Business

Michael Cirafesi

Loren Danzis

Loren is a partner at Fox Rothschild. He advises established and start-up companies on corporate law issues, including venture capital financing, acquisitions, strategic alliances, executive compensation and securities compliance. Loren is a founder of Delaware Crossing Investor Group and runs the screening committee for Delaware Crossing. He has been investing in privately held companies for 10 years. Loren previously worked as an attorney and angel investor in Silicon Valley, and now lives in Doylestown, PA, where he grew up.

Larry Evans

Larry A Evans is the founder of Virtual Board of Advisors, an organization that assists early stage companies to exceed the success that they envision. Larry has made angel investments in several dozen early stage companies since 1998. He was one of the NY Angel charter members; Program Manager for LORE in Philadelphia. He currently serves on the board of three of the companies in which he invested. His investments include bio techs, service, software, and high techs. Larry was one of the founders of Right Management (NYSE:RHT) which was sold to Manpower (NYSE:MAN). He has an MBA from Stanford University; was a Nuclear Submarine Naval Office. He is a member of: the Union League of Philadelphia; the Princeton Club of NY; and the Nassau Club of Princeton.

Eric D. Kanter, M.D.

Eric D. Kanter, M.D. is a practicing ophthalmologist with sub-specialty expertise in vitreo-retinal diseases and surgery. He is an active life science angel investor and analyst performing due diligence for DCIG, serves as a member of the screening committee for Mid Atlantic Bio Angels in New York, and is a consultant to the pharmaceutical and financial industries on ophthalmic and neuroscience drug and device development. Dr. Kanter has been a principal investigator in multiple early and late phase interventional clinical research trials involving patients with age-related macular degeneration and diabetic eye disease. Dr. Kanter is a founding member and a member of the Board of the Short Hills Surgery Center in Millburn, N.J., the largest privately owned surgery center in the state. A graduate of Columbia College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Kanter completed his graduate medical training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He was awarded a Fight for Sight research fellowship at the Yale University Eye Center.

Michael J. Kelly

Katherine Kish

Katherine Kish is Executive Director of Einstein’s Alley, an economic development initiative promoting Central New Jersey as the destination for technology based business. Kish is also president of MARKET ENTRY, INC., a strategic marketing and business development firm, working in the business and non-profit worlds specializing in launching or repositioning products, services, and enterprises. Her corporate background was in broadcasting, publishing and technology. Kish is a fellow of Leadership NJ 2003, was named to the NJ Biz Top 50 Business Women in New Jersey and was honored as Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts and Humanitarian of the Year by a chapter of the American Conference on Diversity. She is active in and serves on boards of many civic and philanthropic organizations. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College and a master’s degree from Antioch University, with additional graduate work at Williams College and the University of Hawaii.

R.J. Lewis

R.J. Lewis has served the pharmaceutical industry for his entire career. He is the President and CEO of eHealthcare Solutions (EHS), the first vertical Internet advertising network in healthcare, which he started in 1999. Today, eHealthcare Solutions is a Premium Advertising Network serving both advertisers and publishers in the digital healthcare marketplace. In part to solve his own Network’s growth challenges, Mr. Lewis co-founded Ad-Juster in 2007. Ad-Juster is a thriving technology company based in San Diego, CA, focused on online discrepancy management and reconciliation. Prior to starting eHealthcare Solutions, Mr. Lewis served as Vice President of Sales for Physicians’ Online (now part of WebMD/Medscape) and was responsible for hiring and training the pharmaceutical-focused sales force. R.J. Lewis earned his MBA in 1999 in Marketing and Information Systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Steve Ludmerer

Steve Ludmerer has a distinguished career building, growing, and improving the performance of chemical, advanced material, clean energy, medical device and consumer products businesses. Currently, Steve and his colleagues at Ludmerer & Associates support and guide early stage companies, university spinouts, corporate venture teams, venture capitalists and corporate customers. Previously, Steve spent twenty-five years in a variety of management roles at DuPont Company and Union Carbide/Dow. He spent three years resident in Asia building DuPont’s Asia Pacific operations and subsequently led three materials technology businesses (diagnostics, instruments, electronics). Steve has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and an MBA from Drexel University. In addition to being a member of DCIG, Steve is also an active member of the Licensing Executives Society, the Product Development and Management Association, the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group and serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

Bruce Maryanoff

Michael Murphy

Michael has over 35 years of engineering, sales and marketing of power systems solutions for mission critical applications experience. Michael currently serves as CEO of DVL Automation, a regional and nationwide leader in the field of Verifiable Sustainability of energy management systems in LEED certified buildings. He currently serves on the board of directors of Copperhead Digital and is a member or Alumni of several leading organizations. Prior to DVL Michael worked at Detroit Diesel Allison Corp, Penske GM Power and Liebert New York.

Jeffrey Nicholas

Jeff is a partner at Fox Rothschild. His practice areas include securities and corporate finance, securities reporting and disclosure laws, and corporate transactions. Jeff is the Chair of several groups within Fox Rothschild: the Technology and Venture Finance Group, the Securities Practice Group, and the Bucks County Corporate Department. He regularly deals with issues ranging from aiding emerging technology and life science companies to serving public companies as well as regulated entities under the securities laws. Jeff received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and his B.A. in religion from Williams College.

Benjamin David Novak

J. David Owens

David is an experienced leader in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry with extensive expertise in the commercialization of biopharmaceuticals and biologicals. He co-founded a venture-backed company (TriGenix) and has also formed new business units and driven growth into existing large franchises for several biopharmaceutical companies. Most recently, David built the Hospital & Surgical Products Division at King Pharmaceuticals, and prior to that held multiple franchise management roles at Aventis Pharma, including Vice President of Global Marketing and Medical Affairs. Earlier in his career, David had commercial roles at Genentech, Merck and Abbott Labs. He is also a limited partner in the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group (MAG) Fund and a Business Advisor to the University City Science Center QED Program.

George Schoenstein

George has more than 20 years of sales, marketing, and management consulting experience working for both large technology companies and startups. He is currently Vice President of Demand Generation for CompuCom, a tier one provider of IT outsourcing and technology services, where he also leads digital marketing and inside sales. Prior to CompuCom, he led global field marketing at CSC, DataSynapse (acquired by Tibco), and BearingPoint. He has an investment focus on technology software and services, cloud computing, and social business startups. George has an MBA from Drexel University and BA from Stockton College.

Mehul Shah

Anand Shukla

Anand is a proven leader with broad track record in product management, engineering, program management and operations. Working in companies ranging from startup to Fortune 150; industries served include wireless communications, consumer electronics, semiconductor design & fabrication and optical communication.

Elizabeth Sigety

Liz is a partner at Fox Rothschild. She focuses her practice on business, finance and securities transactions, including private placements, public offerings, secured transactions, mergers and acquisitions, franchising and a wide variety of general corporate work. Liz co-chairs the firm’s Franchising Group and is also a member of the Securities Group and Technology & Venture Finance Group. Liz serves as a Board Member of Doylestown Hospital as well as The Village Improvement Association of Doylestown, PA. Liz received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. cum laude from Yale College.

Jeff Snellenburg

Jeff has over twenty years of entrepreneurial, consulting and financial experience. He currently works with and advises select start-up, emerging and later stage companies providing financial and operational management expertise including funding strategies, due diligence, project analysis, and other business related services. Jeff is the Chairman of the PA Angel Network, which supports the angel groups and angel community in Pennsylvania. Jeff owned and operated a regional leader in the fire protection, security and communications service industries, which he in turn sold to pursue other avenues. His initial success was in the financial services industry. Jeff is a graduate of Shippensburg University where he earned a B.S.B.A. in finance and holds a M.B.A. from Philadelphia University where he was a member of the Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society.

Antonio Tedesco

Mr. Tedesco works at Tandigm Health as the Vice President of Information Systems & Technology. Prior to Tandigm, he worked at Accolade as the Director of Business Solutions. He also has a background in enterprise consulting with CSC, a top-tier consulting, systems integration and outsourcing firm. There he was a technical architect specializing in application integration, data modeling, and data warehousing. Mr. Tedesco has proven leadership skills and extensive experience throughout the entire application development life cycle.

Louis Wagman

Dick Woodbridge

Dick Woodbridge is a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP and a registered patent attorney. He has authored or co-authored approximately 840 U.S. patents and filed over 1100 U.S. Trademark applications and well as numerous foreign counterparts over a 40 year career in intellectual property. Dick earned his degree in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University and his J.D. at George Washington University while working as a Patent Examiner in the computer field at the U.S. Patent Office. He has also been elected and served as Mayor of Princeton Township and as Council President in Princeton Borough. Dick’s interest in angel investing is a natural outgrowth of his multifaceted role in helping high tech companies launch new businesses.

Dave Wurz

Dave is an expert in the Automatic Identification industry with over 20 years of field experience. He is currently a consultant with Prime Vision, a company that specializes in real time optical character recognition software. Before joining Prime Vision, Dave was the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Accu-Sort Systems, where he ran the research and development team that created high-speed cameras, laser scanners and in-motion dimensioning systems. Dave received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with distinction from Cornell University and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dave is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bucks County Historical Society (Mercer Museum and Fonthill).

Nick Pahade

Angel Investor, Advisor, Operator