International Advisory Council



Cary Aminoff brings to GCaps broad-based experience in international and domestic advisory assignments for companies in Italy, China, Turkey, and Russia, and with specific industry expertise in biotechnology, financial services, real estate, publishing and communications. He has acted in both entrepreneurial and venture capital roles in his career, and has performed strategic consulting in both public and private sectors.

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Cary Aminoff

 
 
 
 
 
 
Robert Harris holds advisory positions with several companies and professional organizations in the private, public and non-profit business sectors. Prior to his current activities and during a career which spanned 25 years, he served in a variety of management positions on Wall Street with Citibank, Citicorp and its successor, Citigroup. Robert's experience, expertise and background are rooted in finance, product management, fiduciary administration and corporate trust operations. Following his banking career, he was appointed senior vice president with Sheffield Consulting Associates, Ltd., a Bermuda-based firm where he specializes in strategic planning, the implementation of management performance measurement systems and the amelioration of legacy information reporting applications for companies engaged in financial services, telecommunications and alternative energy production. Robert is an expert in the disciplines of the Norton Kaplan Balanced Scorecard and has helped many small and mid-size companies implement this process.

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Robert Harris

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Francois-G. Bidault

The Hon. Francois-G. Bidault is Former Honorary Consul of France in Puerto Rico.  He was French Foreign Trade Adviser from 1991 to 2004. Upon returning to civilian life, Francois settled in the United States and now resides in New York.  Francois has carried on a professional and business activity, with particular concentration in energy projects, large-scale industrial construction, shipping, and consumer products.  He brings to GCaps a broad scope of high-level international business relationships and a wide range of personal expertise and experiences.  We are delighted to have His Excellency as part of the GCaps team, and a member of our International Advisory Council.

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Richard Brand

Richard Brand was most recently with Yorkville Advisors, where he coordinated a number of highly trained oil investment professionals in backing the development opportunities of public companies.  Until joining Yorkville in 2007, Richard was a Managing Director at Prospect Capital Management, a mezzanine debt investment firm focused on industrial and energy companies.  Prior to Prospect Capital, he was a Group Head and Managing Director at Caisse des Depots, where he structured financing transactions for energy, communications, technology and medical companies.  Richard also brings significant experience from his time as the Managing Director of the private placement business at Robertson Stephens, where he was also a member of the Investment Committee.  He has structured and negotiated private equity deals at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, including Merrill's first $1 billion deal.  He received an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from the University of Iowa.


 

Peter Olsen has enjoyed and long and distinctive career both at major financial institutions and as a consultant and entrepreneur.  As a leading industry expert in American and Global Depositary Receipts with Citibank, he played a role in the industry changes that redefined the direction of that business in the 1980s.  Later, while with Deutsche Bank, he was instrumental in that institution's entry into depositary receipt servicing, and was a key member of the team that created the global share form that facilitated the merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation, and the subsequent listing of DaimlerChrysler on the New York Stock Exchange.  Earlier, Peter worked on the creation of a depositary receipt-like form in Argentina that helped bring foreign listings to the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange.  In addition to ADRs and GDRs, Peter has accumulated broad-based experience in global and domestic custody as well as corporate trust services for issuers of debt securities and sponsors of international projects finance.

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Peter Olsen

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Jerry Kindrachuk

Jerry Kindrachuk has combined a background in physics and finance into a distinguished career as an international business manager. He held positions at the CEO and CFO levels with Coca-Cola Almatil in Ukraine, RJ Reynolds and Seagrams in Russia, and British American Tobacco in Uzbekistan. For Tractebel, he was a senior financial manager in Belgium and Kazakstan. In Pennsylvania and Romania, Mr. Kindrachuk is VP International Operations for Delta Mutual. Formerly Senior Tax Manager at Ernst & Young, Jerry is past President of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs.

Sachiko Ohi is Managing Director of Strategic Alternative Investment Logistics LLC and President of Ohi Global Economic & Financial Research Institute in Tokyo. Ms. Ohi is well known for her journalistic work in Japan, having published books on alternative investments and hedge fund risks. She often contributes articles on international finance to major business magazines, a weekly column on Nikkei Net, and is a regular reporter on Nikkei-CNBC "Global Crossing" and NHK Midnight Radio Show. Sachiko is a frequent guest speaker on NHK and TV Tokyo programs.

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Sachiko Ohi