Board Members

Board of Directors
Miles Flamenbaum, Esq., Founder and President
David Cohen, Executive Vice President and co-owner of Standard Oil of Connecticut.
Camila Denison, CEO
Charles Manning, PE, founder of VersaTrans Solutions and Creighton Manning Engineering, LLP (CME)
Christopher Harris, Senior Associate of Advantage Capital Partners
Gadi Peleg, Managing Director of Cape Investment Advisors

Advisory Board Members
Debashis Sahoo, Ph. D
John Linderman, Partner, NorthStar Partners
Mike DeMaio, President, Media Nexus

Board of Directors

Miles Flamenbaum: Miles Flamenbaum,Esq., Founder and Presdient: Mr. Flamenbaum is a business and corporate development professional with extensive experience in technology development and commercialization. He has focused his career as a senior manager in public, private and venture-backed companies to license, acquire and commercialize technology assets. Most recently, Miles was Director of Business Development and Administration at Medical Instill Technologies. He was also Director of Corporate and Business Development at Oxford Glycosciences Plc (OGS), a UK based company listed on both the London and NASDAQ exchanges. At OGS, Miles was Secretary of the Executive Committee, leading merger, acquisition and integration activities. Miles has successfully created and implemented business development and growth strategies. He developed relationships with customers and strategic partners, executing transactions resulting in the creation of over $165 million of value. Miles has managed cross-functional teams involved in product development and commercialization. He is also a member of the CEOConnex, a program sponsored by the Center for Economic Growth, a regional business accelerator based in Albany, NY. Mr. Flamenbaum is also an inventor on four US patents. He is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College (BA), Boston University (MA, International Relations), and Brooklyn Law School (JD) and is a member of the New York State Bar Association.
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David Cohen: Mr. Cohen is Executive Vice President and co-owner of Standard Oil of Connecticut. Standard Oil of Connecticut is a $100+ million company that distributes heating oil, provides heating and cooling system installation and repair, and installs and monitors home security systems. The Company serves over 35,000 customers in the Connecticut marketplace. Mr. Cohen is also an active investor in early stage companies, including Higher One, Imedx, Friendent, and SOMS Technologies. Mr. Cohen is also a limited partner in a variety of venture capital and real estate investment companies. Mr. Cohen serves on the board of directors of Imedx (a medical software system provider), gomembers (a provider of enterprise system software for the non-profit sector) and on the Jewish Community Foundation of Eastern Fairfield County (a charitable endowment). Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
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Camila Denison: Camilla Denison, Chief Executive Officer: Camilla is the former President of Champion Laboratories and has over 26 years of working with automotive companies. Champion Laboratories is a leading manufacturer of automotive and heavy duty filters. Prior to Champion, Camilla was CEO of Alemite, an automotive and industrial equipment manufacturer for lubrication. Other experiences include working with Textron, Visteon, and ITT Automotive. Camilla is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and GMI Engineering & Management School.
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Charles Manning, PE: Mr. Manning is a founder of VersaTrans Solutions and Creighton Manning Engineering, LLP (CME). Mr. Manning was President and CEO of VesaTrans from 1995-2000, growing annual revenue from less than $1 million per year to $5 million per year. He continued to serve on the VersaTrans Board of Directors until 2008 when the company was sold to Tyler Technologies. Mr. Manning was also the managing partner at CME from 1992 to 2002. During this period, the firm quadrupled its annual revenue. At CME he is responsible for the management of a wide range of transportation and traffic engineering studies as well as many of the firm's special projects. Mr. Manning has over 38 years of experience working with public agencies and private clients. He has been a Project Manager responsible for directing the completion of six projects for the NYSERDA. Mr. Manning is also an active owner/advisor of Northeast Biogas, LLP, a start-up company developing alternative energy projects in the Northeast. Finally, he is an active member of the Tech Valley Angel Network, an angel investor group based in Albany, NY.
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Christopher Harris: Mr. Mr. Harris is a member of the investment team at Advantage Capital Partners. As a member of the firm's investment group, he is primarily responsible for managing the firm's current portfolio and analyzing prospective investments. Chris actively works with several boards and has been involved in SOMS Technologies since 2009.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Chris spent several years at GE Capital in leveraged finance underwriting and investing. Mr. Harris received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a bachelor's degree in economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Gadi Peleg: Mr. Peleg is the managing director of Cape Investment Advisors. His career has been marked by leadership positions in technology and sales for Oracle Corporation, and Cognos Corporation. He is a Director of INKSURE Technologies (INKS.OB), a company applying advanced technologies for product and information security, and a Director of Atelier 4, a shipping and transportation company that specializes in fine art and antiquities. Mr. Peleg holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Owner/President's Management Program.
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Advisory Board Members
Debashis Sahoo, Ph.D.: Dr. Sahoo received his B. Tech. in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and his M.S. and Ph.D. In Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has expertise in fluid mechanics, thermal and structural engineering, material science, engineering mathematics, and operation research. Dr. Sahoo has published seven technical peer-reviewed conference papers and another technical paper and a patent are being published. He is currently leading the Research and Engineering group at Medical Instill Technologies in advanced research on design and development of medical and nutritional dispensing devices and their filling systems. Dr. Sahoo has been instrumental in the laboratory and on-the-road validation testing of the microGreen filter, and in formulating the theoretical models for better understanding and optimization of the filter. Dr. Sahoo is advising the company on product development, testing and validation.
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John Linderman, Partner, NorthStar Partners: John has over 25 years senior management experience, with a proven growth track record in marketing and business management at companies including Scott Paper, Quaker Oats, Vlasic and RJR Nabisco. As a founding partner at NorthStar, John is responsible for managing strategic consulting primarily related to optimizing route-tomarket/ channel development strategy, new product innovation, organization/infrastructure optimization, and category management. John commercializes new technologies supporting the business development practice within NorthStar Partners. His industry experience spans consumer packaged goods, automotive, healthcare, and multinational industrial companies competing across conventional retail and business-to-business channels. John is a graduate of the University of Delaware and Cornell University. He is advising the company on strategic marketing, commercialization strategy and execution, and channel development.
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Mike DeMaio, Pesident, Media Nexus: For 20 years, Mike DeMaio has utilized innovation, creativity, multiculturalism, globalism, influence networks and technology as the dominant forces shaping the decisions and companies he has built and the clients he has advised. In 1984 deMaio developed the dealer coop marketing network for Cadillac Motor Division; forming over 100-dealer associations across the US. For 15 years he provided strategic and tactical marketing platforms for associations representing 1500 dealers and 40% of Cadillac sales nationwide. In 1988 he launched Motorola's MicroTac, the first palm sized cell phone in history. It was a leap in innovation that established a multi-billion dollar wireless industry and revolutionized the field of personal communication. In 1990 he took over General Motors marketing in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait and the U.A.E., blending the power of direct to consumer marketing with the subtlely of cultural differentiation. In 1999 he took the Chief Operating Officer's job at Burrell Communications -- the largest African American Marketing Agency in the world. Supervising on global brands such as P&G, Coke, McDonalds & Verizon, he launched the Yurban^TM network, a youth marketing initiative that tapped the persuasive influence African American youth exert on general consumer behavior. Over the years he has helped build mega brands such as Kahlua, Pennzoil, Corona, Neutrogena and Adidas with innovative marketing platforms that catalyze the forces of culture, fashion, entertainment, sports, music, and technology. In 2005 DeMaio developed the experiential lifestyle marketing matrix for Scion, Toyota's youth-oriented lifestyle brand and one of the most successful new product launches in recent automotive history. In 2006 recognizing the technological tsunami that was overwhelming longstanding companies, Mike launched Media Nexusâ -- a digital media lab consultancy dedicated to developing new media solutions for global brands. Media Nexus represents Dolce and Gabbana, MTV Italy, Bacardi and the Los Angeles Times and develops mobile branded applications that are shifting the way consumers interact, exchange and consume media. Mike has been featured in Crain's Chicago Business, the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, Adweek and Backstage. He is a graduate of Yale University and a licensed attorney.
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