Team

Mitchell I. Gordon
Chief Executive Officer

Mitchell Gordon has worked as a corporate executive, investor and investment banker for over 35 years.  He has held numerous leadership and executive positions including CEO, Adgile media Group, President and CFO, Cambridge Capital Acquisition Corporation (SPAC//NASADAQ:CAMB), President of Morpheus Capital Advisors, Member of the Office of the President and CFO, Interpool Inc. (NYSE:IPX), President, Atlas Capital Partners, Partner and Global Co-Head of the Transportation Investment Banking Group at Salomon Smith Barney, Senior Vice President and Head of the Transportation and Auto Investment Banking Groups, Furman Selz, Vice President, Needham and Company and Manager of Strategic Planning, ABC Broadcasting.

He currently serves on the boards of Mesa Airlines, OceanTech, Adgile Media Group, and Merchants Fleet.  Mr. Gordon has also served on the corporate boards of Ability (Tech), Interpool (Specialty Finance/Leasing), Indigo Aviation (Specialty Finance/Leasing), Almedica (Health Care Services), Cambridge Capital Acquisition Corporation (SPAC), and the Global Advisory Board of NedShip Bank (Banking).  Mitch has served on numerous not-for-profit boards including the Environmentors Project and Student Sponsor Partners.   He currently serves as Chairman of the Hunter College (CUNY) Neighborhood Advisory Board. and on the board of HIAS, the world’s oldest refugee rights organization.  Mr. Gordon is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship as well as transportation industry and capital markets issues.

EDUCATION
Washington University in St. Louis: BSBA
Harvard Business School: MBA

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ADVISORS

Eric Friedman
Special Advisor

Eric Friedman has experience as an advisor, investor, and operator. He began his career in investment banking in the Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse. He then worked in growth-oriented private equity investing at New Mountain Capital. Most recently, Eric led East Africa operations for GiveDirectly, a leading NGO providing cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty.

EDUCATION
Yale University: BA in History with Distinction, Magna Cum Laude

Richard Cohen
Senior Advisor

Richard M. Cohen, is President and Managing Principal of Richard M. Cohen Consultants Inc.  Rich often serves as temporary CEO or CFO of companies in distressed situations.  His professional experience includes biotech, financial services and diversified media.

His extensive executive experience includes General Media Inc. (President), Websoft Systems, Inc. (CEO, CFO, CAO),  Managing Director of Strauss Capital Partners LLC and Encore/Novation, 20/20 GeneSystems, Inc. (Founder, CEO), SCILEX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CFO), Spherix Incorporated (CFO), Spectrum Group International Inc.(CEO), North South Holdings Inc. (CFO), CorMedix, Inc. (Interim CEO, President and CFO),  Alliance Bioenergy Plus, Inc. (CFO), Co-founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors LLC , an accounting and outsourced CFO firm, Dune Energy Inc. (CFO), Newtown Lane Marketing Incorporated (CEO, CFO, CAO), Cross Canyon Energy Corp. (CFO), among others.

Rich’s numerous Board of Director positions include or have included: CorMedix, Cross Media Marketing Corp., Helix Biomedix Inc.,  Pinpoint Recovery Solutions,  Dey & Co., Flaghouse Communications, Greg Manning Auctions, DSS Technology Management, Websoft Systems,  Interlink, 20/20 GeneSystems, Full Spectrum, China Filtration Technology, China SLP Filtration Technology, Inc.,  Document Security Systems, Inc, Dune Energy Inc., Assembly Biosciences, Inc., Universal Travel Group,  Direct Markets Holdings Corp., Immune Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Redirect, Inc., and Newtown Lane Marketing Inc. 

EDUCATION
Wharton School of Business: BS
Stanford University: MBA
CPA

Pamela Meyer
Senior Advisor

Pamela Meyer is the nation’s leading expert on deception detection and is CEO of Calibrate, the world's leading company providing training in verbal and non-verbal cues to deception, facial micro-expression interpretation, advanced interrogation techniques, information elicitation and inside threat mitigation to financial institutions, insurance providers, law firms,  human resource professionals and other corporate government and not-for-profit clients. Ms. Meyers wrote the bestselling book “Liespotting”.   Pam’s TED talk on spotting liars ranks in the top 15 with over 25 million views.    

EDUCATION
Washington University: BA
Claremont Graduate University: MPA
Harvard Business School: MBA

Bruce Nobles
Senior Advisor

Bruce Nobles is the President and Founder of The Renwick Company, an aviation and transportation consulting company focused on restructuring and profit improvement in financially distressed companies.

Over the course of his more than forty-year career in the transportation industry, Bruce is credited with leading the successful restructuring of Hawaiian Airlines, developing and introducing operations for the Pan Am Shuttle and for creating and implementing operations for the Trump Shuttle.  Bruce was most recently Chief Executive Officer of FMI Air Ltd. a successful regional startup airline in Myanmar. Previously he was advisor to MIAT the national carrier of Mongolia. Bruce was previously the President and CEO of Air Jamaica Limited, the national airline of Jamaica. During his second term at that carrier, he spearheaded a turnaround in the financial and operational results of the airline and assisted in the successful divestment of the Company by the Government of Jamaica. He was also the President and Chief Operating Officer of Air Jamaica from 2002 to 2003.

Previously, Bruce was President and CEO of Radiant Energy Corporation, the developer and marketer of InfraTek, an innovative infrared, aviation de-icing technology.

He served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hawaiian Airlines, where he successfully developed and implemented a comprehensive operational and financial restructuring of the company that resulted in a successful reorganization of the Company through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.

Bruce held executive positions at Pan American World Airways, Continental Airlines, Republic Airlines and American Airlines and is recognized as a leader in the aviation industry.

EDUCATION
University of Southern California: BSBA

David Hoffman
Senior Advisor

David Hoffman is an expert in consumer products, with over 30 years of experience investing in and managing companies both in the US and globally.  He has lead investments in dozens of companies, has served on the board of over 20 companies and has restructured numerous companies both as a principal and an adviser.  He has extensive experience in cross border transactions, particularly with Western Europe and China and has deep consumer products sector knowledge and experience. He has been a partner of Cathay Capital Private Equity and Charterhouse Group, where he was responsible for fundraising, origination and oversaw the firm’s pool of operating partners.

EDUCATION
Bucknell University: BA
Columbia University: MBA

David Herman
Senior Advisor

David Herman has extensive corporate finance, investment, strategy and restructuring.  He has executed over $20 billion of financing & advisory transactions including syndicated loans, high yield and investment grade bond offerings, private placements, IPOs, equity offerings, convertible bonds, MLPs, SPACs, project finance, interest rate and currency swaps, hedges and M&A advisory work,  His restructuring focus has been in trucking, marine transportation (shipping) and general industrial. 

He was a senior banker at Credit Suisse, where he ran the firm’s Maritime Investment Banking Group.

EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania: BA
Columbia University: MBA

Michael Culver
Senior Advisor

Michael Culver has been a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, investment banker  and professional athlete.  He is an expert in both financial and operational restructuring.  MIchael has served as CEO of Skip Barber Racing School, First Aviation Services (NASDAQ: FAV) and National Airmotive Corporation. He has acted an interim CEO/COO of numerous companies and has extensive turnaround experience. 

In addition, he was a member of the Canadian National Alpine Ski Team and was ranked 15th in the world. He also raced open wheel and sports cars for 12 years, competed in the 24 hours of Daytona and is a licensed pilot with a multiengine rating.

EDUCATION
McGill University:  BA
Harvard Business School: MBA