Maximillian Amster

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Amster is CEO and Founder of Veridis. Previously, Mr. Amster was a Partner and Investment Committee Member at Avesta, a private equity real estate partnership. During his tenure, the firm grew from $125 million of assets to over $1 billion.

Before joining Avesta, Mr. Amster served as Principal and General Counsel at Jeb Bush & Associates LLC, a merchant bank founded by former-Governor Jeb Bush with interests in energy, shipping, transportation, and real estate.

Mr. Amster has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as Notes Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and Vice-President of The Federalist Society. During law school, Mr. Amster worked at Alston & Bird, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Mr. Amster also has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Danielle Diaz

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF INVESTMENTS

Danielle Diaz is Senior Director of Investments at Veridis. Before joining the company, Ms. Diaz was Of Counsel at Greenberg Traurig, P.A., where her practice focused on complex commercial litigation. Ms. Diaz has broad experience in various aspects of litigation, including motions practice, discovery, settlement, trial preparation, and appellate briefs.

Ms. Diaz graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where she served as the Managing Editor of the University of Miami Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

Ms. Diaz also received a B.A. cum laude in Psychology from The George Washington University.

Samuel J. Salario, Jr.

Samuel J. (“Sam”) Salario, Jr. serves on the GP Advisory Committee at Veridis. Previously, Mr. Salario served as a judge on Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal, to which he was appointed by Governor Rick Scott and began service in February 2015. While on the court, Judge Salario participated in deciding thousands of appeals and authored more than one hundred and thirty opinions on subjects ranging from criminal law, to personal injury, to complex commercial disputes.

Before joining the Second District, Mr. Salario was a partner in the Tampa office of the Carlton Fields law firm, where he served as leader of the firm’s Securities and Derivative Litigation Practice Group. His practice involved representing public companies, directors and officers, and financial services firms in securities class actions, shareholder derivative suits, internal investigations, and regulatory investigations. He also practiced general class action defense and complex business litigation. Before working at Carlton Fields, Mr. Salario was a counsel in the Securities Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Salario graduated with high honors in 1995 from the University of Florida College of Law, where he was a member of the Florida Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. After law school, Mr. Salario clerked for the Honorable Wm. Terrell Hodges on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Mr. Salario also received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from The American University in Washington, D.C.