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Advisory Board
The members of MorganFranklin's Advisory Board are:
Ted Segal
Ted Segal is managing partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, a global legal services organization. Segal practices in the area of corporate and securities law with special emphasis on public and private negotiated mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, venture capital investments and other private placements of securities.
In addition, he has worked extensively in the health-care
area on a wide variety of transactions, including
acquisitions, mergers and reorganizations of significant
health-care assets. In addition to servings as managing
partner of the firm's Washington, D.C., office, Segal is co-chair of the firm's Health Care practice group and is a member of the firm's Policy Committee. |
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Larry Handen
Larry Handen joined Insight Venture Partners, a venture
capital firm specializing in software and the Internet, in
2005 and brings more than 15 years of experience as a
principal investor and advisor within the technology,
communications, media and services industries.
Prior to joining Insight, Handen was a managing director at
VantagePoint Venture Partners and a General Partner at
UBS Capital where he led the firm's Technology &
Services Group. Prior to joining UBS Capital, he was a
partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting
(PwC), now IBM Global Services. While at PwC, Handen led a practice specializing in corporate-wide growth and recovery solutions for companies in the technology,
information, communications and entertainment industries. Handen is a graduate of Bucknell University with a bachelor's in economics and political science, and he holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. |
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C. Thomas Faulders, III
Tom Faulders is the President and CEO of the University of
Virginia Alumni Association, which is a 180,000-strong
member organization located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He is responsible to a Board of Managers composed of 36
prominent alumni. With 65 employees, Faulders manages
alumni engagement for the University.
Faulders has been the Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of LCC International from June 1999 through April
2005. He directed the financial turnaround and subsequent
growth of the company. He was responsible to the Board
of Directors for the strategic direction, day-to-day
operations, sales and financial matters of the company.
Prior to joining LCC, Mr. Faulders served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and President of the Integrated Supply Chain division of BDM International, Inc., from March 1995 through March 1998. From March 1992 through March of 1995, he was the Chief Financial Office of COMSAT Corporation. Prior to COMSAT, Faulders served in a variety of areas for MCI — including Senior Vice President of Business Marketing, Vice President of Large Account Sales and Treasurer. Prior to his six years with MCI, Mr. Faulders served in key positions with Satellite Business Systems.
Faulders holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia.
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Dale Peck
Dale Peck is Senior Advisor for MorganFranklin
Corporation and joins the company with numerous years
of business expertise.
In 1989, Peck merged his firm, Dale Peck & Company,
with Beers & Cutler, a leading advisory and consulting
practice in the Washington metropolitan area. During his
17 years at Beers & Cutler, he served clients in the
manufacturing, construction, retailing and wholesaling,
distributing, technology and publishing industries. Peck
provided expertise in the areas of tax planning, examining
of financial statements and merger and acquisition assistance. He retired from Beers & Cutler at the end of 2005.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Peck was an Arthur Anderson employee for 10 years. He also spent several years as the principal accounting officer for Bankers Security Life Insurance Society, which later became USLICO as the result of a merger with United Services Life Insurance Company and Bankers Financial Life Insurance Company.
Peck has served over the last few years on 12 non-profit boards. Currently he is Chairman of the Greater Washington Region American Heart Association and is a past Chairman of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Peck has served on various committees with the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Northern Virginia Community College Education Foundation and the Family Business Forums. |
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Todd A. Stottlemyer
President and Chief Executive Officer of the National
Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Todd A.
Stottlemyer assumed the leadership of America’s
largest small-business advocacy group in February
2006. NFIB is the largest advocacy organization
representing small and independent businesses in
Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals.
Before joining NFIB, Stottlemyer was Chief Executive
Officer of Apogen Technologies, Inc., an information
technology company with approximately 900
employees. Apogen Technologies was acquired in
September 2005 by QinetiQ, a technology company with
more than 10,000 employees headquartered in the
United Kingdom. Stottlemyer joined Apogen
Technologies in March 2003 as Chief Executive Officer
after leading a recapitalization of the company backed
by Arlington Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining Apogen Technologies, Stottlemyer was President of McGuire Woods Consulting and led McGuire Woods Capital Group, where he provided strategic consulting and transactional mergers and acquisition advisory services to information technology and other small and mid-market companies. Before McGuire Woods Consulting, Stottlemyer served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BTG, Inc. (now a part of L3), a publicly traded information technology company with 1,800 employees and annual revenue of approximately $300 million. Stottlemyer was responsible for managing the company's strategic planning, finance and accounting, mergers and acquisitions, legal, information systems, internal audit, investor relations, communications and facilities activities.
Before joining BTG, Stottlemyer was Corporate Vice President and a member of the executive management team of BDM International, Inc., a publicly traded information technology company with over 9,000 employees worldwide and approximately $1.1 billion in annual revenue and at the time of its sale to TRW in December 1997. The BDM team accomplished a leveraged buyout in 1990 with The Carlyle Group, did an initial public offering in 1995, a follow-on offering in 1996, and sold the company a year later to TRW. Stottlemyer played lead roles in both BDM's initial and follow-on equity offerings. He was also integrally involved in the company's 11 acquisitions (both domestic and international) over a five-year period and had day-to-day responsibility for managing the successful sale transaction of BDM to TRW.
Stottlemyer serves on the boards of directors of the National Capital Region American Red Cross, where he is Vice Chairman, and the INOVA Health System Foundation. Previously, Stottlemyer served as Chairman of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, a Commissioner on the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, as Vice Chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and as Vice Chairman of the Virginia Commission on Information Technology.
Stottlemyer received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center (Cum Laude) and his B.A. from The College of William and Mary (Phi Beta Kappa). |
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Dave Reynolds
MorganFranklin Ltd. appointed Dave Reynolds as the first U.K. advisory board member. Reynolds most recently held the position of Director of Internal Audit & Regulatory Compliance (DIARC) at British Telecom plc until he retired in July 2007. During his tenure as internal audit director, Reynolds was recognized by the British Telecom board for his significant contribution to the development of British Telecom’s governance structures and processes including enterprise risk management, control self assessment, audit committee reporting and the company’s Sarbanes-Oxley assessment procedures. Reynolds speaks regularly on the professional conferencing circuit and for three years held the position of visiting lecturer in governance and internal audit at Nijenrode University in the Netherlands.
W. Robert Grafton
W. Robert Grafton currently serves as lead director and chairman of the audit committee at DiamondRock, a self-advised lodging investment company. He is also a director and chairman of the audit committee for Carmax, Inc., the $8 billion retailer of new and used automobiles. Grafton, who holds a B.S. in accounting from West Virginia University, previously had a very long and successful career at Arthur Anderson including serving as the senior managing partner and chairman of the board of partners at Arthur Andersen Worldwide.
Richard J. Nadeau
Richard J. Nadeau was named chief financial officer of Sunrise Senior Living in September 2007. Prior to assuming this position, Nadeau served as chief financial officer of the Mills Corporation, prior to its sale to Simon Property Group. Between 2005 and 2006, Nadeau also served as chief financial officer of Colt Defense, LLC. In addition, for 25 years, Nadeau was a partner at the accounting firms of KPMG, LLP and Arthur Andersen, LLP. |
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