David H. Troob
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Mr. David Troob’s impressive background includes a 36-year Wall Street investment banking career and extensive experience as a business owner and mergers-and-acquisitions authority.
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.
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John Garcia
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Mr. Garcia has over 17 years of business experience and can truly be called a “serial entrepreneur”. He is a founding partner in many successful companies and holds board seats with several medical corporations to include HealthLink Ventures, a $150MM boutique venture fund specializing in bio-medical technology with life-changing impacts. In addition he is co-founder and principal in Angel Strategies, LLC, a due diligence company whose clients are angel investors looking to invest in early –stage companies. Prior to HealthLink, Mr. Garcia served in several senior international management positions with the pharmaceutical company, Alcon Lab, to whom he sold his Medical Practice Management Software Company, Ivy Technologies.
Mr. Garcia was also founding partner in Sierra Medical Supply, a medical supply and pharmaceutical distributor. This company was sold for a profit in 1985 to American Hospital Supply, now Baxter Medical.
Since 1991 Mr. Garcia has been a guest lecturer at universities, national and local investment organizations and technical organizations. He is frequently asked to speak on such topics as the venture capital process, angel investing, and because of his healthcare experience, managed healthcare issues.
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Dr. Nadim Daouk
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Dr. Daouk graduated from the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering, and from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles with a Master and Ph.D. degrees both in Computer Engineering.
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.
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Sam Wolgemuth
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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.
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Bill Yuan
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Mr. Yuan is the chairman of Digital West Ventures, a Los Angeles-based venture capital and private equity investment management firm. His primary responsibilities involve managing the company's private and public debt / equity investment funds.
Mr. Yuan has eighteen years of experience on Wall Street and is a member of both United States and International Who's Who of Finance and Technology. He has gained a reputation for his expertise in defining and developing burgeoning trends in various leading industry sectors which includes consumer staples, media / entertainment, finance / insurance, healthcare, life sciences and technology. Mr. Yuan has been a key strategist for major institutions, advising those companies on their directional market focus and corporate strategic management. He has served on the board of directors or various private and public companies, often with distinction as CEO Protem, playing a major role in the management of operations and execution of critical business strategies.
Previously in 1993, Mr. Yuan was the founder and managing director of the Corporate Institutional Services Group at Merrill Lynch Asset Management. In 1995, he was the portfolio manager of the $1 billion AmerAsia Hedge Fund domiciled in Asia.
Prior to that in 1990, Mr. Yuan served as a senior-vice president and co-manager at Salomon Smith Barney's Portfolio Management Corporation with dual functions as co-head of the Capital Markets Derivative team, and Chairman of the Technology Investment Management and Executive Policy Committee. Mr. Yuan began his finance career at Goldman Sachs in 1983 as an investment banker in Mergers & Acquisitions. He attended Cornell University and Harvard University's JFK School of Economics and Government as a Mason Fellow.
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