Alex W. Putzer
Managing Partner and CTO
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.
Sean Koons
Managing Partner and CPO
Lee Cohen
Partner and VP Engineering
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 who led operational transformations across the middle market.
Profile on keelmb.comKap Haldia
COO (Keel Merchant Bank)
Former private-equity principal with operational and capital-markets expertise across the middle market.
Profile on keelmb.comEddie Perlman
Independent Director · Strategic Advisor
Governance 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
An instrument, not a department: 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 and own the outcome, not billable hours. Every engagement leaves an asset that compounds, not a deliverable that ends.
02
Leverage through the platform
Output compounds through the platform, not busywork. Agentic systems carry the standing work; people stay on the questions that demand judgment, taste and accountability.
03
Range over specialization
Each operator owns an outcome, not a function. Range and rigorous work are how we move fast.
How we build
We think in builder archetypes, not fixed titles, and shift the mix with the work. The lens we hire by is the lens we rebuild client businesses by.
If you build like this, we would like to meet you.
