Global Capital Service Group, Ltd 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.
Subroto Das has spent three decades working across financial and social sectors. During his distinguished career, he has demonstrated a talent for moving deftly and effortlessly across and between the private sector, civil society, government agencies and the world of multinational corporate enterprises. Specifically, he has worked with HSBC, ING, Axis Bank and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority of India. He is currently engaged in M&A advisory and corporate restructuring. Subroto has experience in business development and risk compliance, and is a payment systems expert. His experience as a financial sector regulator is especially important in view of the many opportunities that present themselves to the GCaps team from time to time that fall under the supervision of national regulatory regimes.
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.
James Huey brings to GCaps an important association, with the benefit of reaching markets in China and in other regions (Australia, South-East Asia, and the South-West Pacific). James has enjoyed a long career in international market sectors that have included retail, commercial, corporate and international banking, and in activities such as mergers, acquisitions and divestments, and due diligence, with a special skill in liaising with foreign counterparties and other advisers. An important extension of Mr. Huey's experience is the ability to advise and provide discreet "on-the-ground" services for western companies seeking to establish relationships, or to target investments or acquisitions, in China. His personal professional experience includes time spent in various functional roles in Australia and offshore. He was General Manager, for New South Wales, of Westpac Banking Corporation, leading a business with more than 10,000 employees and $19 billion in assets. James has held directorship positions with both public and private firms, and is a member of a number of professional and industry associations.
Christopher Kenny managed the private Via Solar USA LLC. He has "lived, eaten, and breathed" alternative hybrid energy solutions. His VS 1000 mobile hybrid solar generator was the first device that Chris' company produced, and it came just in time for Hurricane Sandy that hit near his New Jersey home. During that natural disaster, the ViaSolar generator was donated to the local police department to keep the power on. Beyond his business mission to improve the technology and keep pace with new advances, Chris is also head of the non-profit Preservation Earth Project. With "PEP" Chris and his sons traveled to the post-earthquake stricken Haiti - on two occasions - and brought light, power and clean water to people suffering unimaginable conditions. Chris expanded his manufacturing operations to Mississippi, and - now residing in Florida - is closer to the site of much of the natural damage suffered in the Southeastern United States, as was seen with Hurricane Harvey. Early in his company's life, Chris and his engineers introduced smaller hybrid generators and also developed remote solar lighting for municipal and highway signs. In more recent years, Chris added integration of wind turbine and battery containment systems for mobile generation. He has experience on Wall Street with such firms as Jefferies, Morgan Stanley and UBS, and is registered with FINRA 7, 24, 25, 63 and 65 for Corporate Finance, Trading and Sales. With his background in energy and the securities business, in which he has developed some important trading algorithms, Chris Kenny has a good feel for both financial and practical solutions to improve the human condition.
Phil Fricke is an experienced investment banker and securities analyst, with more than 25 years specializing in automotive and diversified industrial companies at LF Rothschild, Goldman Sachs, Prudential Securities, CIBC World Markets, and Wachovia Securities. In those positions, Phil performed detailed financial statement analyses, conducted personal onsite meetings with CEOs, CFOs, and senior operating management, produced economic analyses, developed financial forecasts, assessed absolute and relative stock valuations metrics, wrote detailed economic and company reports, and advised companies – including organizing “road shows” and meetings between company executives and institutional investors. Phil has been a sought-after guest speaker at the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, FT of London, CNN, PBS, JD Powers, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was recognized as an “All-Star” analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine and was appointed to a Commerce Department committee to assess and make recommendations having to do with improving U.S.-Japanese automotive parts trade. Phil has served on the boards of both private and public companies, and currently Local.com Corp. His board of director experience includes both audit and corporate governance committee work. He consulted MI Developments, Inc., with a brief to expand that firm's portfolio of industrial real estate properties to Central and Eastern Europe. He is principal of his own advisory firm, PKF Financial Consultants, Inc. Phil was an officer in the U.S. Army and holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and Economics from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Phil Fricke's addition to the GCaps team brings us the benefits of a new dimension in the world of corporate finance, securities investments, and capital markets dynamics.
Cary Aminoff
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Henry Behnke
Subroto Das
The Hon. Francois-G. Bidault
Robert Harris
James Huey
Jeff Keily
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Chris Kenny
Jerry Kindrachuk
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Marc Wolf
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Phil Fricke
Prof. Moshe Gluzman
Henry Behnke brings operational, sales and financial experience in the renewable energy sector, and in particular the thin film photovoltaic, instrumentation and process equipment industries. He has successfully completed business turnarounds with a strong record of building shareholder value by focusing on business fundamentals in the areas of sales, marketing and customer satisfaction. With a unique mix of chief executive and chief operating officer credentials, Henry's experience has taken him around the globe, most recently to Asia as Non-Executive Chairman for China Solar Energy, a publicly-listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He provided technology and strategy consulting services to both China Solar and its subsidiaries in the U.S., China and Taiwan. Henry holds a BS in Engineering and an EMBA, both from Rutgers University. In addition to solar energy, he has a background in agribusiness..
Subroto Das is a popular speaker on financial topics in seminars and roundtables concerning capital markets and pension administration, which he regards as a personal specialty. A FinTech enthusiast, he came to GCaps at an opportune time when many initiatives in finance and capital markets often were marked by elements of a growing digital ecosystem. Subroto holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University with a focus on economic policy management. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and an Executive Masters in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He has a FIrst Degree in Science from the University of Calcutta.
Robert Harris has held advisory positions with companies and professional organizations in the private, public and non-profit business sectors. During a career that has spanned nearly 30 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 specialized 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 that process.
Jeff Keily marks an important addition to the GCaps Energy Unit. His career experience falls into the specific area of energy systems and related equipment and services. Jeff spent more than fifteen years as a member of Tri-Power Trading Company, Inc. He continues to respond to opportunities in the energy sector where, among his past activities, he handled sales of such products as Bosch and Denso Industrial ignition components, as well as industrial parts for equipment of Cummins, Waukesha, and Caterpillar engines as well as Ariel cylinders. At GCaps, Jeff has intermediated sales and service contracting for a large Indian gas compressor company - among the largest in the world. In the oil and gas sector, Jeff has acted on both buy- and sell-side transactions in heavy equipment, both in production and distribution. Jeff has worked with current GCaps associates in the promotion and marketing of customized chemical solutions for owners and operators of oil wells, bulk storage tanks, and pipelines where problems are found in congestion of paraffin and asphaltenes that reduce product or incur heavy remediation costs. That activity has seen Jeff working with current GCaps associates in international applications that included Malaysia and parts of South America, on occasion supplying/advancing costs of field engineering teams in Southeast Asia.
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 Kazakhstan. In Pennsylvania and Romania, Mr. Kindrachuk was VP International Operations for Delta Mutual. Formerly Senior Tax Manager at Ernst & Young, Jerry is past President of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs. In addition to his work in support of GCaps, Jerry was a principal managing member in two environmental technology initiatives: biodiesel feedstock development and waste-to-energy innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Marc Wolf has been the Chief Development Officer for the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC-NY), which serves as the proactive central coordinating and resource organization for the Jewish community in the eight-county New York metropolitan area. Marc has more than a decade of fundraising experience in both Jewish and military not-for-profits, including the national Medal of Honor Museum, Navy SEAL Foundation (NSF), Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and UJA-Federation of New York (UJA). He is active in various philanthropic and civic activities, including American Friends of Israel Navy SEALs, Jewish War Veterans, the Jewish Theological Seminary's Center for Pastoral Education, NSF, JFNA and Texas A&M University Hillel. Marc is a former U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer assigned to Naval Special Warfare, and earned a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University, a graduate certificate from the George Bush School of Government and Public Service and an MBA from Washington University.
Prof. Moshe Gluzman is a New York-based business consultant specializing in international business development, education and philanthropy. Coming from a family of educators, he started his career by earning a Master’s Degree in Engineering from Tomsk Polytechnic University, affiliated with Moscow Institute of Aircraft Engineering in Russia, specializing in aeronautics, electrome-chanical engineering and telecommunications. He was a professor of automation and expert systems at Riga Polytechnic University in Latvia while working as an aircraft systems designer at Tupolev Aviation. Moshe then immigrated to Israel to join the Israel Aircraft Industries and attended his doctoral studies in applied linguistics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem as well as holding a research position in engineering terminology at the Academy of Hebrew Language. His career then moved to representing a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Italy, Austria, the USA and Canada while enhancing his education with doctorate studies in international finance at the City University of New York. Also in New York, Prof. Gluzman worked in business development with The Davidson Group and National Patent Development. He consulted with major corporations on international business development, such as Internet Edge International in New York, (Co-Founder Ethnic Marketing and International Business Development Associate,) CSI, Inc. and Active International, New York (Media Barter and International Corporate Barter programs development.) Moshe was a Joint Venture Partner who co-founded StarTrade Fund, a social-responsible mutual fund, investing in corporations that are publicly traded in the US financial markets. He established expertise in the following areas: Strategic corporate partnership programs development, based on dedicated public stock investment structures; Strategic Partners identification, Joint Venture structuring and Investment Programs implementation.His extensive philanthropy involvement is as the Chairman of the Peter Sheehan Diabetes Care Foundation, and his continuing cutting-edge educational and theatrical involvement through his co-founding of Abeema.org and its Theatrical Elements exclusive teaching pedagogy, real estate, business development and international growth.