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Carl Caricari, Chairman
Mr. Caricari is founder and principal of Caricari Consulting, a firm dedicated to improving the management of technology companies. Mr. Caricari was previously with IBM, most recently as Vice President of Product Development in the company's Advanced Workstation Division.聽 He was a major force behind the introduction of RS 6000 and AIX 3.1, IBM's UNIX operating system. In addition, Mr. Caricari was a key contributor to the creation of the alliance between IBM, Apple, and Motorola.
Mr. Caricari also served as Vice President of engineering at Platform Solutions Inc. Mr. Caricari was a founder and CEO of System Fabric Works, a software services firm specializing in high speed fabric computing.聽 He was also Vice President of Micro Components for Burroughs Corporation. Mr. Caricari holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University.
Charles Resnick, CEO
Charles Resnick became CEO of Celsia Technologies in February 2011. He is also the managing partner of Inflexion Partners. Charles is an accomplished business executive with a 25-year career in global general management, operations, financial management, and strategic relationships in the technology, banking, and consumer packaged goods sectors. Charles has held senior management positions in the United States, South America, Mexico, and Western Europe with Danka Business Systems, Tropicana Products, Mellon Bank, PepsiCo and The Procter & Gamble Company.
Charles has extensive experience with both domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, and has been involved in over 100 acquisitions and divestitures, including a $1.8 billion acquisition for Danka Business Systems. Charles was also a lead participant in negotiating the GATT and NAFTA Agreements as Undersecretary in the Bush administration (1990-1993).
In his most recent position, Charles was a founder and Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing of Mimeo, Inc. and was instrumental in building a strategic business and investment relationship with Hewlett-Packard and UPS. In addition, Charles was one of the lead Mimeo executives that raised a total of $41 million in financing. Charles holds both an A.B. degree and a M.B.A. from St. Louis University.
Joseph Formichelli
Joseph Formichelli, Board Member and former CEO of Celsia Technologies, is a technology industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience, including IBM, Toshiba and Gateway. During his career, he has held senior executive positions in manufacturing, quality assurance, engineering, logistics, supply chain and product management.
At IBM he served as vice president of operations for the IBM PC company, and vice president and general manager of the highly successful ThinkPad line of notebook computers.
He also served as the executive vice president and general manager of Toshiba's computer systems group where he oversaw the US, Latin America and South America business. Mr. Formichelli successfully converted Toshiba's computer business from a technology driven, indirect sales organization to one of e-business, customer relations management, direct sales and revamped their manufacturing operations.
Prior to Toshiba, Mr. Formichelli was president of ClearCube Corporation, an Austin, Texas based start-up. Before that, he served as the executive vice president of operations at Gateway Computers.
Greg Osborn
Greg Osborn is a managing partner at IndiGo Ventures. Prior to launching IndiGo Ventures, he founded Seed Capital, which provided new business development, strategic partnering and fundraising services for cutting-edge Internet companies, and served as head of business development for FreeRide.com.
His background in finance and investment began on Wall Street, working at the headquarters of L.F. Rothschild & Co., Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, as an Account Executive, Smith Barney Harris & Upham, as Vice President, Paine Webber, as First Vice President and Senior Vice President of Axiom Capital Management. Mr. Osborn holds a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Ramapo State College. Mr. Osborn serves on the Board of Directors of Powerhouse Technologies Group, Inc., Children of Bellevue and ideavilliage.com.
Mr. Osborn also serves as corporate advisor to Advance Nanotech Inc.
Peter Rugg
Peter Rugg is a Senior Partner of Tatum LLC in New York. He has over 30 years of diversified business experience with special competence in capital structure and creative financing alternatives.
Mr. Rugg has extensive experience in international natural resource businesses and offshore business migration. He has experience in commercial and investment banking, merger and acquisitions, turnaround situations, project finance and corporate restructuring, during a long career at JP Morgan. Mr. Rugg has managed public company financial reporting, investor relations, tax compliance and audit, budget and planning and information technology systems including relational database, desktop and multi-currency accounting, as CFO of Triton Energy (NYSE).
He sits on a number of non-profit and emerging growth company boards.
Alan Benaim
Alan Benaim is a vice president at Midsummer Capital, a New York City based Hedge Fund group that acts as a fundamental investor with a medium-term horizon in exchange-listed small to mid-size growth companies. Mr. Benaim has over nine years experience in investment banking, corporate finance and principal investing. At Midsummer, Mr. Benaim is involved in the evaluation, due diligence and execution of investments.
Prior to Midsummer, Mr. Benaim spent seven years in various roles at JPMorgan Chase based in London and New York, executing a wide spectrum of transactions in mergers and acquisitions advisory, structured finance, bank financing, bond issuance, equity issuance and financial derivatives, across more than 20 countries in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Mr. Benaim was promoted to Vice President at JPMorgan Chase and is credited with helping build and develop the European Metals & Mining industry group from the bottom up into the top league table ranked industry group.
Following JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Benaim gained investment experience in both early stage venture capital and middle market private equity, having evaluated and executed investments in companies within the technology, healthcare, security and manufacturing and engineering industries. Mr. Benaim has an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Richard Rosenblum
Mr. Rosenblum has been a principal of Harborview Advisors, LLC since its inception. Mr. Rosenblum has been an active and productive force in the small and mid cap markets for over 16 years, advising, strategizing and raising over $400 million for both private and public companies during that time span. He previously was a Managing Director of Investment Banking for vFinance, Inc., a middle market investment banking and brokerage organization. Mr. Rosenblum has continued to provide advice, expertise and access to critical growth capital for emerging growth companies. Mr. Rosenblum sits on the Board of Directors of several companies, both public and private, and is active in fundraising for charitable causes. Mr. Rosenblum, born 1959, graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981, Summa Cum Laude, with a degree in Finance and Accounting
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