PETER JAMES SMITH - CEO
Mr. Smith has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Global Equity Partners, Plc., our now wholly-owned subsidiary, since its formation on September 2, 2009. Mr. Smith has also served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company since December 31, 2010.
Between June 1, 2006, and September 2, 2009, when he formed Global Equity Partners, PLC, Mr. Smith was not employed and spent his time researching the market for the consulting business in which Global Equity Partners, PLC would be engaged. In 1993, he created an international financial services company in the Middle East and Asia, and served as the Chief Executive Officer of that firm until he resigned in May 2006. Between 1993 and May 2005, he built that company to 23 global offices, 5 country licenses; a Company with $2.2 billion under financial management. In 2006, Mr. Smith resigned from his position as Chief Executive Officer of that business.
Mr. Smith first qualified as stockbroker in London in 1986 with Rensburg and Co. where he became both a registered equity trader and registered representative of the firm that is a UK registered, full service stockbroker trading equities, options, warrants, gilts and bonds. He also spent 12 months within that firm covering the back office facilities of a brokerage house including sales, purchase, rights, dividends and new issues. He then moved on to the London Traded Options Market where he passed his LTOM open outcry examinations to become an options trader for a subsidiary of ABN Amro bank called International Clearing Services (ICS). As an Options trader, his job was to trade options on behalf of all the firm's clients and to hedge the positions of the market makers the firm cleared for in the equity market. As the sole dual qualified broker for ICS, he was constantly trading in either equities or options, either by open outcry or screen dealing on the London Stock Exchange Floor on Threadneedle Street.
ENZO TADDEI - CFO
Mr. Taddei was appointed as our Chief Financial Officer and a member of our Board of Directors on September 1, 2011. From November 2010 until December 8, 2011, when he resigned from such offices, Mr. Taddei was a member of the Board of Directors and part-time Chief Financial Officer of Networking Partners, Inc., a social networking company. Mr. Taddei resigned from such offices in order to devote more time and effort to our Company. From May 2009 until the present date, Mr. Taddei has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of E3B Consulting Network SL (a firm engaged in accounting and property management).
From March 2007 until May 2009, Mr. Taddei served as Chief Financial Officer of Dolphin Digital Media (a company engaged in social networking). From August 2006 until March 2007, Mr. Taddei served as Chief Financial Officer of Plays on the Net PLC (an E Commerce firm). From July 1999 until August 2006, Mr. Taddei served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Adesso Res Asesores (an accounting firm).
In addition to being an accountant and tax consultant by profession, Mr. Taddei is proficient in three languages: English, Spanish and Italian. He obtained a Degree in Economics from the University of Malaga (Spain) in 1998 and also a Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Wales in 1996. He also holds a Masters Degree in Spanish and International Taxation granted to him by EADE University in Malaga (Spain) in 2000.
PATRICK DOLAN - New Business
A senior figure from the software and technology industry, in a 20 year plus career he has held numerous senior management positions within large and small start up enterprises in the US, Asia Pacific and in Europe. Patrick has had extensive experience in managing large global operations with enterprises such as Standard & Poors, Dow Jones, Citibank, State Street and more recently Merchant Capital. In the last 12 years he has worked within the technology and software sector in small to medium sized companies expanding them operationally and exiting through either the public markets or through trade sales. Patrick has worked closely with numerous Private Equity and Venture Capital Firms in Europe and the US principally as an executive retained and placed within companies who are part of their investment portfolio heading up operations and expanding them into global markets as part of an exit strategy. Patrick brings a lot of experience from both an operational and capital raising perspective and has significant contacts across the financial markets.
