Alex W. Putzer
Managing Partner and CTO
// TEAM
Team
The people behind Argonav, how it operates, and how it builds.
The team
Argonav is built by operators with range: fluent across technology, finance and the domains between, they bridge the gaps most teams hand off and achieve speed through rigorous work.
Sean Koons
Managing Partner and CPO
Lee Cohen
Partner and VP Engineering
Part of Keel
// PART OF KEEL
Argonav is the technology and agentic-intelligence division of 
Merchant Bank, and works with clients beyond it. The firm's principals stand behind the division.
// PRINCIPALS
Dan Picmann
CEO (Keel Merchant Bank)
Former private-equity principal with deep experience leading operational transformations across the middle market.
Profile on keelmb.comKap Haldia
COO (Keel Merchant Bank)
Former private-equity principal with extensive operational and capital-markets expertise across the middle market.
Profile on keelmb.comEddie Perlman
Independent Director · Strategic Advisor
Governance oversight and strategic counsel; founded Scottwood Capital Management in 2001 and built it to nearly $1B in assets under management.
Profile on keelmb.comHow we operate
// HOW WE OPERATE
We operate like an instrument, not a department: a group of operators with range, one platform, and a doctrine that decides what gets built and in what order.
01
Own the outcome
We do not sell. We enter at the inflection points that set enterprise value, build durable capability, and take ownership of the outcome, not billable hours. Every engagement leaves an asset that compounds, not a deliverable that ends.
02
Leverage through the platform
We compound output through the platform, not through busywork. Agentic systems carry the standing work so people stay on the questions that demand judgment, taste and accountability.
03
Range over specialization
Our people move across technology, finance and the domains between, so each owns an outcome rather than a function while agentic systems carry the standing work. Range and rigorous work are how we move fast.
How we build
// HOW WE BUILD
We think in builder archetypes, not fixed titles, and shift the mix with the work. The same lens we hire by is the lens we rebuild client businesses by.
// JOIN
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