
Working to improve return on client advertising investments, this direct
response television marketing firm offers strategic marketing consulting
and production services that drive and support TV-based, front-end,
retail, and Internet sales, and increase response of other media.
"We're helping create an entirely new kind of advertising and
marketing - replacing the old methods that left clients guessing as
to the success of their campaigns, with a new kind of accountable advertising
that lets them know on a daily basis how their creative strategies and
media are performing.
We joined with Lake Capital, because they not only see the vision, but
they have the expertise and resources to help us quickly achieve our
growth objectives. Lake Capital respects and listens to us as industry
professionals and uses its experience and capital to help us craft strategies
that build on previous successes."
Timothy O'Leary,
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Mr. Morgan currently serves as the President of Addison Search. Prior to serving as President of Addison Search, Mr. Morgan started the IT practice for Addison Search in 2001 and grew it into a $33m division in 8 eight offices. Mr. Morgan has been in the staffing industry since 1993 focusing exclusively on Information Technology.
Prior to Addison Search, Mr. Morgan spent three years as a top Account Manager in the Boston marketplace for an IT staffing company, Sapphire Technologies (now part of Vedior), before opening a branch office in Houston, TX for the company. This office became the company's fastest growing office in North America for three consecutive years. Mr. Morgan subsequently started-up or took over management responsibilities for offices in Dallas, Austin, Detroit and Chicago. Mr. Morgan is a graduate of Merrimack College in Massachusetts.
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Randy Wilson is the current president and chief technology officer of Driveline. In addition to his customer-centric philosophy, Randy brings a wealth of merchandising and technology expertise to Driveline.
Prior to his role with Driveline, Randy was the president of Driveline Retail Services (previously TST), an add-on acquisition Driveline consummated in 2006. Randy purchased TST from MD Building Products in 2000 after developing the company's technology while working for MD. Prior to running TST, he spent 5 years in various roles at MD, ranging from controller to VP of IT. In addition, Mr. Wilson was CFO of Century Group and held financial positions within Carson Machine and Smith & Nephew.
Mr. Wilson has a B.A. in Accounting from East Central Oklahoma State University and is a CPA.
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Mr. Bernstein started his career at ADP where he was a top sales producer and was awarded the Crystal Award for two consecutive years. He went on to pioneer Zurich Payroll Solutions in 1997, which grew to $68 million in revenue before being sold to ADP & Advantage Payroll. In 2003, Mr. Bernstein purchased Stromberg where he led the company to a 1,700% growth to become the second largest time and attendance company in the country. He sold the business in 2004 to Paychex Corporation and continued as the President until August 2006.
Mr. Bernstein serves as an outside director of Forstmann and Company, University of Central Florida’s board and athletic board, Florida hospital’s executive board and the American Spectator’s board. Mr. Bernstein is a member of the New York Times "Top 40 under 40," Central Florida's "40 most influential men," Republican Governor’s Association and Florida’s gang reduction task force. Mr. Bernstein is a native of New York.
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Gary Fish is president and CEO of FishNet Security, Inc.,
headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Fish founded
FishNet Security in 1996 and, since its inception, has
led the organization to be one of the fastest growing
and most respected information security firms in the
United States.
In 2005, Fish positioned FishNet Security to obtain
$12 million in private equity investments, helping
to perpetuate his vision of continued growth and stability.
Today, Fish continues to show his strengths as both a
leader and strategist, by leading the company through the
successful acquisition of SiegeWorks LLC and True North
Solutions Commercial Operations, officially making FishNet
Security the largest private Information Security Solutions
Provider in the country.
Fish has a degree in electronics from DeVry University,
served in the Army National Guard, and is certified in
many areas of technological and business expertise. He
actively serves on the advisory boards for numerous national
and global technology companies. In 1999, Fish was named as
one of the Top 25 Executives for the new millennium, in
computer related fields. In 2001, Ernst & Young honored Fish
as the Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of
Kansas and Western Missouri. Gary Fish is a serial entrepreneur,
involved in many business endeavors; including a successful
Information Security application development company, Secure Passage.
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Kevin Rowe is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NetStar-1. Mr. Rowe provides leadership and strategic direction for NetStar-1 and brings more than 30 years of experience building industry-leading professional services organizations. Prior to joining NetStar-1, Mr. Rowe has served as a principal at Lake Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, where has been actively involved with a number of Lake Capital’s professional services portfolio companies including Archstone Consulting , FishNet Security, MediaWhiz, NAL Worldwide, OneWed, and Trailer Park.
Prior to joining Lake Capital, Mr. Rowe served as CEO and president of Nth Degree Global, LLC, one of the largest privately held, face-to-face marketing companies in the world. He also served as President of North America for AGENCY.COM (formerly Nasdaq:ACOM), a leading global e-consultant and Web-based marketing firm, and President of Eagle River Interactive (formerly Nasdaq:ERIV), an interactive agency.
Mr. Rowe spent over 15 years in various leadership positions with technology consulting and outsourcing firms MCI Systemhouse, Inc., and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture NYSE:ACN). Mr. Rowe currently serves as Chairman of MediaWhiz and serves on the board of directors for MediaWhiz, NetStar-1, and FishNet Security. Mr. Rowe earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School and a BS in finance from the University of Illinois..
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Chief executive officer Jim Harris founded
OMN with chief financial officer Tim Donmoyer,
who was CFO of an earlier, successful Lake Capital
investment and, previously, CFO of Eller Media,
and Paul Simon, who was general counsel at Universal
Outdoor Media.
Jim has held advertising, marketing and consulting
executive roles for almost 20 years. After beginning
his career in account management with DDB Needham
and brand management at Miller Brewing Co., Jim
became a consultant in 1992, leading marketing
and strategy engagements for clients including
Audible, Citibank, Excite, FOX, Gillette, Google,
Hyatt Hotels, Miller Brewing, the National Football
League, and Sam Zell's Equity Group Investments.
In 1998, Jim was founding EVP of sales and marketing
for Allied Riser Communications, a commercial
office property and venture backed data-communications
services provider, with Equity Office Properties
and 12 other major real estate companies as investors.
The company went public in 1999 and was acquired
by Cogent in 2002. Later, Jim became a founding
partner of management consultancy Z Group (now
Zyman Group) and CEO of ThoughtStep, Inc.
Jim received a BA (high honors/history) from the University of Michigan and Masters of Management from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Marc Litvinoff currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of ORC International. He has primary accountability for the strategic direction of the company and oversees business growth across the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Litvinoff is a respected industry leader with twenty years’ experience in business and market research, research advisory services and consulting. Most recently, he was Chief Executive Officer of Guideline, a business and market research company that provided services to many Fortune 1000 firms. Mr. Litvinoff led the sale of Guideline to Infogroup in August 2007. Prior to Guideline, Mr. Litvinoff was the Chief Executive Officer of RHK, an advisory and research services provider, where he oversaw the strategic direction for the company’s business and market development activities worldwide. He also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Knowledge Networks, a market intelligence and research company.
Previously, Mr. Litvinoff had a distinguished career with Gartner Inc. holding multiple positions, including Senior Vice President of Gartner’s Technology Provider Group and Group Vice President/Worldwide Director for Dataquest Research Operations. Mr. Litvinoff has also held positions with ADP, MONY Financial Services (formerly Mutual of New York) and The Dreyfus Corporation.
Mr. Litvinoff holds a Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Finance and Investments from Hofstra University, New York.
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Is the current president and Co-founder of Dynamic Physical Therapy, a leading provider of physical and occupational therapy, servicing the Pennsylvania and Delaware areas, where it has been ranked the #1 Physical Therapy center for the past nine consecutive years.
Prior to Dynamic Physical Therapy, Mr. Myers spent 25 years in the woman’s apparel industry in various marketing and managerial positions as well as being President, Owner and CEO of Gloria Vanderbilt Sportswear, a licensee’ from the Murjani Group, which also owned Tommy Hilfiger.
Prior to that, Mr. Myer’s back-ground is in Education where he was a former high school principal and a recipient of the prestigious MOTT Foundation fellowship.
Mr. Myers graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he obtained a Masters in Business and specialist degree in Education.
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Mark Smith is President and CEO of Soil Safe, a leading environmental service provider focusing on the treatment and recycling of contaminated soil. For the past two decades, cleaning up our environment has been a welcomed challenge for Mark. From remediation and closure of large Superfund sites to award-winning management of major DOE, DOD and EPA environmental programs, he brings over twenty years of environmental and construction industry experience to the Soil Safe team.
Prior to joining Soil Safe in 2005, Mark worked with Kiewit Construction, Westinghouse Environmental, and WRS Infrastructure & Environment, where he served in numerous capacities including Project Engineer, Project and Program Manager, Business Line Manager and Chief Operating Officer. Over the course of his career, Mark has been responsible for the successful management and performance of hundreds of environmental and construction projects and major government cleanup programs across the country. Mark holds a BS in Geological Engineering from the University of Utah.
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Zain is one of the industry's best prognosticators, with the ability to anticipate and create consumer demand across a broad range of brands and categories. His strategic approach and progressive solutions have resulted in dramatic top- and bottom-line growth for many companies in multiple categories. He has developed proprietary intellectual property in the area of creating branded behavior change.
He brings SolutionSet extensive experience in strategy, digital, data and targeted marketing with his global and North American leadership experience.
Before joining SolutionSet, Zain was North American CEO of Euro RSCG Discovery, the digital, CRM, data, and analytics arm of Euro RSCG Worldwide as well as its Global Practice Leader for Retail Brands. He began his career at Grey Advertising in Bombay before moving to the U.S. to join Wunderman Cato Johnson. Global leadership positions at Bayer Bess Vanderwarker, J. Walter Thompson, Foote Cone & Belding and Euro RSCG rounded out his management career.
Zain is a frequent speaker at leading marketing and advertising conferences. He is also featured and quoted in leading publications from the Wall Street Journal to Fast Company. His views on business can be found at zainraj.wordpress.com
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Mark joined Tolt Service Group as CFO on September 1, 2008 and more recently assumed the additional title and role as President and CFO.
Prior to joining Tolt, Mark was the Executive Vice President and CFO of Cross Match Technologies, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of biometric equipment and solutions. From October 2004 to August 2005 he served as the SVP and CFO of Spectrasite Communications Inc., a publicly traded wireless cell tower operator where he led a merger with a major competitor. From June 1997 until August 2004 Mark was employed by 3Com Corporation and was their CFO from June 2002 until August 2004. Prior to joining 3Com he held a variety of financial management positions with Lexmark and IBM.
Mark has a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA in Finance from The University of Chicago.
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Rick Eiserman is the new CEO of Trailer Park Inc. Prior to joining Trailer Park, Rick was North America managing partner at Young & Rubicam Brands Southern California and YRB's Global Client Partner on both the Land Rover and Mattel businesses.
In his role of managing partner of YRB SoCal, Rick ran a 200+ employee agency spanning digital, direct, events, promotions, advertising and viral. After overhauling the operation in early 2006, the office went on to exceed forecast by over 30% and serve as the lead growth engine for Y&R Advertising in the US. Under Rick's leadership, the agency won over $150 million in new billings for 2007 alone, adding Toshiba Computers, Jenny Craig and Accenture Global / Digital.
Prior to moving to Irvine in February of 2006, Rick was CEO and a founding member of BrandBuzz in New York City. BrandBuzz, launched in 1999 as a standalone division within Y&R Inc., grew to a 65-person full service agency delivering a full range of discipline expertise. After overhauling the creative and strategic planning resources of the company in mid 2004, Rick led BrandBuzz on a path of explosive growth -- delivering 35% YOY growth behind multiple new business wins including the US consolidation of LG Mobile/Appliances/Electronics, MSN, NBA, Pella Windows, Green Mountain Coffee and Burt's Bees.
During his career, Rick has had the pleasure of leading multiple client businesses, most notably Land Rover Global, LG North America and the NBA. Rick has also been a guest speaker on CNN's Showbiz Tonight and CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer.
A creative at heart and a practicing painter, Rick received his Bachelor of Science in advertising from the Art Institute in Southern California. Rick is married with two children in Laguna Hills, CA.
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John Lawlor joined Vestcom in December 2008 as Chief Commercial Officer. As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Lawlor is focused on driving the vision for the company’s future growth, building on its expertise of content integration and history of innovation in execution at the shelf edge. Additionally, Mr. Lawlor will continue to enrich Vestcom’s business processing outsource model for today’s customer-centric retailer with expanded solutions for effective in-store communications that reduce the cost of doing business and engage the shopper.
Prior to joining Vestcom, Mr. Lawlor spent 14 years leading Best-in-Class marketing service organizations, including: Spectra Marketing (President & CEO), IPSOS-ASI (President – North America), and IRI (President-North American Client Solutions). In each of these roles, Mr. Lawlor led significant growth, innovation and client engagement initiatives focusing on the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Mr. Lawlor’s passion is in bringing innovative solutions that deliver competitive advantage for our clients.
Mr. Lawlor holds B.S. degrees in Economics and Biology from John Carroll University, and completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Lawlor is a member of the Executive Forum, and a former member of the Advisory Committee to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS).
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Paolo Boni joined VFM in October 2001 and is responsible for setting the Company's vision and strategic direction, as well as evangelizing VFM's unique value proposition to the world. Under Paolo's leadership, VFM has become the leading provider of rich media content production and distribution solutions to the hotel and travel industry, with over 10,000 hotels and tens of thousands of travel and travel related website partners worldwide. Paolo is a frequent public speaker and panelist at major travel conferences on subjects relating to online travel marketing and rich media in travel. Paolo is a former Partner with Davies, Ward & Beck (now, Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP), a leading Canadian business law firm, practicing primarily in the areas of securities and corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions. Paolo holds an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (1993) and a B.A. Economics from McGill University (1989).
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Mr. Carter is a twenty-six year veteran of the cable television advertising industry. He began his career in 1984 and has served in the capacities of Regional Director for TeleCable Corporation, Regional Vice President for Telecommunications, Inc and Group Vice President for AT&T where he was responsible for the majority of AT&T's cable advertising sales operations in the eastern United States.
Mr. Carter is a co-founder of Viamedia and serves on the Board of Directors and oversees the operations of the company as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Carter is also a board member of Viamedia PA, LLC and Managing Director of VNS, Inc.
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