2001 to 2015 in their Investment Management Group practice.  In addition to his nearly two decades of industry experience, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

During his time at K&L, his practice focused on regulatory and compliance issues facing registered investment companies, including mutual funds and closed-end funds, broker-dealers, investment advisers, unregistered funds, variable insurance product issuers and distributors, and related service providers. He advised insurance companies on variable insurance products and financial institutions on anti-money laundering strategies, OFAC, cybersecurity, privacy, social media and financial technology issues.

Mr. DiCenzo is an Independent Trustee and Chairman of the FNEX Venture Fund. Mr. DiCenzo is a financial services leader in developing and leading new and existing lines of business. His demonstrated ability to develop and execute a detailed strategic operating plan across various asset classes, distribution channels and markets has helped clients to grow actively managed equity, fixed income and alternative investment products across institutional, intermediary and retail market segments.

In his current role as the Chief Executive Officer of Cognios Capital, he is responsible for the overall operation and strategic direction. Prior to joining Cognios in 2015, Gary was President & CEO of Chicago based strategic consulting firm IMC Group.

Gary also led Scout Investment Advisors as President of the Scout Mutual Fund complex, the President & CEO of Scout Distributors and as a board director to the advisor from 2003-2010. Mr. DiCenzo received an MBA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from Rhode Island College.

Steve is an Independent Trustee of the FNEX Venture Fund, and currently in his 17th season (the longest run of all current CFO’s in the NFL) with the Minnesota Vikings, Steve serves as the team’s Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. In his role, Steve is responsible for all financial aspects of the team, including business planning, budgeting, day-to-day financial and administrative operations, human resources, facilities, and new stadium project financing.

Steve spent eight years as a Certified Public Accountant in the business assurance group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Kansas City before joining the Vikings.

He sits on the Executive Committee of the Minneapolis Downtown Council and Downtown Improvement District board, an organization promoting business development in downtown Minneapolis, and he holds a position with the Minnesota State Fair Foundation board of directors, including serving as the chair of the Audit Committee.

Tom Schmidt is an Independent Trustee of the FNEX Venture Fund, and is the Principal Consultant of Tom Schmidt & Associates Consulting LLC, a consultancy dedicated to the mutual fund industry he founded after a 20+ year career with DST Systems, Inc. of Kansas City, MO.  At DST he served in multiple roles, most recently as Vice President of New Business Development and Strategy and Vice President for Transfer Agent, Client Relationships and Operations where he lead a team of over 750 employees and led the development of industry leading AltServ platform for setting trades on a daily basis.