- Daniel R. MacKesey
Daniel R. Mackesey was born July 14, 1954 in Ithaca, New York and attended Cornell University where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and graduated cum laude in 1977. While at Cornell, Mackesey played lacrosse with distinction. He was an integral member of Cornell’s national championship teams in 1976 and 1977. He was a first team All-American both of those seasons as well as winning All-Ivy honors.
- Francine Hardaway
I've had five husbands and four careers. I've been a college professor, the owner of a large PR/Marketing Company, a corporate exec at Intel, and the owner of a business accelerator for technology companies. I am an early adopter of most technologies, and I like to play on the Internet. I've been blogging for seven years, and you can see my blog at http://blog.stealthmode.com. I have a golden retriever, and I love to take walks with him.
- Trond Johannessen
Trained in the schools of the best bluechip firms of America and Europe: Chase, IBM and Telenor in business development, sales, marketing, finance, accounting and auditing from 1980 - 1994. Since 1994 applied the large company experience to start-up finance and management consulting. Interested in teaming with capital sources for transactions in equipment, network provider and service provider sectors. Architect of small wonders, realizer of big dreams.
- David Gutman
David Gutman , PhD - Managing Partner Dr. David Gutman is a seasoned senior executive with extensive technical training balanced by experience in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Business Development at top-tier, multi-national companies. He has held executive positions in consumer packaged goods, high technology and emerging Internet businesses. As a P&L manager he has delivered revenues over $500M.
- Habib Kairouz
Habib Kairouz Since 1993, Mr. Kairouz has been a Managing Partner of Rho Capital Partners, Inc., an investment and venture capital management company. Prior to joining Rho, Mr. Kairouz worked in investment banking and leveraged buyout in New York with Reich & Co. and Jesup & Lamont. His current and recent board seats include: AnswerSoft, Avolent, Carparts Technologies, Intralinks, iVillage (NASDAQ: IVIL), Lemur Networks, Tripod, Waterfront Media and Yantra.
- Dirk Lupberger
Dr. Dirk Lupberger Managing Partner at PolyTechnos Venture-Partners GmbH Dr. Dirk Lupberger joined PolyTechnos in February 2002 as a Managing Partner. Previously, he spent 14 years with Siemens and held a number of leading positions in Siemens Groups, Affiliates and Corporate.
- Sawteen See
SawTeen See Receives 2006 Asian Women In Business Leadership Award SawTeen See , LERA’s Managing Partner, was recognized for her entrepreneurial and leadership accomplishments at AWIB's Eleventh Annual Awards Dinner held Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at the Hilton New York. Over 650 supporters of Asian Women In Business attended the dinner to toast the accomplishments of Asian women as entrepreneurs and corporate leaders
- Josh Wolfe
Josh Wolfe Managing Partner, Lux Capital Josh Wolfe is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital focusing on investments in Nanotechnology. Before forming Lux Capital, he worked in Salomon Smith Barney's Investment Banking group, where his experience included a $4 billion hotel merger, and a defense against an unsolicited LBO.
- Grant B. Walsh
Mr. Walsh has served on 24 Boards of Directors and as Chairman of four. He is the immediate Past Chairman of Royal Botanical Gardens and Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. Effective governance is one of his particular areas of interest and expertise. Grant Walsh ’s skills have been demonstrated in leadership, governance, strategy, turnaround and change, and business development. These skills are now made available through EC Murphy Walsh .
- Craig B. Klosk
Craig Klosk co-founded The Wicks Group in January 1989. As a Managing Partner at Wicks, he is involved in all its investment and management activities and serves on the Board of Directors of all its operating companies.
- Jeremy Goodwin
MR. JEREMY GOODWIN MR. JEREMY GOODWIN , has served on our board as an Independent Director since December 24, 2004. Jeremy Goodwin is the founder of China Diligizer and a Managing Partner with 3G Capital Partners. He began his career in 1995 at Mees Pierson Investment Finance S.A. in Geneva, Switzerland where he supported the fund private placement/private equity finance team.
- Robert Newton
- Bruce Flexman
Bruce Flexman , FCA "I'm honoured to be in the company of other FCAs," says Bruce Flexman , FCA. "I see our profession as providing unique training through being immersed in business. As a CA, I've had the opportunity to learn from a wide variety of businesses. It's been truly valuable."
- Eugene Wong
Eugene Wong CFO Eugene is an active member of The Aslan Group - a national group of angel investors to early-stage, high tech companies. He is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of AmerAsia Partners, Inc. a private technology investment banking firm-since 1995. Eugene was a Managing Partner of The International Harvest Group-a boutique investment bank in New York in 1990.
- John C. Bower
John Bower started his career at an early age of 18, when he began to meet the very people that would be his partners in business years later. Straight out of college, he worked for Hemmeter Development, eventually he made a name for himself as a serial entrepreneur. He also worked for Hawaii Biotech as chief financial and operating officer.
- Robert Shaw
Dr. Robert Shaw is President of Aret� Corporation, the Manager of the Micro-Generation Technology Fund, LLC, a venture capital fund investing in small-scale energy systems. � He was founder and President of Aret� Ventures, Inc., from 1983 to 1997, and has served as the Managing Partner of the five Utech Funds from their inception.
- Neil Canter
Neil Canter Managing Director, Marketing Accountability Partnership Neil Canter is managing director of the Marketing Accountability Partnership (MAP), a unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies dedicated to measuring and improving return on marketing investment for Interpublic agency clients using advanced, channel-neutral tools and analysis. Neil has 25 years of experience in advanced marketing analytics.
- Philip Proujansky
Philip Proujansky Philip Proujansky , Managing Partner, participated in the founding of CVF. Phil is a Founding Managing Partner of Integrated Acquisition & Development (IAD) as well as an officer/principal of its 41 affiliated companies. IAD is a diversified commercial real estate organization and a private equity investor.
- Sherwin Voss
Sherwin Voss embarked upon his career in real estate investment with the launch of SWE, after serving in the United States Marine Corps. As founder, Sherwin oversaw the formation of joint ventures and originated funding packages for builders. Concurrent with his entrepreneurial pursuits at SWE, Sherwin joined Citigroup-Citicorp Investments as a financial analyst.
- Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman President/CEO Matthew Hoffman is the current owner/president of Old Meeting House Ice Cream. Matthew took over the business from the original owner, Jim Strickland, over a decade ago. With a Master's Degree in Restaurant and Hotel Management from Cornell University, and over 20 years experience as owner and managing partner of many local establishments, Matthew is also an accomplished chef.
- Donald A. Brennan
DONALD A. BRENNAN Sr. VP,Development Mr. Brennan has served as our Vice President of Development since May 2001. Mr. Brennan brings 30 years of hospitality experience to the amenity operations for master planned residential golf communities and golfing resort hotels and conference centers. Mr. Brennan holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor’s degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration from Cornell University.
- Frank Kuechler
Frank Kuechler Born in Hamburg in 1957, Frank Kuechler completed vocational training in the hotel industry with a focus on commerce and finance, then worked in sales and marketing for international hotel companies. Study at Cornell University (Ithaka, New York) led to a move to the operational area and he became director of Steigenberger’s 5-star resort on Gran Canaria.
- Michael Goguen
Michael Goguen, Director Michael Goguen , Director, is a Sequoia Capital US partner and focuses on investments in the components and systems sectors. He is a Director of ConSentry, Ikanos, Infoblox, LogLogic, MEMX, Navini, Ometric, PayDay One, Sipera and WideRay. Mike was responsible for Sequoia Capital's investments in Ardent, MaxComm, Monterey Networks, Netiverse, and Pipelinks, which were all acquired by Cisco.
- J. Michael Cline
J. Michael Cline Founding Partner, Accretive, LLC; former General Partner,General Atlantic Partners
- Jonathan Stearns
Jonathan Stearns Jonathan is the Managing Director of AIG Global Investment Group, New York. He joined AIG in 2006 and is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, executing and managing private capital investments on behalf of AIG and its subsidiaries. Mr. Stearns has over 20 years of experience in private capital investments in a variety of industries, capital structures and stages of development in companies located in the U.S. and Western Europe.
- Paul Smachlo
Paul has more than 10 years of front line leadership experience in venture backed startups and basic industry turnarounds. As Director of Professional Services at Bluedot Software, Paul was responsible for the deployment of marketing enterprise software solutions and managing client relationships with Fortune 100 clients. In Product Marketing and Operations Management roles at Cardiac Pathways Corporation, Paul helped deliver five disposable product lines and two lines of capital . . .
- Michael Andrews
I have been involved in financial management for both large public and small private financial services firms. I have also worked in both private industry and public sector roles. I have experience in international business with my current employer as well as connections to US Government operations in the former Soviet Union. I am seeking to leverage my MBAs and my extensive experience to find a position that will allow me to impact an organization in a strategic leadership role. I am . . .
- Harry Clark
Harry Clark , Managing Partner, Stanwich Group, LLC Harry Clark has provided public policy, political and strategic communications advice to companies, trade associations and political leaders for the past 25 years. His distinctive expertise is in helping companies develop strategies and deploy resources to successfully manage complex public policy issues, strategic transactions or organization-threatening crises.
- Jonathan Halpern
Jonathan Halpern has spent the past twelve years overseeing and guiding successful business ventures. Mr. Halpern has run his own business, JDH Consulting, working with a wide range of companies during their formation in helping raise capital, developing business and marketing plans, constructing operational processes, building technology platforms, negotiating strategic relationships and developing exiting strategies.
- Stephen W. Gebo
Stephen W. Gebo STEPHEN W. GEBO was born in Watertown, New York. He received an A.B. from Hamilton College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in History in 1973. Mr. Gebo was on the Law Review and received his J.D. from Cornell University in 1976. He was admitted to the bar in 1977. Mr. Gebo is a member of the Jefferson County and New York State Bar Associations.
- John Lombardo
John Lombardo , Managing Partner john@branchescatering.com John Lombardo is the well-seasoned managing partner of Branches. He holds a BS in business from Cornell University's renowned School of Hotel Administration, where he also taught cooking and kitchen management for 3 years. John's management experience includes many 4 and 5 star hotels and restaurants including:
- Jonas Grossman
Jonas S. M. Grossman Mr. Grossman is a Partner and Head of Institutional Equities at Chardan Capital Markets, LLC. Mr. Grossman joined Chardan in January, 2004. In addition, he is a managing partner of Cornix Management, LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund.
- Peter J. Avioli
Business development and procurement professional, with career employment experience at Bell Labs, AT&T, Lucent, Wolters Kluwer Health, and Egenera. Also, I am the owner and managing partner of Springboard Planning Partners LLC, a business development consulting firm, with experience in hosted IP comunications, wireless data, and enterprise contingency planning. Currently, I am Director-Value Engineering with Egenera, a data center virtualization company. Egenera offers a unique . . .
- Jane Chin PhD.
Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Executive Coach
- Ellen Irie
Ellen Irie has worked as a consultant to nonprofits and philanthropy since 1991, directing and managing applied research and evaluation projects. Ellen Irie has worked as a consultant to nonprofits and philanthropy since 1991, directing and managing applied research and evaluation projects. Ellen has a keen interest in issues of organizational effectiveness, health prevention and education, service and volunteerism and nonprofit financial systems development.
- Roger Longman
Roger Longman , Managing Partner, Windhover Information Inc. Roger Longman is a Managing Partner at Windhover Information Inc. and has been involved with the health care industry for more than 20 years. In 1983, Longman joined The Wilkerson Group as a writer covering the pharmaceutical and biotech industries for IN VIVO: The Business & Medicine Report .
- Kevin M. McGovern
Kevin McGovern Mr. McGovern is the principal of Greenwich, Connecticut-based McGovern & Associates, which specializes in corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, securities (including public companies and private investment companies), emerging business, corporate and partnership joint ventures, and consulting and capital formation.
- Kenneth J. Kwit
Kenneth J. Kwit , President Mr. Kwit is a seasoned general management and marketing executive with substantial experience in the start up and rapid development of consumer brands, both for early-stage as well as public companies. Prior to founding WineSource.com in the summer of 2005, Mr. Kwit served, and continues to serve, as president of the FurnitureFind Corporation.
- Richard Ham
- Prentiss E. Feagles
Prentiss Feagles is a co-director of the firm's tax practice group, practicing principally in the areas of corporate and partnership taxation. He also serves as the firm's managing partner of finance. Prentiss is active in a variety of areas of tax law on behalf of domestic and foreign corporations, real estate investment trusts (REITs), umbrella partnership real estate investment trusts (UPREITs), partnerships, and wealthy individuals.