Dodi Bashan -- Media Buying
Dodi Bashan is Vice President of Sales and Marketing for American Movie Classics and Women's Entertainment Television. She has more than 20 years of experience in network and cable television. She previously held senior positions at the NBC Owned/Operated Stations Group; Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc.; and Landmark Communications. Her client roster includes sales and marketing professionals in Fortune 100 companies, such as: Best Buy, Citibank, Disney/ABC television, Wal-Mart and General Mills.
Dan Cavalli -- Education Industry Sales
Dan Cavalli has more than a decade of experience in education industry sales and marketing. Most recently he was Vice President of the School Division at Knoweldge Adventure, the company renowned for its award-winning JumpStart, Math Blaster and Reading Blaster software brands. Previous experience includes 7th Wave Consulting, Leapfrog SchoolHouse, The Learning Company and Dorsling Kindersley Publishing.
Pat Cosentino -- Finance and Systems Control
Pat Cosentino, an attorney and CPA, serves as LEC's financial officer. She has spent more than 20 years providing business advisory and organization development services to small businesses, start-up enterprises and non-profit organizations. Pat received her JD from John Marshall Law School and was certified as a CPA in 1981.
Bruce Fox -- Corporate Counsel
Bruce Fox is a member of Neal Gerber Eisenberg's Corporate and Securities, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. His practice includes serving as corporate counsel and guiding clients through private equity and venture capital transactions, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, private placements and other financing and commercial transactions.
Scott Jordan -- Investor Relations
Scott Jordan has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and financial industries. Most recently he was a vice president with Sanford Bernstein, a world-class asset manager and research organization. Previously, he held a series of senior executive positions with pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations, including five years as director of business development at NeoPharm, a small-cap oncology biotech firm.
Malcolm Neumeyer -- Software Architecture and Development
Malcolm Neumeyer has consulted in information technology for the past 11 years in diverse industries, ranging from pharmaceutical and education to banking, finance and insurance. He has served as business analyst, infrastructure architect, software developer, software and system architect, and project manager. He served as the system architect in the development of BrainWare Safari.
Jim Sandino -- Consumer Marketing
Jim Sandino, founder of The Sandino Group, is a veteran direct-response marketer with extensive experience in direct marketing, advertising and public relations. He has successfully supported both large and small consumer packaged goods and health care companies, including The Coca-Cola Company, Time Inc., Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Merck and Novartis. His background includes roles at Y&R, Saatchi & Saatchi (Klemtner) and DMB&B (Medicus).
Paul Schaafsma -- Intellectual Property
Paul Schaafsma founded his firm, NovusIP. LLC, after leaving Forey & Lardner to concentrate on the procurement and commercialization of technology rights. He has extensive experience in all phases of intellectual law practice, including patent prosecution, patentability and infringement analysis. In addition to his law degree, he holds a BS in Engineering from Purdue Unversity and an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Entrepreneurial Guide to Managing Intellectual Property.
Jill O'Mahony Stewart -- Public Relations
Jill Stewart is president of Stewart Communications, Ltd., an 18-year old marketing communications and event management firm. She oversaw all aspects of the Last Acts campaign, a multi-million dollar project dealing with en-of-life care, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson foundation. Other clients include the American Medical Association, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the American Dental Association, the Bill Moyers' Public Affairs Television, the Chicago Rehab Network and Stay Well Productions. Prior to founding her own firm, Jill worked with Burson-Marsteller Public Relations.
Richard Sutter -- Consumer Direct Response
Richard Sutter is CEO of Marketing Resources Network, Inc. He has owned or directed several companies in over 30 years in the direct marketing business, including Glick Enterprises, The Good Sound Factory, Hansen House, Kool Jazz Records, Gala Production, T. Vegas Songs, Sutter/Walls Associations and Fun-Way Productions. His firm has been instrumental in innovative marketing campaigns such as "Where There's a Will There's an A; Rembrandt: Dazzlingly White; BluBlockers; Consumer Challenge; and the Australian Tourist Commission: Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie.
Ellen Wesley -- Financial Analysis
Ellen Wesley is currently the Senior Director of NexGen Power, LLC. from 1984 to 2003, she held numerous executive positions at Citigroup, specializing in the financial analysis of acquisition targets in the large corporate entity space. She has extensive experience in treasury, financial analysis, strategic planning and all phases of new product launches, from funding, advance systems specifications, compliance and audit to operations implementation.
