OUR TEAM

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Seth  Gilbert is a senior professional with more than fifteen years of  experience as an entrepreneur, an industry analyst, advisor, and  executive in technology and venture capital. 

Mr.  Gilbert first  honed his transactional experience on the deal teams of multiple venture  financings (buy and sell side), initial public offerings and mergers  and acquisitions at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.  The next  phase of his career was spent working in senior business development,  strategy and corporate development roles at startups including  401Konnect and Privada.  At Privada,  as Director of Business  Development, Mr. Gilbert was responsible for initiating key strategic  partnerships and also co-inventor of a credit card anti-fraud initiative  and strategy that became a principle part of the company's product  offerings.

After several years working in venture transactions  and startup operations, Mr. Gilbert made the natural migration to the  investor side of the marketplace.   He joined 3CV, a venture incubator  focused on commercializing technologies developed at universities and  major research facilities as a principal and Vice President of Business  Development. He was responsible for evaluating investment opportunities,  and providing consulting services (including financing strategy,  product development and go-to-market planning) for a wide range of  development-stage client companies.  

He launched Metue.com.   Metue, which was in name an acronym for Media Entertainment and  Technology User Experience  Mr. Gilbert grew Metue to reach several  hundred thousand unique visitors per month. The audience sampling  included regular repeat readers from Fortune 500 companies, global  investment banks, top tier venture capital funds, Hollywood studios ,  record labels, and significant international news publications. 

Mr.  Gilbert is an expert in digital media.  He is highly experienced in  transactional due diligence and deal structuring.  Mr. Gilbert  specializes in consumer-facing digital media and technology companies  and in bio-pharma.  He is a graduate of Emory University. 

 Joseph D. Gonnelli is recognized real  estate professional since 1980. He has extensive experienced in all  facets of real estate development and finance. As the President of  Rosewood Real Estate Enterprises, his developmental expertise won design  awards in New Jersey for a world-class medical office project for  Lourdes Health System a leading provider of medical services in New  Jersey.  This project developed on the site of a former supermarket that  was abandoned by its owners.  This property is now highest grossing  income generators for the System.

 Mr. Gonnelli as the Managing  Partner of several real estate development partnerships successfully  completed the following: designed, developed, financed, operated the  largest privately held public assembly facility in the Philadelphia  area, the South Jersey Expo Center;  acquired multiple office and  industrial parks during the FDIC auctions in the 1990s, including  several vacant office buildings and by executing an aggressive leasing  strategy resulting in full occupancy sold the portfolio to Brandywine  Realty Trust, resulting in a multi-million dollar profit for the  partners.

His additional accomplishments are developing and  building a suburban office project for Dun and Bradstreet Corporation,  completing it in less than eight months and obtaining preliminary and  obtaining final site plan approvals in one township meeting. Mr.  Gonnelli also assembled four different properties on two sides of a  divided highway from separate owners in which he successfully negotiated  appropriate easements and site control to establish a full traffic  light intersection for the assembled properties thereby enhancing the  value of all the acquired land.  He accomplished this in 18 months  without the use of straw parties and maintained the highest  confidentiality.

Mr. Gonnelli is noted for solving challenging  environmental issues. He successfully remediated a contaminated site  adjacent to sensitive residential sites, in less than 14 months,  obtaining unrestricted use permits from New Jersey Department of  Environmental Protection.

He earned a BS in Chemistry at St.  Joseph’s University and a MS in Pharmacology from the University of  Pennsylvania and simultaneously completed the executive real estate  program at the Wharton School. Mr. Gonnelli is licensed as a real estate  professional in Florida and holds two insurance licenses 

 Richard Y. Fu has fifteen years of  experience spanning two main industries, financial services and  gaming/entertainment. After graduating from York University, he began  his career with TD Waterhouse in Canada. Richard was responsible for the  Integration of Green Line Investor Services and led the group’s efforts  to develop both Brokerage and Asset Management businesses in the Asia  Pacific Region. In this capacity, Richard led TD Waterhouse’s efforts in  both corporate strategy and cross-border, multi-cultural marketing. In  1999, he transferred to the United States as a member of the Management  Committee responsible for the entire Asia Pacific division, leading TD  Waterhouse’s efforts across the brokerage spectrum from investment  banking to trading. He became a prominent figure in both Retail and  Institutional in the international Arena.

Mr. Fu joined E*Trade  Financial to lead development of its Asia Pacific division and advise on  strategic, acquisition, CRM, and new product development. During this  period, he acted as an investment banker to E*Trade, analyzing different  potential acquisitions. This experience enabled him to understand  banking not only from the investor side, via his TD Waterhouse  experience, but also from the client side. This unique dual perspective  allows Mr Fu to appreciate the often competing perspectives and bridge  the potential gaps and lead several successful equity transactions.

In  2005, Richard left the Brokerage industry to move to Harrah’s  Entertainment, Inc. (now Caesars Entertainment Corporation) as Senior  Corporate Director, responsible for the development and implementation  of Harrah’s comprehensive multicultural strategies, including VIP  strategy, capital investment, expansion, operational efficiently and  effectiveness, CRM, brand marketing, direct marketing, mass media,  public relation, market research. He engineered the initiative to  attract ethnic customer which then lead to the company’s overall revenue  doubled within the period. He has been recognized for his efforts as a  recipient of the award for National Asian Pacific American Corporate  Achievement. Richard has served as an advisor to Penn National Gaming  Inc. and to European and Asian gaming entities.

Mr. Fu also holds  the FINRA series 3, 7, 9, 10, 24, 79, & 63 licenses as well as many  Canadian Securities Institute credentials.
 

Joseph  M. Braunschek is a seasoned investment banking and finance company  professional, having evaluated and analyzed hundreds of companies and  financed well over $1 billion of debt, including municipal issues,  hospital, and nursing home-related bonds, as well as direct real estate  and asset-backed loans to the senior housing industry.

Mr.  Braunschek began his career as a financial analyst with Van Kampen  Merritt.  In that capacity, he was responsible for modeling borrower  cash flows, sizing bond issues, and identifying potential candidates for  refinancing or restructuring.  Mr. Braunschek also analyzed industry  trends (particularly in hospitals and health care-related borrowers) and  was instrumental in the development of the Merritt System, a  computerized hospital analytical database which is still in use today.  Moving to McDonald and Company, Mr. Braunschek’s scope expanded to  include supervision of documentation and client contact, including  direct sales and marketing efforts.  These responsibilities increased  through his employment at William E. Simon and Sons Municipal Securities  Inc,  A.H. Williams & Co. and J.G. Wentworth Securities.

When  JG Wentworth was sold to DVI in 1997, Mr. Braunschek became a direct  lender to the long-term care industry, a position he has held through  his employment at a number of major credit companies, including GMAC  Commercial Mortgage (now Capmark), CIT Group and GMAC ResCap.  While at  GMAC Commercial, Mr. Braunschek helped manage a portfolio of over $1.5  billion of long-term care and seniors housing mortgage loans as well as  serving as interim chief credit officer for the Health Care division.   At CIT he helped develop the healthcare division into an industry  leader, serving as underwriter and portfolio manager on both the real  estate and receivable-backed sectors.

Through his career, Mr.  Braunschek has spoken at several industry conferences as well as serving  on the board of Good Neighbor Care, an Oregon-based senior housing  operator.  Mr. Braunschek graduated cum laude from Temple University  with a degree in business administration.  

 Dr. Kenneth E. Lehrer has been an  Economic and Financial Services Consultant since 1980.  He holds four  (4) degrees from New YorkUniversity: Bachelor of Science (Finance),  Master of Business Administration (Banking), Master of Arts (Economics)  and a Doctorate in Urban Economics. After a career on the corporate  staff of Bankers Trust Company (New York), Dr. Lehrer became a Manager  for the Greek Shipper, Costas Lemos [dec'd].  Here, he assisted on  projects in New York, Houston, Denver, Guam and in Europe. 

Dr.  Lehrer is experienced in many areas of - Economics, Finance, Economic  Damage Analysis (including Business and Technology Losses), Banking,  Business, ESOP and Non-Public Business Valuations, Securities,  Healthcare, Fairness and Advisory Opinions, Intellectual Property  Valuations, Real Estate and Corporate Finance.  He has prepared  institutional economic / finance reports, feasibility analysis,  corporate business plans and provides litigation support (having been  qualified in both State and Federal Courts) in the areas of - economics,  real estate, banking, corporate and IP valuations, class actions, and  finance.  Dr. Lehrer served for approximately twenty years as an Adjunct  Professor of Finance at the University of Houston, Graduate School of  Business Administration and is presently an Adjunct Professor of Finance  and Economics at the University of Phoenix.  Dr. Lehrer is also a  speaker at business, economic and real estate seminars.

Dr.  Lehrer has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Federal  Home Loan Bank of Dallas as agent for the Federal Savings and Loan  Insurance Corporation of - Acadia Savings and Loan Association, French  Market Homestead Savings, Twin City Savings, First Savings of  Louisiana. Presently, Dr. Lehrer is a Director of Aztec Oil and Gas, a  publicly traded corporation.On a professional basis, Dr. Lehrer is a  Texas State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser and is recognized by  the National Association of Real Estate Appraisers.  With his firm, he  is a member of - National Association of Business Economists, American  Academy of Economic and Financial Experts, American Law and Economics  Association, Houston Business Economists, National Forensic Center,  National Association of Forensic Economists, American Economic  Association, North American Economics and Finance Association, Southern  Economic Association, Western Economic Association and the Finance Club  and Money Marketeers, both affiliated with New York University. He is  listed in all editions of "Who's Who In America" since the 45th edition.