Angelique LeDoux, a NYC-based writer and picture editor turned education advocate and angel investor, is the co-founder and managing director of GTFO Capital Partners.

Angelique transitioned from journalism to the start-up world in 2007, founding Jade’s ToyBox, an educational and eco-friendly children’s toy company, named to Dr. Toy’s 100 Best Children’s Products. She co-founded the educational non-profit, and talent-development focused Parents of Accelerated Learners, NYC (PALNYC), to support the academic, social and emotional development of NYC’s youth.

Her editorial and entrepreneurial expertise and vision have helped support organizations including the UHNW Institute, StoryQ and the pre-eminent green building publication, Lessons Learned. Previously a Managing Director with Golden Seeds, a nationwide angel investor network that invests in companies founded by women or who have significant equity ownership, and later with socially responsible Investors Circle, Angelique became addicted to early-stage investing and initiatives that support the change she hopes to see in the world.

She has held board positions in a variety of areas of passion including education via NYC-based The Speyer Legacy School, children’s healthcare through Menlo Park-based PANDAS Network; and edutainment with Boston-based, consumer product company Playrific. Most recently, Angelique is focused on legacy and storytelling through the Seattle-based, StoryQ to help scale its mission because like her, everyone’s got a story to tell.

Start-up Idea she had way before the actual version launched?
Zipcar

Start-up she wishes she’d have founded:
Little Debbie, but an organic version

Bad habit to break this year?
Staying up until 2 am, and waking at 7 am.

Pet peeve of the decade?
One-word start-up company names.

Silver-lining of the pandemic?
The dual acknowledgment that we all can achieve a better work/life balance and the realization that education can be delivered differently and better to everyone.

A quote or saying that stares back at you
everyday?
Everything happens for a reason.

What do you still have or own now that you’ve had since childhood?
Despite 26 years in NYC, I still have my Southern accent.

Deeply passionate to inspire others to join his mission and create a profound difference, Stryker strives to balance the prioritization of profits and social+environmental impact as a co-founder and managing director of GTFO Capital Partners. Stryker’s core mission is to find avenues that provide surplus value, generating values for third parties in every interaction in which he is involved.

As a graduate of Baylor University’s Business Fellows program with emphases in Finance and Real Estate, Stryker works as a commercial real estate broker in CBRE’s Life Science division in Denver, Colorado.

Stryker is passionate about learning how business can be intertwined with sustainability to better provide for the generations to come. Specialties include technical analysis, organizational skills, and leadership abilities. Stryker has a Colorado Real Estate License, is a member of Urban Land Institute, Greenbuild, and is pursuing LEED AP BD+C certification.

Start-up Idea he had way before the actual version launched? 

Start-up he wishes he’d have founded:  
WeWork.

Bad habit to break this year?  
No days off.

Pet peeve of the decade?  
Bad drivers – stay in your lane and don’t go 10 mph below the speed limit, please.

Silver-lining of the pandemic?  
Ability to refocus my sights and future aspirations while rebalancing my family life.

A quote or saying that stares back at you everyday? 
“There’s always someone out there working hard to take your position, how will you differentiate yourself?”

What do you still have or own now that you’ve had since childhood?  

With more than 25 years experience in financial, investment and real estate markets, Tracy Lewis brings a depth of experience to her current role as a co-founder and managing director of GTFO Capital Partners.

As a former VP of a private trust company for almost a decade, Tracy’s introduction to the family office world began by serving as board president of her multigenerational family’s non-profit from 2006-2010. She served as head of the education committee in its infancy, developing the early financial education for the next gen family members. Her direct involvement as an investment committee member allowed Tracy to learn the complexities of vetting a variety of opportunities and businesses.

Prior to her family office work, Tracy began with renovating and building single family homes, moving up to multifamily communities for the ensuing 25 years.

She balances her time as a LEED AP consultant, where she is accredited as a LEED AP, B, D & C, a Realtor®, a licensed general contractor, in addition to having finance/ investment certificates from UCLA and a Private Wealth Management Program certificate from Wharton School of Business.

Her passions for art and architecture were evident from an early age and drove her interest in green building. Having pursued art and architecture in college, Tracy had the unique experience of hiring and collaborating with renowned Uruguayan-born architect Alberto Chiesa in her early 20s on her first modern home. Soon after, she pursued her talent in photography traveling as a corporate photographer for Club Med, and later acquiring a commercial art gallery in the resort town of Seaside, Florida. Now Denver-based, Tracy is often found in her organic garden with her bee colonies or creating new art in her studio.

Start-up Idea she had way before the actual version launched?
BetterHelp, Online therapy

Start-up she wishes she’d have founded:
AirBNB

Bad habit to break this year?
Creating “stacks” around the house to address later

Pet peeve of the decade?
People who don’t think ahead

Silver-lining of the pandemic?
More visual connectivity with those I can’t travel to see thanks to Zoom

A quote or saying that stares back at you everyday?
“Savor your victories, do not dwell upon defeat. For what the day may bring, it may also take away.”
~Lifeguard I had a crush on at age 12

What do you still have or own now that you’ve had since childhood?
My first cowboy boots I bought with my paycheck in 10th grade.