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Welcome to the Gold Coast Venture Capital Association
The Gold Coast Venture Capital Association, Inc. (GCVCA) is a not-for-profit corporation founded in the fall of 1984 as the Gold Coast Venture Capital Club, Inc. to assist the entrepreneurial and business communities of South Florida.
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Upcoming Meeting
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GCVCA Joint Meeting with Association for Corporate Growth
Date: August 27, 2008
Time: 5:15 pm - 8:30 pm
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Embassy Suites Boca Raton
661 N. W. 53rd Street
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Pre-Registration:
GCVCA Member Price: $45.00
Guest Price: $65.00
Guest of Member Price: $50.00
Member of Alliance Price: $50.00
Presenter Price: $45.00
(Click appropriate link to make your Pre-Registration)
Note: Pre-Registration Rate for Guest, Guest of Member and Member of Alliance is by Credit Card Payment Only. If you do not wish to pre-pay by Credit Card you may register at the Meeting with Check or Cash at our Registration Rate. Our at the door Registration Rate is an additional $10 charge for members & guests if Pre-Registrations are not made. Each Pre-Registration must be made separately. Only one Pre-Registration per meeting can be made for each email address.
Pre-Registration Information: There will be an additional $5 charge for members & guest if Pre-Registrations are made after 4:00PM on Tuesday August 26th. Pre-Registration will close at 8:00 PM on Tuesday August 26th. The association policy requires that a Pre-Registration must be cancelled prior to 4:00 PM on Monday August 25, 2008. All Pre-Registration are considered as Guaranteed Pre-Registrations and all No-Shows will be billed. We can only accept Credit Cards on our Website.
AGENDA: 5:15 PM Networking; 6:15 PM Self-Introductions & Dinner; 7:00 PM Presentation of the Gold Coast Venture Forum; 7:20 PM Guest Speaker
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Guest Speakers
Mark J. Gordon &
David L. Epstein
Co-Founders
Precision Response Corporation
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New Media in the Digital World
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Increasing Revenues with Integrated Infotainment
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Join legendary South Florida entrepreneurs Mark Gordon and David Epstein as they present a journey through the past, present and future of success! The CRM pioneers, who created Precision Response Corp. (PRC) one of the world’s leading outsourced customer care organizations, will touch on the fundamentals and early steps that lead to the ultimate sale of that company to USA Networks in 2000 and their current energies to capitalize on the emerging phenomenon of the convergence of traditional, social networking and new media their leading edge branded niche site and broadcast company for pets.
Mark J. Gordon is the co-founder & former Chairman of Precision Response Corp (PRC), a leading multinational customer care solutions provider that he led through a successful IPO in 1996 and eventually a merger with USA Networks in 2000. As its chief executive, Mark transformed the company into a global leader of integrated marketing services. PRC was recognized four consecutive years as one of INC. Magazine’s top 500 successful private entities. After a highly successful public offering, PRC became the industries’ second largest in-bound teleservices firm.
Mark has a long history of success having founded several business spanning retail (Just Jeans), consumer marketing (Florida Fulfillment), integrated customer care solutions (Precision Response Corporation), aviation (Presidential Aviation) and most recently along with long-time business partner, David Epstein, co-founded PetStyle and Petstyle.com, a multi-media enterprise that is one of America’s leading lifestyle networks for pet owners.
Despite the rigors of running multi-national corporations Mark has also found time for his real passion, philanthropy. To achieve this objective he founded the Mark J. Gordon Foundation (MJGF) with the goal of improving the quality of children’s lives around the world. Some highlights of MJGF’s international work can be seen in the Kirinyaga district of Kenya, where the Foundation has partnered with the Health Store Foundation to provide quality healthcare to the local community. MJGF is helping the community meet its basic health needs; providing de-worming medicine, PUR water purification technology and ensuring that every family sleeps under a long lasting insecticide treated bed net (bed nets) designed to protect them from malaria. MJGF takes the threat of malaria very seriously. The foundation, in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and singer Paul Simon, has distributed thousands of bed nets throughout the African continent. Additionally, MJGF is a founding partner of the Nothing but Nets campaign, along with matching partners the NBA, Major League Soccer, the United Nations Foundation, VH-1, Sports Illustrated and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
David L. Epstein is a co-founder and former CEO of Precision Response Corporation (PRC), a multinational corporation. Under Mr. Epstein and team leadership PRC became one of the nation’s largest integrated customer care solutions providers serving some of the most recognized corporations in the world with more 13,000 employees. In 2000, four years after PRC completed a highly successful public offering, Mr. Epstein led the company, through a merger with IAC/InterActiveCorp, formerly USA Networks, an integrated media and Internet company led by Barry Diller whose holdings include Ticketmaster, Expedia.com, Home Shopping Network, Hotels.com, among many other digital assets.Today Mr. Epstein is co-founder of PetStyle and PetStyle.com, a multimedia enterprise that is one of America’s leading lifestyle and social networks for pet owners. PetStyle is also taking a leadership position in the burgeoning field of convergence television and the Internet. Mr. Epstein is also founder and managing partner of Presidential Capital Partners, a capital investment firm with significant domestic and international assets from South Florida to Saudi Arabia. Epstein has various domestic and international business interests including holdings as partner in the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers Hockey Club and Sunrise Sports and Entertainment.
Through the Epstein Family Foundation he is intimately involved with many charities that benefit their local community. Active members of GILDA’S CLUB South Florida, where families touched by cancer can receive love and laughter from other “experts” living with cancer. As a strong supporter of higher education, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami where he is involved with the School of Business, frequently speaking at the school’s entrepreneurship program. David was a 2002 Junior Achievement Hall of Fame Laureate and sits as a panel judge for he University of Miami Leigh Rothschild Business Competition and the 1st Annual Florida Collegiate Business Plan Competition. Through these and many other commitments, the Epstein Family Foundation continually strives to partner with socially responsible organizations with the ultimate goal of helping improve the quality of life in South Florida and around the world.
Gold Coast Venture Forum
Texas Oil Redevelopment, LLC (the "Company"), a Florida Limited Liability Company was formed to redevelops producing oil wells in the State of Texas. The Company is a wholly owned, managed and operated subsidiary of ASH Capital, Inc., a Florida Corporation. As of February, 2008, Texas has over 22,600 oil wells which were shut-in or abandoned within the past decades, due to lower value of oil, or water infiltration. The Company redevelops, or Return to Production "RTP" these wells, using very experienced Field Operations, cutting-edge recovery techniques and are looking at introducing BEAM Technology™ to field exploration. A process where a proprietary signal is projected by transmitters into the earth, molecules in the path of the beam(s) emit signature signals which are picked up by receivers at different locations to enhance potential. Ash Capital has issued a Private Placement Memorandum. James W. Peak, CEO and Gene H. Irwin, President will present.
The Gold Coast Venture Forum is designed to facilitate the flow of information between entrepreneurs and investors and does NOT function as a securities broker-dealer, securities exchange or an investment advisor and it is not registered as such with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Companies making presentations to the Gold Coast Venture Forum have not been recommended by any federal or state securities commission, regulatory authority and government entity or by the Gold Venture Capital Association. The GCVCA makes no representation or warranties regarding the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information provided by the entrepreneurs. The GCVCA is a not-for-profit networking membership organization. The Gold Coast Venture Capital Association does not recommend nor make investments.
If your company would like to make a Gold Coast Venture Forum presentation at a GCVCA Monthly Dinner Meeting Click Here.
Guaranteed Pre-Registration No-Show/Cancellation Policy
You can make a Pre-Registration on our Website until 8:00 PM on the Tuesday August 26, 2008. All Pre-Registrations are considered as a Guaranteed Pre-Registrations. The association policy requires that a Pre-Registration must be cancelled prior to 4:00 PM on Monday August 25, 2008 due to the fact that the Association must provide a guaranteed headcount to the meeting venue at that time. If the pre-registrant is a No-Show and has Pre-Registered using a Credit Card and the Association has not receive a cancellation prior to 4:00 PM on Monday August 25, 2008 the Credit Card payment will be forfeited. If the pre-registrant is a Member and has used the "Pay at the Door" option and is a No-Show and the Association has not receive a cancellation prior to 4:00 PM on Monday August 25, 2008 then the Member will be invoiced for the Pre-Registration and the Association would appreciate the payment of the fee indicated on the Guaranteed Pre-Registration Invoice so that the Association can cover its cost.
Benefits of GCVCA Membership
One of the benefits of GCVCA Membership is access to scanned Business Cards collected at each meeting. Join today and assure your ability to follow up on contacts made at each and every meeting. For those times when it is not possible to attend the regular Monthly Dinner Meeting, Members still enjoy the benefit of access to the scanned Business Cards. Click Here for Membership Application.
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What's New
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Thank You and Welcome
For the Months of May, June and July, 2008
New Membership:
Platinum Sponsorship:
South Florida Business Journal, Melanie Dickinson & Kory Hosler
FAU Adams Center for Entreprenurship, Kimberly Gramm
Gold Sponsorship:
Greenberg Traurig, Bruce Rosetto, Esq., Rebecca DiStefano, Esq., Jon Swrgold, Esq. & Stanley Jacobs,Jr., Esq.
Large Corporate Membership:
Wealth & Tax Advisory Service, Thomas Denney
Hyde Park Capital Partners, James A. Davis, III
Small Corporate Membership:
Young America Capital, LLC, Peter Formanek
BMD Medical Technologies, Inc., Pinar Morova
Fogel & Pekale, LLP, Mitchell Fogel, Esq.
Anchor Funding Services, LLC, Beth Lahtela
ARI Research, Inc., Daniel Deakter
M-D-I Consulting, LLC, Michael Trachteberg & Irene Trachtenberg
Protiviti, Byron Traynor, Patrick Mitchell & Sanjay Deo
Workitect, Inc. Edward Cripe
Individual Membership:
Gary Bahadur
Susan Gould
Ray George
David Rosenston
Robert Burke
Charles Riggle
David Gould
Evan Karp
Kent Siefers
Lauren Cohen
Ronald Moorman
Richard Li
Membership Renewals:
Platinum Sponsorship:
Gunster Yoakley & Stewart, P.A., David Bates, Esq., Nicholas Robbins, Esq., David Scileppi, Esq., Robert Arzonetti & Robert White
Silver Sponsorship:
Rachlin Cohen, Shaun Blogg, Lewis Kevelson & John Gabriel
StreetWise Soultions International, Thomas Hogue
Capital Advisory, Inc., H. Francis Fytton & Victoria Thompson
Accrisoft Corporation, Jeffrey Kline, Philip Levine & Bob Couto
Heller Capital, Gerald Heller
Berenfeld, Spritzer, Shechter & Sheer, Tracy Weintraub, Robert Bedwell, Steven Samuels & Michael O'Rourke
Large Corporate Membership:
Loeb Equipment & Appraisal Company, James Newman
Goldstein Lewin & Company, Mark Gold & Brad McIver
Crossbow Ventures, Ravi Ugale
Small Corporate Membership:
Mary Johnson Consulting, Mary Johnson
Individual Membership:
Peter Jargowsky
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