Mr. Holmes brings extensive expertise in the financial management and operation of technology-based companies, with executive-level experience ranging from emerging start-up companies to major corporate enterprises. He is the former chairman and CEO of Time Warner Interactive, where he was responsible for developing emerging technologies into successful new products and services for the commercial market. He previously held a variety of executive and financial management positions at Time Warner and Warner Communications, including senior vice president of technology for Time Warner. Mr. Holmes also served as the chief liaison between Time Warner and the financial community, and spent the first twelve years of his professional career in the investment banking business.
Mr. Wang is President of U.S. Summit Company, a marketing and distribution company headquartered in New York City and operating throughout the Far East. It is part of an affiliated group of privately held companies with interests in oil refining, liquefied petroleum gas distribution, real estate, food importing and other businesses. Mr. Wang is a Trustee of the M.I.T. Alumni Association and Member of the M.I.T. Corporation, and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School.
Mr. Gher is the retired Chief Investment Officer of Coldstream Capital Management, Inc. in Bellevue, Washington, which he co-founded in April 1996. Since graduation from Eastern Illinois University in 1973, he has been the head of a multi-billion dollar trust investment department for the Marine Bank of Springfield, Illinois; Equity Analyst/Portfolio Manager for the Public Employees Retirement Fund of Colorado; an Analyst/Portfolio Manager with Kingsley Jennison McNulty & Morse in San Francisco; and manager of the Tokyo, Japan office of Schroder Wertheim & Co. under the auspices of Schroder Securities (Japan) Ltd. Joining the Bank of America Capital Management, Inc. in 1988, Mr. Gher was the portfolio manager of the BofA Core Growth Equity Fund and the Bank of America Health Care Analyst.
Mr. Foley is Managing Director, Foreign Exchange (FX) Trading at the Gelber Group, in Chicago, IL. After just 18 months, he has built Gelber into one of the most active FX trading firms in the world. Prior to joining Gelber, he was Head of FX Trading at Bank One in Chicago. He joined Bank One after a 12-year career at Bank of America and its affiliates in Chicago and London, where he most recently was head of FX Operations Trading and a member of the six person Global FX Management Team. Mr. Foley holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame.