Robin Cunningham Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Chief Executive Officer; Strategic Planning; Outreach; Community Relations

Pennington New Jersey

With Hakon Heimer, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories & Schizophrenia Research Forum), I've co-founded the non-profit Cure Alliance for Mental Illness, which advocates for increased funding for basic research into the causes, treatment, and cures for mental illness. Cure Alliance's charter is to make it possible for scientists, researchers, providers, family.

Pennington, New Jersey

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in my teens. After a long and successful business career, I began advocating for individuals with serious mental illnesses in 1993. Numerous articles have been written about me and by me, including over 100 expert blogs I wrote for Health Central's www.SchizophreniaNetwork.com. I've also spoken extensively about serious.

Greater Columbus, Ohio Area

This partnership was my last significant business venture. With 12 investors, it was formed to acquire (via leverage buyout), develop, earn ownership of, and sell existing corporations. It also offered corporate turn-around management. The partnership was financed by Chase Bank Venture Capital.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Renaissance Capital was involved in the purchase, operation, and eventual sale of several businesses, including a computer sales and service partnership, a software development partnership (which sold its product to IBM), a payroll service partnership (which was sold to ADP), and a bank software consulting partnership, The businesses were all bootstrapped.

Columbus, Ohio Area

The Park National Bank was a local bank with a 90% share of its immediate market. It was incredibly profitable, earning 3.0% on assets and an internal rate of return to equity of 16% plus year after year. Shares were very closely held and only sold privately. I purchased 25,000 shares of the bank's common stock. My principle responsibility was to manage.

Greater Chicago Area

I helped a friend raise $1.5 MM of venture capital for the creation of this new enterprise. My friend was Chairman of the Board. The company's plan was to consolidate the carloads of many different customer's shipments into train loads for which the company had negotiated discounted prices. It soon became clear to me that there were irreconcilable.

Chcago

GATC, GATX's flagship company and cash cow, was in need of a turn-around. I was a member of a five person turn-around team. GATC, which dominated its markets, had become the tank manufacturing & leasing industry's high cost producer. I wrote a strategic plan intended to maintain and enhance GATC's position as the industry's leader.. (The Boston Consulting.

Greater New York City Area

As a consequence of the earlier oil embargo, many ships equipped with turbine engines became uneconomic to operate. Many existing ships and ships under construction at that time were converted to diesel. Completed brand new oil tankers which cost $250 MM to build sold for $50 MM. Marine Transport Lines had a fleet of five UK based oil tankers that would.

Greater New York City Area

During my tenure, Marine Transport Lines was the largest US controlled foreign flag shipping company in the world with some 60 ships, mostly super tankers under long term time charters. Each ship was a separate profit center, with officers and crew from all over the world. Each ship was subject.to tax laws of multiple countries and jurisdictions. Costs and.

Greater New York City Area

I was a Vice President of Project Financing, which involved very large customized transactions characterized by the contractual reallocation of risk and returns among participants. I was involved in redefining the nature of, and markets for, project financing. I also introduced Dean Witter & Company's Investment Banking Division to the use of computer.

Greater New York City Area

International Paper Credit Corporation was involved in industrial equipment, single investor, tax oriented, and leveraged leasing. I served as Vice President of Sales and for an interim period as General Manager. Investments in logging equipment and sawmills were predominate. Much of this business was in southern states. The company was first sold to E. F..

Greater New York City Area

I was in charge of the company's sales and marketing functions in the eastern third of the US. When I took this position, the NYC office was the source of 10% of the company's annual new business. When I left, I was personally was writing 65% of annual new business and the NYC office (including me) was the source of 75% of the companies annual new.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Zoolology

BA - Zoology; Graduate Work in Psychology; MBA

Psychology

Studied Child Development

Bachelor'S Degree, Zoology

Activities and Societies: I was involved in several service and academic honoraries.