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Joseph J. Luca -
Chairman
Joseph J. Luca is the owner of Joseph J. Luca, CPAs, a New England public accounting firm. Mr. Luca’s experience includes expert witness testimony and valuation cases for acquisitions, mergers and sales, divorce, buy-sell agreements, insurance frauds and tax fraud. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Luca served as the CFO and Director of Administration and Finance of The Massachusetts Port Authority where he was responsible for all aspects of authority-wide financial and business matters of a three hundred million dollar budget. Mr. Luca is a Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Luca served on the Governor’s Council for Small business Entrepreneurs in 1987, and was a member of the Executive Office of Transportation & Construction Privatization Committee in 1992.
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Neal E. Fine -
Director
Prior to joining Flight Safety Technologies, Dr. Fine served for eleven years as a Principal Scientist and Manager at the Engineering Technology Center and at Anteon Corporation. At Anteon, he led a group of ten scientists and engineers in the design, test and evaluation of a variety of fluid mechanical systems and subsystems, from naval ships and submarines, to advanced high-speed torpedoes, to America's Cup yachts. Dr. Fine and his group also performed engineering services supporting the development and testing of the SOCRATES™ wake vortex sensor. He has over 18 years of experience in research and development in acoustics, fluid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, and structural dynamics.
Dr. Fine received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geomechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Hydrodynamics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Wes Cummins -
Director
Wes Cummins is Director of Capital Markets at B Riley & Co, where he oversees the firm's financial advisory and capital raising services to middle-market, publicly traded companies. Mr. Cummins joined B Riley's Research Department in February 2002 and was promoted to Director of Research in January 2003. During his tenure, he grew B Riley's Research coverage to more than 100 companies in the following sectors: retail, semiconductors, technology hardware, software, IT services, communications, media and healthcare. While Director of Research, Cummins was ranked #1 in the 2004 Forbes.com/StarMine-North American Analyst Survey in the Best Stock Picker category for the Communications Equipment sector. Prior to B Riley, Mr. Cummins worked at Needham & Company and at Kennedy Capital Management. He holds a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
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James A. Schwartz -
Director
Prior to founding Harvey Partners LLC, a New York based investment management firm, Mr. Schwartz worked at Gilder, Gagnon & Howe, as a Portfolio Manager from 2003-2005 and as an analyst from 2000-2002. From 1990-1998, Mr. Schwartz was a senior producer for NBA entertainment, where he won an Emmy Award. Mr. Schwartz received an MBA from Columbia University in 2000, and a BA in History from Bates College in 1989.
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