Margot is a seasoned investment professional with 20+ years in private equity and venture capital. She grew up in the great Midwest where she spent her early years and throughout high school dancing with the Detroit Contemporary Civic Ballet Company. Many people said she was always on her toes, and she proved it by taking the leap out west to go to college at Stanford, where she studied geology. She fell in love with business at a summer job while analyzing oil company assets for a bank.

After college, Margot started her career in the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs. Afterward, she joined a private equity partnership in New York where she worked on venture capital and leveraged buyout deals for the firm’s 30 portfolio companies totaling $6 billion in revenue. Eventually she moved back to the Midwest and rejoined Goldman Sachs, where she raised $70 million for private wealth teams. She also helped launch the Wolverine Venture Fund at University of Michigan and actively served on its founding Board of Advisors for six years.

After a move to California and a desire to start her own fund, Margot co-founded LMN Ventures in 2010 with two business school classmates, investing their own capital in early stage women-led businesses in the Consumer and Health & Wellness sectors. With a passion for the better-for-you CPG space, she joined Spiral Sun Ventures as a Managing Partner in 2018 when Mark and Michael saw the light and knew they needed a woman in the mix.

Margot holds a BS in Applied Earth Science and an MS in Petroleum Geology from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Advisory Board of Women Entrepreneurs Global. She is married, lives in Laguna Beach, CA and has three grown children.