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CFM Consortium:

The consortium provides a source of talent and subject matter expertise for the purpose of collaborating on specific projects or transactions. Each of the participants in the consortium are independent contractors, some or all of whom may collaborate on a specific project or transaction subject to the execution of an independent and separate agreement. The consortium will not be interpreted or construed to create an association, joint venture, partnership or agency relationship between or among the participants or to impose any partnership obligation or liability upon any of the participants. None of the participants have any right, power or authority to enter into any agreement for or on behalf of, or to assume or incur any obligation or liabilities, express or implied, on behalf of or in the name of, any other participant nor will they be liable for any obligation, action or omission of any other participants.

Consortium Team

William Keegan
President and CEO

William Keegan is President and CEO of CAPITAL FORMATION MARKETING, Inc., a firm that began as a producer of business and marketing plans for emerging companies looking to attract investors and obtain venture capital. His contacts with business media and the investment community enabled the agency to expand to include multiple financial marketing and media services.

In 2000, Bill Keegan established CFM as an investor relations consortium and collaborates with world renown pollster George Gallup, Chairman of the George H. Gallup International Institute, Craig Middleton, former Vice Chairman of Young & Rubicam and Ed Cooperman, former Chairman of American Express Travel Related Groups, on a national high school educational media program called FOCUS: The National High School News Magazine. The project’s current mission statement has expanded to a more international approach and is currently being developed as a Web based international educational news service.

In 2007, Bill Keegan entered into a collaborative agreement with Marston Webb International, a highly respected International Relations and Public Relations agency. Through Capital Formation Marketing’s initiative, Bill Keegan was instrumental in helping Marston Webb secure the Ministry of Finance for the Government of Bermuda. Marston Webb is the agency of record the Ministry of Finance and Bill Keegan is a managing partner on the account. They are currently working on expanding the Bermuda Ministry’s exposure in the international business media and have several international conferences planned for 2010. 

Under Bill Keegan’s direction, CFM has developed into true international consortium with specialties in domestic and international media relations as well as in international finance. Over the past decade, CFM has developed a vast database of domestic and international business news editors for print, Internet as well as electronic media. Mr. Keegan has been successful in securing media coverage, across all business sectors, for the consortium’s diverse domestic and international list of clients. 

In addition to CFM’s commitment to international media and investor relations, the agency’s commitment to capital formation process is considered a high growth objective. CFM and Marston Webb are currently focusing on raising venture capital for four major real estate development projects. 

Bill Keegan has 30 years of experience in business management, national sales, marketing, brand development, publishing, investor relations and public speaking. Bill has held executive positions at The Financial Relations Board/BSMG Worldwide, Bloomingdale’s, Jonathan Logan, Salant, Oxford Industries and Jobson Publishing.

He was a consultant and former member of the board of trustees for the George H. Gallup International Institute and contributing publisher of Gallup Youthviews. Bill worked directly with the Chairman, Mr. Gallup and co-authored the Gallup Youthviews national survey on Columbine High School. He has also studied in-depth the thirty-year library of Gallup Youthviews surveys. Mr. Gallup and Bill Keegan have visited the U.S. Department of Education on several occasions to promote social and educational programs. In addition, Bill Keegan has lectured to and surveyed thousands of high school students on drug, alcohol abuse, social issues and buying trends.

Marston Webb International

Victor Webb
Principal

Victor Webb is a renowned pioneer in International Investor Relations. A journalist by training, he has worked for and contributed to several international newspapers.

Mr. Webb is a former executive for Dow Jones in the United Kingdom and Managing Director of Dow Jones International Marketing Services, and International Director of Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

Later named Vice President of the Dow Jones International Group, Mr. Webb was responsible for worldwide advertising and marketing activities for Dow Jones Publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Asian and European Editions of the Wall Street Journal.

After leaving Dow Jones, Mr. Webb was again successful in developing Marston Webb International into a premier IR agency. The agency enjoys an impressive list of clients consisting of mining, biotech, alternative energy, manufacturers and government agencies.

Marston Webb has represented numerous foreign government agencies such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea, South Africa, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and the London Stock Exchange. With such a strong association with foreign governments and expertise in financial exchanges, the agency has established itself as a leader in media and financial markets overseas as well as in the U.S.

In addition, the Agency has been associated with the gold market having represented a number of gold mining companies and associations including the World Gold Council, for whom the agency has provided media relations consultancy in the area of the public sector and institutional investment over the past ten years. As such, the Agency has maintained day-to-day contact with gold writers, business and financial journalists and editors focusing attention on individual mining sectors and the gold market as a whole.

Mr. Webb is a frequent speaker at international media and marketing events and is a member of various overseas press clubs, trade and professional associations.

Financial Markets Consulting

Karen Lanzetta

Karen Lanzetta is a financial markets specialist with three decades of experience in the securities industry, most recently serving in the Office of the President at Merrill Lynch, focusing on significant trends impacting the financial services sector.

Formerly a Director in Merrill Lynch’s Financial Institutions Group, Ms. Lanzetta was responsible for identifying key trends, developing innovative analyses, and creating strategic presentations for investment banking clients that provided insights for seizing market opportunities. She designed countless corporate presentations that described the wealth/asset management opportunity, analyzed the retirement market and the products that generate retirement income, and developed a body of work around distribution channels. Other areas of expertise include ETFs, sovereign wealth funds, international asset management, and high net worth investors.

For more than a decade, Ms. Lanzetta worked on various global strategic projects for Merrill Lynch in the Corporate Strategy division, analyzing new business opportunities for the Firm and developing appropriate strategies for individual business units. Working closely with the Merrill’s top-tier corporate executives, she was regularly called upon to craft presentations for communicating the Firm’s strategy as well as reports on issues impacting the financial services industry.

Other noteworthy corporate assignments included analysis of financial services consolidation/convergence, periodic reviews of global financial services regulatory reforms, and coordination of the firm’s business development activities at the World Bank and IADB meetings.

Her distinguished career at Merrill Lynch had its roots in the Treasurer’s Office where Ms. Lanzetta served as a Funding Specialist, working on the day-to-day financing of the Firm in US money markets. She was then promoted into a bank relations role with a mandate to develop credit facilities with major US and international banks. This earned her the prestigious President’s Award in recognition of the banking relationships she established for the Firm as well the revolving credit lines negotiated.

Ms. Lanzetta is a graduate of distinction from New York Institute of Technology, holding BS and MBAdegrees.

Duran Gitlin Group

Martin Gitlin
Investor Relations Consultant

Martin Gitlin is a public relations and media executive with more than 30 years of diversified financial/investor, business-to-business and consumer product experience. He has been affiliated with a number of major public relations agencies, including appointment as Vice President and National Media Relations Executive at The Financial Relations Board and BSMG Worldwide. He was Senior Media Executive with Howard Rubenstein & Associates and Richard Weiner, Inc.

His experience includes developing successful media and financial/investor relations programs for a broad range of organizations, including technology, aerospace, energy, industrial and consumer product companies, real estate organizations, law firms, asset management firms, trade associations and financial institutions.

He created marketing support and new product media programs for Pulsar, the first solid state watch, for the fiber nickel-cadmium battery for aerospace, coordinated nationwide media programs for trade association, news bureau for an insurance sponsored senior citizen group, and grass roots and media support for a major public sector development as well as scores of effective media programs for companies and organizations across the country.

He has been a media consultant to a national restaurant chain, land use law firm, architectural and design firms, management consultants and technology service firm.

In recent years he has developed important coverage for clients in a wide range of media including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, Associated Press, Dow Jones Newswire, Reuters, Bloomberg News, American Banker, Barron’s, Industry Week, as well as regional publications such as the Boston Globe, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Crain’s New York Business and Philadelphia Inquirer and CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg Radio and TV.

Investor Intelligence Group

John H.W. Rhein, III
Investor Relations Consultant

John Rhein has had more than 40 years of experience in media and publishing. In 1956 he began his career as a management trainee in the research and media analysis department of Benton and Bowles Advertising Agency. He left for a greater challenge at FORBES magazine where, after series of regional sales management responsibilities, he was appointed to Assistant to the Publisher. During his 15 years at FORBES he gained a reputation for closing difficult major accounts, marketing and sales promotion and presentation skills. As advertising agency liaison he played a role in the launching of the, now legendary FORBES: Capitalist Tool positioning campaign, which was largely credited for helping FORBES become the magazine success story of the 20th century.

He left FORBES in 1971 to become Sr. Vice President and Associate Publisher of FINANCE Magazine, a prestigious, sharply focused magazine written for bank trust investment officers. In 1973 he went, in a similar capacity as a troubleshooter for venerable but then anemic FINANCIAL WORLD, America’s oldest financial magazine. While at FINANCIAL WORLD, he increased advertising revenues by 300% and was named to that company’s Board of Directors, MACRO Communications (a "pink sheet " company, later to become NYSE listed First Capital Holdings Company). MACRO named him Sr. V.P. Marketing and Sales for its magazines: Saturday Review and View (a trade magazine for cable TV programmers) and assigned him to the presidency of National Business Conferences which ran seminars, field trips and the popular Annual Report Awards Competition and the CEO of the Year Awards events.

He resigned after eight years to found his own investor relations research firm, The Investor Intelligence Group. In 1981, while remaining president of The Investor Intelligence Group, he assumed the role of Publisher of OTC REVIEW (later named EQUITIES) where he launched their popular Corporate Conference series and designed such magazine features as the Top Traders issue and the Investor Research Section. In 1993, for his contribution to the magazine he was named EQUITIES’ Publisher Emeritus. In 1999 his Investor Intelligence Group inaugurated the EQUITIES Gemstone Awards competition for excellence in financial reporting. He has had extensive experience as a conference conductor, public speaker and lecturer. Most recently he was publisher of Top Tier Writers Inc.'s Web site, Coiningmoney.com (featuring such prominent financial writers as Robert Metz, Nancy Dunnan and George Stasen), and CEO of the ADR Association.

In addition to holding a seat on the board of MACRO Communications, Mr. Rhein has served on the boards of Suburbia Federal Savings and Loan (1979-1984), which merged with Fidelity New York (1987-1994) and went public in 1993. It was merged with Astoria Federal Savings and Loan in 1995, and, after the merger, he served on the Advisory Board for three years. Mr. Rhein has written columns and articles on the subjects of economics, the markets, investor relations and publishing. He has been published in EQUITIES, FINANCIAL WORLD, FINANCIAL HISTORY MAGAZINE and DIRECTORSHIP.

Integrated Real Estate Services

Howard Jackson
Chairman

Howard Jackson is the Chairman of Integrated Real Estate Services a 4-generation real estate appraisal company. The firm was started by his great-grandfather and his grandmother was the first woman in the State of New York to become a licensed real estate broker.

Mr. Jackson began his appraisal career formally in 1967 ( just a three days after graduating from LaSalle Military Academy) at Associated Appraisers whose major assignment was the reassessment of the Town of Islip consisting of 96,000 parcels. He has been appraising all types of real property around the United States subsequent to the reassessment assignment. These properties include all forms of commercial and residential properties (1-4 family), shopping centers, nursing homes, office buildings, apartment buildings, hospitals, hotels, industrial buildings, banks and land projects. In addition to appraisal assignments, he has prepared other reports for clients such as feasibility analysis, environmental damage valuation, highest and best use determination, economic analysis, cost ñ benefit studies, market forecast, asset management, property acquisition and disposition, real estate equity capital and debt placement.

He has qualified as a real estate expert witness in various State and Federal Courts in both bench and jury trials since 1972 with his most recent case being March 2009.

Professional Designations - Licenses

He holds the MAI and SRPA designations from the Appraisal Institute. He is also a NYS Licensed real estate appraiser and real estate broker. He is also approved by the NYS Department of Transportation as an accredited real estate appraiser.

Expert Witness Testimony

He has qualified as a real estate appraiser expert witness in various supreme courts since 1972. This includes bench and jury trials in both Federal and State Courts. The subjects of these proceedings typically are tax certiorari, condemnation, matrimonial and equitable distribution, legal and architectural malpractice, land use, environmental damage valuation, bankruptcy and other forms of litigation. He was the lead appraisal expert witness in the largest real estate securities fraud case called Madison Plaza, a large group of buildings in New York City. Some of his most recent court cases were on December 2005, a jury trial in State Court, Suffolk County, in May 2006, a bench trial in State Court, Manhattan, in August 2008 a bench trial in Supreme Court of Nassau County and in October 2008 a jury trial in Supreme Court, Manhattan and a bench trial in Nassau County in March 2009.

Authorship & Publications

Howard Jackson has written five books: "Key Writings in Real Estate©" "Real Estate Values and You©" and "Understanding Real Estate Values for Successful Investing©" and "The Real Estate Appraiser and The Law©" and ìThe Secrets of Power Politicking©". These books are also available at Borders , Amazon.com etc. Additionally, he has written many articles, bi-lines and monograms published both nationally and locally.
A representative sample of these articles or monograms are: 1. How To Determine If A Property Is Overassessed©®™, 2. The Realities of Rent Control©®™, 3. How Tax Rates and Equalization Rates Affect Real Estate Values©®™ , 4. Rules of Thumb for Investing In Real Estate ©®™, 5. The Ten Commandments of Investing in Real Estate©®™, 6. What is the Market in Market Value? ©®™, 7. The A-B-Cís of Mortgages©®™, 8. How Millionaires are Made in Real Estate©®™, 9. Internal Rate of Return©®™, 10. How a Property can Have Different Market Values Simultaneously ©®™. 11. Environmentally Impaired Real Estate ñ From Stigma to Saving the Deal ©®™ 12. How to Compare Two Residential Appraisals on the Same Property©®™ 13. How to Compare Two Commercial Appraisals on The Same Property©®™ 14. Evaluating Real Estate Asset Performance©®™. 15. What is the difference between microcomputers, minicomputers and mainframe computers ©®™.
He has also been quoted by periodicals and publications locally and nationally. For example, New York Times, Newsday, American Bar Association, Nassau Bar Association, Forbes.

He has published Howard Jackson's Annual Real Estate Market Forecast ©®™ for the past 22 consecutive years in a row. This forecast is widely subscribed to by banks, financial institutions, Wall Street investment companies, real estate appraisers, brokers, developers, law firms, government, business, industry and the general public. Additionally, there will be periodic commentary and analysis on major issues affecting the real estate market, the economy and public policy. He has been an advisory board member of Standard and Poorís Nation REAL ESTATE INDEX. He had also co-published the Environmental Damage Valuation Newsletter.©®™. He has also published extensively in the computer field. Please see below.

He has also been a contributor to the National Real Estate Index sponsored by Standard and Poor's Corporation and published by the Liquidity Fund since 1989.

He also wrote a comprehensive userís manual for "The Real Estate Appraisal Data Management System ©®™", the comprehensive real estate appraisal computer software program, which he wrote.

Key Note Assignments

Some of these assignments begin with large scale reassessment projects including the Town of Islip in 1967 consisting of 96,000 parcels of land. Other keynote assignments include a 500,000 + square foot office building in Los Angeles, major hotel properties and large scale subdivisions. He has also been retained as an expert witness for plaintiff in the largest real estate limited partnership fraud case and has been retained by defendant in a large environmental damage claim against a large oil company as well as by plaintiffs in major cases. He has also appraised unique properties and situations such as timber farms, liquor manufacturing and distributing facilities, NIKE missile sites, aircraft testing sites and research laboratory facilities. He has been retained as exclusive advisor to Reckson Associates Realty Corp., an REIT In their $20,000,000 +/- acquisition of the first mortgage position on Garden City Plaza, a 400,000 square foot office building located on the westerly edge of Roosevelt Field, Garden City, L.I., New York. He has testified in front of the Blue Ribbon Commission on the reassessment of Nassau County. His largest appraisal assignment concerned an equitable distribution case involving two hotels in New York City. The appraised amount was in excess of $220,000,000.

He has also been retained by a number of major real estate companies to raise real estate equity capital for their projects in 2009. Each companyís real estate equity capital requirement is in excess of $100,000,000 each.

Property Types Appraised

He has appraised all types of real estate including residential, commercial, vacant land, water and air rights. These include 1-6 family homes, apartments, SROís , hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, warehouses, industrial, research and development, flex space, office, shopping malls, retail as well as vacant land of all types.

Crescent Group

Paul C. Homsy
Principal & Board Member

Mr. Homsy has 30 years of experience in the Middle East and practiced law in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for 4 years as the managing partner of Sidley & Austin’s former office there.

Mr. Homsy has significant experience in the development, structuring and financing of several billion dollars of transactions in a wide range of conventional and Islamic financial products, including private equity funds, trade finance funds, real estate funds, factoring agreements, and many Shari’ah compliant structures.

Mr. Homsy has helped arrange financing for both direct investments and alternative investment vehicles from the Arabian Gulf.

Mr. Homsy has a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He speaks both Spanish and conversational Arabic. Mr. Homsy has served on the Board of Advisors of the Harvard University Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East, John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he participated in the Arab Israeli Peace Negotiations, and as Chairman of the Middle East Law Committee of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Homsy served six years on the Board of Directors of the Arab Bankers Association of North America and also served on its Executive Committee. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Mr. Homsy is recognized as a leading authority on the Middle East. He has appeared on National Public Radio’s Marketplace program, and Bloomberg Television and has been quoted in a number of leading publications including "The Banker" magazine and "The Journal of Commerce".

Mr. Homsy’s publications on the Middle East have appeared in "The International Lawyer", "The Northwestern Journal of International Law", and "The International Legal Encyclopedia" of The University of Virginia Law School. He has lectured widely on Middle East topics at such forums as Harvard University and The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Homsy is a Special Advisor to and founding shareholder of Integration Capital & Trade and a founding partner of the law firm Guibord Homsy LP, with offices in New York, Chicago, and associated offices in Washington, DC,Riyadh, Dubai, and Beirut.

: (917) 553-4277
: phomsy@crescentassetmgt.com

Marston Webb International

Madlene Olson
Managing Partner

Madlene Olson is a founding partner of Marston Webb International and supervises all business operations of the firm.

A specialist in international media research, planning and placement, Ms. Olson has an extensive working knowledge of US. and international marketing, specifically the media’s effect on executive audiences.

Ms. Olson is an acknowledged authority on international media and its impact upon business, financial, consumer and governmental audiences in major markets throughout the world. As one of few International Media Consultants in the U.S., Ms. Olson has prepared and implemented worldwide media campaigns for many U.S. agencies.

Prior to forming Marston Webb in 1981, Ms. Olson worked with Dow Jones & Co. where she coordinated the worldwide activities of advertising representatives located in 54 countries.

Ms. Olson is a frequent guest speaker and contributor to papers regarding domestic and international media. She is a member of U.S. and international media and advertising associations.

Young & Rubicam Inc.

Craig Middleton
Vice Chairman

CRAIG MIDDLETON is the recently retired Vice Chairman of Young & Rubicam Inc. In his role as Vice Chairman, Craig oversaw a broad range of operational and strategic issues across all Y&R companies. Craig also worked closely with Colgate on the client's global operations.

In addition to Craig’s brilliant career in advertising, he is a dedicated supporter of education and the nation’s youth. He is a valued consultant for the College Board, the producer of the SAT college testing program. He is a long-term supporter of FOCUS The World High School News and his background in advertising, marketing, media and executive management has been a vital force in the development of FOCUSwhsn.com.

Craig first joined Y&R in 1969, and has held senior management positions at the company since he rejoined the agency in 1994. His experience in the industry is extensive and covers not just decades, but geography and clients, as well. Craig returned to Young & Rubicam in 1994 as Executive VP, Director of Strategic Planning with responsibility for refining how the agency managed its largest clients. In that capacity, he established and managed our Key Corporate Account structure which provided clients access to the full resources of the company across borders and across disciplines.

A year later he was named to the company's Board of Directors. Beginning in 1996, Craig managed one of Y&R's largest global accounts, Colgate, which in turn became the model for global accounts throughout Y&R. Craig assumed responsibilities as Chief Marketing Officer in 2000. He was named Vice Chairman of Young & Rubicam Inc. in 2003.

From 1985 until 1994, Craig spent a hiatus from Y&R at McCann-Erickson. While there, Craig held various positions, ultimately as Executive Vice President Worldwide Director of Marketing. In that capacity, he was responsible for developing multidisciplinary and cross-geography communications programs for McCann's global clients.

While at McCann, Craig also managed a number of multidisciplinary domestic and international accounts including General Motors, R.J. Reynolds, and AT&T. In addition, Craig managed several agency offices including Los Angeles and Detroit.

In 1969, Craig began his first stint at Young & Rubicam as an Account Executive. From 1975 on, he led our business development program. During one of the strongest new business periods in the agency's history, Craig led our efforts to acquire a number of accounts, including KFC, Ford, AT&T, Kodak and Hallmark, among others. In 1980 he was named the agency's first Director of Integrated Marketing, with responsibility for developing "whole egg" strategies for our clients in addition to his new business responsibilities.

Concept Capital Advisors, LLC.

John J. Watras
Manager of Marketing and General Securities Principal

John J. Watras has been involved in the securities industry since 1986 and brings many years of experience in institutional sales as well as supervisory positions. Mr. Watras has been affiliated with the Concept Capital division of SMH Capital Inc. and its predecessor firms since January 1996 which he served as a salesman of its prime brokerage services and independent research services, as well as a supervisor for the third party marketers. It is the contemplated that SMH Capital Inc. will contribute the Concept Capital division to the Company upon its admission to membership in FINRA. Upon the Company's admission to membership in FINRA, it is anticipated that Mr. Watras will devote approximately 100% of his time to Company matters.

Mr. Watras is a Senior Vice President of the Company and holds an equity interest in the Company's parent company, Concept Capital Advisors. LLC. He serves as of the Company's General Securities Principals. Mr. Watras is currently qualified as a General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7), a General Securities Principal (Series @$), and a Uniform Securities Agent (Series 63).

Mr. Watras began his Wall Street career in March 1986 at P.R. Burke & Company, where he worked in institutional sales, money management for corporations, and institutional capital raising for traditional money management firms.

In 1993, Mr. Watras joined the New York Stock Exchange, where he served as Director of Institutional Sales. In 1993, he joined Blackford Securities Corp., a predecessor the SMH Capital, Inc., as Managing Director. In addition, Mr. Watras assumed compliance and principal responsibilities of the firm's trading desk.

Prior to his employment in the securities industry, he worked in the textile and apparel industry with several companies including Bloomingdale's, Manhattan Shirt Company and Garan Incorporated.

Mr. Watras is a graduate of Hofstra University and holds a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration.

Crescent Asset Management

PJ Homsy
Research Analyst

PJ Homsy is a research analyst for Crescent Asset Management where he oversees the following projects for the firm:

  • Conduct various analysis and research relating to projects and business opportunities in the Middle East, Latin America, southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States
  • Analyze and research private equity funds, potential private equity investments, alternative investments, joint ventures, companies, and markets
  • Assist in drafting various marketing presentations, term sheets, memorandums of understanding, and private placement memorandums
  • Relationship management with Middle East high net worth clients, joint venture partners, co-managers (including Highland Capital Management LP and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.), public relations, and web-site designers

PJ Homsy is the Co-author of "Islamic Private Equity Opportunities and Challenges", published in July 2008 Issue of Business Islamica magazine and represents the company at various conferences including the Arab Bankers Association of North America.

Fred R. Schmid
Vice President and General Manager

Co-founder of the Company

Over 35 years experience in mining, leasing, corporate management, international finance and mergers & acquisitions of publicly traded and privately owned companies. Built long-term relationships and motivated skilled management teams to create shareholder values for investors.

Formerly Founder/President/CEO of Hanover Gold Company, Inc. ("HVGO"), a NASDAQ listed American gold mining company. Through Fred's efforts, consolidated the renowned and historic Alder Gulch mining claims in the Virginia City Mining District in Montana, which he joint ventured with Kennecott Exploration Company, a major mining enterprise that is part of RTZ.

As former President/CEO of Windstar Resources Inc., a restructured public shell company acquired Nexland, Inc., an Internet hardware security device manufacturing company, in a reverse merger acquisition ("OTCBB “XLND”) that was subsequently acquired by Symantec (NASDAQ “SYMC”), a multi-billion dollar company.

As owner/operator he financed and managed several private Kentucky and West Virginia coal mining companies, acquiring 15,000 acres in Eastern Kentucky prior to joint venturing the mining operations with Detroit Edison, a major utility company in Michigan.

He began his business career with IBM and worked in manufacturing, scientific research and data processing sales. He was a pioneer in the computer leasing industry as Founder/President of National Computer Rental Inc. In the mid-1970’s, he became President of the parent company, National Equipment Rental, Ltd. an American Stock Exchange company engaged internationally in computer, aircraft and equipment leasing.

He was also the Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Hanover Group, Inc., a private firm investing in natural resources and minerals.

His broad corporate and operating knowledge in private and public businesses and mining sectors provides the Board with valuable experiences in directing the Company. He developed, structured and managed strategic alliances, partnerships and joint ventures and engaged in funding projects through private placement and IPO financings for exit strategies. He has listed his companies on the OTCBB, NASDAQ, AMEX and the Entry level on the Frankfurt Exchange.

Fred earned a Bachelor of Science – Engineering degree from NYU’s College of Engineering with Honors.

NOTE: All consultants have over a ten-year working relationship with CFM’s principal William Keegan.

CFM Consortium:

The consortium provides a source of talent and subject matter expertise for the purpose of collaborating on specific projects or transactions. Each of the participants in the consortium are independent contractors, some or all of whom may collaborate on a specific project or transaction subject to the execution of an independent and separate agreement. The consortium will not be interpreted or construed to create an association, joint venture, partnership or agency relationship between or among the participants or to impose any partnership obligation or liability upon any of the participants. None of the participants have any right, power or authority to enter into any agreement for or on behalf of, or to assume or incur any obligation or liabilities, express or implied, on behalf of or in the name of, any other participant nor will they be liable for any obligation, action or omission of any other participants.

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