Manhattan University 

Saunders Trade and Technical High School

Entrepreneurial Sr. Exec  -  Digital Strategist  -  Innovative Technologist  -  Startup Advisor  -  Angel Investor  -  Crypto / Digital Assets  -  NFTs  -  Blockchain  -  SaaS  -  API First  -  Web3  -  Revenue Growth  -  RevOps

FuelTrust leverages its maritime technology platform to authenticate relationships across the marine fuel lifecycle, digitally verify data from shared sources, validate decarbonization and compliance, and identify potential bunker fraud and risk.

With deep insight into when, where, and from whom quality fuel is supplied, our solution allows you to alleviate the financial impact of bad fuel, mitigate regulatory risk, and empower sustainable shipping.

Compliance | Risk | Optimized Costs | Reduced Carbon & Sulphur Emissions | Sustainability Goals

FuelTrust

Board Member & Advisor

Edee Care is an early-stage startup headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Edee Care is an innovator in the HealthTech and wearable health monitoring device space. Edee's mission and commitment are to improve the lives of people with chronic conditions using cost-effective wearable smart technology, health analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Edee Care

Advisor

Goalden Hour  - Plan consciously. Live deliberately. 

Goalden Hour helps organizations thrive by empowering individuals to be their best. Goalden Hour is developing a B2B SaaS application designed to provide managers with next-gen human capital management tools and their individuals with a personal productivity and development tool that helps them manage work, life, and all they do more efficiently and effectively. Goalden Hour takes a unique approach by combining work and life goals into a single and powerful app. The Goalden Hour app takes advantage of gamification, experiences, coaching, nudging, incentives, rewards, behavioral science, analytics, AI, and individualized support algorithms, making it fun and rewarding for its users to pursue and achieve their goals. The Goalden Hour platform also provides professionals who manage others to develop frameworks and templates for large workforces and often repeated plans. The Goalden Hour personal life management tool pairs with the Goal Post enterprise platform for team management. 

Goalden Hour can help you master your life by prioritizing and planning the activities that bring you joy and make you better at all you do.

Business | Fitness | Education | Coaching | Healthcare | Military | Wellness | Government Services

Goalden Hour

CHAiNGE is a new consumer-focused type of digital asset providing streamlined functionality between the traditional way of using money and new-age digital tokens and assets. CHAiNGE is designed from the consumer perspective to be simple, secure, liberating, and functional. It allows the normal consumer to easily save, spend, and share using a digital token that is backed by secure assets and a unique underlying growth mechanism. The CHAiNGE token (CNG) will be a registered US security and is designed to be a hybrid between traditional fiat, cryptocurrency, securities, stablecoins, and digital assets while taking advantage of the best practices from all. CHAiNGE plans on becoming a mainstream global financial instrument by widely expanding consumer engagement beyond the traditional "crypto curious" and traders providing benefits to individuals, families, and the entire CHAiNGE community with every dollar spent. 

With one financial account, CHAiNGE integrates traditional financial services while harnessing proven, cutting edge digital technologies.  By providing consumers with an easy to spend digital asset which offers stability, social responsibility, security, and growth potential, CHAiNGE simplifies the user’s financial experience and seeks to be the 21st-century currency of choice, especially for the Millennial generation.

(CxO)

CHAiNGE LLC

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Early-stage startup, manufacturer, developer, and innovator of the NightRide brand of aftermarket automotive infrared night vision devices helping you to see beyond your headlights and improve your awareness of items and risks in the dark when driving.   

NightRide Thermal is a leader, manufacturer, and developer in the emerging mobility ecosystem. Its NightRide brand of vehicle-mounted infrared thermal cameras expands innovative capabilities to vehicles and their drivers by empowering them to see in the dark and beyond the normal range of headlights. The NightRide technology enables reliable vision and identification of objects, obstacles, people, and risks in darkness, smoke, and low-visibility weather. NightRide improves the safety, accuracy, reliability, situational awareness, and confidence of visibility-impaired mobile activities and nighttime operations. The NightRide brand currently includes eight product models offering a flexible range of vehicle and mounting options, optical resolutions, operational and storage features, and price points. US-based and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, NightRide serves the following markets: Public safety and emergency management; local, state, tribal, and federal government agencies; private companies, construction, and utilities; wildlife control and outdoor enthusiasts; and the military, defense, and intelligence communities. 

Visit https://nightride.io for information or dealer or investor inquiries.

#Thermal Optics, #Thermal Imaging, #Instrumentation Manufacturer, #Thermal Cameras

NightRide

Senior advisor providing guidance, strategy, and insight to the financial team at Cortlandt Capital Advisors for projects focused on technology, innovation, fintech, token economics, incentives, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, crypto assets, digital assets, crypto equity, ICOs/STO's, DeFi, digital currency, token strategies, monetization, and entrepreneurship. 

More info can be found at https://cortlandtcap.com/

Cortlandt Capital Advisors

Principal - Senior Advisor and Strategist

Consulting | Advisory | Strategy | Ventures  - Accelerating Growing Companies

I have worked with a mix of global clients, projects, investors, and companies across a wide range of industries and markets, including FinTech, Financial Services, B2B/Enterprise SaaS, Healthcare, Cannabis, Payments, Crypto & Digital Assets, Maritime/Shipping/Transportation, Health and Wellness, Cybersecurity, Document & Contract Management, Real Estate, PropTech, and Automotive,  Instrumentation Manufacturing, Thermo Optics/Imaging, Web3, Consulting, and Accounting.

Recent dX9 global projects and cross-industry engagements have included: 
- Strategic business, management, & technology consulting
- Advising startups; early stage capital, investment, & financing strategies
- Business organization, governance, structure, & management
- Blockchain, crypto / digital assets, NFTs, Web3, DeFI, & tokenization
- B2B SaaS, API First, Mobile First, data, analytics, RevOPS, process automation, digital marketing, AI
- Fractional COO, CTO, CRO, CDO, & CSO, CxO roles
- Risk management, security, compliance, & certifications (ISO27001, SOC2, HIPAA, PII, etc.)
- Identity, privacy, trust frameworks, consent, & denial, & standards (mID, mDL, mDOC, ISO/IEC 18013-5)
- Payment processing & digital payment/asset transaction platforms
- Managing remote application development, security, & engineering teams
- Customer experience (CX) customer success (CS) strategy and execution
- Growth, scale, turnarounds, flips, M&A, technology audits, valuation, IP, debt, global commercialization
- Sales and marketing initiatives, HubSpot, SalesForce, automation, workflows, sequences, pipeline strategies, GTM, RevOps, etc.
- Work with startups to develop proper pitch decks, business opportunity stories, and GTM strategy
- Maritime technology, vessel fuel consumption, CII, reduced carbon and sulfur emissions (GHG), and decarbonization
- Coaching management teams, business executives, boards, advisors, & founders

dX9 Global

Founder, CEO & Chief Strategist

As a member of the Advisory Panel of J. Pink Associates, Inc. Financial Advisors, I function as an strategic advisor and mentor to the executive management team. I provide guidance on business strategy, execution, sales and marketing, technology, emerging trends (cryptocurrency, cryptoassets, etc.) and growth strategies.

For more information: http://www.johnpink.com/

J.Pink Associates, Inc., Financial Advisors

OrbitMI is a leading maritime technology and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company headquartered in New York City. Our clients use Orbit, the world's best vessel performance and maritime intelligence platform, to manage fleets more efficiently, profitably, safely, and sustainably. We rise above other legacy industry solutions by creating and automating intelligent connected workflows through partnerships with well-known industry applications, solutions, and data providers. We do not change how you do business; we make your business better! OrbitMI works with all maritime industry sectors (dry, wet, container, cruise, etc.), and our solutions focus on ship owners, operators, time charterers, and pool managers.

OrbitMI is a global company with offices in the US, Norway, Sweden, Greece, the UK, and Serbia, with partners worldwide. Learn more at www.orbitmi.com   

Maritime Intelligence & Analytics | Sustainability & Compliance | Chartering | Vessel Tracking & Notifications | AIS Tracking | Vessel Performance Management | Voyage Management | Noon Reporting | Weather Routing | CII Monitoring | Voyage Emissions (GHG) | Distance Calculator | Fleet Management | Post Voyage Reports | SaaS | DaaS | Partners | Integrations

(CxO)

OrbitMI Inc

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) / Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) (dual role)

ShelterZoom is the developer of DocuWalk, 1REport, and Document GPS. ShelterZoom is a leading provider of enterprise-level blockchain-based Smart Documents, Smart Contracts, and Blockchain API integration services, working with large enterprises, government agencies, law firms, non-profits, the publishing industry, academic institutions, real estate, and small businesses with fully supported blockchain smart document applications, tokenization, and digital asset solutions. As part of the company's commitment to improving the lives of people around the world, ShelterZoom is a member of Humanity 2.0, an international consortium of organizations supporting human flourishing, and a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact.

DocuWalk is ShelterZoom’s 2nd generation, industry-agnostic, smart-contract/blockchain-based SaaS (B2B/B2C) platform built using Hyperledger Fabric that transforms records, documents, and contracts into fully digital, interoperable, and intelligent assets. ShelterZoom is changing how the global market thinks about remote operations and collaboration. 

1REport – A marketing workflow application built on the DocuWalk platform is the new way to list a real estate property, market your goods and services, mine your leads, and increase revenue. 

Document GPS is a Gmail/email extension that enables senders to track, manage, modify, and delete already sent attachments using blockchain-based security. Email senders can turn off the ability for recipients to download or share attachments, even if they have been opened by the recipient. Users can also view, track, and manage already sent email attachments from their private attachment library located outside of the Gmail system. Document GPS is blockchain-secure, protecting attachments fully.

ShelterZoom

Chief Operating Officer  (COO)

Strategic advisor and mentor to the executive management team of Bay Area Token (early stage, pre-funding, etc.)( BAAT Token). I am currently involved with strategic planning, determining strategy, scope, focus, helping identify and develop strategic relationships, and assisting with introductions to potential investors.

Bay Area Token is a fintech real estate services company that identifies, acquires, and manages real estate properties through proprietary data analytics and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, individual real estate properties are fractionalized through blockchain technology in a process known as tokenization. This creates fungibility and consequently lowers the barrier to entry for would-be investors in real estate.
Plans include developing a digital investment platform for the portfolio of properties managed by Bay Area Token and also developing the stand-alone proprietary human movement surveillance data model and algorithm used to identify properties with the potential for rapid value appreciation.

https://www.bayareatoken.com/

Bay Area Token

Managed and performed a research project and industry analysis to determine the current status, offerings, and future opportunities for an automated KYC (Know Your Customer) / ALM (Anti-Money Laundering) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering in the cryptocurrency, crypto assets, STO/ICO, and digital asset management spaces for an established financial services, compliance, and RegTech advisory and technology firm working currently with traditional banks and well-known global financial institutions

Financial Services, Compliance & RegTech Company

Researcher / Crypto Industry Analyst

At Citrin Cooperman, I performed a unique business development role functioning as an executive advisor acting as a change agent and helping drive the adoption of innovation, transformation, emerging trends, and alternate delivery models and services to clients of all types. It was my role to work with senior executives to identify areas where new age solutions and technology could be used to gain traction and momentum helping foster growth, scale and/or transformation. My role afforded me the ability to provide solutions for clients across all of the different service and industry groups at Citrin Cooperman by assembling cross-functional project teams using inside personnel, outside consultants, and 3rd party vendors to aggressively attack projects, create momentum, and address client needs. 

In this role I worked with a variety of global clients (individuals, startups, emerging growth, SMB, mid-market, & enterprise) across many different industries (Life Sciences, Maritime, Tech, FinTech, Real Estate, Media, Energy, Financial Services, Web Apps, Oil and Gas, Application Development, Consultants, Legal, Accounting, Manufacturing, and Cryptocurrency) and with many emerging trends: cryptocurrency, digital tokens, blockchain, AI, automation, analytics, & cybersecurity. Most interesting for me was working with the new management styles of young and emerging growth companies and gaining experience with a new generation of business management, structure, organization, and process. 

Citrin Cooperman is a leading (Top 25) US professional services and full-service CPA firm with 950+ employees and 10 domestic locations throughout the Northeast United States. Citrin Cooperman provides a full range of services including accounting, audit, attest, assurance, tax, valuation, forensic, and business advisory services. Citrin Cooperman is an independent firm associated with Moore Stephens International Limited.

Citrin Cooperman

Director, Technology & Risk Advisory Consulting (TRAC) (Executive Advisor / Business Development)

**Accuritas/FleetWeather was acquired by StratumFive**

NOTE-I had been with Accuritas (Formerly FleetWeather) for 11+ Years, from August 2005 to May 8, 2017. FleetWeather was globally rebranded and merged into Accuritas Global Solutions on March 15, 2016. 

Accuritas Global Solutions is a privately held global management consulting firm. The company provides data management, data services, business intelligence, analytics, big data solutions, integration, development, and consulting services to global transportation, shipping, and maritime leaders. Accuritas innovates, manages, and delivers a wide range of customized services to 100+ clients from over 60 countries worldwide. Headquartered in NY and has offices in Connecticut, Athens, and Singapore.

Accuritas supports the Transportation, Energy, Maritime, Freight, and Logistics Industries. 

My responsibilities include: Executive Management, Corporate Strategy and Vision, Company Ambassador, Global Sales and Marketing, Management of Application and Technology Development, Management of our Global Consulting Group, Event Management, Public Relations, Strategic Partnerships, Vendor Relations, Hiring Staff, Supporting Industry Organizations, and Mentoring of Other Senior Managers and Staff.

I was 100% responsible for successfully leading and managing all aspects of our re-branding and renaming in March 2015 from FleetWeather to Accuritas. I managed the combined efforts of our internal team, external consultants, multiple vendors, and 9 separate design agencies for this project which we accomplished within 3 months from project start to global launch. In addition to the challenge of renaming and re-branding, this project included a complete overhaul of all sales and marketing collateral and the company website.

(CXO)

Accuritas Global Solutions

Managing Director / EVP Global Sales & Marketing / Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Co-Founder

**Accuritas & FleetWeather was acquired by StratumFive**

Senior sales & marketing director for a US-based private weather consulting service providing weather intelligence & decision assistance for weather-sensitive professional decision-makers worldwide. Responsibilities include managing personnel and daily operations for sales, business development, PR, advertising, trade shows/events, web/traditional marketing, etc., for all 3 divisions of The FleetWeather Group of Companies servicing a wide range of unrelated vertical markets:

-CompuWeather - Largest worldwide provider of forensic weather interpretations (past/historic weather) for insurance professionals, attorneys, and engineers to document insurance claims & legal cases.

-FleetWeather Ocean Services –Global provider of professional marine weather forecasting, ship routing, performance monitoring, and claims assistance for the commercial maritime and shipping industry. FleetWeather also provides weather forecasting and routing services for luxury mega/super /giga yachts worldwide.

-FleetWeather Forecasting Services – Site-specific weather forecasting, advisories/alerts, and live 24/7 consultations for land-based weather-sensitive clients, including utility companies, major corporations, feature films, commercial production companies, event managers, outdoor venues, major sports teams, school districts & universities, contractors, construction companies, roofing & paving companies, shipping ports & terminals, and hi-rise crane companies.

Serving as the FleetWeather Group’s CTO, I am responsible for developing long-term technology strategies and initiatives, managing all technical personnel, coordinating and planning development projects, and overseeing all technology projects. I manage in-house network administration, independent software & web developers, cloud service & hosting vendors, and 3rd-party development partners.

FleetWeather Group of Companies & CompuWeather

Managing Director / Global Sales & Marketing / Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Lead Strategist

Experienced, On-Air Guest, Spokesperson, Pitchman and Product Specialist for Technology and Computer Products on QVC. Recent products aired include Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DSi, Hewlett Packard (HP) Netbooks and Hewlett Packard (HP) Touchscreen Computers. Working part-time I represent major electronic and computer manufacturers on-air at QVC. Available for product launches, key airings, primary guest backup, vacation coverage or as a TV shopping consultant.

Independent On-Air Technology Guest, Spokesperson, Pitchman & Product Specialist

Identify & develop new business opportunities & strategic alliances with manufacturers and distributors for sales in the US Cable Retailing & Television (TV) Sales Marketplace (QVC, HSN, ShopAtHome, ShopNBC, etc.) and their associated Internet e-commerce sites. Weekly over 2.5 years, I personally appeared in over 400 live (24/7) QVC airings as a technology & electronics expert and tv sales pitchman. I negotiated vendor contracts and helped vendors create, develop, and present TV sales and sell-through strategies, concepts, and marketing plans to TV merchandising/purchasing teams. I managed all aspects of vendor accounts (pre-sale, post-sale, on-air & Internet) and additional vendor activities (legal, quality assurance (QA), claims, production, packaging, customer service, fulfillment, etc.). I developed comprehensive on-air marketing strategies, programs & demos and identified, selected, and coached vendor on-air guests. I developed & managed vendor e-commerce sales and programs and identified, structured & negotiated OEM & private label bundle opportunities. I helped the company expand & grow beyond technology and electronics into new markets including food, entertainment, customized products, toys, & houseware products. In addition to my on-air appearances, I managed over $35M in TV sales revenue per year. Appearing on-air I sold desktop 
& notebook computers & peripherals, consumer electronic devices, digital cameras, printers, scanners, all-in-one printers, & electronic games. I represented, managed, & aired products for many different companies including IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Nintendo, Hewlett Packard, Fujifilm, Lexmark, Polaroid, Dell, Hamilton Beach, & numerous other electronic, technology, and digital photography brands. My airings ranged from 6-minutes to full-hour shows and I took part in QVC’s Today’s Special Value (TSV) promotions with multiple airings over 24 hours totaling 220 minutes of air time and selling between $2M to $10M in a single day.

PA Marketing

Director of Business Development , On-Air QVC Technology Guest, Manufacturers Rep

Internet Technology Specialists for enterprise solutions for safe, efficient, and productive use of the Internet: firewalls, VPN, bandwidth management, prioritization, and monitoring, email investigation, Internet and email usage monitoring, compliance, and reporting, anti-virus, and threat detection. First diamond partner in the US for Elron Software and national reseller for OpenReach VPNs.

Approved Technologies, Inc.

President / CEO and Founder

Technology specialists and solution integrators focused on server protection (backup, disaster recovery, anti-virus, and power), advanced network storage solutions, distributed appliance computing, VPN/Firewall technology, and Y2K consulting and remediation.

TrueSense Network Technologies, Inc.

CEO / Co-Founder / Director of Business Development and Sales

NYC-based network integrator, service company, computer consulting, and solutions integrator (SI).  Provided sales, service, installation, hardware, and software to NY Metro Area clients (law firms, financial services, trading and brokerage firms, staffing and recruiting, etc.). Also worked with many performance and specialty network and enterprise storage products.

Jess Hurwitz