Mr. Timothy B. Harmon

Tim Harmon is the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, and member of the Board of Director of Comsat International, Inc. Mr. Harmon is also the General Partner of Traditions LP, a private investment fund with numerous global investments in real estate, manufacturing, and communications. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of The Pennington School.

Until 2003, he was Vice Chairman of Altai Diesel, one of Russia's largest engine manufacturing companies. In 1999, Tim created Hercules Communications Group, a telecommunications company specializing in Voice Over IP, with operations in over 45 countries. Before Hercules Communications, he was a Partner and Managing Director of Crossroads Investment Company, which had $2 billion of private equity under management. Tim remained a partner at Crossroads until its sale to Lehman in October 2003.

Prior to joining The Crossroads Group in 1996, Tim was Chairman and CEO of Hercules Engine Company (HEC) in Canton, Ohio. HEC, founded in 1915, manufactured industrial engines for customers such as Daewoo and Komatsu, Hercules' engines are best known for powering the US Military's jeep, 3/4 ton, 2 1/2 ton, and 5 ton trucks, and other industrial applications, such as powering the Patriot Missile launching pad.

Mr. Jim Waugh

Mr. Waugh has over 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently as Managing Director of Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets Investment Banking Group, a global real estate company based in New York City. Mr. Waugh covers debt and equity related real estate financings. Debt products include both on- and off-balance sheet financing, corporate bonds, securitizations, first mortgage bonds, credit tenant leases, as well as mezzanine and jr. subordinated debt. Equity products include sale/leaseback’s, leveraged lease transactions and tax-oriented and synthetic leases. The placement desk maintains relationships with over 1,000 institutional investors including banks, insurance companies, specialty finance companies, hedge funds, mezzanine funds and equity providers.

Mr. Waugh has also been an investment banker and a member of the firm’s Finance Committee at Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, focusing on debt and equity placements, leveraged buy-outs, structured real estate financings, mezzanine/subordinated debt and ESOP driven management buy-outs. Mr. Waugh was also at Greenwich/NatWest, where he worked on the capital markets desk arranging 144A, traditional and below investment grade private placements, in addition to Merrill Lynch, PaineWebber and TIAA/CREFF. Mr. Waugh holds a BBS in Finance and Marketing from The American University and an MBA from Rutgers.  



Mr. Gerard van Hamel Platerink

Mr. van Hamel Platerink is a Managing Director and co-founder of Accuitive Medical Ventures (AMV), a $160MM early stage medical technology fund based in Atlanta, GA.  AMV develops and invests in medical technologies in fields such as neurology, orthopedics and cardiology.   Prior to joining AMV, Gerard worked at Novoste Corporation, the cardiovascular brachytherapy company, in business development. Before joining Novoste, Gerard was in the Healthcare Group of Salomon Smith Barney in London, where he focused on medical devices. He began his career with Kleinwort Benson (now part of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein), where he was an investment banker and member of the bank's private equity and mezzanine finance group.  Gerard has a BS in Physics from St. Andrews University in the UK and an MBA from Cambridge University.