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Management and Advisors
Dr. Terrence P. McGarty
Dr. McGarty, Managing Partner, has been the founder of Telmarc and
has been with the Company since its founding in 1984, except during the period
of 1986 thru 1992, when he left to join NYNEX. Dr. McGarty holds a Ph.D. from
MIT in Electrical Enginee ring and Computer Science, has studied in the joint
MIT/Harvard HST program in Medicine. He has been President of Warner's Electronic
Media Company, and COO of NYNEX Mobile Communications Company.
Dr. McGarty has been personally involved in the structure, financing, operations
and management of most of the Telmarc investments. He has managed businesses
world wide and has had offices in Prague, Warsaw, Athens, and Bangkok, as well
as operations in over twenty five countries. He has written extensively in the
area of telecommunications and other areas and is a recognized expert in many
litigation support areas. Dr. McGarty has recently also returned to MIT as a
Research Affiliate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Sciences in
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences where he advises
doctoral students in the wireless communications area. He started his career at
MIT both as a student and a faculty member. Dr. McGarty is the author of six books including Business Plans that Win Venture
Capital, Wiley (1989). He was Vice
Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Presidential Committee on the
Internet (1998-2000) Dr. McGarty has been on the boards over two dozen
companies including MDSI, a public company, in which he was also head of its
Audit Committee.
E-mail:
tmcgarty@telmarc.com
Mr. Andrew Gregor
Andrew Gregor serves as a
Senior Managing Director of Telmarc, practicing in our
business development, financing and private equity practice.
Most recently, Mr Gregor has been responsible for Corporate
Finance and Business Development, as a Senior VP and
Treasurer at Sirius XM Satellite Radio. In his years at
Sirius, he lead successful expansion efforts in Canada and
other parts of the world, and was also responsible
for over $3 billion in debt and equity financings. Most
recently, he led the restructuring of the Sirius balance
sheet, caused by its strategic merger with its major
competitor, XM. . He has previously held executive
positions with a number of major public and private
companies in the US and Europe, with responsibilities as a
CFO for financings, acquisitions, divestitures, financial
reporting and controls and strategic planning. Previously,
Mr. Gregor was the Chief Financial and Administrative
Officer of Zephyr Communications, At Zephyr, he along with
the CEO raised over $100 million in venture financing and
managed its operational rollout in the US and Central
Europe. Prior to Zephyr, he was Chief Financial Officer of
several publicly traded media, entertainment and consumer
goods companies, including GT Interactive, a leading video
game developer which he took public in the largest venture
backed IPO of 1995, and Lillian Vernon, the specialty direct
marketing retailer. During Mr. Gregor's career, he has been
personally responsible for in excess of $7 billion in
financings, and a like amount of acquisitions and
divestitures. He began his career in investment research and
spent much of his career in the Controllership and Treasury
areas of major public corporations.
Mr. Gregor holds an MBA from
the Wharton School where he was recognized as a Baker
Scholar, and a BA from Wesleyan University.
Email: gregor@telmarc.com
Dr. Lloyd Nirenberg
Dr. Nirenberg is Senior Technology Advisor
of Telmarc and represents Telmarc in Silicon Valley/. Dr. Nirenberg has
contributed extensively to many of the key innovations in communication
system design and financial engineering. He has over 30 years experience
in diverse wireless communications industries as an engineer, general
manager,
deal-maker and consultant. He has experience gained from working on
satellite communications systems, terrestrial digital radio and packet
switching networks, and developing semiconductors for wireless
communications. Some of his technical innovations are marked by
publications in IEEE journals. Dr. Nirenberg also innovated in the
valuation of intellectual property, by applying techniques in financial
engineering to managing risk and value in IP transactions.
Currently he applies his expertise in technology, economics and
competition to assist clients craft strategies for growth in the face of
varied opportunities and risks. Business operations seeking help
defining product road maps or placing a value on their IP can benefit
from consulting him. He has a Ph.D. (EE) from UCLA, and was a Hughes
Doctoral Fellow.
lnirenberg@telmarc.com
Mr. Archie D. Typadis,
J.D.
Mr. Typadis is a Senior Advisor of
Telmarc and is President of
Linear A Communications.
He is an attorney in private practice with a co ncentration in
telecommunications law. Most recently, Mr. Typadis
has been involved in the development, financing, and management of fiber to the
home optical networks in rural
New England. From 1996 until 2001, Mr. Typadis
served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel and director of
COMAV Corporation, a facilities based competitive
local exchange company providing local, long distance telephone, and high speed
Internet (DSL) services. Mr. Typadis identified,
negotiated and closed on the initial capital financing of the
COMAV. Mr. Typadis
represented COMAV in merger and acquisition
negotiations and had overall responsibility for all due diligence compliance on
$150 million high yield equity financing offering. Mr.
Typadis negotiated and closed all employment, regulatory matters, real
estate, vendor financing, and equipment and property leases. Prior to joining
COMAV, he served
as General Counsel to two telecommunication startups. For the past 25 years,
Mr. Typadis' practice has concentrated in
telecommunications, corporate, banking and litigation matters.
Mr. Typadis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Economics from Northeastern University and a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk
University Law School.
Mr. Mikhail Kazachkov
Mr. Kazachkov is a
Senior Advisor of Telmarc and has been involved with Telmarc investments for
over fifteen years focusing on Russian and Eastern European opportunities.
Mr. Kazachkov was educated in St Petersburg at the University and majored in
nuclear and atomic physics.
Upon graduatio n he immediately entered the prestigious Academy of Sciences
and began publishing papers in western peer-reviewed journals. Mr. Kazachkov sought to emigrate from Russian but was imprisoned for a long
period as a dissident resulting from the request.Mr.
Kazachkov founded Freedom Channel, an organization to use the most effective
means to influence events in emerging Russia. Under his leadership,
numerous television programs were produced, earning several coveted awards.
He
did considerable work in telecommunications, electronic media and other aspects
of digital revolution: from leading GIST, Inc., a widely recognized expert
company in East European/Russian telecom, to helping introduce VoIP telephony to
Russia via a Telmarc sponsored investment, to organizing and chairing high level
conferences, to consulting the Russian parliament, to drafting national telecom
policy. The National Institute for Information Society he founded continues to
be a permanent feature of the Russian think tank community. He joined CPMG
management consultants after the telecommunications ventures. He then founded
Overseas Engineering, and begin working in the area of technology transfer. A
not-for-profit projection has been consulting a top level U.S.-Russia judiciary
exchange program aimed at intellectual property protection. Such exchanges have
involved numerous Russian judges and judicial officials, up to and including,
the Chairman of the Russian Supreme Commercial Court.
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