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Senior consultant, advisor in global corporate finance; corporate and business unit strategy, M&A and marketing in consumer goods, telecomm and e-commerce.
Investor, Director and Chief Strategy Officer, Passlogix; Chairman, the Netherland-America Foundation; Trustee, the Hewitt School; Honorary Board Member, Chair and President, Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York; Member, Harvard Business School Alumni Council. Former Senior Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Founder and Leader, Global Corporate Finance Practice of McKinsey; Co-Leader, McKinsey’s E-Commerce Practice.
University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Candidate and Masters Degree in Corporate and Commercial Law; Harvard Business School, M.B.A.
Ennius Bergsma is a Senior Managing Director with Brock Capital and focuses on Corporate Advisory including Strategic Planning, Valuations and Organic Growth. He also advises clients on general finance matters and e-commerce opportunities.
In his 25 years at McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he was Senior Director, Mr. Bergsma founded and led the Firm’s global Corporate Finance Practice and was Co-Founder and Co-Leader of McKinsey’s E-Commerce Practice. He initiated McKinsey’s Marketing Sciences Practice, led the effort that synthesized McKinsey’s approach to Business Strategy, was a leader of McKinsey’s Consumer and Telecommunications sectors and was core member of the McKinsey Strategy Initiative that crafted the Firm’s priorities. Mr. Bergsma’s client service has focused on the development of new businesses in e-commerce, financial services, consumer goods and telecommunications. He led numerous teams creating new businesses, with values ranging from $500 million to $5 billion. Mr. Bergsma is still associated with the Firm as member of the McKinsey Advisory Council.
Mr. Bergsma helped establish Passlogix’s overall strategic direction and priorities. He joined Passlogix in 2000, but has been involved with Passlogix since its inception as both an investor and advisor.
He is Chairman of the Netherland-America Foundation, Trustee of the Hewitt School, Honorary Board Member, past Chair and President of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York and past member of Harvard Business School’s Executive Council. Mr. Bergsma holds a Candidate and Masters Degree with distinction in Corporate and Commercial Law from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School.
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Former CEO, consumer products companies; branding/marketing expert; former private equity partner and chair of portfolio companies; director of public, private and non-profit institutions.
President, Barnegat Group LLC; Managing Director and Operating Advisor, North Castle Partners, LLC; Director and Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee, Eli Lilly & Co., Ford Motor Company; Presiding Director, Finance Committee Chair, The New York Times Company.
Former CEO, Tropicana; CEO, Nabisco Biscuit Company.
Wellesley College B.A.; Harvard Business School M.B.A.
Ellen Marram is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC and is the president of the Barnegat Group LLC, her business advisory firm. From 2000-2005, she was a Managing Director of North Castle Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in healthy living and aging where she served as Chairman of several portfolio companies. She currently serves as an operating advisor to North Castle and to Physic Ventures, a venture capital firm.
Ms. Marram was President and Chief Executive Officer of Tropicana and the Tropicana Beverage Group from 1993-1998. she transformed the business from a Florida juice company to a market driven, health-focused global juice business,number one in worldwide sales and profits. During her tenure, Tropicana nearly tripled its shareholder value and was sold to PepsiCo in 1998 for $3.3 billion. From 1988-1993, Ms. Marram was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nabisco Biscuit Company where she consistently produced strong revenue and profit growth in a highly leveraged environment. Under her vision and direction the company launched the highly successful SnackWell’s line which pioneered low-fat snacking.
Ms. Marram is a director of Ford Motor Company, The New York Times Company and Eli Lilly and Company as well as several private companies and non-profit institutions.
Ms. Marram received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Charles O. Svenson Senior Managing Director
Investment banker, expertise in energy, alternative energy, project finance and transportation.
Co-Chairman, Investment Committee of Hamilton College; Trustee, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks; Chairman, the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and Adirondack Land Trust; President, Harvard Law School Association of New York City
Former Managing Director, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse); VP, Head of Project Finance, Goldman Sachs; Dewey, Ballantine, Busby, Palmer & Wood
Hamilton College B.A.; Harvard Law School LL.B.
Charles Svenson is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC. The focus of his work at Brock has been private equity and investment banking services related to energy, alternative energy, project finance and transportation.
Mr. Svenson began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer at Dewey, Ballantine, Busby, Palmer & Wood, where he specialized in lease and project financing. He subsequently served as Vice President and head of project finance at Goldman, Sachs & Co. specializing in Lease Financing, Energy and Maritime Transportation. Mr. Svenson was also Managing Director and head of project finance, renewable energy, and maritime finance at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Mr. Svenson is currently serving as Co-Chairman of the Investment Committee at Hamilton College. He also holds a number of positions at various not-for-profit organizations including The Harvard Law School Association, Chairman of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and Adirondack Land Trust, and board member of The Natural Museum of the Adirondacks. Mr. Svenson is a member of both the American and the New York State Bar Associations.
Charles earned a B.A. with highest honors from Hamilton College in 1961 and an L.L.B. cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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Jean D. Hamilton Senior Managing Director
CEO, diversified financial services companies. Operating and investment expertise. Director of public and private companies in insurance, financial services, money management. Director and committee member of non-profit entities.
Currently, RenaissanceRe Holdings Director, First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable Funds Trustee, Chair of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site Investment Committee, and member of the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundaiton Investment Advisory Committee.
Former CEO of Prudential Institutional, EVP of Prudential Financial, President of Prudential Capital, President of Prudential Asset Sales and Syndications, and SVP of The First National Bank of Chicago (now J.P. Morgan Chase).
University of Illinois B.S.; University of Chicago M.B.A.
Jean D. Hamilton serves as a board director and is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC, a full service investment bank providing strategic advice and implementation support. Ms. Hamilton has extensive experience as a board director and in heading companies. She is involved with a variety of not-for-profit organizations.
Ms. Hamilton serves on the board of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. where she has served as Chair and is a member of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee. Also, she serves on the Transaction and Offerings Committees, and has served as a member of the Investment Committee. She also serves on the boards of First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable Funds where she is Chair of the Board Valuation and Liquidity Committee and a member of the Audit and Insurance Committees. Ms. Hamilton is on the Investment Advisory Committee of the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation and is Chair of the Investment Committee for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
At Prudential Financial, Ms. Hamilton served in a variety of management roles. Ms. Hamilton was an Executive Vice President of Prudential Financial, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Institutional, which under her leadership grew in revenues to more than $6 billion. Ms. Hamilton was responsible for evaluating and operating each of the insurance, banking, financial services and real estate businesses within the Prudential Institutional group. Following determination of the strategic fit of these businesses within Prudential and their profit potential, Ms. Hamilton successfully implemented a variety of plans to optimize the value of these businesses. These plans included internal growth, mergers, start-ups, restructurings, sales and discontinuation of various businesses.
Prior to being named Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Institutional, Ms. Hamilton was President of Prudential Capital Group, a private securities asset manager and originator responsible for a portfolio in excess of $20 billion in a wide range of industries and at multiple layers of the capital structure. Prior to holding this position, Ms. Hamilton was President of Prudential Asset Sales and Syndications, Inc., a seller and syndicator of private placement securities, and an entity in whose creation she was involved.
Before joining Prudential Financial, Ms. Hamilton was a Senior Vice President and Head of the Northeastern Corporate Banking Department for The First National Bank of Chicago, now J.P. Morgan Chase.
Ms. Hamilton has a BS degree in Communications from the University of Illinois and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago.
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Former CEO, diversified financial services; professional director; economist; Former Federal Reserve Bank president.
Director and/or lead director, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Eli Lilly, Simon Property Group, Fannie Mae, T. Rowe Price Funds, U.S. Russia Investment Fund.
Former Managing Director, Marsh & McLennan Companies; Managing Director, Bankers Trust; Chairman & CEO, Bank One of Cleveland; President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Treasurer, Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania; Director, TRW, Rubbermaid, British Petroleum, Georgia-Pacific, The Rockefeller Foundation.
Pomona College B.A.; Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.
Karen N. Horn is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC.
Previously, she has served as a Managing Director at Marsh & McLennan Companies, where she was President of Global Private Client Services, providing Risk Management and Insurance services to high net-worth individuals and families worldwide. Ms. Horn was Managing Director at Bankers Trust, Chairman and CEO of Bank One, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Treasurer of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, Vice President and Economist at First Bank of Boston, and an Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
Board and Committee memberships include the Norfolk Southern Corporation,Simon Property Group, T. Rowe Price Mutual Funds, The U. S. Russia Investment Fund, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Eli Lilly & Company, the Council on Foreign Relations, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, TRW, Inc., The Rockefeller Foundation, Rubbermaid Corporation, and Bipartisan Commission on Entitlements.
Ms. Horn has a B.A. from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
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Trevor has over 35 years of experience as a business owner, entrepreneur, investor and senior executive specializing in niche manufacturing, telecommunications, enabling technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and specialty financial services product structuring and financing.
Trevor has over 35 years of experience as a business owner, entrepreneur, investor and senior executive specializing in niche manufacturing, telecommunications, enabling technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and specialty financial services product structuring and financing.
Former roles include founder and CEO of K-Tech Microprecision, a leading international telecom fiber optic component manufacturing specialist acquired by 3M Corporation; founder and Chairman of Auriga Europe, a specialist telecom and datacom accessory products online distributor and educator; and Chairman of the Advisory Board for Exterprise Europe, an enabling intelligent (AI) agent software.
Trevor ran and built his family’s business Stylus Supplies Ltd, into the leading provider of audio components and accessories for vinyl record player needles, pickup cartridges and compact disc optical laser assemblies which led to the diversification into high-performance fiber optic products for long distance telecom and nascent Internet /Broadband global networks.
Trevor is also cofounder of NIW Corporation a trusted specialist in innovative financed estate, business and retirement planning solutions for high net worth individuals, families, business owners, executives and multi-industry professionals in the United States. Over the past 18 years, he has been responsible for helping facilitate $5bn of financing for NIW’s industry-leading range of programs and solutions, including major private and mid-market banks in the US.
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Charles L. Brock Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Director, designated “financial expert” and audit chair of public companies; investment banker; corporate lawyer with operating experience.
Director, B+H Ocean Carriers.
Managed numerous businesses including the twelve subsidiaries of Compton Communications (now Saatchi & Saatchi); Former Publisher and President, Scholastic International, also CFO and COO. Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Sullivan & Cromwell; Director, B+H Bulk Carriers (subsequently, Excel Maritime Carriers) and B+H Maritime Carriers; President, Harvard Alumni Association; President, Harvard Law School Association.
Northwestern University B.A.; Harvard Law School J.D.; Harvard Business School, AMP
Charles Brock is Chairman and CEO of Brock Capital Group LLC. He was a Partner at Carter, Ledyard & Milburn and an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. In the last thirty years, Mr. Brock has served as Director and Audit Chair of five public companies and managed a variety of businesses. He headed the twelve subsidiaries of Compton Communications (now Saatchi & Saatchi) and the five subsidiaries of Scholastic, Inc., where he was also Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer as well as General Counsel.
Mr. Brock is past President of the Harvard Alumni Association, Regent of Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a Trustee of the Appleseed Foundation and on the Board of Visitors and Executive Committee of Northwestern University’s College of Arts and Sciences. He is former Chairman of Guild Hall (museum and theatre) and former President of the Harvard Law School Association.
Mr. Brock received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, his law degree from Harvard Law School and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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