Armand Mancini

Armand Mancini serves on the Advisory Board for Navigator Capital and serves as the Intel, Defense and Government Operating Partner for Navigator Capital. Most recently, Mr. Mancini was an Associate Partner for the Intel & Defense Group at IBM (formerly National Interest Security Company, “NISC”), where he led the business operations for this $75M Practice.  He has thirty years of diverse management experience in the defense and intelligence industry and has held senior management positions in operations, finance and business development.   Armand was a co-founder of Edge Consulting in April 2004 and served as CFO as well as a senior management consultant.  He helped Edge achieve a 35% CAGR through 2008 and led the sale of the company to National Interest Security Company (NISC) in March 2010. As an Edge consultant, he led a strategic M&A effort for a Fortune 50 Defense Contractor - which resulted in multiple transactions to strategically position this client in select DoD and intelligence market sectors.  After Edge Consulting’s acquisition by NISC he was selected as the GM for their Mission Services Group – a $100M division that combined Edge Consulting and other portfolio companies within NISC.  He also helped position NISC for its ultimate acquisition by IBM in April 2010.

Prior to forming Edge Consulting, Armand was the EVP and CFO for Orbimage Inc., a commercial provider of high resolution imagery and derived intelligence products. As one of the original founders of Orbimage, he led the development and implementation of the company’s strategic business plan, the start up of operations, procurement of a constellation of imaging satellites, and a successful $500 million private equity and public debt financing on Wall Street to fully capitalize the company.

Prior to Orbimage, Armand was the VP of Business Operations for the Space Systems Group of Orbital Sciences Corporation, where he led the reorganization of this $300 million business unit to restore it to profitability within one year. This was accomplished through a combination of new business initiatives, indirect cost reductions, business process improvements, rigorous program reviews, and implementation of performance measures to ensure success.

Before joining Orbital, Armand was a Comptroller and Operations Director at Vinnell Corporation, where he helped lead their Middle East operations during the first Gulf War.  This included critical training programs for the Saudi Army as well as USAF base operations at 26 sites throughout Turkey during combat operations.

Mr. Mancini holds a BS degree in Accounting from Virginia Tech and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Virginia.  Clearances are currently inactive at the TS/SCI level.

 
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.

Richard Corrigan

Mr. Corrigan is a senior seasoned financial executive with over 30 years of experience in commercial and investment banking covering the U.S. and Asia.  Mr. Corrigan is highly skilled in the areas of trade finance, commercial lending and loan syndication, securities transactions, loan workout and international private banking and trust.  

Mr. Corrigan has served as Senior Advisor to the DOE’s Loan Guarantee Program, where he managed a team of 80 consultants in disciplines including credit, origination, monitoring, technical and engineering analysis and office support, and was the principal spokesman for the nuclear power program.  Mr. Corrigan also served within OPIC as Director of Portfolio Management and Special Assets, as well as Director for Credit Review and Risk Management., wherein he managed an $18 billion loan portfolio with responsibility for overall credit quality and reserves.  Previously, he headed up OPIC’s initiative to increase penetration of middle market companies expanding overseas and established its push in to financing or insuring housing and mortgage finance in developing markets. 

Prior to OPIC, Mr. Corrigan was in the workout group for the FDIC’s Resolution Trust Corporation, where managed and successfully concluded the affairs of 60 active operating subsidiaries of failed savings and loan associations, including companies active in Trust Management, Securities Sales, Mortgage Servicing, Insurance, Real Estate and Consumer Loans, and was appointed to position of Assistant Managing Agent for $4 Billion failed thrift in Ft. Lauderdale, responsible for all credit decisions.  He has also worked with the Asian American Capital Corporation as the CFO, and was with Barclay’s Bank (Singapore) where he introduced leveraged Forex products.  Prior to that, he was at Chase Manhattan Bank (New York and Asia), where he managed the Singapore/Indonesia product development group and coordinated all trade finance activities in the South and South East Asian region, managed the credit and marketing activities in Malaysia, and managed the U.S. operations of Japanese multinationals.

Mr. Corrigan honorably served as a Captain/Navigator in the U.S. Air Force, was an navigator instructor, and electronic warfare officer, and received  the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals. 

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.

Stuart Weinstein-Bacal

Mr. Weinstein-Bacal has over 32 years of legal and business experience, with a particular focus on commercial law, construction law, bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, mediation, arbitration and litigation in all forums; he also serves as a mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and is an Early Neutral Evaluator for the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico. He serves as Navigator Capital’s strategic advisor for real-estate, construction and international negotiation issues.  He has worked on projects throughout the U.S., as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Mr. Weinstein-Bacal is the founder and Managing Partner of Weinstein-Bacal & Miller, P.S.C., an international law firm in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. He is an educator at the following: Adjunct Professor of (Construction) Law, University of Puerto Rico School of Law (2007 - present); Lecturer (1986-present): AAA; Associated General Contractors of America (AGC); Mechanical Contractors Association; National Business Institute (NBI); Inter-American University School of Law, and private industry.

Mr. Weinstein-Bacal’s publications include:

• Author, Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law, Chapter 53 (Puerto Rico), 2nd Ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2011)
• 50 State Construction Lien and Bond Law (Puerto Rico Chapter), 2d Ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2010)
• “Construction in Puerto Rico: Navigating the Legal Quagmire,” 71 U. Puerto Rico L. Rev. (Summer 2002)
• “The Ocean Dumping Dilemma,” 10 Law. Am. Vol. 3 (1979)
• “NOTE:  The Darien Gap Case - Can Mere Words Interfere with the Sovereignty of a Foreign Nation?” 10 Law. Am. Vol. 2 (1978)
• “Just What Is Computer Law,” 3 Arlington Bar J., 1983
• Co-Author: “Puerto Rico Construction Law” (NBI, 1992-)
• “Construction Claims and Job Profitability in Puerto Rico” (NBI, 1993-)
• “Advanced Construction Law in Puerto Rico” (NBI, 1994- )
• “Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Law in Puerto Rico” (NBI, 1993-1996)
• “Fundamentals of Bankruptcy in the Virgin Islands” (NBI, 1993) 

Mr. Weinstein-Bacal served honorably as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He studied at the Stanford University School of Law and obtained his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Miami.  He is admitted in the following jurisdictions:  District of Columbia (1979); Virginia (1981); U.S. Virgin Islands (1985); Puerto Rico (1988); and to practice before the U. S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Federal, First, Third, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, District of the Virgin Islands, District of Puerto Rico, and Eastern District of Wisconsin; and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Customs Court, and U.S. Court of International Trade  He also holds a Masters Degree in Education and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.  Mr. Weinstein-Bacal is fluent in English (native) and Spanish, and speaks some French and Mandarin Chinese.