Janine Kutliroff
CEO and Founder, Omek
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Eliyahu Haddad
Eliyahu Haddad joins the Omek board with over 15 years of senior-level experience in managing, financing, launching, and selling companies in the high-tech industry. He has been a pioneer and evangelist in bringing to market cutting edge Internet applications that are currently being used in Wall Street trading environments as well as global media companies. He has played a key role in taking two technology companies public as well as selling two companies to major international large-cap companies. Mr. Haddad has had personal responsibility for generating over $150 million in revenues as well as raising $40 million in private equity. He has negotiated commercial as well as financial contracts with companies such as Disney, Universal, Sony, Panasonic, Sumitomo, and NTT. Mr. Haddad was the founder and president of Centerseat, Inc. which brought to market the first truly interactive video platform. As a philanthropist, Mr. Haddad raises and distributes over $25 million in charity every year to worthy causes in Israel. Eliyahu started his professional career as an investment banker in Morgan Stanley’s Mergers & Acquisitions group where he specialized in transactions involving media companies. He is a graduate of Columbia University, winner of the National Science Achievement Award in Theoretical Physics and concert violinist who studied in the Julliard School of Music under Prof. Lewis Kaplan.
Peter E. Raskind
Peter E. Raskind is a consultant to banks and private equity bank investors, bringing his thirty years of commercial banking experience to provide perspective on market opportunity, strategy, operations, asset quality and management. Previously, Raskind served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of National City Corporation. Raskind began his career with Harris Bank where he held positions in corporate finance and cash management services. Mr. Raskind has served as Director for numerous organizations including United Community Banks, Inc., a publicly held $7 billion Georgia bank holding company, Visa USA and Visa International, and Inovant, L.L.C. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Consumer Bankers Association, and been a member of the Financial Services Roundtable. Mr. Raskind earned both a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance from Dartmouth College.
Daniel A. Rubenstein
Daniel Rubenstein is the founder and managing member of Chestnut Street Capital Group, LLC, which provides growth capital and advisory services to early-stage companies. Daniel was a Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Finance Group at Bear, Stearns & Co. from 2006 through 2008. Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Daniel had a 20-year career in the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch & Co., most recently as Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Group from 2000 to 2006, with previous stints in the Real Estate, High Yield and Restructuring, Merchant Banking and Mergers and Acquisitions groups. Over the course of his investment banking career, Daniel served clients across a wide variety of industries and executed transactions across virtually all product categories. Daniel is a magna cum laude graduate of Swarthmore College, where he received a B.A in political science and economics in 1984. He received an MBA with distinction from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.
Neil Wyant
Neil Wyant is the Managing Director of Everett Partners, Ltd., the venture investing arm of the Kanfer family and the Managing Director of Fir Hill, LLC, a venture services business. Neil is an experienced entrepreneur and commercialization expert who has been involved with technology commercialization for more than 25 years. His experience ranges from the protection of intellectual property, licensing, and new venture formation, to prototype demonstration and the sale of new products and services. He has worked with companies in a variety of industries including advanced imaging, health services, alternative energy, and food technology. His work experience also includes more than six years as a manager of the licensing and venturing arm of the University of Chicago. Prior to this, he held various sales and marketing positions at a multi-national industrial gas company. Neil holds BS degrees in chemical and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago.