Stanley Wunderlich
Chairman & CEO
swunderlich@cfsg1.com
The founding partner of CFSG1, Mr. Wunderlich brings to his clients nearly 40 years of experience in Wall Street activities. A specialist in corporate development and the formation of triangular reverse mergers, he has participated in numerous initial public offerings, private placements of equities and institutional private equity offerings. Mr. Wunderlich helped launch two previous investment banking firms, the Renaissance Group and Krieger, Wunderlich, Fialkov, Scheinman & Company. He has also served as Managing Director of J.T. Moran & Co., as a Registered Principal at Dunhill Equities, and as Managing Director at Robert Todd Financial. He is noted for the close relationships he has forged with key brokers/dealers, venture capitalists, institutional investors, research analysts, media personnel and other global private equity source.
Listed in Who’s Who in Executive Management, Mr. Wunderlich is a former member of LIFT (Long Island Forum for Technology) and a former member of the American Stock Exchange Arbitration Panel. He holds a B.A., L.L.B. and most major credits toward his M.B.A. in Executive Management. A proud former member of the United States Marine Corps, he is a two-time “Ironman” World Championship finisher.

Bonnie Barrett Stretch
Executive Vice President
bstretch@cfsg1.com
Ms. Stretch brings extensive experience in strategic corporate communications, positioning companies and clarifying their growth potential to the investor community. Her clients have ranged from financial services companies, telecom associations and emerging technology businesses to healthcare organizations, consumer goods and services, fine arts organizations and publishing. An active member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), she has won numerous awards for editorial excellence and holds a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.

Adam Brooks
Senior Vice President
abrooks@cfsg1.com

Mr. Brooks comes to CFSG1 with a strong background in management, finance and technology. Prior to joining the Company he served as Vice President, Financial Advisor and Regional Technology Coordinator for Morgan Stanley, New York, where he co-managed a $100 million financial portfolio for non-institutional clients. As Regional Technology Coordinator for the Northeast Division of Morgan Stanley, he trained executives and employees throughout the region in the use of proprietary and non-proprietary software and technology applications. In addition, he was responsible for leading over 1500 sales and marketing employees to increase productivity and revenue. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from the State University of New York at Old Westbury, New York.

Marisa Leigh
Marisa@cfsg1.com
Marisa Leigh brings her strong background in healthcare, journalism, public relations, fine arts and marketing to CFSG1. Over the past few years, she has written extensively for newspapers, online journals and magazines throughout the U.S. and has covered various topics, including: healthcare, politics, medicine, religion, and social, national and international issues. In addition to currently being an editor at one of South Florida’s newspapers, she also ghostwrites for authors, and specializes in press releases and marketing for businesses. She majored in Chemistry and minored in English at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Meryl Orshan
Executive Director
info@cfsg1.com
Ms. Orshan has served CFSG1 since 1994 and currently handles operations and support services, marketing materials and brochures, group marketing and seminars and various phases of account management and development. Ms. Orshan received a BA degree from Hofstra University in Administration and Marketing.

Joseph A. Mansi
Advisor
jmansi@cfsg1.com

Mr. Mansi has over 30 years’ experience in the field of public and investor relations. A former journalist and corporate communications executive, Mr Mansi served as a Managing Partner at KCSA Public Relations, where he specialized in investor relations representing both small and large cap corporations. He is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and has lectured widely on investor relations.

Gilbert D. Raker
Advisor
graker@cfsg1.com

With more than 20 years’ experience in business development, Mr. Raker is Chairman, President and CEO of SEMX Corporation, where he successfully led the company from a single-facility, privately-held business to a public corporation with a worldwide presence. Previously, he was a Managing Director and Partner of Ditri Associates, Inc. (DAI), a private investment company, and Executive Vice President of CPC Holdings/Kenmare Capital Corporation, another private investment company, where he negotiated and structured acquisitions, oversaw financial management and controlled the portfolio of several operating businesses.

Robin L. Smith, M.D., M.B.A
Senior Advisor
rsmith@neostem.com

Prior to being appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of NeoStem, Inc., (NEOI.OB) an adult stem cell collection processing company, Dr. Smith has acted as a senior advisor and investor to both publicly traded and a long term storage company as well as privately held companies including but not limited to China Biopharmaceutical Holdings, Phase III Medical, the Madelin Fund, HC Innovations inc, Navstar Media Holdings, Strike Force, Red Lion Partners and Health Quest, where she has played a significant role in restructuring and or growing the companies. Additionally, she assists multiple investment banks including Capital Growth Financial, Duncan Capital and Wellfleet Partners where she evaluated companies in healthcare, media and emerging technologies. Dr. Smith also serves on the Board of Trustees of the NYU School of Medicine Foundation (becoming the NYU Medical Center Board) and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors for the New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases where she is heads up new development efforts and board member recruitment. She was also recently appointed to the Chemotherapy Foundation Board of Trustees, The New York Theatre Ballet and Choose Living.

Prior to these activities, Dr. Smith served as President & Chief Executive Officer of IP2M. During her term, the company was selected as being one of the 10 fastest growing technology companies in Houston. IP2M was sold to a publicly traded company in February of 2003. Before joining the IP2M management team, Dr. Smith was Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer for HealthHelp, Inc., a National Radiology Management company which managed 14% of the health care dollars spent by insurance companies such as Aetna, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and Humana to name a few.

Dr. Smith received her post-graduate training in surgery at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and obtained her medical degree from Yale University where she received the Janet M. Glaslow Memorial Achievement Citation, was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and chosen to be a Farr Scholar. Dr. Smith was one of the first graduates of the U.S. Quality Algorithms Managed Care Fellowship between U.S. Healthcare and Thomas Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Smith's interest in medical management led her to pursue a Masters Degree in business administration at the renowned Wharton School of Business where in sixteen months she completed a double major in health care administration and operations management as well as made the Directors List. As the creator of the bimonthly Managed Care Clinical Corner editorial, Dr. Smith was appointed to the editorial board of Disease Management. Dr. Smith serves on the Houston Technology Advisory Board in addition to the GlaxoSmithKline Advisory Board and holds memberships in National Association of Managed Care Physicians, American College of Physician Executives, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Neuroscience, and the Association for Chemoreception Sciences. Additionally, Dr. Smith was a consultant to the Department of Health Policy and the Clinical Outcomes Department at Thomas Jefferson Hospital and the Utilization Department of Methodist Hospital. Dr. Smith has been published extensively dealing with marketing, computer usage in office settings, clinical practice, management and data mining.

Michael D. Miness,
Adviser
mminess@sprynet.com
www.MinessConsulting.org
Michael Miness is currently Founder and Managing Principal with MDM Development, providing consultative services related to healthcare facility programs and business development for early stage companies with new healthcare technology product lines. 

Mr. Miness is the former owner and C.E.O. of the Glenhaven Organization in New York, comprised of the 262-bed Glengariff Health Care Center in Glen Cove, and the 120-bed Port Jefferson Health Care Facility in Port Jefferson.  Mr. Miness came to Glengariff in 1983 with a background in urban planning and community development and was the “architect” in the financing, restoration and expansion of the historic Poplar Hill Mansion located on the Glengariff premises. Earlier in his career, Mr. Miness received a Masters in Economics from New York University in 1973, and served as Deputy Director of Urban Renewal for the City of Glen Cove, followed by a position as Executive Director of the Huntington Community Development Agency.

For the past 30 years Mr. Miness has been committed to providing the finest healthcare to the community and special needs populations on Long Island. With healthcare costs increasing at an alarming rate and diminished reimbursement by the public sector, Mr. Miness responded to this evolution of the healthcare system in New York State by pioneering the development of short- term subacute care services in the nursing home setting.  This expansion of services required private financing, managed care revenue sources and an aggressive marketing campaign, resulting in Glenhaven developing a managed care network of payors, providers and patients.   As a result, Glenhaven had become models of excellence in the healthcare field, offering not only traditional long term skilled nursing care, but the most advanced techniques in short- term rehabilitation, behavior management, dedicated Alzheimer’s care and a full spectrum of medically complex services with high quality care at a much lower cost than the hospital setting.

With the rare qualities of a no-nonsense, dynamic businessman with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. Miness has earned the reputation among his peers as an individual of integrity, intelligence and vision.

Edward W. Werz,
Adviser
EWerz@aol.com
Edward W. Werz has over 40 years of experience in direct marketing, product development, education and publishing.  He is an entrepreneur, business writer and consultant, advisor, and expert in niche marketing.

Mr. Werz holds a master’s degree in psychology from The New School for Social Research and has worked as teacher, psychologist, VP of Marketing, CEO and President of a publishing firm, President of a direct marketing advertising agency, and trade publication columnist.  He is the author of three best-selling business marketing books, including Letters That Sell

Mr. Werz founded and built The Guidance Channel, an education marketing and media company which he sold to a billion-dollar public company in 2004.  He recently bought back the company and now acts as its Publisher.  Mr. Werz is the founder of National Youth Violence Prevention Week, an education event celebrated by over a million students each year, with thousands of schools and youth organizations participating.

He currently serves as an advisor to a number of companies, including US Media Partners, Report-It.com, Ventana Fine Properties, and Consulting for Strategic Growth 1.  He helps these companies with strategic planning, product development and line extensions, M & A, niche marketing, internet development and general business.

David Herman,
Advisor
David is an accomplished career entrepreneur.  He has founded five companies in his twenty-year career as a leader in the media, internet, technology and mobile industries. 

Most recently David was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Juice Wireless.  David led and managed the company day-to-day, was responsible for its financing, the building and development of its senior management team and was the company’s primary dealmaker.

Prior to Juice, David founded 2B Enterprises and was its Chief Executive Officer.  2B is a media portfolio company with equity holdings that include urban record label and lifestyle brand, Drama Family Media, mobile gaming company, Sennari Games and internet media company, RockShow, among others. 

Prior to 2B, David was the President of London-based, Network of the World, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Century Cyberworks’ (PCCW).   NOW was PCCW’s global internet, mobile, television and broadband service.

Prior to PCCW, David founded the much heralded Hollywood Stock Exchange (www.hsx.com) and was the company’s CEO and President. HSX was sold to bond trading leader Cantor Fitzgerald in July 2000.  In 1994 David founded internet company incubator Origami Media and Entertainment.  Origami held positions in 23 different companies.  While some of the companies where sold independently and others merged, the majority of the Origami portfolio was sold to America Online’s Greenhouse Project.

While in law school, David founded, built and sold AnnaXannA Entertainment, an independent production company he sold to Polygram Entertainment in 1993.  David holds a JD from the Cardozo School of Law. He is currently a member of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and sits on the board of the MMA’s Governance Committee.  David is also a member of the Advertising Club in New York City.



 
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