Mr. O’Neill is a Vice President at AE Industrial and a member of AE Ventures, the venture capital platform of AE Industrial Partners. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2024, he founded Hundred Acre Consulting Group, a consortium of independent, multidisciplinary entrepreneurs that provides outsourced strategic finance, corporate development and operational efficiency services for business leaders across a range of industries. Before that, Mr. O’Neill was the Vice President of Corporate Development at Latch, a multifamily real estate technology firm, where he served as a principal on the company’s merger with a Tishman Speyer-sponsored SPAC, and built the company’s M&A and corporate venture infrastructure. Prior to joining Latch, Mr. O’Neill served as Head of Corporate Development at Shift Technologies, an auto ecommerce platform for buying & selling used cars, where he successfully took the company public via a SPAC. Before joining Shift, he served as Senior Corporate Development Manager at Eventbrite, the Director of Business Operations for the Americas division of 360 Trading Networks, Inc. and a Senior Finance & Operations Manager at Vertical Research Partners. Mr. O’Neill also co-founded a B2C health and fitness nutrition e-commerce start-up called RacePak, curating international craft nutrition products for individual subscribers, while also serving as a B2B nutrition distributor to fitness facilities around the country. He began his career serving in several financial, operational and sales roles at Thomson Reuters in London, New York and Boston.
- Wake Forest University, BA
- Hundred Acre Consulting Group
- Latch Inc.
- Shift Technologies, Inc.
- Eventbrite, Inc.
- 360 Trading Networks, Inc.
- Vertical Research Partners
- RacePak
- Thomson Reuters