The lastest planned acquisition may improve IBEM's management team:
NextVenture Management Team:
J. Markham Green - Chairman of the Board is a co-founder and serves as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Green served as Chief Executive Officer of NextVenue from November 1998 to January 2000. From 1973 to 1992, Mr. Green held several positions at Goldman Sachs. Mr Green's last position at Goldman Sachs including was as general partner and co-head of the Financial Services Industry Group. Since retiring from Goldman Sachs in 1992, Mr. Green has been involved in the start-up phase as an investor and director of several companies including among others, Affordable Residential Communities, BFC Enterprises and PowerAdz.com LLC. Mr. Green has also served as a board member of several public companies.
Nicholas Balletta - President , CEO and Director is a co-founder and has served as President since inception. Mr. Balletta assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer in January 2000. Prior to co-founding NextVenue, Mr. Balletta was a Director at Level 3 Communications managing the northeastern region for Web distribution services from March 1998 to January 1999. In 1995, Mr. Balletta co-founded Voyager Data Networks, a value added provider of Internet and Web hosting services and served as an Executive Vice President of Voyager until September 1997. In September 1997, Voyager was acquired by GlobalCenter Inc., an Internet and Web co-location service provider. Shortly thereafter in February 1998, GlobalCenter was acquired by Frontier Communications Corp. After the acquisitions, Mr. Balletta served as eastern region Vice President for Frontier GlobalCenter and was responsible for managing the Web co-location and Internet business on the East Coast until March 1998.
Andrew Feig - Senior Vice President , CTO and Director is a co-founder and has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NextVenue since January 1999. From March 1998 until co-founding NextVenue, Mr. Feig was a Director at Level 3 Communications, running a national technical organization and helping to develop Level 3 Communications' Internet Protocol products. In 1995, Mr. Feig co-founded Voyager Data Networks with Mr. Balletta and was a Vice President responsible for product engineering and network operations until September 1997. In September 1997, Voyager was acquired by GlobalCenter Inc., an Internet and Web co-location service provider. Shortly thereafter in February 1998, GlobalCenter was acquired by Frontier Communications Corp. After the acquisitions and until March 1998, Mr. Feig was a Vice President for Frontier GlobalCenter managing the eastern half of the United States for both operations and technical support.
Brian Dockray - Senior Vice President and CFO joined us in March 2000 and serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From September 1999 to March 2000, Mr. Dockray was a Vice President at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown in the New Media Investment Banking division. From December 1996 to September 1999, Mr. Dockray was employed by NBC. From February 1998 to September 1999, he was the Chief Financial Officer of NBC Interactive Media, NBC's Internet division. In this capacity he performed and managed financial reporting, implemented various policies and procedures and structured and negotiated business development activities including mergers, acquisitions and minority investments. From December 1996 to February 1998, Mr. Dockray was a Manager in NBC's Business Development and International Finance division. From October 1992 to December 1996, he was employed by Deloitte & Touche, an independent public accounting firm, where he held a number of positions, including most recently, in the Mergers and Acquisitions group.
Chris Lafferty - Vice President--Technical Operations has served in his capacity of Vice President-Technical Operations since inception. Prior to joining us, Mr. Lafferty set up the operations team for Level 3 Communications' Web hosting business from August 1998 to January 1999. Prior to that Mr. Lafferty was Regional Manager for the east coast region of Frontier Global Center, where he built a Web-hosting and management organization from October 1996 to August 1998. Prior to his experience in the Internet industry, from October 1989 to October 1996, Mr. Lafferty was a technical project manager with British Petroleum in London, and then JP Morgan in London and New York.
Frank Joanlanne - Vice President--Sales joined us as Vice President-Sales in January of 2000. From 1999 to January 2000, Mr. Joanlanne served as the Managing Director of Emerging Market Distressed Debt area at Amroc Investments where he was responsible for the negotiation of sovereign and corporate distressed assets. Prior to joining Amroc, Mr. Joanlanne was a Director of Sales & Trading at Credit Agricole Indosuez from 1996 to 1999. As a director, he was responsible for managing the U.S. sales and trading division of emerging markets as well as having responsibilities for the firm’s other offices in Sao Paulo, London and Moscow. From 1992 to 1996, he was employed by Deutsche Bank as a Vice President in the Global Fixed Income Institutional Sales group.
Gareth Robinson - Vice President--Europe has served as Vice President-Europe since June of 1999. Prior to joining us, from November 1998 to June 1999, Mr. Robinson served as Global Sales and Marketing Director for FutureMedia, a company that provides e-commerce and on-line education over the Internet. Prior to joining FutureMedia, Mr. Robinson served as Vice President-Europe for Optimal Networks Inc., a supplier of enterprise resource planning consulting services and networking tools from January 1997 to November 1998. From 1993 to January 1997, Mr. Robinson served as International General Manager – Networking Division of Applied Communications Inc., a supplier of banking transaction software and networking tools.
Sam N. Edge - Vice President--Application Architectures joined us in January 2000 and serves as Vice President of Application Architectures. From 1995 through 1999, Mr. Edge was founder and President of Trellis Software where he directed the technical software development for all technology platforms used by CNBC / Dow Jones Business Video our predecessor company. Mr. Edge held the position of Directory of Technology in 1994-1995 at Corbis Corporation, created by Bill Gates the founder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. At Corbis, Mr.Edge directed all technical development for Corbis' 3 primary business units. Prior to these positions Mr. Edge has developed software products for Apple Computer, Time Warner, Reuters, BBC, Convergent Technologies and others.
Gregory W. Harper - Director is a co-founder and has served as a director since inception. He is President and founder of Cerberus Corp., a technology, video, and Internet consulting, software engineering and design firm. Through Cerberus, Mr. Harper serves as an advisor to NextVenue and to several leading Wall Street investment banks in the area of Web delivery of research and financial information, particularly streaming audio and video. Previously, from 1996 to 1999, Mr. Harper served as Chief Technologist to CNBC/Dow Jones Business Video, our predecessor company.
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