In 1991, he purchased The Geneva Companies which he built into one the nation’s leading specialists in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of private middle-market companies. In February of 2001, Geneva was acquired by the Citigroup organization and became an affiliate of Smith Barney. Mr. Troob retired from Geneva in 2004.

Engaged in all aspects of finance - both corporate and public - Mr. Troob has been actively involved in representing Big Board companies and political jurisdictions. He founded D. H. Troob & Company, a New York investment banking limited partnership that provides investment banking, financial structuring, project financing and related advisory services to corporations and small businesses as well as profit and nonprofit financial institutions.

Mr. Troob serves on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Santa Ana, California. He is also a Trustee of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA.

Mr. Troob received a BA degree magna cum laude from Colgate University and an LLB degree from Yale University. He is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. Bars.

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Daouk was the founder and General Manager of Computer Aided Systems and Hardware (CASH). After selling CASH to Intergraph, he founded Middle East Electronic Systems (MEES) and became its Managing Director until his return to Los Angeles.

In 1989, Nadim founded Systems Automation Services, Inc. (SAS) in Los Angeles, California (SAS specialized design, development and implementation of Home Automation systems). After selling SAS in 1990, Nadim started and is the Director of High Technology Automation, Inc. (HTA). HTA specializes in integrating new technologies purchased from the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Daouk was a Director at QuanTech s.a.l. (IBM Lebanon) responsible for initiating and managing all governmental contracts in outsourcing, consulting and Business Process Re-Engineering, and establishing IBM’s regional office in the Middle East.

Dr. Daouk serves on several USA and international boards including: Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Manager of Metra Insurance and Re-Insurance Co. and on the Board of Directors of Middle East Airlines.

Sam Wolgemuth has nearly forty years of corporate experience, much of it in media businesses. Until 2002 he was president and CEO of Freedom Communications, the privately held $800 million media company which owns eight television stations and 28 daily newspapers, including the Orange County Register.

 Before joining Freedom, Sam was president of Simon & Schuster’s $500 million Business Technical and Professional Group, a part of Paramount Communications. Key businesses included Macmillan Reference Publishing, several Prentice-Hall divisions and Macmillan Computer Publishing. Prior to Paramount, Sam led the U.S. operations of Reed Travel Group, then the largest global travel trade publisher.

Sam holds a BA in Philosophy from Taylor University, with continuing studies at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School. He is presently affiliated with the merchant-banking firm of Tri-Artisan Capital Partners of New York City. Tri-Artisan’s focus is proprietary transactions for private equity firms and their investors.