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Arthur J. Maxwell, Chairman, is Founder, President and Chairman of Affordable Interior Systems, Inc. one of the largest business furniture manufactures in the United States. The Massachusetts based company was founded in 1989, sold to a Fortune 500 company in 1996 and was reacquired in 1999. Affordable is the recipient of the 2003 SHINGO award, which is referred to as the Nobel Prize of manufacturing. Mr. Maxwell was formerly the managing General Partner of AIS Venture Fund LP, a multifaceted investment vehicle. He holds positions with USOP Realty Group LLC, Harwich One LLC, Comax Partners, AIS Funding LLC, and AIS Equity Holdings LLC. In 1998 Maxwell completed the successful sale of Sovereign Capital Corporation which focused on Real Estate Development and Mortgage backed securities. Mr. Maxwell has served on the Board of Directors of publicly traded US Technologies, an incubator of early stage technology ventures, as well as Kruger Brent, S. A., a multinational holding company headquartered in Luxembourg with executive offices in Switzerland. In 2004, Mr. Maxwell led the buy out of Pearl Street Capital Group, a new asset class focused on liquidity for the private equity space and leverage in the sub debt investment category. He currently serves as an active advisor to a handful of early and medium stage enterprises. Maxwell attended Boston College from 1976-1979 where he majored in Political Science and Economics. He resides in Sudbury, Mass., with his wife and three daughters.
Eric Danziger, Chief Executive Officer and Director, serves on the Board of Directors and is responsible for the company vision, planning and overall strategy of WhiteFence. Mr. Danziger, who has been featured by CNN, CNBC, The Bloomberg Report, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, INC Magazine and New York Times among others, has a vision to raise the standard and level of the customer experience. Prior to joining WhiteFence, Mr. Danziger served as Chief Executive Officer of ZipRealty, Inc., a company that provides home sellers and buyers with innovative real estate solutions, from 2001 through July 2006. His life long career in the hospitality industry serves as the premise for understanding the importance and means to providing premier customer service. On June 17th, 2005, he was honored as a Northern California Ernst and Young (E&Y) Entrepreneur of the Year for 2005 in the category of Real Estate / Hospitality / Construction. This award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. In addition to his responsibilities with WhiteFence, Mr. Danziger also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Kimpton Hotels.
Previously, Mr. Danziger served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Carlson Hotels Worldwide, a multi-billion dollar business that includes over 723 hotels in 64 countries around the world, where he was responsible for the growth, development, forward strategy and operations of all hotel and resorts for three leading hospitality brands - Radisson Hotels Worldwide, Regent International, and Country Inns and Suites. In addition, he brought in two new brands to the Carlson Hotels system, Park Inns and Park Plaza, as part of a Real Estate Investment opportunity with outside partners.
Prior to heading Carlson Worldwide, Mr. Danziger was President and CEO of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide and served as President of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, where he directed rapid growth that culminated in a successful IPO. He has received numerous industry awards and honors. Danziger has also served as the Chairman of the American Hotel and Motel Associations Strategic Planning Group, a Trustee of the American Hotel and Motel Federation, a member of the prestigious IREFAC (Hotel Industry Real Estate Council) and ULI. Prior to Wyndham, Mr. Danziger held a variety of executive and operations positions with Doubletree Hotels and Opryland Hotel. He began his career in 1970 at the Fairmont Hotel inSan Francisco.
Kamal Advani, Director, is a managing director at Internet Capital Group. Prior to joining ICG, Mr. Advani was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Advanta Business Cards, a leading issuer of credit cards to small businesses. Since 1994, Mr. Advani served in various other capacities at Advanta including vice president of corporate development and vice president of investor relations at Advanta Corp. and chief financial officer of Vehicle Information Network, an early stage company that Advanta had invested in. Earlier in his career, Mr. Advani was a senior manager in the financial advisory services group at Coopers & Lybrand, where he provided financial consulting services to a broad range of companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, financing transactions and business reorganizations. He also served as an audit manager at Coopers & Lybrand.
Doug A. Alexander, Director, an original member of Internet Capital Group's (ICG) advisory board, Mr. Alexander joined the company full time in September 1997 as Managing Director. Mr. Alexander has had many roles at ICG including CEO of WiseWire Technologies, which was successfully sold to Lycos; Chairman of VerticalNet through its IPO; CEO of ICG Europe; and CEO of Mobility Technologies. Currently, Mr. Alexander has overall responsibility for corporate strategy at ICG. In addition to these roles, his primary focus at ICG has been to sponsor and oversee investments in several partner companies that have included Blackboard (Nasdaq: BBBB), VerticalNet (Nasdaq:VERT), eMerge Interactive (Nasdaq: EMRG), Arbinet (Nasdaq: ARBX), WiseWire, Linkshare, CreditTrade, StarCite, Mobility Technologies, and Investorforce. Mr. Alexander currently serves on the boards of LinkShare, Investor Force, CreditTrade, StarCite, ICG Commerce and CommerceQuest.
Prior to joining ICG, Mr. Alexander co-founded Reality Online in 1989. Reality Online was an early innovator in the development of award-winning financial planning tools and online services aimed at the individual investor. With the advent of the Internet, Mr. Alexander transformed the company into a leading provider of Internet solutions to the retail brokerage industry, and then sold the company to Reuters in February 1994. Over the following three years, Mr. Alexander became a key contributor to Reuters' many Internet initiatives and a frequent speaker on the Internet and its impact on the financial services industry. Prior to co-founding Reality Online, Mr. Alexander was a partner with Strategic Management Group, a corporate training firm and three-time Inc. 500 company.
Joel Katz, Director, is the immediate past Chairman of the American Bar Association's Entertainment & Sports Law Section, and is widely recognized as a leader in the Entertainment field. He represents many Fortune 500 companies, more than 50 artists and many of the world's best-known producers, record labels and concert promoters. He has significant experience negotiating complex entertainment and financial arrangements, including a multi-year television "Awards Show" contract for a national non-profit entertainment company, a "Grammy CD" compilation arrangement between "Big 6" record companies and a non-profit entertainment company, and many contracts between music superstars and recording companies. Mr. Katz's involvement in professional and community endeavors also include: Music Industry Representative, State of Georgia, Film, Video and Music Advisory Commission, Appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue, 2004; General Counsel, The Recording Academy (NARAS); Former Executive Entertainment Counsel, The Recording Academy (NARAS); Former Chairman, Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI); Former Chairman Emeritus and Chairman, The Recording Academy (NARAS); Board of Trustees, NARAS Foundation; Special Counsel, Country Music Association; Board of Directors, State of Georgia Music Hall of Fame Authority; Advisory Board, Atlanta Songwriters Association; Board of Advisors, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, 1996; Entertainment & Sports Law Section Member and Chairman, Georgia Bar Association, 1992; Chairman, American Bar Association's Entertainment & Sports Law Forum, 2000-2001; Board of Directors, Entertainment & Finance Law Journal, 1995-1999; Advisory Council, The Music Educators National Conference Board of Directors, T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia Research; Board of Directors, Very Special Arts; General Counsel and Member of the Board of Directors, Farm Aid, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Georgia State University; Commercial Music Program, College of Arts & Sciences; and Chairman, Board of Advisors - America's Junior Miss.
Darren Sandberg, Director, is a Vice President of Operations at Internet Capital Group, Inc. He is responsible for evaluating new acquisition opportunities, providing strategic and financial advice and monitoring the performance of ICG’s partner companies. Mr. Sandberg first joined ICG in 2000, but then left the company in 2003 to become Vice President of Corporate Finance at Broder Bros., Co. He returned to ICG in 2006. At Broder Bros., a highly leveraged distribution company backed by Bain Capital with approximately $1 billion in revenues, Mr. Sandberg was responsible for planning and strategy, various aspects of financial operations and board and bond holder relations. Mr. Sandberg began his career at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he spent 10 years, most recently as a senior manager in the Enterprise Practice. He focused on transaction structuring, due diligence, business valuation and audit and accounting services for middle market technology and service companies. At Arthur Andersen, Mr. Sandberg supervised the diligence on over 50 acquisitions and advised numerous clients on the IPO process. He graduated from Penn State University with a B.S. in accounting.