>>Education: Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Business Administration from Capital University, 1975. Additional study includes completion of a writing course at the University of Oxford (England), 1994, as well as study at Weist- Barron School of Television, Massachusetts College of Art, and Boston Conservatory of Music. Performance experience includes a lead role in an award-winning industrial film (for John Hancock) and a lead role in a National Public Radio series pilot. Wrote, directed and produced a play performed in Beverly Hills. His face and voice have appeared in commercials for leading companies including Porsche, NBC Sports, Budweiser, U.S. Trust, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Digital Equipment Corp. He writes and publicly performs poetry. He plays drums in a wide variety of musical styles.
Rose M. Forbes , Advisor: Has served at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Music (1990 to present) as well M.C.E.G./Virgin Home Entertainment, Director, Customer Service Department and VIP Sales Program, Manager (1987 to 1990).
Liz Olson, Advisor: As founder and President of the Pacific Stock Exchange Club (1993 to 1998) and National Executive Director of the Stockbrokers Society and Institutional Analysts Society (1985 to present), Ms. Olson has helped arrange national meetings between CEOs and managers of Pacific Stock Exchange listed and other publicly traded companies with brokers and portfolio managers from regional and national stock brokerage firms.
Helped arrange meetings for companies with securities analysts, pension and mutual fund managers, trust and bank investment officers, portfolio managers and institutional brokers. Instituted financial television show productions showcasing publicly traded companies in the Southern California, Chicago and South Florida markets. Worked with the Pacific Stock Exchange to publicize activities of the P.S.E.
Rene Ross: Currently serves at Microsoft, where she is involved in assisting companies with web site development, and has served at Earthlink, one of the world's largest Internet service providers. Ms. Ross is co-host of the soon to be relaunched Internet show 3rd Millenium.Com, focusing on successful business models on the Internet.
Elise Kim , Advisor: Ms. Kim is the Founder and CEO of Athletes & Entertainers for Kids (1986-1995) Up to 1986, Elise was one of the very few women, and probably the only Asian woman, who had ventured boldly into the ''old boys'' world of sports. She founded the national nonprofit charity Athletes & Entertainers for Kids while responding to the request of a 15-year- old high school basketball player dying of leukemia, who wanted to meet a USC athlete, Olympian Cheryl Miller. Elise arranged a surprise visit between the two. Elise's own family's struggle with her mother's battle against breast cancer provided additional inspiration to form AEFK. Presently, over 100,000 youths annually are provided with programs, activities and incentive goods by AEFK. Athletes and entertainers who have actively participated in AEFK events include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elton John, Kathy Ireland, Howie Long, and corporate supporters have included Nissan Motor Corp., Taco Bell, Tiffany & Co., Los Angeles Times Fund, E.S.P.N, Callaway Golf. In 1995, Governor Wilson named AEFK on of the two top charities in the State of California.
Beryl Wollk, Advisor, Mr. Wolk spent his entire civilian life working in a family-founded and owned business which presently is comprised of 21 autonomous companies, 1250 employees, and major facilities in four states. The business was founded in 1929. While Beryl's corporate complex is involved in a variety of marketing fields and endeavors, his own emphasis has been on developing unique targeted media which evolve into a series of integrated, multi media modules.
Beryl has been an innovator in the use of newspapers for the distribution of advertising inserts. He provides clients, including 175 ongoing national corporations, with complete marketing programs based upon the distribution of his ''Targeted Free Fall'' magazine styled newspaper insert. These inserts contain various consumer incentives and involvement devices.
Beryl has also been a leader in the cable industry, being a co-founder of the Cable Advertising Bureau. He was co-founder and co-owner of cable television's largest circulation magazine with 105 million copies distributed monthly. Mr. Wolk conceived and founded the first company that produced 30 minute infomercials. Since that time, this company has broadened its original marketing thrust of ''merchandise'' to include business opportunities, self- improvement and breakthrough product marketing.
In addition to these accomplishments, Beryl is a co-owner of Sales Dynamics, Inc. This company markets products and services by way of carts or ''stores without doors'' that provide a shopping mallpresence for his clients. CartCade is useful for qualified lead generation, surveys, literature distribution, various forms or recruitment and similar non product applications. Mr. Wolk has also acquired Dial-A-Fax, Inc., publisher of the world's most complete fax telephone directory. Dial-A-Fax's Third Edition contains more than 200,000 listings, substantially more than any competitive product. Education: Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. Mr. Wolk is a retired Commander of the Naval Reserve.
Cynthia Copsey, Advisor: Ms. Copsey is a leader in stock and investment development of the Internet, and has seven years experience at the Pacific Stock Exchange, where she rose to Manager, Listings and Marketing. Ms. Copsey has comprehensive experience in educating the public small business capital formation, and has been a leader in issues related to small corporate offering registrations, Regulation A's, SB-2's, and other equity capital programs.
During her seven years at the Pacific Exchange, Ms. Copsey established a network of investment bankers and underwriters, and promoted the exchange at forums. She developed and implemented the SCOR/Small Company Market. She holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from University California at Berkeley, and a Bachelors of Art degree in economics from Mills College. She is a member of the Financial Women's Organization and the National Investor Relations Institute.
John Medhurst, Advisor: John Medhurst has been Vice President, Finance for Sunland Pet Corporation where he introduced comprehensive new software to overhaul the company's accounting and projection systems. (1993-1995)
As President and CEO of Smith & Nephew, Inc., Canada, he led the company to significant growth by developing and motivating a management team. Sales and profits increased 300% to $80 million and $10 million respectively in five years. He was responsible for planning and supervising the building of four large new manufacturing and office buildings, one in India and three in Canada. (1957-1986)
Mr. Medhurst, born and raised in England, was President of the Canadian Association of Manufacturers of Medical Devices and Director of the Canadian Cosmetics, Toiletries and Fragrances Association.
Education: Mr. Medhurst has a Bachelor of Commerce degree, major in Accounting & Business, from the University of Montreal and additional study at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, Program for Management Development.
Stuart Greenberg, Advisor: Stuart Greenberg has worked with a number of the leading investment and securities firms, having entered the field in 1960 with Merrill Lynch. Mr. Greenberg has been in the General Securities business for over thirty-five years. He has experience as a branch manager, regional sales manager as well as a national sales manager. He headed the Investor Services Division of duPont Glore Forgan which was one of their most profitable departments during his tenure. In 1967, Mr. Greenberg was named president of Robert A. MacNeil Securities, and was a director of the parent firm.
In 1980, Mr. Greenberg was named President and COO of University Group, Inc., a publicly held real estate syndicate and retail brokerage firm which experienced dramatic improvement in sales during his tenure. He was then engaged by an S&L firm to head up their real estate syndication unit and oversaw a real estate investment management firm it acquired, Security Properties, Inc. From 1965 through 1980, he was a securities and real estate consultant, primarily engaged as senior staff consultant by Stephen Roulac Pension Advisors. In addition, he reorganized and successfully rebuilt a San Francisco-based municipal bond real estate infrastructure underwriter and then went on to head a midwest-based family of mutual funds, the Midwest Group of Funds.
Mr. Greenberg returned to Los Angeles and served as Chairman of Baraban Securities Inc. from 1992 to 1996. He is a former allied member of the New York Stock Exchange and a biography in the ''International Who's Who'' and ''Who's Who in U.S. Business and Finance.'' Stu now serves as President and CEO of M.A. Gillespie Investment Corp., an NASD investment banking broker/dealer he formed in 1991, and is also chairman of the board of Federated Broker Dealer Services Corp. He is a member of the Securities Industry Association and Regional Investment Bankers Association.
Alan Stone, advisor: Alan Stone is the founder of Alan Stone & Company, where he provides a full-range of investor relations advisory services to select high quality public companies that are seeking to broaden their investor-base and develop media and analyst exposure. From 1990 through 1994, Alan Stone was appointed by the American Stock Exchange as Director of the Los Angeles AMEX Corporate Focus and Security Analyst Forum, a private group of investment brokers, money managers, investment bankers and analysts from the Los Angeles investment community.
Mr. Stone was formerly associated with Thompson McKinnon Securities and Ladenburg, Thalmann in New York City, both well-established New York Stock Exchange member firms. He purchased large blocks of underwritings from leading syndicates arranged through the major underwriters as well as regional underwriters, on behalf of private and institutional investors. Mr. Stone was also involved in a wide variety of investment banking, corporate finance, and merger and acquisition activities on behalf of these firms, and arranged numerous $5-15 million transactions for NASDAQ and AMEX listed companies.
Alan Stone previously held positions as an analyst and assistant portfolio manager of Merrill Lynch Asset Management's $250 million high yield mutual fund, the Corporate Bond Fund. As one of the largest buyers of corporate stocks and bonds on Wall Street, he worked closely with the investment community's leading underwriters of securities. Mr. Stone subsequently became associated with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, the firm's wholly owned brokerage entity, and was engaged in brokerage and money management activities for wealthy individuals, corporations, and institutional investors. Alan Stone started his career with Prudential Insurance Company of America in the Capital Markets Group. He served as an investment analyst and worked on numerous large size corporate transactions including commercial loans and private placements for ''Fortune 500'' companies, working closely with the leading investment banking firms on Wall Street. Alan Stone subsequently was a vice president for Irving Trust Bank in New York City in the corporate finance department involved mainly in new business development and commercial lending.
Education: Mr. Stone received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, 1974, in economics and finance. He earned an MBA in finance and investments from New York University's Graduate School of Business, Class of 1976. Additional formal training included further studies in economics and politics at the London School of Economics.
Each member of the Board and Advisory Board represents themselves. Their contribution to Kanakaris Communications, Inc. in no way implies an association between Kanakaris Communications,. Inc. with any other company they may currently or previously have been employed by.
For further information on Kanakaris Communications contact Prima Capital Group, Inc., Corporate Communications, at 800-600-8599. Kanakaris Communications (www.kanakaris.com, www.NetBooks.com and www.3rdm.com) 800-831-2671 is located at 29350 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90265.
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