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Gary LaDrido, Founder of Redrock Ventures

Gary LaDrido

Founder, Redrock Ventures
  • 20+ years in impact investment banking
  • $15B+ in transactions executed
  • Founder & Managing Partner — DCB Sports
  • Co-Founder & Vice Chairman — Elysium Partners
  • Special Advisor — Roman DBDR (Nasdaq: DBDR)
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Gary LaDrido is an American businessman, entrepreneur, investor, board member and sports-team owner whose career spans investing in energy, the next economy, frontier technologies, media and entertainment. With a track record of building and scaling industry-defining ventures at the intersection of innovation and global opportunity, he drives value creation through strategic capital allocation, rigorous governance, corporate development, data analytics, pattern recognition and decisive, forward-thinking leadership.

He is the Founder and Managing Partner of DCB Sports, an investor in TMRW Sports — the parent company of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's TGL, the new tech-infused indoor golf league — and in Good Good Golf, a leader in next-generation golf content, media and lifestyle. He is a Partner and Board Member of The Malibu Resort, a 250-acre championship golf course, wellness spa and luxury resort in Southern California's Santa Monica Mountains. DCB Sports is co-owner of The Bay Golf Club of the TGL alongside Steph Curry and Marc Lasry, and of Venezia FC of the Italian football league alongside Aubrey "Drake" Graham and Nike CEO Elliott Hill.

Mr. LaDrido is Chairman of AS Monaco Football Féminine, the professional women's team based in Monte Carlo that competes in the French Football Federation, which he co-owns with Princess Stéphanie of Monaco — youngest daughter of Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace Kelly. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Sports Council ahead of the LA28 Olympics, and is Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Elysium Partners, a Los Angeles–based entertainment holding, financing and licensing company that acquires, manages and builds portfolios of iconic brands, music libraries, film slates and celebrity NIL rights.

Previously, Mr. LaDrido spent the first 20 years of his career in impact investment banking and is an experienced energy-transition and climate-tech investor and advisor, having executed transactions in excess of $15 billion. Formerly a member of Morgan Stanley's Clean Energy team, he is Founder and Managing Partner of Renewable Advisors and Sustainable Capital Markets, an Advisory Board Member of Generation Food and IMM Investment, and a Special Advisor to Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: DBDR), a $270M special-purpose acquisition company.

25-Year Network

Proprietary relationships

Operators, secondaries desks and institutional allocators in the Musk ecosystem — built long before these companies were household names.

Proprietary Deal Flow

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Allocations sourced through trusted intermediaries — never visible on Linqto, Forge or any public secondary marketplace.

Curated

Five-point framework

Every opportunity vetted: $1B+ valuation, 30%+ growth, market leadership, profitability path and near-term liquidity.

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Investments structured through SPVs, giving LPs transparent, direct exposure alongside institutional partners.

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