The Chairman of our Board of Directors, Brian is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Rapa Therapeutics (“Rapa”), a clinical stage start-up biotechnology company, spun out of the National Cancer Institute in September 2017. Rapa is developing a cell therapy platform focused on cutting-edge curative immunotherapy treatments for cancer, neurodegenerative, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. After experiencing many people close to him being afflicted by these deadly illnesses, Mr. Radecki has made it his mission to find a better way to treat and help people with these devastating diseases. Mr. Radecki is an active angel investor in, or advisor to, several companies across various industries — from start-ups with zero revenue, to pre-IPO and large public companies. He has over 20 years of experience building both small private and large public companies. He works closely with many top-tier private equity, venture capital and institutional investors along with entrepreneurs, boards of directors and senior management teams to build disruptive and innovative platform companies by executing strategic plans to get things done. Mr. Radecki is currently an investor and director on the board of Wheels Up. Previously, Mr. Radecki was an early investor in, and served on the board of directors of, Rain King Software, Inc., a leading sales and marketing intelligence platform, when it was acquired in August 2017 by Zoom Info (NASDAQ: ZI) (formerly DiscoverOrg); Docutech, a document, eSign, eClosing and compliance technology provider, when it was acquired by First American (NYSE: FAF) for $350 million in March 2020; and Optimal Blue, a digital marketplace in the residential mortgage industry, which was recently acquired by Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE: BKI). Also, Mr. Radecki invested pre-IPO in other companies including Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) and Skillz Inc. (NYSE: SKLZ), which is merging (via SPAC) with Flying Eagle Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: FEAC). A number of his early or pre-IPO investments have resulted in returns over 10 times his multiple on investment (“MOI”).
After working approximately 20 years at public companies, Mr. Radecki retired in 2016 from CoStar Group Inc. (“CoStar”) (NASDAQ: CSGP), a provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, where he held several senior operational and financial roles over 18 years, including Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and VP of Research Operations (the Company’s largest operating area). While at CoStar, Mr. Radecki oversaw or played a major role in CoStar’s accounting and finance operations in the U.S. and U.K. — from internal audit, tax and budgeting to SEC reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and due diligence. Additionally, Mr. Radecki helped lead CoStar’s 1998 initial public offering, multiple follow on equity offerings and international expansion, as well as leading several acquisitions and the integration of public companies, including Comps.com (NASDAQ: CDOT) in 2000 for $102 million, and LoopNet (NASDAQ: LOOP) in 2012 for $860 million. Also, Mr. Radecki was named the Washington Business Journal’s “CFO of the Year” in the large company category for 2012. During 2014, he led and raised nearly $1.1 billion of debt and equity. Mr. Radecki also played a major role in acquisitions of Apartments.com in 2014 for $585 million and ApartmentFinder in 2015 for $170 million, which allowed CoStar to successfully enter a new strategic vertical and significantly expanded CoStar’s total addressable market. Mr. Radecki was instrumental in building CoStar from a small pre-IPO start-up to a multi-billion dollar public company. During his tenure, CoStar’s substantial growth resulted in an over 2,000% shareholder return. Before joining CoStar, Mr. Radecki worked at Axent Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AXNT), an international security software company; Azerty, Inc. and the public accounting firm, Lumsden & McCormick, LLP, both based in Buffalo, NY. Mr. Radecki earned a Bachelor of Science from University of New York at Buffalo, with a dual degree in Accounting and Finance.