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Venture Association NJ Luncheon - Value Drivers & The Entrepreneur's Dilemma

Date 09/21/2010 - 11:30am - 2:00pm
Location Morris County
Address Hanover Marriott, 1401 Rt. 10 E, Whippany, NJ
Category Luncheons
Description Frank J. Graziano, Angel Investor, Managing Partner, Monmouth Venture Partners, LLC & Managing Director, Golden Seeds Value Drivers & The Entrepreneur's Dilemma Frank Graziano has more than 25 years of financial, operating and strategic transaction experience as a business owner, investment and merchant banker, and corporate executive. He has worked in project finance and derivatives at Bank of America, and helped found structured finance and cross border equity businesses at Nikko Securities that advised sovereign borrowers and leading U.S. Internet, technology, media and consumer products companies on financing opportunities in Japan. He was part of the team that took NTT DoCoMo and Oracle Japan public. Frank left Nikko Securities to launch a private equity fund and soon thereafter acquired a distressed consumer electronics mail order retailer, joining the company as CEO. He returned the business to profitability and eventually sold it to a strategic acquirer. He joined boutique merchant bank Recca & Company, focusing on interim executive roles at its portfolio companies, and structuring principal investments in distressed situations. While there Frank led the successful acquisition and reorganization of Harvey Electronics, serving as its interim CEO until the company emerged from Chapter 11. Frank was also a senior executive at Mail.com and its successor company EasyLink Services, helping to raise late-stage venture capital and then take the company public. He held leadership positions in various functional areas - including Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Strategy & Corporate Development - launching four new businesses that grew to become a third of the company’s revenues, and completing several merger, acquisition, divestiture and strategic investment transactions in the U.S., India, China and the U.K. in the areas of Internet infrastructure, mobile telephony, software, and technology-enabled services. He led two out-of-court debt restructurings for Mail.com after the Internet bubble burst and during its transition to EasyLink Services with a new business model. More recently Frank served as Chief Revenue Officer at Internet security technology company Comodo where he led successful efforts to build an inside sales organization focused on small-to-medium businesses and to launch an enterprise sales initiative targeting large corporate accounts. He currently is the founder and Managing Partner of Monmouth Venture Partners, a merchant bank that provides strategic advisory, M&A, and capital formation services to emerging growth companies across industry sectors. Frank holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in Chemistry/Business from the University of Scranton where he graduated summa cum laude. He is the senior co-president and also a director of the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation, and the largest alumni club of Columbia Business School in the world, with over 1,500 members. An active private investor, Frank is also a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel investing group that focuses on early-stage investments in women owned and operated ventures, providing these entrepreneurs with strategic business advice as well as access to funding and the tools to enable them to build successful companies.
Contact Clara Stricchiola
Contact E-mail clara@vanj.com
Contact Phone 973-267-4200, Ext. 193
Contact URL www.vanj.com
 

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