Drew Tulchin, Managing Partner, has spent 25+ years turning ideas into lasting organizations. He just passed the torch leading NM Angels after nearly six years as President.

As Meow Wolf‘s first CFO, Drew led the raise of more than $125 million in investment, oversaw growth from 50 to 400+ employees, and helped expand the company to Las Vegas and Denver (now with 5 locations). 

He is Founder and General Partner of the New Mexico Vintage Fund (NMVF). He has served as ‘Fractional Executive’ / Part-Time CFO at start-ups including:  Dash LX (formerly PwrLab), New Way Homes, and Breezy Med (previously Build with Robots). His efforts with the immersive entertainment B Corp Electric Playhouse led to the opening of their flagship location in ABQ.

He helped launch dozens of start-ups. His work has generated more than $400 million for triple bottom line efforts.

Consulting has taken him across New Mexico, the U.S., to Native American nations, and more than 40 countries.

He has contributed to 100+ triple bottom line and socially entrepreneurial business plans. Prisma Microfinance’s co-written plan was a Global Social Venture Competition award winner, published, and used to raise $1.2 million in private equity capital.

He was Director of a U.S. microfinance organization, the CDFI called ECDC/Enterprise Development Group, serving immigrants and low-income people in Greater Washington, DC. He served as Program Officer for Grameen Foundation as its founding staff person of the Capital Markets Group.

Previous experience includes a Bluetooth wireless firm, socially responsible businesses, and an environmental NGO. He began his career in National Community Service, as a VISTA (US domestic equivalent of the Peace Corps) and an AmeriCorps Team Leader in Oakland, California.

Drew completed his MBA from the University of Washington in Seattle. He finished his BA, Cum Laude, in History and International Relations from Washington University in St. Louis. His studies included a year abroad at Sussex University, UK.

Drew values community engagement. He served on the Board of WESST, Serve New Mexico Commission, Pueblo of Acoma’s Business Enterprises and Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh’s CDFI. He is a member of Investors Circle and Toniic.

In his free time, Drew plays ultimate Frisbee anywhere he can, is learning tennis, hikes to get lost, eats food he doesn’t recognize, and enjoys bad puns more than he should.

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Emma Pike, Program Director, brings more than three decades of experience in management and operational excellence. Most of her career has been leading increasingly large budgets and projects in film and TV drama. She has managed more than 50 films/ TV series. Find her credits here: Emma Pike – IMDb

After many years as a Line Producer/ UPM, her most recent position was as Head of Production for Two Brothers Pictures, an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning London-based production outfit. In this role, as employee #7, she set up all operating policies and procedures and oversaw their full slate of drama productions, managing budgets of $10-35 million and teams across the globe. She has worked in five continents, in more than 20 countries, delivering household named shows to Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, AMC, Showtime, BBC and more. Renowned productions include the TV comedy Fleabag, the first two series of Netflix’s Black Mirror and the movie Snatch with Brad Pitt.

Earlier in her career, Emma worked with international not-for-profits. She spent a year in India as the Administrator for Calcutta Rescue, a charity operating five clinics and three schools in the slums. She was involved in donor management and oversaw an international team of 15 volunteers. She also worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a Logistician for Merlin (now Save The Children). Among the day-to-day logistics of moving food, medicine, vehicles and personnel, she oversaw delivery of a cold-chain TB vaccination program to isolated villages in Eastern Congo.

She received her degree in psychology from Sheffield University, England, and accreditation in Humanitarian Practice/ Logistics from RedR in Chennai, India.

Emma loves walking her border terrier, Dolly, has a trade certification in furniture upholstery, remodels houses, and has good intention to learn to speak better French.

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Miguel Tym, Analyst, is a New Mexican whose family has been in the state for generations. He supports UpSpring’s clients from early concept through fundraising, building financial models and projections, running investor and market research, and helping deliver the firm’s programs and events.

As an Associate Accountant at Thornburg Investment Management, a Santa Fe firm managing roughly $45 billion, Miguel owned the daily liquidity and cash reporting for the firm’s mutual fund and ETF portfolios, reconciling against custodian data through Bloomberg Terminal and State Street. He built automated workflows in Microsoft Power Automate that removed manual steps from the cycle.

Before that, as an Accountant/Auditor II with the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General, he independently planned, ran, and reported full-cycle audits of district offices statewide, testing payroll, procurement, and contract records against state and federal requirements. His findings reduced control gaps across the offices he audited, and he presented them directly to district management and agency leadership. Serving his home state was a point of pride.

He works in SQL, Tableau, Power BI, and Excel, and a growing part of his work is applying AI tools to research, analysis, and reporting. He holds a B.S. in Business Entrepreneurship from Arizona State’s W. P. Carey School of Business, where he was a Hispanic Scholarship Fund recipient and graduated summa cum laude with a 3.88 GPA. His interest in building companies started with an e-commerce business he ran solo on Amazon and eBay through college.

Outside of work, Miguel enjoys hiking in Pecos and the Sangre de Cristos, playing chess on chess.com, and practicing saxophone and flute.

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