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Internal Investment Philosophy

Tax-Optimized. Alternatives-Driven.
Rooted in True Institutional Discipline.

Internal Core-Satellite Framework

Minnow Pond Capital utilizes a disciplined core–satellite architecture to translate institutional principles into a modern, tax-efficient allocation framework. The core anchors the family's aggregate portfolio with diversified, actively managed public equity and fixed income exposures, where manager skill and systematic tax overlays seek to generate both traditional alpha and structural tax efficiency.

Surrounding this foundation, satellite allocations extend across a targeted range of alternative investments designed to capture illiquidity premia, exploit market inefficiencies, and access return streams beyond the scope of traditional markets. This approach aims to enhance risk-adjusted returns by deepening diversification and unlocking higher long-term return potential.

This construction allows distinct allocation sleeves to perform specific roles: the core provides liquidity, transparency, and tax-efficiency, while the satellites contribute uncorrelated sources of return that can potentially lower overall volatility and support durable compounding over multi-generational timeframes.

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Internal Sourcing & Selection Framework

To ensure comprehensive market coverage, Minnow Pond Capital maintains a broad sourcing funnel, reviewing over a thousand investment opportunities each year across public and private markets. This process provides visibility across the full manager landscape—from established blue-chip firms to emerging specialists.

The Firm leverages deep, established relationships across the investment community to identify high-caliber managers. These long-standing institutional networks allow the family to participate in capacity-constrained strategies typically reserved for endowments, foundations, and large institutional allocators.

From this pipeline, we apply a disciplined filtering process that evaluates manager skill, alignment of incentives, and operational integrity. This rigor ensures that only the highest-conviction opportunities advance to deeper diligence, supporting the family's objective of generating stable, long-term capital growth across all market cycles.

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Leadership

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GREGORY MERRILL
 Co-Founder & Co-Chief Investment Officer

Gregory has served as Co-Founder and Co-CIO of Minnow Pond Capital for the past five years, where he leads the firm’s tax-focused strategies and alternative investments in real estate, infrastructure, private credit, and hedge funds. He also oversees the firm’s traditional asset allocations in public equities and fixed income.

Gregory previously served as an Investment Banking Associate at Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions Group in Manhattan, helping advise leading financial institutions on M&A, capital raising, complex valuation, and strategic analysis. Before GS, he was an Investment Strategist at Mid Penn Bank (NASDAQ: MPB), where he focused on investment research, manager diligence and selection, and portfolio construction and implementation. He began his career at AllianceBernstein (NYSE: AB) in the private wealth division, concentrating on portfolio construction, financial analysis, and family office solutions.

Gregory is a graduate of Princeton University, where he earned Cum Laude honors and played Attack on the Division I Men’s Lacrosse Team. He later earned his MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, specializing in Banking, Finance, and Accounting. He also holds the CIMA® (Certified Investment Management Analyst) designation and is currently a CAIA® Level II candidate pursuing the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation.

In his spare time, Gregory enjoys spending time with family, watching Philadelphia sports, and is an avid fisherman.

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JEFFREY MERRILL
 Co-Founder & Co-Chief Investment Officer

Jeffrey has served as Co-Founder and Co-CIO of Minnow Pond Capital for the past five years, where he leads the firm’s private equity strategy across buyouts, secondaries, venture capital, and co-investment opportunities. Independent of his responsibilities at MPC, he is the Founder of Piggyback Partners, a private equity fund-of-funds platform focused on lower-middle-market buyout strategies. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Legacy Collectibles, a company specializing in investment-grade military collectibles.

Prior to these roles, Jeffrey spent seven years at Valley Forge Private Equity, a lower-middle-market private equity platform, where he served as Vice President of Operations and Chief Compliance Officer, helping manage the firm’s lower middle market PE fund-of-funds and direct real estate strategies.

He began his career in public accounting at Smart Devine, a regional advisory and accounting firm, and is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.

Jeffrey lives in the Greater Philadelphia area with his wife and their four boys, where he enjoys golfing, watching Philadelphia sports, and coaching his children’s sports teams.

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Minnow Pond Capital operates exclusively as a single-family office, managing the assets of a single family and related entities. It does not hold itself out to the public as an investment adviser and is intended to qualify for the family office exclusion from registration under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 pursuant to Rule 202(a)(11)(G)-1. Access to the firm’s services is strictly limited to "family clients" as defined by the Act.

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Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Alternative investments (e.g., private equity, venture capital, real estate) involve illiquidity, leverage, and valuation uncertainty. Valuations for non-publicly traded assets are based on estimates and may not reflect actual realizable value. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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