White Pine Capital Management LLC is a private family office that focuses on investing in early development companies in the technology, consumer, fintech and life sciences sectors.
Russell Herman, the founder of White Pine Capital Management LLC, is a former hedge fund manager who showed an early interest in the public markets when his grandfather taught him how to read the stock tables. After losing both his parents at a young age, Russell learned the value of perseverance and self-sufficiency as he invested and paid his way through college.
Russell graduated from University of Florida. At the age of 26, Russell started his own long/short equity hedge fund within Dawson-Herman Capital Management where the focus was technology, consumer, media, healthcare, industrial and commodity. With $10M of initial backing, Russell successfully grew the Southport Millennium family of funds to a total AUM of $3B. From 2000-2009, Russell served as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dawson- Herman Capital Management.
In 2012, Russell founded Herman Capital Management LLC, the predecessor to White Pine Capital Management LLC. White Pine Capital Management LLC serves as a family office. Other than spending time with his beloved family and various charitable organizations, you can usually find Russell in the surf, rolling on two wheels, or somewhere in the mountains.