About Us

John Stellato brings broad expertise across the financial services, industrial/retail, and mergers and acquisitions areas. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of The Pritzker Organization, LLC (TPO), a merchant bank and family office representing business interests of the Pritzker family of Chicago, where he served for nearly 20 years. He has been an Officer and Director of numerous privately held companies.

Since 2011, Stellato has served as a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of Conversant Intellectual Property Management. Since 2014, he has been a member of the Board of Directors and Audit and Finance Committee of Loyal3.

Organization Leader who creates marketing programs that engage internal and external customers while building corporate brands resulting in increased market share. Adept at developing collaborative business strategies that focus on customer needs and drive profitable growth. Partner with executive teams; leverage presentation and communication skills to effect culture change and expand organizational digital presence.

Catherine Levene is the President and Chief Digital Officer of Meredith's National Media Group, overseeing digital content and products, strategy, sales and operations. Meredith reaches nearly 175 million American consumers every month, including 80 percent of the U.S. millennial women. Levene joined the company in 2019 as Chief Strategy Officer.

Levene is an accomplished digital media leader, innovator and entrepreneur with over twenty years’ experience building and scaling online companies. She has held CEO, COO and executive management roles in a variety of successful companies, has been on both sides of M&A transactions and has sat on numerous private company boards.

Prior to joining Meredith, Levene co-founded Artspace Marketplace (a Phaidon Global Company) and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Previously, she was Chief Operating Officer of DailyCandy, Inc. and spent over seven years at The New York Times Company as an executive in its Digital Media division. She also held strategy and business development positions at Showtime and early internet start-up, Firefly.

Levene serves on the Board of Directors for business.com and has held similar roles at Rent the Runway and TheFind. She is an acting advisory Board Member of theSkimm.

Levene received a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania and concurrently, a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of Business in 1992. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996.

Prior to joining ABS Capital in 2004, Ralph served as CIO/CTO of The Washington Post Company. During his tenure, Ralph worked with the Post’s six divisions on all major technology and development operations and investments. From 1996 to 2003, he had primary responsibility for The Washington Post’s venture investment portfolio. Under his direction, performance exceeded that of other corporate venture investors who manage for both strategic value and investment returns. Also while at The Washington Post, Ralph served as founder and CEO of its electronic publishing subsidiary. The subsidiary became known for both its product innovation and new revenue models for electronic media. One of the products Ralph created, washingtonpost.com, continues to be among the most visited news and information sites on the Internet.

Paul is a General Partner at ABS Capital with a focus on business and education services companies. With over a decade of experience investing in growth companies, he enjoys helping CEOs assess their product and market opportunities, optimize their business models and ultimately position their companies for successful exits, either through an M&A transaction or through the public markets. Paul’s breadth of investing experience includes companies in the technology-enabled services, eCommerce, software, and digital media sectors. Paul currently represents ABS Capital on the boards of Teachscape, Inc. and Purch. Prior to joining ABS Capital, he worked in the technology investment banking divisions of Robertson Stephens and SoundView Technology Group.

Peter C. Horan is an entrepreneur with a history of building successful media and Internet businesses. In February of 2014, Peter formed Horan MediaTech Advisors as an umbrella for his investment and consulting activities. Peter currently works with or has investments in Healthy Out, Kyck, Lending Tree, Mowingo, Net2Television, PublishThis, ShopPad, Skift, SocialWire, TalkWheel, Topix, TwelveFold Media, Viggle, and ViralHeat. As a CEO and independent director he has been a part of seven profitable exits in the last seven years, totaling almost $800 million in value.

He was previously President and COO of Answers, Corp., CEO of IAC Media and Advertising, CEO of About.com, CEO of AllBusiness.com, CEO of Goodmail Systems, and CEO of DevX.

He has served on the board of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Online Publishers Association. Peter is an active outdoorsman and environmentalist and is involved in the Sierra Club, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and Glen Canyon Institute.

Often cited as one of the most respected executives in the online media world, Nisenholtz was the founding leader for nytimes.com in 1995 and Chief Executive of New York Times Digital from 1999-2005, when he was promoted to Chief Digital Office for The Times Company. He oversaw the Times’ digital strategy, including the expansion to mobile and the introduction of a metered paywall.

Nisenholtz currently serves on the boards of Yellow Media (TOR:YLO), Postmedia Network (TOR: PNC-B), and RealMatch. He is a Venture Partner at Firstmark Capital in New York and member of the advisory board at Carmel Ventures in Israel. He founded the Online Publishers Association (now Digital Content Next) in 2002 and serves as an advisor to the DCN Executive Committee. Nisenholtz founded the Interactive Marketing Group (currently Ogilvy Interactive) at Ogilvy & Mather in 1983, the first digital agency at a major U.S. advertising firm and among the first in the world.