Member Biographies:
Member #1. Education: Yale undergraduate, Harvard MBA.
Entrepreneurial
experience in a rollup in home furnishings, expanding a lumber
business’s revenue by a factor of 20, and did turnarounds in the
restaurant and clothing businesses.
Member #3. Education: Lehigh University Mechanical Engineer.
Early experience
in the paper industry, later in running a portfolio of companies.
Currently acts as an advisor to several companies.
Member #13. Education: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School in
Accounting and Business
Early career in
insurance sales becoming CEO of the insurance company until its
sale. He currently advises several company CEO’s and is actively
involved in the community.
Member #15. Education: University of Utah Physics Major, Stanford
MBA in International Finance
Spent five years
in Rickover’s Nuclear Navy. He has held several positions in
International Banking and Risk Management. He finished up his
career with a startup management consulting firm that eventually
went public.
Member #17. Education: Cornell University, Columbia Law School
Started his career
practicing law and moved to a position of house counsel for an
investment banking firm. He later joined a regional bank rising to
the position of Executive VP and senior lender as that bank grew to
have $2 billion in assets. His next career position was with a xxxx
responsible for corporate development and oversight of many of their
operating subsidiaries. Currently he provides strategic and
financial consulting services and serves as a Director of several
public companies.
Member #18. Education: Stanford University, Harvard Law School
After law school
he served in Army JAG/Special Forces, with the NSA and as a U.S.
Senate assistant. He served as an executive of 4 public companies
in the radio-TV and CATV industries; he was C.O.O. of 2 CATV
companies and C.E.O. of 2 companies in the music and software
industries. Currently he serves as a Director of 1 NYSE and 4
private companies and as CEO of a music publishing company
Member #20. Education: Yale University, University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School
His early career
was in the Milk Business where he was involved in acquisitions as
well as bankruptcy. Subsequently he has made additional
acquisitions as well as participating in a family real estate
business.
Member #21. Education: BS in Business Administration, IFL
Management School, INSEAD
International Marketing and Harvard ISMP
Today he is an active angel investor and the owner of a private
venture capital and management support company. He makes investments
in small and medium sized companies that are in an expansion phase
or need restructuring or turn around. He also offers management
support in general management, strategic planning, marketing
management, financial management, controlling, mergers and
acquisitions, business negotiations and project management. He has
served on many boards and advisory boards. Focus areas are business
planning, marketing and financial management, strategic partnering,
m&a and exit structuring. He has a long and successful
experience in general management, marketing and financial management
of international companies. He has served as CEO for engineering
companies and a supply management company and as President for power
generation equipment business. He has also been involved in mergers
and acquisitions for a major corporation during 2.5 years.
His emphasis is on commercial development and profitable growth.
Member #24. Education: Gettysburg College
He started his own
insurance brokerage business that became a diversified financial
services organization offering expertise in insurance, management
compensation, retirement planning, health care, administration and
communications. He currently serves on the board of several
companies and charitable organizations.
Member #25. Education: Franklin and Marshall, Jefferson Medical
School
He started his
career in a private medical practice and later joined a growing
health insurance company emphasizing prevention of health problems.
He has consulted internationally on health care issues and is
currently retired investing in unique companies.
Member #26. Education: University of Pennsylvania, Master’s Degree
at the Annenberg School
He has had an
extensive career in marketing and sales promotion. His marketing
partnership was the largest marketer of shopping centers in the U.S.
Member #29. Education: Cornell University in Electrical Engineering
His technical
experience involved cable TV and microwave technology. He has been
involved in a corporate takeover and subsequent leveraged buyout.
After retirement he served on the boards of the Ben Franklin
Technology Center of Southeastern PA and on the board of the
University City Science Center.
Member #31. Education: University of Florida; Harvard Law School
He started in
private law practice and then became an attorney for the IRS. In due
course he became chairman of the tax section in the largest law firm
in Philadelphia. He took early retirement from the law firm to
become CEO of a private firm
Member #32. Education: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
After a stint in
the Navy and his college education he joined the family retail
hardware business that ultimately included furniture, appliances,
and housewares. After the business was sold to a public corporation,
he stayed with the business as it grew to 300 employees and fourteen
stores in the Delaware Valley. After retirement he became involved
in small real estate developments.
Member #33. Education: Temple University
After College he
entered the family vending business and over time expanded and
shifted the business to food service. After selling the food service
business he retained and is still active in a leasing business as
well as a mass transit ticket business.
Member #35. Education: Penn State, EE, University of Pennsylvania,
MSE
Early in his
career he went into mainframe computer sales. He left computer sales
for a small startup that was dissolved four years later. He then
started a Preferred Provider Organization that became very
successful and ultimately bought out by a major insurance company.
Member #37. Education: Cornell University, MME
He joined the
automation firm founded by his father after finishing college.
While CEO he had to deal with significant changes in the industry,
three years of losses, eventually doubling the business in the last
five years before it was sold to a large global company.
Member #41. Education: Williams College, (Chem); Harvard Business
School
After a stint in
the Air Force he joined a local chemical company. After a series of
sales and marketing positions he became President and COO. After a
buyout by an international company he stayed on as CEO of the North
American operations. After retirement he stayed active by purchasing
a private manufacturing company.
Member #42. Education: Cornell University, BA & MS Aeronautical
Engineering
After finishing
his Air Force commitment he joined one of the large defense
contractors later switching to the space program of another company
becoming the second youngest GM in the company. He left to become
President of a company division manufacturing infant monitoring
instruments and incubators. He successfully turned the company
around and later left to start his own company. That company
ultimately became the number two ultrasound company in the world.
Member #44. Education: Yale University
After Yale he
entered the wholesale distribution business started by his father.
At its height the company had 200 employees and annual sales of $120
million. Eventually the company’s suppliers developed their own
distribution and the company had to be liquidated. Other activities
included an organizer and board member of a local start up bank as
well as civic activities including a Trustee of Temple University.
Member #45. Education: Buffalo Medical School
He had a varied
career in public health positions at the municipal, state, and
federal levels. He wrote enabling legislation for HMO’s as well
working actively in politics.
He also had a
career in the private sector involved in healthcare financing and as
a provider of health services to prisons and jails across the U.S.
Member #48. Education: Temple University Business Administration
After Temple he
started out in sales and found out that not only did he enjoy sales
he was good at it. After getting married he joined his
father-in-law’s family paint business learning all aspects of the
business ultimately becoming CEO. The company grew to $20million in
revenues but then the paint manufacturers started to develop other
avenues of distribution and the company was sold.
Member #49. Education: Law School
Initially he
practiced corporate law. After his father-in-law was killed in an
accident he went full time with the process control and automation
company his father-in-law had started. The company grew from $50
million to $250 million in sales but the consolidation in the
industry made it prudent to sell the company.
Member #50. Education: Williamsport Tech
He has had a
varied career in graphics, marketing communications, and
publications. As part of a direct marketer of insurance he and his
partners grew the business from $35 million to $350 million in four
years when the business was sold. He and his partners started a
company that was a combination of a marketing consulting company, an
ad agency, a data center, and a software developer that was
eventually sold for $150 million.
