Rounsevelle Schaum , Director, is the Chairman of Newport Capital Partners, Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in the private placement of equity and convertible debt securities. In such capacity, Mr. Schaum has directed and organized over thirty private equity placements and served on the board of directors of numerous public and private emerging growth companies.
Mr. Schaum serves on the board of directors of Gales Industries, Inc., Magic Web, Inc. and Turboworx, Inc. He is also a director and chairman of the audit committee of the Quigley Corporation and a director and chairman of the board for Mosaic Nutraceuticals. Mr. Schaum was a founder and director of Streaming Media Corporation, chairman and CEO of BusinessNet Holdings Corporation and has served as a crisis manager for Heller Financial Corporation. He served on the District Advisory Council of the U.S. Small Business Administration; as chairman of the California Small Business Development Corporation, a private venture capital syndicate; and was the founder and managing director of the Center of Management Sciences, a management-consulting firm servicing multinational high technology companies and government agencies, including NASA and the Department of Defense. |