Our Team

Over time, R5 has built a team of competent individuals with long-term reputations for their knowledge, skills, past successes and an ease to work with.  We enjoy working with our teammates and our clients.  We and our clients respect one another for the intellectual capital, unique experience and work ethic that we each embody.

• Kenneth Miller (1952 – Aug. 2021)

  Chairman

  With sadness and condolences, the R5 Limited team honors Kenneth Miller.  Obituary: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/falls-church-va/kenneth-miller-10315375  

• David Dunlap

  Managing Partner

  David Dunlap has been active 30+ years as an entrepreneur and business development specialist conceptualizing, launching and growing international companies as both principal and/or adviser. He has also established a number of private equity and carbon funds again either as principal or in an advisory capacity. David has a special expertise in the analysis of business models, value supply chains, risk management, executive team formation and an in-depth understanding of critical macro and micro failure points for early stage companies along with strategic execution and tactics key to client company success. David attended Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the American University Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program, School of International Communications-Press, Radio, TV & Film.

• Julian Henkin

  Partner

  Julian Henkin is a management strategist with a 35-year career of assisting businesses increase their value and achieve their goals. His expertise is in marketing efficacy, operational efficiency and customer advocacy-building. Julian espouses a business management concept, “touchpoint management”, a methodology to increase customer attraction and retention. Julian’s corporate posts have included the top executive roles in Marketing, Services, Product Management and President/Chief Executive. This diversity of experience provides Henkin with an unusual ability to view businesses and improvement strategies in a cross-functional, holistic way. He has consulted to and worked for both large and small companies, bringing both leadership and insight. Notables include Ask.com (search engine), IntraLinks (cloud-based file and information exchange) and Xerox Corporation. Julian began his career with a clean energy and sustainability focus. He was awarded a degree from the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley (Cal). He then worked for the U.S. Forest Service, the California Water Quality Control Board and the western utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., in an energy conservation group. Combining his business skills with an environmental bent, Julian Henkin contributes great insights and operational acumen to R5 Limited and its clients.

• Alexandra McOran-Campbell

  Partner

  Alexandra McOran-Campbell has been involved in the finance industry for over 25 years. She has worked in senior roles within international financial institutions gaining a vast understanding of alternative asset class investment funds and structured product management. She proves to have special expertise in fund structuring, due diligence procedures, fund raising and exit strategies. Alexandra has significant experience in client management and investment deal-flow process. Alexandra worked as a Director with Sapphire Capital Partners LLP responsible for property advisory work on alternative asset class funds in Romania.  Most recently, Alexandra has been fund-raising within the Ether platforms and liaising with the UK Trade and Industry Department on a consultancy basis to assist in the promotion of trade within the Commonwealth regions in order to facilitate UK SME trade. Alexandra completed her International Business Management studies at the ILSA International College of Southern Africa.

• Jonathan Joseph Ganjian

  Partner

  Jonathan-Joseph is a dynamic and multifaceted entrepreneur and creative professional across the philanthropic and private sectors. In the non-profit arena his areas of focus range from high net worth donor advisement, foundation management, full-scale fundraising management, strategic planning, major & annual giving as well as grant-writing and board governance. His private sector experience ranges from management, marketing and PR advisement for luxury apparel brands, as well as startup and strategic planning alongside diamond and fine art brokerage. Jonathan is also himself a fine artist, producing works in oil and mixed media through J. Joseph Studio. He holds a Bachelor in English Literature from Hofstra University and a Master of Science in Fundraising Management from Columbia University in the City of New York.

• Audrey Peters

  Partner

  Audrey is a management consultant specializing in strategic marketing, alliances and business development planning and negotiations.  Through her role at R5 Limited, Audrey has served in interim senior executive positions to assist client companies with business management, planning, strategy, restructuring, executing and marketing. Previously, Audrey held senior management and strategic positions in Fortune 500 companies such as Ashton-Tate, Compaq and IBM.  She has over 30 years experience in the global market technology sectors, including hardware, software, internet and web based application companies (B2B and B2C).  As Vice President of Marketing, Audrey was instrumental in building two companies, one of which was an industry leader acquired by Microsoft, who subsequently incorporated the core database engine into their product MS Office suite. Audrey self-published a primer social media 101 book in 2009: “Social Media Marketing For Small Business” during the early days of new media platform expansions.  It was a guide aimed at helping small businesses navigate this digital new landscape and understand when, what, where and why to engage and how to incorporate their own website messaging. Audrey is a graduate of Queen Mary College, University of London, B.S. (Hons), MA in Marketing, Kingston University U.K. & CIM (Chartered Institute in Marketing – required by most European corporates).  She also holds a current real estate license in CA since 2011 and is active in the Los Angeles and Orange County markets working with investors and consumers.

• Murdoch W. Gillespie

  Senior Partner

  Murdoch W. Gillespie has over 36 years’ experience as an entrepreneur launching and helping new businesses to grow as both a principal and consultant. In 1974, after service as an officer in the British Army, Murdoch emigrated to the United States where he established and managed Triangle Properties, Inc., a developer of warehouses and offices primarily in California. In parallel, with David Dunlap and another partner, he established a highly successful independent business consultancy which structured investment packages to raise finance and venture capital from both institutional and private sources for developing companies. In 1990, after 15 years in the United States, he returned to the United Kingdom where as an angel investor, he gained a reputation for keen business analysis and the translation of disparate business ideas into meaningful financial forecasts and plans. Not only did this lead him into fund-raising for a number of start-up companies but also taking board seats. During this time, he gained a good background in creative structured finance or financial engineering. In 1996 he joined the management team of Impact Capital, a spinoff of PVH Fund Managers Limited, an offshore fund focused on micro and small cap Regulation S investment transactions in the US. As a specialist in analysis with expertise in financial modeling and the creation of strategic business plans, Murdoch’s role was business analysis, the creation of strategic plans and interactive financial models. When Green Ventures International Limited was formed by Managing Partner, David Dunlap, to develop run-of river, hydroelectric projects in Nepal, Murdoch joined the team working closely with the Nepalese and Indian engineers to develop the technical feasibility studies, detailed financial models and strategic plans needed to attract co-venture partners, private and institutional finance. These activities naturally led to a comparison between various renewable energy sectors and an examination of the possibilities of combining these different activities in one location with a view thereby of optimizing the investment and maximizing the returns. Murdoch Gillespie graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served as an officer in the British Army specializing in logistics and civil engineering. Most of his military service was spent in the Far East with H.Q. Land Forces, Hong Kong, the 48th Gurkha Infantry Brigade and the Commonwealth Infantry Brigade in Malaysia, Borneo and Singapore.

• Bruce Crager

  Special Venture Partner

  Bruce Crager is Managing  Director of Endeavor Management, a management consulting group based in Houston, where he leads the firm’s Offshore, Subsea and Marine Group. His previous positions include Vice President-Subsea at J. Ray McDermott, President and CEO at INTEC Engineering, a consultant to Petrobras America for their deepwater Gulf of Mexico Cascade/ Chinook project, President of ABB Offshore Systems, and was Sr. Vice President of Oceaneering for 13 years with responsibility for Mobile Offshore Production Systems and Subsea Products.  Prior to this, Bruce was Operations Manager for Hughes Offshore/Vetco and a design engineer at Seaflo Systems and The Offshore Company.

  Bruce’s 37 years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry includes both strategic and operational leadership as well as winning and executing projects in excess of $200 million. His expertise includes floating production systems, subsea systems and offshore field development. His industry involvement includes being Secretary to API Subcommittee 17 on Subsea Equipment for 22 years and membership on the Editorial Advisory Board for Offshore Magazine.

  He has a BS in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University and was selected as a Distinguished Graduate of TAMU’s Zachary Department of Civil Engineering in 2008.  Bruce also has an MBA from the University of Houston, has co-authored 4 patents and has written numerous technical and management articles and is a guest speaker at numerous international industry technology conferences and seminars promoting technology adoption by his industry peers.  Bruce is on the Young Life Board for the Greater Houston Region. and was also an advisory board member to the Proteus Energy Corporation.

• Eric Giesing

  Partner

  Eric Giesing is a biotech management executive with over a decade of experience in product management and revenue growth in the Life Sciences and Diagnostic markets. Eric has applied his Change Management and Instructional Design certification in leading Allergan (now Abbvie), Beckman Coulter and Labcyte (both divisions of Danaher) in turn-around and high-growth trajectories. Eric now brings these skills to advising growth for R5 Limited clients as well as capital raising facilitating client access to capital. Eric holds an MS from the University of Illinois and is a recent transplant with his family to the Boston area.

• Dr. Igor Minakov

  Partner

  Dr. Minakov has 25+ years of experience in software development and management. He founded companies in the UK, US, UAE, and Russia as GM and/or CTO in such companies as Magenta Technology, Maxifier Ltd, Cxense ASA, Piano Software, Burt Intelligence and others. He has extensive experience as a Senior Data Scientist, with a Master’s degree in AI from George Washington University and PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He worked for 20 years as a part-time professor in the Institute for the Control of Complex Systems of Russian Academy of Sciences. In recent years Igor was an investor, mentor and business advisor in several AI/ML startups based in Russia, UAE, and Europe. He also has a part-time role in providing business/technical consultancy for different private VC funds in Russia, Norway, UK, Cyprus, and UAE. Igor is an author and co-author of more than 150 scientific papers in the field of data mining, multi-agent technology, knowledge management, text understanding, software development toolsets, decision support systems and business development; holds several international patents and inventors’ certificates in data mining and text understanding algorithms. Igor was born in 1976 in Kuibyshev Russia – known for its airspace industry. He currently lives in Dubai, having lived in Washington, New York, London, and Oslo .

• Anna Astakhova

  Partner

  Ms. Astakhova’s 20 year career has been in IT and software development.  She started her working career at Magenta Technology, a UK’s-owned company as a Director’s PA. Having a passion for challenging projects, she grew her career through roles of Project Coordinator, Business Analyst, Marketing/Sales Management and Strataegic Development for companies including Rosbank, Maxifier Development and most recently Inventale LLC. Ann brings knowledge of AI/ML, vedeo/speach recogniction, geolocation and other frontier technologies. Born in Russia, Anna was educated at Samara State Pedagogical University.

• Dr. John Domenech

  Partner

  Dr. John Domenech is a Systems Engineer/Nuclear Engineer with co-inventor status on nearly ten patents or patents pending (six are listed below) with the majority in Artificial Intelligence. He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and business executive who brings knowledge and expertise to firms seeking to drive growth through effective leadership methodologies, strategic planning, strategy, and business development. Between 1982 and 2001, he brought his talents to management and leadership roles including president, chief executive officer, and chief operating officer for firms ranging from technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, engineering, computer software, and intelligence. In 1999, he was the Chief Operating Officer, NetCompliance and President of its subsidiaries which was one of the first tech companies to provide automated electronic reporting and compliance services. He led seven acquisitions or sales of firms to strengthen strategic positioning. In those executive roles, he drove sales and growth strategies developed through aggressive strategic planning to increase shareholder value. Following the tragedy of 9/11, Colonel Domenech spent nearly 10 years on active military duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Pentagon. He retired from active service in 2012, and supported the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization intelligence missions by leading over 35 intelligence analysts until 2016. In 2017, Governor Scott (now US Senator) appointed John to serve as a Trustee of the College of the Florida Keys. Along with BS and MS Degrees from the University of Florida, he has a Master’s Degree from the Army War College and a PhD in Systems Engineering from George Washington University. He is currently studying anthropology at the University of Florida. During his degree studies in Business Administration from the University of Bergamo, Mr. Facchini studied solar energy technologies and their economic application in the future; he has also published a study sponsored by the University. He is currently leveraging his industrial background and deep connections in Italy by focusing on two specific areas of business: green renewable energies with SolarOnergy S.p.A. and small business/city hotels as well as consulting in the retail fashion industry.