Management Team

Robert D. Kohn, Director, Chairman, CEO, CFO and Cofounder

Robert has served in the following executive capacities: Chairman/CEO, President/COO, CFO and Director of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development. Mr. Kohn was co‐founder of three start‐up public companies with equity and debt raised exceeding $400 million. He was President of a subsidiary of NYSE, Exelon- “EXC” www.exeloncorp.com, ranked as one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., and President and founder of entrade.com (Energy Trading) at Exelon. Early in his career, Robert co‐founded a waste to energy start‐up, ORFA Corp. of America, which went on National Market NASDAQ. He was also Co‐Founder and CEO of AssetTrade (now www.GoIndustry.com), a world leader in its market and a public company on the London Exchange.

Throughout his career, he has developed, negotiated and structured many acquisitions and strategic alliances/joint ventures. Additionally, he has served on the Board of Directors of various public companies.

Robert earned his CPA in 1975 and graduated with a BBA degree in Accounting from Temple University. He worked for Touché Ross (now Deloitte www.deloitte.com) as a senior tax consultant.


Dale Shepherd, President and Chief Operating Officer

Dale has served in numerous executive roles, as COO, CFO and Managing Director including eighteen years in the General Electric Company primarily in the Plastics and the Gas Turbine businesses. Mr. Shepherd also served six years with Kawasaki Steel Corporation building their worldwide plastics interests as the VP of Business Development and was CFO of Rogers Corporation, an AMEX company (now NYSE). Additionally, Dale was VP Finance of North American Logistics with $500 Million in revenue. Mr. Shepherd was part of the team that acquired Vertex Data Sciences Ltd (UK $800 million revenue) that provided BPO for utilities, local and national government, financial services and other industries. Dale acted as interim CFO and Managing Director of a business unit for this company.

Dale has a strong background in new business development and M&A work having participated, completed and led acquisitions from $50,000 to $2.3 billion.

Dale has a BA cum laude from the University of Maryland and a BS in Accounting from West Chester University.


Bonnie Nelson, Director and Cofounder

Bonnie Nelson was the prior owner and CEO of the Wall Street brokerage firm, Vanderbilt Securities, Inc. At Vanderbilt, she was specifically responsible for taking companies public, OTC trading, mergers and acquisitions, and the development of joint ventures and strategic alliances for her clients. Bonnie has a career spanning more than twenty years in investment and merchant banking.

Ms. Nelson has extensive experience in consulting and corporate finance for public and private companies. Bonnie has served as a senior executive in business development, responsible for developing and guiding many corporate turnarounds, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Ms. Nelson currently sits on the Board of Directors of Allied Artists.