Mr. Kleiman founded Shoreline Pacific to address what he saw as an unfulfilled funding requirement for growing public companies. Since its founding, Shoreline Pacific has raised nearly $2 billion for over 80 companies principally involved in resources, alternative energy technologies, biotech, medical diagnostics, telecommunications, the Internet and more. For the 20 years prior to Shoreline Pacific, Mr. Kleiman designed and implemented business and financing strategies for new communication technologies, principally pay television and home video. He founded The Kleiman Company in 1979, one of the leading packagers of pay-television programming in the U.S. Earlier, he was Vice President, Programming for Home Box Office, where he developed and negotiated the initial feature film package with the major U.S. film studios; Senior Vice President, Cable Division of Warner Communications, Inc.; and, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Filmstar, Inc., arranging financing for film and television projects with foreign corporations, overseas funds, and commercial and merchant banks. Mr. Kleiman holds a Master's Degree in Industrial Administration from Yale University. He was co-founder and Executive Director of New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. He has taught courses at New York University's School of the Arts; guest lectured at Harvard University, the University of Virginia, Yale University, and the University of Chicago; and served as a special consultant to the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television.