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Charles K. Dargan II Charles K. Dargan II EXPERIENCE CFO 911- Principal, Los Angeles, CA, January 2003 Semotus Solutions, Inc. San Jose, Ca. 2000 to present Semotus is a publicly held, wireless infrastructure company with products for enterprises that solve the wireless needs of their employees (productivity tools) and their customers (revenue tools). The Company provides patented software that is either client hosted or hosted by Semotus plus consulting and engineering services. Semotus has acquired six companies within the last year and has consolidated and integrated their operations into the core business. Semotus had revenues of $5.5 million in its latest fiscal year, which increased from $1.4 million in the prior fiscal year. The Seidler Companies Incorporated Los Angeles, Ca. 1998-2000 Member of the investment banking department and responsible for public and private debt and equity financings as well as merger and acquisition transactions. Experienced with a wide variety of industries centered in the middle market and emerging growth economy such as telecommunications, medical products, distribution, technology and entertainment. Seidler is a private investment bank, brokerage and public finance firm headquartered in Los Angeles. L.H. Friend, Weinress, Frankson & Presson, Inc. Los Angeles, Ca. 1996-1998 Responsible for managing the Los Angeles investment banking office and for transactions, which include public and private debt and equity financing and mergers and acquisitions. Focused in the middle market and emerging growth economy and with a wide variety of industries and companies. L.H. Friend is a private investment bank with institutional brokerage activities headquartered in Irvine, Ca. Ambient Capital Group, Inc. Los Angeles, Ca. 1993-1996 One of three equal shareholders, Chief Financial Officer of the firm as well as the President of the registered broker subsidiary, responsible for the accounting, regulatory and financial reporting of Ambient. Further, as a Managing Director, responsible for transactions in debt and equity capital for middle market companies in a wide range of industries such as transportation, food, computer, medical products and entertainment. Responsible for the credit analysis, marketing, management and placement of the securities. Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, Inc. Los Angeles, Ca. 1990-1993 Responsible for the management of the private placement activities of the firm. Arranged private placements of debt and equity for middle market corporations. Also provided client companies with merger and acquisition advice and financial consulting and valuations. Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated New York and Los Angeles 1982-1990 Responsibilities were as a generalist investment banker. Arranged public and private financing through equity, debt and specialized unit offerings for both foreign and U.S. corporations. Also arranged merger and acquisition transactions, and performed financial consulting, corporate reorganizations and financial restructuring. Price Waterhouse & Company Los Angeles, Ca. 1980-1982 Audited and provided tax planning and preparation to a large corporate clientele. Harman Marine Co. Los Angeles, Ca. 1977-1980 Purchased and maintained inventory and managed accounts payable and accounts receivable. Implemented a computer inventory control and product cost system. EDUCATION University of Southern California - 1982 University of Southern California - 1980 Dartmouth College - 1977
Certified Public Accountant - 1980 Chartered Financial Analyst - 1998
Financial Executives International - 2001 Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts - 1998
Reid J. D. Dabney EXPERIENCE CFO 911 Solutions Los Angeles, CA June 2003 National Securities Corp. Los Angeles, CA 2003 to present At National Securities, we bring an institutional presence and standard of quality to investing in the fragmented marketplace of reverse mergers. For hedge fund managers, other cross-over investors and accredited high net worth individuals who traditionally invest in small cap (and micro-cap) equities, special situations, PIPEs and IPOs, reverse mergers offer another avenue for diversification and high risk-adjusted returns. In a typical reverse merger, a private operating business is merged with a “public” shell company and immediately becomes public as a result. Concurrently, National Securities serves as a placement agent for private equity capital, in the range of $5 million to $25 million. House Ear Institute Los Angeles, CA 2002-2003 Supervised accounting staff of seven with direct oversight of all accounting, payroll, collection, investment management and banking activities for this not-for-profit research organization. Additional responsibilities included leading the Institute’s annual and strategic planning processes, managing government contract compliance efforts, directing a new financial system conversion project and redesigning the monthly accounting schedule to reduce the closing cycle from 14 to six days. Gerard Klauer Mattison Los Angeles, CA 2001-2002 Analyzed the Southern California market for this New York-based brokerage firm, resulting in intensified focus on the essential services, healthcare, retailing and technology sectors. Specialized in research analysis and corporate finance activities. John G. Kinnard & Company Minneapolis, MN 1998-2001 Acted as brokerage firm’s Director of Equity Research and Head of Institutional Equity Sales, supervising a total staff of 25. Prior to assuming the Research Director and Sales roles, conducted thorough industry analysis and initiated research coverage on 14 Information Technology companies. Dain, Rauscher, Wessels Minneapolis, MN 1995-1998 Established Technology-Based Manufacturing research universe consisting of data storage, semiconductor capital equipment and other technology-based industries. Acted as lead research analyst on nine public underwritings (which raised in excess of $400 million in equity capital for corporate clients) and one private equity transaction.
Supervised all domestic and international Treasury activities including debt financing, cash management, foreign exchange management, insurance/risk management, chairing the pension fund investment committee and system development initiatives to monitor all Treasury performance. Additional responsibilities included managing the firm’s capital budgeting process to prioritize capital spending and heading the organization’s merger & acquisition efforts, realizing returns of 25% above expectations from the divestiture of three non-core operating divisions. Ecolab Inc. St. Paul, MN 1989-1992 Raised $250 million of long-term debt through public and private placement debt offerings. Renegotiated $300 million of bank credit lines. Active in the ChemLawn subsidiary divestiture and creation of the Henkel/Ecolab European joint venture. As head of investor relations, improved the firm’s profile in the equity investment arena. The Pillsbury Company Minneapolis, MN 1986-1989 With a staff of 25, managed the annual and strategic plan processes, the organization’s financial reporting, sales analysis and new business development functions. General Foods/Philip Morris Companies, Inc. New York, NY 1980-1986 Oversaw annual cash flow planning, financing, daily cash management, dividend/royalty payments and foreign exchange management activities for 13 European subsidiaries. During a six-year career, additional responsibilities included establishing the firm’s leveraged leasing subsidiary (successfully closing $700 million of transactions, which generated after-tax returns in excess of 25%), established Swiss-based European invoicing company to significantly reduce cross-border foreign exchange exposure and centralize coffee purchasing (resulting in annual savings of $1.5 million) and maximized returns on the firm’s $300 million short-term investment portfolio. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods New York, NY 1974-1978 Provided active research coverage on 20 regional commercial bank holding companies and conducted extensive banking research with published reports on REIT exposure, loans to underdeveloped countries and the adequacy of bank loan loss reserves. EDUCATION The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 1980 Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA 1973
Eugene L. Froelich EXPERIENCE CFO 911- Managing Director, Los Angeles, CA, January 2003 Futurelink Corp, Chief Financial Officer, Lake Forest, CA, April - October 2001. Wizshop.com , Chief Financial Officer , Los Angeles, CA., July 2000- April 2001 Financial Consultant , Los Angeles, CA., 1998-2000. Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Los Angeles, CA., 1989-1998. GFE, Inc., President, Los Angeles, CA., 1984-1989. MCA Records Group, President, Los Angeles, CA., 1968-1984. Held various positions with MCA Inc. including Assistant Treasurer and Vice President. Involved in all aspects of entertainment operations, which included successful acquisition of major book publishing companies. McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Internal Auditor, 1965-1968. Price Waterhouse & Co., New York, NY, Staff Accountant, 1962-1965. EDUCATION Adelphi University, New York – BBA (1962). PROFESSIONAL STATUS HONORS & CIVIC ACTIVITIES Finalist, Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Los Angeles. Former Chair, National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis, Los Angeles Chapter. Former Member, Board of Directors, Leukemia Society of America. Los Angeles Chapter Anthony N. LaPine EXPERIENCE Mr. LaPine launched his career at IBM where as a member of the Advanced Technology team that spearheaded the development of the modern disk drive. His technical achievements include numerous patents and awards including the Data Synchronization Patent (3,701,039) which remains state of the art in today's disk drives. In 1969 as one of the founders of Memorex he played a major role in nurturing its meteorite growth. After raising $75 million, the company's stock peaked at $175 a share on the New York Stock Exchange. He later helped spearhead Memorex's historic turnaround, succeeding in relisting Memorex on the New York Stock Exchange - the only company ever relisted. After a major contribution to the company's first billion dollar revenue year, he was instrumental in the sale of Memorex to Unisys. In 1981 Mr. LaPine became president of Irwin-Olivetti where he led the company to profitability and a successful public offering (IPO). In 1983 he formed LaPine Technology, giving birth to today’s Notebook Disk Drive technology. He led LaPine Technology to a profitable $60 million in sales before selling the company to his joint venture partners, Prudential and Kyocera in a transaction valued at $234 million. LaPine Technology was featured by Forbes magazine in 1986. After the sale of LaPine Technology, he formed The LaPine Group, a private investment and management consulting firm that achieved world wide recognition for its successes. In 1996 Mr. LaPine launched Datalink Corporation. He listed the Company initially on AMEX and later moved to NASDAQ under the symbol XLNK. In 2000 the stock soared to $88 a share and the Company’s market valuation approached One Billion dollars. As CEO of Datalink Corporation he acquired 9 companies, developed a Fortune 1000 customer base, and created leading edge technology for the mobile enterprise market. Datalink Corporation achieved recognition as a Deloitte & Touché Silicon Valley Fast 50 and American Fast 500 Company. Mr. LaPine later restructured Datalink Corporation into what became Semotus Solutions Inc, buying back the preferred stock, eliminating debt and cleaning up the capital structure in preparation for an M&A exit strategy. In October of 2008 Mr. LaPine merged Semotus Solutions Inc with Flint Telecom forming Flint Telecom Group, a leader in the VOIP marketplace. Semotus Solutions remained an operating division of the Flint Telecom Group. In February of 2009 Mr. LaPine purchased all the assets and liabilities of the Semotus Solutions division of Flint Telecom Group forming a new company focused on growing the Semotus Solutions software product called Hiplinkxs. Mr. LaPine remains Chairman of Flint Telecom Group and is cofounder of the new venture with his wife Pamela LaPine who serves as President. Mr. LaPine has served as a technology expert for major law firms and government agencies on intellectual property matters. He lectures in the GSB at the University of San Francisco, is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers Board of Arbitrators and a Public Arbitrator for the Pacific Stock Exchange. Mr. LaPine is a 50 year resident of Silicon Valley. He has served on over 20 corporate boards for companies whose products or services span a broad spectrum of industries. During his career, he has spearheaded the raising of hundreds of millions in investment capital. He has served as Chairman of the Hoover Institution's Council on Economic Development and as a strategic advisor to the Russian government on the transition to capitalism. He is an honored recipient of the San Jose State University "Alumni Award of Distinction" and the Santa Clara University "Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award”. He received a BSEE Cum Laude, from California State University, an MSEE from Santa Clara University Summa Cum Laude and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He later became an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business through their renown residential Graduate Executive Program (SEP). He has been the subject of articles in Forbes, Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal to name a few. He is listed in "The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership" "Men of Achievement" and "Who's Who" in: "...the Computer Industry", "...California", "... Finance and Industry"; ".Science and Engineering" "...American Business Leaders", "...Worldwide". Mr. LaPine's achievements have been chronicled in a number of business books including The Third Century, High Technology Start-Ups, and Overseas Business.
Michael D. Miller EXPERIENCE As Director, Operations, Mike oversees the day to day functions of CFO 911 Solutions which include planning and managing marketing/sales programs, business development, assigning consultants to appropriate engagements and managing projects. Mike also helps executives evaluate their organization’s design, accounting, financial and human capital strong / weak points. He provides leader and manager development support, while helping executives plan and implement strategic initiatives. Clients include pre-revenue ventures to public corporations. Mike has been the keynote speaker to organizations such as the California Cast Metals Association, City of Simi Valley, Distribution Management Association, XIRCOM and the Woodworking Institute of California on the topics of leadership and strategy development. Previously, he spent fourteen years in corporate America with FORTUNE 500 firms, including the Bendix and Allied Signal corporations, and has been an owner or partner in two firms. Positions held included acquisition manager, divisional marketing manager, new product development manager, distribution manager, national sales manager and marketing communications manager. Since 1989, Mike has been an adjunct professor in California Lutheran University’s (Thousand Oaks, CA) evening MBA program for working adults. He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth - Los Angeles and is a member of their annual Southern California Cup university business plan competition committee. Mike has also served on the Advisory Board of the Southern California Edison/California Lutheran University Venture Forum. He is a volunteer to Pacific Community Ventures (Los Angeles), a non-profit which fuels economic growth in low-income California communities. EDUCATION Mike holds a B.S., Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA), and a M.B.A. from Loyola Marymount University, (Los Angeles, CA). Mike has also been certified by the Center for Creative Leadership (Greensboro, North Carolina) to conduct 360º leader, manager and team assessment and development processes.
Jennifer Oki EXPERIENCE Jennifer Oki has served in the capacity of Controller in private companies. Her strengths include revamping accounting and financial systems, controls and reports to comply with GAAP. She also prepares clients for and coaches them through financial audits. She has successfully revived several accounting departments that needed leadership, staffing analyses, accounting system implementation and employee training. Her capabilities at the Controller level include advising senior management on financial matters such as creating budgets, developing cash flow projections, establishing internal controls, representing clients to outside independent auditors and implementing Human Resource processes. She is experienced in many software systems, including, but not limited to QuickBooks, Mas 90 and any industrial specific system such as Monkey Media (for the wholesale baking industry) etc. Prior to entering the field of accountancy in the United States, Jennifer has worked with large corporations such as Federal Express and Singapore Airlines in Singapore. Her extensive experience in Singapore has given Jennifer a firm understanding of corporate culture, which she is able to leverage to the benefit of her clients. Jennifer speaks fluent Mandarin. Currently, she is working toward an Award in Accounting with UCLA Extension.
Lisa Reedy EXPERIENCE Lisa Reedy has over 20 years Accounting, Audit and IT experience. She started her experience in private practice and then expanded her capabilities with KPMG. Her background includes implementation of accounting systems and CRM systems, policies and procedures, process improvement and accounting; including, but not limited to, Audit preparation through completion and Annual Budgets documentation and presentation. Her IT experience includes pre-merger and acquisition IT Due Diligence and Organizational Due Diligence uncovering 2 important questions; who holds the undocumented Intellectual Capital and what do their systems look like in regards to hardware, software (including licensing) and security? She has also documented current state IT to future state IT platforms, and prepared IT Strategic Plans designed to support upper management’s long-term goals. EDUCATION Ms. Reedy holds a B.S. in Accounting Honors Program from The University of Tampa. In her spare time, she volunteers as a CFO for a Regional Grass-roots non-profit.
Henry D. Ritter EXPERIENCE Henry has over 30 years experience in public company consulting and specializes in financial management and interim executive roles. Other capabilities he provides include viability analyses on companies for financial institutions, equity investor groups and creditors, integrated financial and tax planning advice for closely held corporations and their owners with practice in financial and strategic planning, succession planning, business valuations, ESOP's, due diligence for investors, review of business plans and evaluation of merger and acquisitions plans. He also provides strategic and financial consulting and temporary Chief Financial Officer and/or Chief Operating Officer services, day-to-day financial and operational activity of the client companies, including all financial statements, design and implementation of financial system, treasury functions, business plan, budgets, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions and corporate integration. In this role, Henry interfaces with corporate auditors, investment bankers and divisional subsidiary executives. Henry’s corporate experience includes being a partner at ERNST & WHINNEY, where he served as: Director, Washington Financial Services Practice, Member of the Firm's National Committee for Financial Planning; Advisor to the Firm's Telecommunication Consulting Group; Advisor to Washington Privately Owned and Emerging Business Practice. Further, he served in the National Practice Office providing expert witness testimony while with ERNST & WHINNEY. Henry was also President, CEO and CFO at DISPATCH COMMUNICATIONS, where he commenced a start-up telecommunication company which became the second largest privately held mobile radio company in the country at the time of sale, three years later. Henry has served on the boards of two closely held companies. Henry holds an AB, Economics and an MBA, Finance from Cornell University, a JD with a concentration in Tax from Washington School of Law (American University) and Post Graduate Studies from Dartmouth College’s Amos Tuck School of Business. He was an Adjunct Professor (15 years) at George Mason University (Business and Strategic Planning) and American University (Accounting). Henry is or has been a member of AICPA, MACPA , American Bar Association, Former Chair of the Cash Flow Committee of Legal and Financial Planning Task-Force Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust.
Bruce Silverman EXPERIENCE Bruce is one of America’s best known and well respected marketing communications executives. A broad-view strategist, he is probably the only agency executive who ever served as a creative director and went on to head one of the largest media planning and buying shops in the world. A long-time board member of the American Association of Advertising Executives, his 38 year advertising agency career included senior positions at Ogilvy & Mather in New York (EVP/Executive Creative Director), London (Deputy Managing Partner), Houston (SVP/ Executive Creative Director/Deputy Managing Director) and Los Angeles (SVP/Executive Creative Director/General Manager), Bozell (EVP/Executive Creative Director/General Manager), Asher/Gould (President/COO) and WongDoody (President). He was the creative mind behind “Don’t Leave Home Without It” for American Express, “Bullish on America” for Merrill Lynch, “Something Special in the Air” for American Airlines, “Not Made in Noo Yawk Ciddy” for Pace Picante, “The Shell Answer Man” and a dozen other award winning campaigns for clients such as IBM, Hershey’s, International Paper, Baskin-Robbins, Autodesk, Coldwell Banker, Sizzler, California Department of Health Services, Sun America, Suzuki, Pabst, Sanyo, Mattel, Greyhound, Armour, Zales and Post. As President/CEO of Interpublic’s giant ($22 billion annual billings) Initiative Worldwide, Bruce supervised media planning and buying for Disney, Sega, Carl’s Jr., Taco Bell, Albertson’s, Acura, KIA, Chevrolet, Bally’s Health & Fitness, Six Flags, America Online, the United States Navy and Yahoo!. Bruce serves as Chairman and CEO of 24/6, Inc., the holding company of Pocket Billboards®, which places advertising on telephone calling cards. He also serves on the advisory boards for a number of early stage companies. Bruce is a graduate of Adelphi University in New York. He has served as Vice Chairman of the AAAA Western Region and as Vice President of the Los Angeles Advertising Agency Association. He was a founding board member of the Los Angeles Children’s Museum and later served as Chairman of the Resource Development Committee of the Starbright Foundation. He is an active member of Television Arts & Sciences and the Forensic Expert Witness Association. Bruce is married to Nancy Cole, Publisher and Editor of The Equestrian News.
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CFO 911’s professionals have broad and deep experience in internal operations, accounting and finance functions and in external capital market transactions. This experience includes companies at every stage of development in a wide variety of industries. The following generally outlines the capabilities of CFO 911. The following is not intended to be a comprehensive list but rather a guideline to the depth and breadth of capabilities available to clients of CFO 911.
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CFO 911 will spend the time with potential clients to help them identify all of the issues related to their particular situation. Prior to any engagement beginning, all clients will receive a scope letter for review and approval, which clearly delineates the particular work involved in the project, the timeline for completion and the deliverables.
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