Management Team | Chicago Atlantic BDC, Inc.

Scott is CEO and the founder of Silver Spike Capital. He began investing in the plant-based and health & wellness industry in 2013 and soon thereafter co-founded Egg Rock Holdings, parent company of the Papa & Barkley family of cannabis and CBD products. He is also among the pioneering investors within the burgeoning realm of psychedelics for use in mental health.

Scott has over 30 years of investing and asset management experience in emerging markets. He was one of the founding members of the JP Morgan emerging market business and later went on to head the market leading emerging market and distressed investing effort at ING Capital and the global special situations group at Bank of America. Scott then went to the buy side, where he led the emerging market businesses at Marathon Asset Management, Caxton Associates, and Taconic Capital. Prior to launching Silver Spike, Scott was President of Fintech Advisory, a multi – billion dollar Family Office fund.

Dino Colonna joined Silver Spike’s investment team in January 2020. Since 2001, Mr. Colonna has managed traditional and alternative investment portfolios and advised corporations and institutional investors across the global capital markets.

Prior to Silver Spike, Dino was managing partner at Madison Capital Advisors, a middle-market asset-backed lending and advisory firm focused on emerging growth companies in the cannabis, life sciences and tech sectors. Prior to Madison, Dino spent over 10 years as an investment banker at the top-ranked Equity Capital Markets team at Barclays in London, and as a senior research analyst at Forest Investment Management, a global multi-strategy hedge fund. With Barclays, he advised on and structured over $8bn of equity, derivative and debt transactions and while at Forest, he specialized in credit and equity research, and was part of the portfolio management team managing a $500mm+ multi-strategy portfolio.

Umesh Mahajan joined Silver Spike’s investment team in July 2021. Umesh has a 28-year career in various middle-market, credit, and special situations investing. Prior to Silver Spike, he was a Managing Director for four years at Ascribe Capital, a credit fund focused on value investing in middle market companies. From September 2003 to August 2016, he worked at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America in various roles in their Global Markets and Investment Banking divisions in New York. Umesh specialized in credit and special situation investing, as a Managing Director in the Global Credit and Special Situations group at Bank of America Securities and as a Vice President at Principal Credit Group at Merrill Lynch; he also worked in Merrill Lynch’s energy and power investment banking group for 2 years. From 1994 to 2001, Umesh worked in J.P. Morgan’s investment banking team in Asia. He holds a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute.

Alexander Woodcock has served as SSIC’s Chief Compliance Officer since May 2024. Mr. Woodcock is the President and Chief Compliance Officer of PINE Distributors LLC and oversees the delivery of PINE’s Distribution Services. He is also a member of the Registered Fund Chief Compliance Officer Services team at PINE and serves as CCO for mutual funds, ETFs, and other 1940Act registered products. Mr. Woodcock has over 13 years of experience building and leading compliance programs at global financial services firms across diverse product and business lines. Before joining PINE in 2022, Mr. Woodcock served as Vice President of Compliance Services at SS&C ALPS. In this role, which he began in 2019, he led the Compliance Services team, delivering fund CCO support to over 10 client trusts, and post-trade compliance testing services to over 70 fund families. Mr. Woodcock’s qualifications include being a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, holding FINRA Series 7 and 24registrations, and studying International Business and Economics Aston University in England.

Andreas Bodmeier co-founded CAG in April 2019 and has served as Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc.’s Co-President and Chief Investment Officer since its inception in 2021. FromOctober 2019 until December 2020, Dr. Bodmeier was a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary in the Immediate Office of the Secretary at the United States Department of Health and Human Services focused on policy evaluation and the Department’s response to COVID-19. From June 2015 until March 2019, Dr. Bodmeier was President of Quantitative Treasury Analytics, LLC, a boutique consulting firm focused on risk management for corporate clients as well as advising on capital structure decisions and investor relations. From May 2017 until March 2019, Dr. Bodmeier was Co-founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer of Kinetik Finance, Inc., an SEC-registered online investment adviser for 401(k) or 403(b)retirement accounts, where he built the firm’s investment methodology and compliance program. Dr. Bodmeier has also served as a consultant for hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, commercial and consumer lenders, and pharmaceutical companies. His academic research at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business focused on capital market anomalies, portfolio allocation, and risk management. Dr. Bodmeier holds a Ph.D. in Finance and MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Dr. Bodmeier received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.Sc. in Physics from Freie University Berlin, Germany, a B.Sc. in Business Economics from University of Hagen, Germany, and a M.Sc. in Statistics from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.