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333 West 39Th Street, Suite 202, New York, Ny 10018

• Responsible for all accounting, reporting and funding activity for a start-up group of entities involved in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Smart City development, GeoSpatial data acquisition and processing and Drone Technology.• Managing external relationships with private equity investors, banks, auditors, outside counsel and tax specialist covering North America, Europe, Asia and Middle East territories. • Provide leadership and strategic guidance in prioritizing product development and R&D efforts based on detailed market analysis and developing technology trends for each of the silos.• Continually review potential acquisition targets based on their historical performance and product mix fit within Linkay’s mission and vision requirements. Initiate and develop relationships with targeted entity’s owners and propose acquisition structure/term sheets.• Monthly and quarterly investor reporting packages including sources and uses of funding reporting and detailed working capital and acquisition requirements.• Launched a Smart Connected Product entity to focus on development and acquisition of Internet of Things (IoT) products including robotic arms, remote sensing RFID and related items.

Spring Valley, Ny

As the CFO/COO helped a consumer lending company close an initial $30MM funding round within the first six months of operations. Set-up accounting and treasury infrastructure and documented internal controls.• Set-up fund to purchase consumer personal installment loans and merchant cash advance loans.• Established tax efficient special purpose vehicles to acquire high yielding near prime loans funded by senior and junior debt and from private investors' equity.• Daily, weekly and monthly investor reporting using loan performance data provided by servicer and reports tracking ROI and XIRR on a portfolio basis. • Audit oversight • Relationships management with loan originators, investors, and outside counsel.

New York, Ny

Providing financial and accounting advisory services on structuring and deal origination to a private equity/strategic arbitrage hedge fund with over $1 Billion of assets under management.•Review target entity’s public filings and report to senior management any significant arbitrage opportunities arising from accounting or regulatory misalignment.•Meet with senior management of target companies to gain an understanding of their strategic plan and to determine whether they meet Platinum Partners’ requirements for funding.•Assist portfolio manager with designing the deal structure and provide technical accounting advice. •Deal types vary in nature but primarily concentrated on high yield lending structures involving convertible debt and warrants. •Assets have included acquisition of off-shore oil and gas platforms to be placed in a REIT, acquisition of closed books of Long term Care Liability Insurance and related reserves from insurance carriers and similar type structures.

Stamford, Ct

Steered the firm successfully through the sale of Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy's parent company to a new group of investors, completing two separate external audits, switching from a liability to an equity-based deferred compensation plan and closely managing inter and intra firm relationships. Subsequent to the change in ownership, helped rebrand the firm into Castleton Commodities International. In addition, led the financial due diligence of new acquisitions in excess of $150MM, consisting of a 1,200 MW power plant in the North East as well as upstream and midstream oil and gas properties.As head of Finance Strategic Initiatives successfullly implemented SAP ERP in less than six months, creating a global back office system platform capable of straight through procerssing and settlment of financial and physical commodity products.

New York, Ny

As CFO and Treasurer created the accounting, reporting and control infrastructure to support re-start of Société Générale's physical energy commodity business in North America and participate in expansion of the platform by integrating external acquisitions into the global operating framework. Key contributor to various steering committee's assembled to address the impact of Basel III, Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule on the bank's operating model; identified and proposed alternative operating models to minimize adverse effect on liquidity and trading strategies. Established the entire financial and transaction tax reporting infrastructure as well as implemented straight-through processing of trading activity from a foreign-based platform into PeopleSoft general ledger system.

New York, Ny - Portland, Or

Introduced through Merrill Lynch’s Private Equity group, developed the business plan for a telematics technology upstart, closed on two rounds of private funding, obtained approval for several patents and subsequently sold the intellectual properties to a royalty marketing firm.

New York, Ny

Mandated by Allegheny’s Board of Directors to set-up and integrate the team acquired from Merrill Lynch into the utility’s infrastructure and act as COO and CFO of Allegheny Energy Supply’s Global Energy Markets.• Guided implementation and integration of the utility’s acquisition strategy bringing together an elite team of energy traders from a premier investment bank focused on optimizing the existing physical assets and trading around virtual positions using innovative financial engineering techniques deployed in fixed income derivative trading.• Hired and managed a support team of 90 individuals in cross functional roles including finance & treasury, product control, credit and collateral, operations and risk management supporting +55 traders.• Transformed the utility’s coal focused regional presence to a nationwide network of assets by acquiring options on production, transportation and storage in strategic locations and implementing advanced risk management techniques to correctly identify market trends and ensure receipt of adequate collateral.

New York Ny

Appointed the CFO and COO of Merrill Lynch’s nascent Global Energy Markets business unit (GEM). • Worked in tandem with the unit’s CEO to build a world class trading platform with assets under management in excess of $2Bil and head count of 150 professionals in a short span of 18 months. • Key contributor to launch of financial and physical energy trading platform with emphasis on electricity trading enabling the firm to join a very select group of global investment banks capable of physical settlement of energy.• Recruited key accounting and middle office support staff with subject matter expertise in power and natural gas physical trading markets.• Participated in evaluation, selection and implementation of physical energy trading and risk management software. • Deployed in 5 months with complete feeds to downstream systems including the general ledger.

New York, Ny

Joined Merrill Lynch in 1993 as Divisional Finance Officer and Business Unit Manager of the Capital Markets Group, a part of the firm’s Tax Exempt Division. In 1997, began serving as the firm’s CFO of Commodities for the Americas, and within a year, as the CFO of Global Commodities.• Held key positions in financial and business management reflecting increasing responsibility and promotion during tenure (Chief Accounting Officer and Business Manager Tax Exempt Derivative Markets, Global CFO of Commodities Platform and New Derivatives); managed up to 25 professionals located in New York and London.• Key contributor to development of innovative solutions and structures such as inverse floaters, total return swaps, weather derivatives, broadband trading and insurance linked note.• Key contributor to development of innovative solutions and structures such as inverse floaters, total return swaps, weather derivatives, broadband trading and insurance linked note.

New York, Ny; Washington D.C.

Started career as Auditor with Arthur Andersen focusing on the financial sector for about four years and in 1989 joined the CFO team at Salomon Brothers in New York City; rapidly progressed through the ranks while gaining experience in corporate and subsidiaryconsolidation, SEC reporting and filings, as well as in Structured Products including Mortgage-backed Securities and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations.

Master Of Accountancy, Accounting And Finance

Mba; Masters In Accountancy, Finance & Accounting, 3.85

After earning a BBA from George Washington University in Accounting and Finance in 1982, pursued and earned an MBA in Finance.