Company Executives

David De Leeuw

David De Leeuw

Chairman of the Board

David is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Lion Cao Asset Management LLC ("Lion Cao"). Prior to co-founding Lion Cao, David co-founded Lion Chemical Capital ("Lion") in 2002 with his brother Peter De Leeuw. Lion is a private equity firm investing in chemical and affiliated businesses. Prior to co-founding Lion, David was a co-founding partner of McCown De Leeuw & Co. ("MDC"), a middle market, leveraged buyout private equity firm, which has managed more than US$1.2 billion over 4 funds and invested in over 40 platform companies. Prior to co-founding MDC, David founded and was the Head of leveraged acquisitions group at Citibank, and was previously at W.R. Grace & Co., and PaineWebber, where he helped in the opening of PaineWebber's Tokyo office. David was a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and/or Director of several NYSE and NASDAQ companies as well as numerous private companies. He is currently on the Board of Local Matters, Inc., Excel Polymers LLC and Lion Copolymer LLC, both Lion portfolio companies. David has participated in over 50 private partnerships, including private equity funds, hedge funds, fund-of-funds, and direct investments into companies. He has also helped as a founding General Partner in the launch of two hedge funds.

David has been an active alumnus serving on several committees for both Columbia Business School and Lafayette College. David has recently been a guest lecturer at Harvard University. David received his Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School and Bachelor of Arts degree from Lafayette College, both in the US.

Alex Mashinsky

Alex Mashinsky

CEO, Founder & Director

Alex is an inventor and a serial entrepreneur who founded several succesful companies. In 1996 he founded Arbinet-telexchange (NASDAQ ARBX )and served as the company's CEO until Jan 2000. During 2004,Arbinet achieved the best first-day close IPO performance.

Combining his unique talents as a business strategist and a technological innovator, Alex is continuing to invent new technologies in the communications field. A featured speaker at over 120 international communications conferences and TV interviews, and a recipient of 17 domestic and international patents relating to communications infrastructure and signaling, Alex has received numerous awards for innovation including the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology medal and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation (presented in Geneva at Telecom 99).

Alex has proven his ability to identify the winning trends, build a powerful intellectual property portfolio and bring together winning teams to build world-class companies. He has raised over one hundred fifty million dollars to help position his startups as leaders in their fields.

Adrian Alexander

Adrian Alexander

President, Founder & Director

Adrian was born in Romania and immigrated to the US in 1964 with his immediate family. He received a MS in EE from New York University in 1970, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1972. Initially he worked as a telecommunication engineer for Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, and for the next 10 years subsequent to graduating from Harvard in 1972, he worked for two major investment banks and a major international executive search/consulting firm.

For the past 25 years he has been involved in numerous private equity/venture transactions, and he served as a junior co-founder of Corporate Express, a start-up, which became a $ 4 Billion major international distributor of office products, and sold in 1999 to BT International (Holland) for $ 2 Billion. Some of the investments required direct operating involvement, as such, he served as the CEO of Sport-About, a chain of 50+ franchised sporting goods stores, Founder and President of Phoenix Advisory New York Residential Real Estate Fund ($ 50 mil assets), President of AMI, LLC, a company set up to consolidate the diagnostic imaging (over $ 10 billion) business in the US. Adrian is fluent in English, Italian and Romanian, has good knowledge of French and understands Spanish. He is a US Citizen, has been married since 1996 and has two children.

Terence Talerman

Terence Talerman

CFO

Terence, an accomplished professional with proven international success, is a qualified charted management accountant (ACMA) who attained his professional qualifications in the UK. Terence served as CFO and Board Member for the Western operations of the Japanese group companies of Amana Inc., a company listed on the Tokyo stock exchange (www.amana.jp). Amana West was a media Company specializing in photographic image productions for B2B businesses. Amana West had companies located in USA, UK, Germany, France, and Italy and operated in other countries through an extensive network of agencies. During his time at Amana, Terence was instrumental in the change from an analog business to a digital business, transacting end to end e-commerce business on the web. Terence was responsible for implementing strong accounting procedures. When Amana Inc. went public in 2004, Terence was one of the critical members of the Japanese IPO team. The Amana Western Companies were spun off and sold in 2005 for over $50 million. Prior to Amana, Terence worked for 8 Years at Toshiba International Europe Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corp. (www.til.toshiba-global.com) Terence graduated from the University of Leeds in the UK with a BS in Biophysics.

Eli Hirschenboim

Eli Hirschenboim

VP of Operations

Eli was born in Israel and came to the US in 1975. He attended Brooklyn College and obtained a BS degree in Accounting. In 1983 he founded Sabra Car Service with his wife and father-in-law. The company started with 2 vehicles, grew rapidly,and the name was changed to Tri-State Luxury Limousine Service in 1997. The business was sold in 2005 with over 110 vehicles. Eli was retained to assist in the daily operations of limores.net.

Danny Bukshpan

Danny Bukshpan

VP of IT

Danny has 14 years of experience in engineering and management in the Telecom and Software industry. Before joining LimoRes.net in 2005, Danny served as Director of Product Marketing at Veraz Networks between 2004 and 2005. Between 1998 and 2003, he was the co-founder and CTO of Comgates a VoIP Softswitch vendor, and between 1995 and 1998 he was a senior software engineer at Arbinet-telexchange.

Danny holds a BS degree in Industrial and Management Engineering (with a major in Information Systems) from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

Riz Husain

Riz Husain

Executive Vice President of
Sales and E-Commerce

Riz entered the transportation sales field during his college days. He is a multilingual communicator whose sales background is strengthened by extensive International Travel for professional and academic development. He speaks Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and has understanding of German and Portuguese.

Career includes notable, progressive experience in the transportation and hospitality industries. Interested in the Airline Industry since childhood, he started his career with Eastern and Continental Airlines after college, holding positions as Airport Manager and Area Sales Manager. He moved on to the Hotel Industry and climbed quickly up the ladder, in sales and hotel management positions in boutique, private and major chain hotels such as the Radisson. Thereafter, he transitioned to the logistics side of the transportation industry and held senior managerial positions for cargo companies in sales and marketing, such as TNT Airways and GEO Logistics.

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