Kurt & Anne Scherer

Managing Partner, C5 Impact Partners and for C5 AcceleratE
Director of Database and Donor Services, Flint Hill School 

Washington, DC | PathNorth member since 2022

Kurt serves as a Managing Partner for C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm focused on providing mission-driven capital for the right leaders and technologies to preserve our way of life.   Kurt leads C5’s Impact Partners fund, a Series A fund focused on cybersecurity, energy and space solutions for commercial, defense, and intelligence community needs.  Over his career, Kurt has served the needs of high impact missions in multiple ways.   Prior to C5 Capital, Kurt completed a 15-year career at Booz Allen Hamilton where he was selected as the first Director of the national Innovation Center in Washington, DC, helping to identify emerging technologies from across the nation and accelerating the discipline of innovation.   As a consultant, Kurt focused on innovation, strategy, and operations consulting across a wide range of aerospace, defense, and space commercial clients, government agencies, and a majority of the intelligence community agencies.  Prior to his commercial career, Kurt served as an AH-1W Cobra pilot in the US Marine Corps with combat tours in Kosovo and Afghanistan, with secondary duties as an intelligence officer.  Kurt was selected as a member of the President’s Innovation Advisory Council for George Mason University in 2020.   He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics with a minor in Russian from the US Naval Academy.

Anne currently serves as the Director of Database and Donor Services for Flint Hill School, a private college preparatory school in Oakton, VA.   Anne has enjoyed in 18 year career in this role and helping the school advance and evolve their use and analysis of data for the benefit of the students and the community.  She is the proud Mother of 3 wonderful children who have all recently left the nest! 

Anne holds a double major with a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Economics from Denison University.  She enjoys photography, ornithology, and creating stained glass art in her spare time.