Since 2007, hedge fund manager Ari Glass has found unique investment opportunities in often-overlooked areas of finance and commerce. Ari Glass currently serves as a Managing Member of Boothbay Family Office, LLC. Ari Glass oversees wealth management for high-net-worth individuals and family offices. He focuses on identifying and implementing investment opportunities for clients. He also supervises the Boothbay Hybrid Fund, which combines several trading strategies. The company also provides early capital to various hedge funds.
Ari Glass graduated with honors from Queens College in New York. He began his career as an associate with Prudential Securities and then joined Coopers & Lybrand as a senior associate. He served as the Chief Financial Officer for Vector Capital Management in Norwalk, Connecticut, for two years. In 2000, Glass accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer for Intrepid Capital Management in New York, a Hedge Fund seeded by Soros Fund Management, LLC. Ari Glass raised $2 billion in capital for Intrepid. He also oversaw all business operations of the firm and ran investor relations. In order to recruit talented new portfolio managers to the firm, he launched an entity called Intrepid Associates, LLC.
After seven years with Intrepid, Ari Glass became the President of Platinum Management. In his two-plus years with the fund, they managed $750 million in investments. At Platinum Management, Glass specialized in investing in niche asset classes. He recruited talented traders and co-managed risks and assets for the firm.
In 2008, Platinum spun off Paine Heights Management, LLC. Glass served as President of Paine Heights, which managed a special-opportunity hedge fund, investing in SPACs. Paine Heights has also made a successful investment in the New Jersey Solar Energy Space and reviewed investments in tax liens and non-performing bank loans.
Glass lives in Westchester County with his wife and four children. He is an avid fan of the New York Giants and New York Knicks, about whom he blogs at www.ariglassknicksblog.com.
Over the course of his career, University of Western Ontario graduate Norman Hernick has participated in all areas of real estate development. His more than 25 years of experience in the industry include six years as a licensed mortgage finance specialist. Norman Hernick has coordinated financial transactions for numerous builders and neighborhoods throughout metro Toronto, Ontario, including development, construction, and commercial dealings. He has also gained experience in the renovation and rejuvenation of rental units, adding to his breadth of expertise a thorough understanding of renters' needs.rnrnHis experience has granted Norman Hernick considerable skill in identifying real estate opportunities that fit market needs. His current projects involve the introduction of affordable housing in otherwise prohibitively expensive Toronto neighborhoods. He is actively pursuing such housing in the Mount Pleasant/Bayview and Yonge/Eglinton corridors, coordinating efforts with the public transit system and city government to enhance accessibility of these areas to people with more modest incomes.
With more than one million members nationwide, VetFriends.com offers the largest website of its kind for American military veterans to reconnect. Through advanced people-search functions, VetFriends premium members can quickly search through 10,000 military units to find veterans who may have served in their unit. Veterans with a Gold, Platinum, or Lifetime membership enjoy access to search more than one billion public U.S. records and have the capacity to locate their service friends and family through VetFriends.
VetFriends was founded in 2000 by a U.S. veteran with the goal of leveraging the Internet to support, honor, and reunite fellow veterans and military personnel. The site features reunion postings and dedicated message boards that facilitate online communication among members. Veteran-submitted content is also available on the VetFriends website, encompassing photos, reunion accounts, lingo, and humor from the various branches of the military.
In addition to bringing veterans together, VetFriends maintains a dedicated business directory and a jobs board designed to benefit those who have served their country. This board allows businesses to easily list job openings for veterans, their families, and their friends. The Veteran Job Network allows visitors to browse approximately 5 million postings by location, company name, and job keyword. Local job feeds give veteran members who are logged in customized web alerts on open positions as they are posted.
VetFriends is proud to provide informational resources for families of veterans on how to retrieve service records and medals. Members of VetFriends also have access to exclusive discounts from the nation’s largest Internet outlet for U.S. military pride collectibles and items. To access the full range of U.S. veteran and military personnel-focused services and products, visit VetFriends.com for more information.
Falmouth Inn in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, offers a variety of golf packages to its guests. The hotel's area has 10 different championship caliber golf courses, including Ballymeade Country Club, Falmouth Country Club, Farms Neck, Quashnet Valley Golf Club, Crosswinds Country Club, and Brookside Country Club. Located in communities ranging from Martha’s Vineyard to Mashpee, the courses offer discounted and preferred tee times to guests at the Falmouth Inn. The hotel’s golf packages include tax but not gratuities and can be modified to provide breakfast all week long and dinner on Saturdays.
Non-golfers can find plenty to enjoy in the hotel’s area as well. Falmouth Inn sits close to 28 miles of coastline, 12 public beaches, miles of bicycle and multiuse trails, and access to attractions such as Woods Hole and the Cape Cod Canal. Falmouth Inn also offers discounted rates on excursions aboard the Liberte clipper ship, free parking for guests traveling to Martha’s Vineyard aboard the Island Queen Ferry, and assistance in arranging sport fishing expeditions. Falmouth Inn has proven particularly popular with students from Harvard Law School, many of whom have chosen to patronize it during school trips. Prior guests posting on its Facebook page describe the hotel as “very quiet with a cool view,” “one of the best values I have ever stayed in,” and “clean, comfortable, [and] conveniently located to town.”
Dedicated to supporting the community it relies on, Falmouth Inn contributes to a number of local charity efforts. It is one of the major sponsors of the Cape Cod Baseball League and has assisted fundraisers at local churches and food drives. Falmouth Inn also maintains a strong commitment to assisting with military causes.
Colleen Murphy, a sales and marketing executive, has built a solid career over the past 20 years. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University, Colleen Murphy embarked on her career by accepting a position as an account executive with Adams Business Media in Cathedral City, California. She was promoted to Group Sales Manager shortly thereafter. She was responsible for managing a staff of five employees, and instituted incentives and rewards for employees once they reached specific revenue goals. After a number of years in this position, Murphy received a promotion to Group Publisher. In her new role, she worked to improve the incentives for the sales staff further in order to increase the overall profit for the company. She also collaborated with trade shows and expos to promote the firm and its clients.
In 1998, Colleen Murphy used her experience with Adams Business Media to form her own independent consulting firm, Millennium Marketing Group, and contracted to her former employer as the Midwest Advertising Independent Representative. She consulted with clients to enhance their advertising in print and online media outlets and thus improve their visibility in the marketplace. On average, Murphy had a 17 percent yearly increase in revenue while managing her own firm.
In 2009, Colleen Murphy switched gears and accepted a position as Midwest Sales Executive for CPC Pathology in Arlington Heights, Illinois, where she worked to expand the client base for her employer. During that time, she increased annual sales by more than 20 percent and significantly improved the branding of the lab.
Most recently, Murphy has worked as an Independent Representative for CryoPen, Inc., presenting the latest technology in cryosurgical systems to physicians.
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