Dr. Bernard A. Wagenmann, Managing Director & CEO, (Co-Founder) is jointly responsible for managing the company with special responsibility for fund management and general administration. Dr. Wagenmann has over 25 years of experience in investment banking, mostly in asset management. He was educated in Germany and Switzerland and holds an MBA and a PhD (with Honours) from St. Gall University. After a period of research and teaching at St. Gall, Dr. Wagenmann joined JP Morgan in 1978 in their Investment and Trust division. Having concentrated on building their interest rate and foreign exchange forecasting process, he was Vice President responsible for managing global fixed income accounts and Head of global fixed income research. In 1990 he joined IBJ International (UK investment banking subsidiary of The Industrial Bank of Japan), where he was a member of the board and, as CIO, joint-Head of the asset management division. He was a trustee of the IBJI pension fund and also developed an Islamic banking advisory unit. In late 1998, he joined The United Bank of Kuwait plc, a UK incorporated bank owned largely by Kuwaiti governmental interests. As a member of the management committee he was responsible for corporate finance and, as CEO, for the main subsidiary UBK Asset Management plc. Dr. Wagenmann has been an adviser to a number of Central Banks and governmental institutions in the Middle East. He has been a member of the Institute of Directors since 1995.
Scott Abramson, Senior Vice President and Head of M&A Team - Mr. Abramson has over 15 years of experience as a senior executive building electronic commerce based businesses. He is currently Vice President of a global travel technology company. Mr. Abramson has experience driving growth in start-ups and global using acquisition and new product development while managing costs for cash flow growth. He has excellent cross-functional skills in business development, financial management, product development, technical architecture, software development and operations. Scott began his career at Texas Instruments writing statistical process control programs. He left in 1990 to join a start-up company that created the first electronic hotel reservations EDI switch (http://www.pegsinc.com). Scott was recruited by Louis Borders in 1996 to create a next generation travel distribution system to Internet enable travel agents and travel suppliers. A key part of the strategy included an acquisition of an Internet based Tour reservation system. In 2001, Scott was recruited by the owners of a travel information company (http://www.travelclick.net) to lead their IT efforts as CIO. Scott turned around the IT department, drove major operating expense reductions and grew the product revenue base from less than 15MM to more than 50MM with investments in acquisitions and new product development. Mr. Abramson is a graduate of Purdue University and holds an MS from the University of Texas and an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago. He is also President of the University of Chicago Dallas area alumni club.
Thomas Crema is responsible for corporate finance at Anchorage Capital Partners with over 20 years of experience in investment banking with a broad range of experience in European private equity, principal and corporate finance activities with a strong focus on telecom, technology and media at a number of leading firms. He was a Senior Vice President with Prudential Securities and with Shearson Lehman Brothers and has also been advisor to The Bancroft Group, a private equity firm, Tudor Investment Corp, Medley Global Advisors and Alegro Capital Limited. At Klesch & Co Limited he was responsible for origination, deal management and negotiations on multiple principal telecom and restructuring acquisitions that included: Deutsche Telekom’s cable TV network in the region of Hessen, Casema, Iaxis, ThyssenKrupp’s shipping and logistics subsidiary and others. In 2001 he co-founded Compere Associates Limited, a London based principal investment firm focused on buy outs in telecom, cable TV and related industries. While there he led principal acquisition bids for Deutsche Telekom’s cable TV six region deal, Heckler & Koch group of companies and other telecom sector targets. Mr. Crema was educated in the US and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, a Masters degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Peter G. Greenhalgh, Corporate Finance & Business Development Mr. Greenhalgh has over 40 years of experience in banking and corporate finance. At ACP he is responsible for business development and corporate finance. Mr Greenhalgh started his career in banking with Barclays Bank International and worked in various roles in Western, Eastern and Central Africa. After a spell as an inspector for the UK and Europe, he was appointed regional inspector for the Far East in charge of the team responsible for the Audit/Inspection of Barclays group interests in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Korea, the Philippines, the Peoples Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Thailand and the Gulf. In 1986 he was seconded from BBI to head up the Internal Audit of Mercantile Credit, where he was responsible for restructuring the department, reducing risk, improving profitability and the recovery of debt as well as assisting the Company in meeting the requirements of the Banking Act. After returning from Hong Kong he worked in Turkey with BZW (the then investment banking arm of the Barclays group) on the privatisation of one of the countries oldest established banks. In 1990, Mr. Greenhalgh joined Henry Ansbacher & Company, a UK Merchant Bank, where he was Group Compliance Director. Since leaving, Ansbacher in 2000, Mr. Greenhalgh has worked as the project director of a stock broking firm and is now, in addition to his position at ACP, Managing Director of Chancery Lane Finance Ltd.
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