Management

Greg Meyer.  Managing Director

Prior to working with DVDXpress, Mr. Meyer was CEO and founder of MBSAuction LLC, a financial trading platform geared towards institutional participants in the mortgage-backed securities market.  Prior to that, Mr. Meyer was a Vice President in Fixed Income Trading at Lehman Brothers where he specialized in mortgage-backed securities trading.  Previous experience includes positions with Merrill Lynch and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, as well as independent consulting to publicly traded supermarket chains for Non-Foods and Pharmacy merchandising and revenue enhancement. Mr. Meyer holds an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and a B.A. in Economics and French from Dartmouth College where he graduated summa cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Jason Tanzer, CFA.  Managing Director

Most recently, Mr. Tanzer was a Senior Investment Associate with Hawk Holdings, LLC, a private equity firm that provides capital and operating expertise to emerging companies in the new media, entertainment and communications sectors.  He previously worked as a Management Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers where he provided strategic business advisory services to an array of Fortune 500 clients.  He is an honors graduate of Emory University (B.A. in Political Science) and New York University’s Stern School of Business (M.B.A. in Finance) where he was awarded the Price Fellowship for Entrepreneurship.  Mr. Tanzer holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Arun Mathur.  Director of Marketing & Operations

Most recently, Mr. Mathur was the CEO of Offshore Internet Solutions, a pivotal provider of offshore IT and IT enabled services.  Mr. Mathur developed the initial groundwork for the company including the formulation of its business and revenue models, assembled a technology network and series of joint ventures valued at $100 million, appointed key leadership, led the business development efforts, and brought the firm to profitability in its first year. Previously, Mr. Mathur was the co-founder of World Beer Direct, where he established the company’s early e-business presence and built a logistics system and technology infrastructure equipped to process over 50 million products annually.  Mr. Mathur completed the profitable sale of World Beer Direct in May 2000.  Mr. Mathur received his Bachelors of Science in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.

Scott Kaplan. Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Kaplan has 14+ years of hands-on experience in IT consulting, technology management, and Enterprise-class Software Engineering R&D.  Most recently, Mr. Kaplan was VP of Engineering for Accruent, the leading Real Estate Contract Management Solutions provider to the Fortune 1000.  Mr. Kaplan was instrumental in providing technology diligence for three Accruent funding cycles totaling $27 million and two successful technology-backed IP acquisitions. Previously, Mr. Kaplan served as a Regional Practice Manager and Principal Architect for Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN), the leader in Enterprise Content and Web Portal Applications to the Fortune 5000. He helped ramp the Professional Services organization through 125%+ post-IPO quarterly growth, monitored strategic national and regional technology partners, and led client engagements for several high-profile e-commerce website launches. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Tulane University School of Engineering and was awarded the prestigious Dean's Scholarship while earning a dual M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from the University of Colorado. In addition, Mr. Kaplan holds a pending business process patent in the field of Insurance Risk Management.

Charles D. Ruttan.  General Counsel

Mr. Ruttan has been admitted to practice law in New York, Oregon and Texas. He received his undergraduate degree in accounting from California State University and his J.D. degree from Willamette University College of Law. He was a corporate and real estate partner in the Portland Oregon law firm of Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue where he focused on corporate and business counseling and business and real estate transactions for nationally recognized companies such as Philip Morris Companies, Carnation, Miller Brewing Company and Safeco as well as numerous small and medium sized regional companies.  Mr. Ruttan left Dunn Carney in 1993 to become the Chief Executive Officer of a golf equipment manufacturing company in Houston Texas. In 1996 he purchased a ladies footwear design and manufacturing company in New York City. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Alan Eisenberg.  Advisor

Alan Eisenberg is Managing Partner of Glocap Funding LLC, a boutique investment banking firm located in New York.  Prior to establishing Glocap Funding, Alan was CEO of Vending Consolidators of America, Inc. ("VendCon"), a company he established to roll-up the highly fragmented soda and snack vending industry.  He identified the industry as appropriate for consolidation, wrote the business plan, arranged private equity and senior debt, and ran the company on a day to day basis.  Under his guidance, VendCon grew to become the largest pure vending company in the New York tri-state area.  VenCon was purchased by a large international foodservice company in March 2000 resulting in an internal rate of return in excess of 40% to shareholders.  Prior to establishing VendCon, Alan was Managing Director of MeesPierson Inc., a large Dutch investment bank that at the time was wholly owned by ABN AMRO Bank.  During his seven years at MeesPierson, Alan was involved in the origination, negotiation, structuring and private placement of more than $900 million of equity and debt securities.  Prior to joining MeesPierson in 1990, Alan was a Second Vice President at JP Morgan Chase, where he worked in the North American Corporate Finance Division and the Special Investments Division.  Alan graduated Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1985.

Merrill Dean.  Advisor

Mr. Dean started his business career with the Walt Disney Company.  During his 11+ years in management with Disney, Mr. Dean served as President of Disney’s Music Division, Head of the Worldwide Publishing Division, founded the new area of “animation art cell marketing”, initiated Disney’s involvement in the field of Direct Marketing books, records and book clubs, and was Latin American Marketing Manager for the International Motion Picture and Television Sales Division- Buena Vista International.  Mr. Dean later founded and was CEO of Televisa Intl Marketing Inc.( a US subsidiary of Grupo Televisa SA), and acquired the Columbia Picture’s Spanish Film Division.  In 1995, Dean brought Warner Brothers and the Bavaria Film Studios together in the creation of the first European “Warner Movie World” theme park- a $450 million project located in Germany.  Recently, Mr. Dean served as one of the founders of Adforce, Inc., an Internet ad serving technology firm with a market capitalization of $1.5 billion when acquired in January, 2000. 

Mr. Dean studied Business Administration at UCLA and holds and MBA in Marketing and a BS in Business.

Andrew C. Kessler.  Advisor

Mr. Kessler was most recently a Vice President in Media Investment Banking with Morgan Stanley where he executed over $14 Billion of equity, debt and M&A transactions in media and communications including Cable/Broadband, Advertising, and Publishing.  Deals included: Charter ($3.7 Bn IPO); Cox ($500MM monetization); Insight ($648MM IPO, $200MM high yield); RCN ($593MM restructuring)- Broadband Technologies:  Core member of team to develop coverage strategy for emerging interactive television industry, ReplayTV, Inc ($125MM sell-side); Into Networks ($30MM private placement); TVN ($200MM units offering)- Advertising:  Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. ($361MM convertible notes)- Publishing:  The Peterson Companies ($1.4Bn sell-side); Viacom ($4.6Bn sell-side of Simon & Schuster); Ziff-Davis ($1.9Bn various sell-side M&A assignments).  Mr. Kessler managed/created valuation models including DCF, comparable companies, precedent transaction, asset break-up, and leveraged buy-out analyses.  He managed/developed comprehensive financial models for numerous transactions including high-yield, senior loan funding, equity and equity-related offerings, private equity investments, LBO’s and M&A.  Mr Kessler holds a B.A. in Economics and African Studies from the University of Virginia and an MBA with Distinction from New York University.