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David H. Rowe, Co-founder and Managing Partner of AeroEquity (AeroSat board Chairman)
Mr. Rowe, Chairman of the AeroSat board, is Co-founder and Managing Partner of AeroEquity. He also served as Executive Vice President of Gulfstream Financial Services Corporation (GFSC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulfstream AeroSpace. Mr. Rowe was instrumental in designing and establishing GFSC's operational and financial infrastructure and growing the business to over $600 million in managed assets.
Prior to GFSC, Mr. Rowe served thirteen years with General President-Aircraft Remarketing, responsible for managing remarketing activities associated with GE Capital's then $12 billion Commercial Aircraft Portfolio. Between 1990 and 1994, Mr. Rowe helped the company remarket over 350 aircraft valued at over $2 billion, established an engine leasing business and an aircraft teardown and parts distribution business. Mr. Rowe is a member of the Board of Directors of Garrett/Piedmont Aviation Services, Inc., TurboCombuster Technologies Inc., Kellstrom Industries, Grand Prairie Accessory Services, LLC, and Wianno Capital Partners, LLC.
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Leslie B. Daniels, Managing Partner, CAI
Mr. Daniels was a founding partner of CAI Investments in 1989. He currently works as a Managing Partner at CAI in New York. He was previously President of Burdge, Daniels & Co. Inc., a company engaged as a principal in venture capital and buyout investments, as well as the trading of private placement securities. Mr. Daniels was responsible for financing, overseeing and disposing of investments made on behalf of the company. Prior to forming Burdge, Daniels he was a Senior Vice President of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co., where he led the corporate fixed income sales and trading departments.
Mr. Daniels is a former Director of Aster-Cephac SA, IVAX Corporation, MIM Corporation, Mylan Laboratories, Inc., NBS Technologies Inc., and MIST Inc. He was also Chairman of Zenith Laboratories, Inc. He currently serves as a Director of SafeGuard Health Enterprises, Inc., Bioanalytical Systems Inc., Douglas Machine & Tool Co., and is Chairman of TurboCombustor Technology, Inc.
Mr. Daniels has had substantial experience investing as a principal in the health care industry. Over the last twenty years, he has invested in numerous startup, venture capital and buyout transactions in various sectors across the health care spectrum including health maintenance organizations, generic drug pharmacy benefit companies. As a result, Mr. Daniels has established a broad base of relationships with people associated with the health care industry from which he receives a steady flow of transaction opportunities. Mr. Daniels received a B.S. from Fordham University.
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David C. Hurley, Vice Chairman, PrivatAir
David Hurley is Vice Chairman of PrivatAir of Geneva, Switzerland. PrivatAir has major business aviation operations in the United States and aircraft service operations in France and Switzerland.
Hurley founded Flight Services Group (FSG) in 1984. His entrepreneurial approach led to the successful growth of FSG, setting the standards for safety, training, and professionalism in business aviation and creating one of the world's largest providers of corporate aircraft management, executive charter, and aircraft sales and acquisitions in the United States. Earlier, Hurley was Senior Vice President of Domestic and International Sales for Canadair Challenger. Mr. Hurley also served as Regional Vice President of the Cessna Aircraft Company and Director of Marketing, Government and Military Products Division for the Harris Intertype Corporation.
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Douglas Kahn, Chairman and CEO of Ahura Scientific, Inc.
Mr. Kahn is the Chairman and CEO of Ahura Scientific, Inc. He is an internationally recognized entrepreneur with more than 25 years of executive management experience. He has established an extensive track record of leadership in several high technology companies.
Prior to joining Ahura Scientific, Mr. Kahn was CEO and President of PanAmSat Corporation, a leading international provider of satellite-based communications services. Mr. Kahn also served as Chairman and CEO of Ease Corporation, leading to a successful IPO and ten years of growth. In addition to his involvement with AeroSat Corporation, Mr. Kahn also currently serves on the board of Tetragenetics, Inc. Mr. Kahn holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.
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Mark Morrissette, Managing Director, North Atlantic Capital
Mr. Morrissette is the Managing Director at North Atlantic Capital. He has been in the venture capital industry since 1995. Prior to joining North Atlantic Capital in 2000, he worked at Advent International in Boston and CSC Index in Cambridge, MA. He is the past President of the board of the Northeast Regional Association of Small Business Investment Companies and currently serves as a board member of several private companies. Mr. Morrissette earned a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Jack M. Schofield
From December 1992 through February 2000, Mr. Schofield served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Airbus North America Holdings, a subsidiary of Airbus Industries, a manufacturer of large civil aircraft. He served as Chairman from February 2000 until his retirement in March 2001.
From 1989 until he joined Airbus, Mr. Schofield was President of the United Technologies International Corporation. Previously, Mr. Schofield held several positions at Pratt & Whitney in the International, Commercial Sales, and Military Engineering Divisions. Mr. Schofield is also currently a member of the board of BE Aerospace, Inc., TurboCombuster Technology, Inc., and is also a trustee of LIFT Trust.
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Richard N. Swett, Former Member of Congress and former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark
While posted to the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Ambassador Swett honed his familiarity with the European market. He also has substantial experience in working with governments at the local, national, and international levels. As a member of Congress, Ambassador Swett served on the Congressional Public Works and Science, Space, and Technology committees and the Aviation subcommittee.
Prior to his Congressional experience, Ambassador Swett developed biomass alternative power generation facilities in the Northeast. The Ambassador began his professional career as an architect at Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill's San Francisco office, designing mixed-use high-rise projects. Ambassador Swett is a resident of Bow, New Hampshire, and a graduate of Yale University.
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Sherwood (Woody) D. Goldberg, Esquire
Mr. Goldberg is a retired U.S. Army officer, whose military service included two combat tours in Vietnam and subsequent service as a member of the academic faculty at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. For more than 26 years he served both in the U.S. Department of State as Chief of Staff to then-Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and in the private sector as business associate and manager of General Haig's international advisory firm, Worldwide Associates, Inc.
Currently, Mr. Goldberg is Senior Advisor for Asian Affairs at The Center for Naval Analysis, a federally funded research and development corporation and a member of the Board of Directors of TurboCombustor Technology, Inc. In addition, he is a Trustee of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Trustee of the West Point Jewish Chapel Fund; and Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army for Washington, D.C. He also serves as a military expert with the law firm of Berger&Montague, P.C.
A graduate of Dickinson College, Mr.Goldberg earned a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Temple University School of Law. He is a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Goldberg is a consultant on U.S. defense policy, international political and commercial matters, including on matters related to the aerospace industry. He has established a broad base of relationships with current and former government and military leaders throughout Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
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