(NAC) Native American Capital

Team

NAC Management Team

Native American Capital, LLC's managing directors are leaders in Indian Country economic development, finance, business management and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Walter Hillabrant, Managing Director
Dr. Hillabrant is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. He is a co-founder of NAC where he coordinates and networks among Federal economic development programs targeting Indian Country and tribal communities and works with tribal government contractors and other entrepreneurial businesses in order to expand and enhance NAC's deal flow from major tribal communities throughout the United States. He works closely with both tribal communities and Federal, state, and regional governments to create innovative business opportunities in Indian Country. Dr. Hillabrant has worked with tribes and tribal organizations and consortia on projects in such areas as business and economic development, welfare reform, health, and education.Dr. Hillabrant has worked with tribes and tribal organizations and consortia on projects in such areas as business and economic development, welfare reform, health, and education. Dr. Hillabrant received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California.
Dr. Gavin Clarkson, Managing Director
Dr. Clarkson is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He manages Nac's economic and business development programs.. He is a leading authority on Indian business development and finance, as well as a specialist in information and data systems development and management. Dr. Clarkson has consulted, written, and published extensively on tribal sovereignty, tribal governance systems, tribal economic development, and was also a contributing author for the most recent edition Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, providing material on tribal finance, tribal corporations, economic development, and intellectual property.

Dr. Clarkson holds the Series 7, Series 24, and Series 66 Securities licenses from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee regarding discriminatory impediments to tribal access of the capital markets, and he has received several grant awards from the National Science Foundation to study tribal finance and tribal financial information systems.

In addition to his position at NAC, Dr. Clarkson is also an associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he conducts research in two distinct areas: intellectual property management and tribal economic development, including tribal access to capital markets and the determinants of success for tribal entrepreneurship.Dr. Clarkson holds both a bachelor's degree and an MBA from Rice University, a doctorate from the Harvard Business School in Technology and Operations Management, and is a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was the managing editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and president of the Native American Law Student Association.
Dr. Joseph L. Falkson, Senior Managing Director
Dr. Falkson is a co-founder of NAC and manages all aspects of its day-to-day operations. He regularly works with tribes and tribal consortia on major, large-scale business ventures. For example, he established Native American Pharmaceuticals (NARx), with PharMerica as an investor and McKesson Corporation as a strategic partner. NARx served as the U.S. Indian Health Service's prime vendor for the IHS southwest region. Dr. Falkson also helped found – as an investor, fund raiser, and manager – four innovative health care technology companies. He served as a consultant to and board of directors' member of PharMerica, Inc., a billion-dollar, publicly traded, institutional prescription drug distributor, acquired by Bergen Brunswig Corporation in 1999. Dr. Falkson earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ; a Ph.D. in political science from The University of Michigan— Ann Arbor; and a B.A. in politics from Brandeis University.
Marco Rubin, Managing Director
Mr. Rubin manages NAC's strategic tribal business planning and tribal business to business outreach programs. He is a nationally recognized venture capitalist who previously founded and managed Monumental Venture Partners, LLC, a seed and early stage venture capital firm headquartered in Virginia. Entrepreneur Magazine named the business a Top 100 VC Firm in 2002 and 2003. Before forming MVP in 1999, Mr. Rubin launched and co-managed New Ventures, MCI's first venture capital unit, with a portfolio returning nearly 400 percent to the company. He has also served as a management consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. Mr. Rubin began his career as an engineer at the Johnson Space Center Mission Operations Directorate. He holds a B.S. from the University of New Mexico and MBA from The George Washington University.