Lawrence R. Samuels is a Partner at McGuire Woods and currently heads the firm’s Corporate Securities practice in the Chicago office. He is a member of the firm’s Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, International Transaction and Business & Securities Litigation practice areas. Mr Samuels’ focus areas include advising businesses with regards to intellectual property … Read more
Mark McGrath currently holds the position of Senior Advisor at Gleacher & Company. Prior to his current position, Mark was a Senior Advisor to Gleacher Partners and spent 27 years with McKinsey & Company where he worked with more than half of the 50 largest consumer goods companies and retailers in North America, assisting them with questions … Read more
Irwin Heller is a member of Mintz Levin’s corporate practice in Boston, Massachusetts and served on the firm’s Executive Committee for many years. He was the firm’s Managing Partner for six years, through March 2003. Irwin’s practice includes a diversified clientele ranging from start-up to publicly traded entities. Irwin devotes a significant portion of his practice to representing … Read more
Rod Vautier has led BiOWiSH Technologies’ global expansion since founding it with Vince Wise in 2007 until 2013. Under his leadership, BiOWiSH Technologies has conducted extensive research and development, expanding the ways our core technology can be used. This has led to the commercialization of BiOWiSH® and the development of applications in environmental management, animal agriculture, agronomy, … Read more
Charles Funai is President of Barga, LLC, a private investment firm in Dallas, Texas. Charles previously served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cummins Southern Plains, LLC and its predecessors from 1991 until 2015 during their evolution from private ownership to a joint venture to finally a subsidiary of Cummins Inc. all of which … Read more
Geoff Rosenhain is Founder and CEO of Jado Investments, which focuses on equity investments in seed and early stage companies with innovative business ideas and significant growth potential. Jado partners with entrepreneurs to build market-leading companies, complementing management teams with a wide range of strategic, human and financial resources. Prior to forming Jado Investments, Geoff was Founder/CEO of … Read more
Jeffrey McCormick founded Saturn Partners in 1994 to finance early-stage growth companies. He spearheads Saturn’s investigation into new areas of investment and is active in managing its portfolio companies. Working closely with entrepreneurs, he helps forge strategic relationships, build management teams, and develop marketing and distribution strategies to enable significant growth.Jeff’s experience as an investment … Read more
Ian Edwards has a wealth of experience in developing and managing a wide range of partnerships, joint ventures and business relationships on a global scale. He co-founded “Big I” Investments, a Boston based early stage venture capital company. He was also the CEO of TRT-Holdings (formerly known as Twin Rivers Technologies). Before this role, Ian … Read more
Dr. Nabil Y. Sakkab is a 1970 graduate of the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry. In 1974, he joined Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio, following a doctorate in chemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973 and post doctorate studies at Texas A&M. Nabil retired from P&G in … Read more
