about MSGI
http://www.msgisecurity.com/
MSGI Security Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: MSGI) is an international provider of proprietary wireless security solutions to commercial and government organizations. MSGI is developing a combination of innovative emerging businesses that leverage information and technology for actionable surveillance and intelligence monitoring.
By offering fully integrated state-of-the-art applications that are mobile, secure, covert and adaptable to any environment, MSGI is viewed by its customers as an important partner in the fight against crime and terrorism. MSGI currently provides encryption software, video surveillance systems, and related content that address the needs of critical infrastructure protection, dignitary protection, emergency response, evacuation, general security, and transportation management. The Company is currently comprised of several businesses, which collectively deliver a powerful array of synergies for cross-selling and joint product development. MSGI is engaged in an ongoing corporate growth program whose focus is on strategic alliances, co-branding relationships and acquisitions.
The Company is headquartered in New York City where it serves the needs of counter-terrorism, public safety, law enforcement and commercial security in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Management
Jeremy Barbera
Mr. Barbera has been Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of MSGI and its predecessor businesses since April 1997, and has served as Director and Officer since October 1996 when MSGI Direct was acquired in an exchange of stock. He founded MSGI Direct in 1987, which was twice named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Mr. Barbera pioneered the practice of database marketing for the live entertainment industry in the 1980's, achieving nearly one hundred percent market share in New York. Under his leadership, MSGI originated the business of web-based ticketing in 1995 and became the dominant services provider in every major entertainment market in North America. Their principal areas of concentration also included: financial services, fundraising and publishing.
MSGI was named one of the 50 fastest growing public companies in both 2001 and 2002 by Crains New York Business. In April 2004, Mr. Barbera completed the divestiture of the MSGI legacy businesses and re-birthed the company in the homeland security industry as MSGI Security Solutions.
Prior to founding MSGI Direct, Mr. Barbera was a research scientist based at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, working on such groundbreaking missions as Pioneer Venus and the Global Atmospheric Research Program. Mr. Barbera has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of technology, software, marketing and database management services. Mr. Barbera is a Physicist educated at New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joseph C. Peters, Esq.
Mr. Peters, President of MSGI Security Solutions Inc. served President George W. Bush as the Assistant Deputy Director for State and Local Affairs of the White House's Drug Policy Office - commonly referred to as the Drug Czar's Office. There his duties included supervision of the country's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program. Mr. Peters also served as the Drug Czar's Liaison to the White House Office of Homeland Security and Governor Tom Ridge.
Previously, Mr. Peters joined the Clinton White House, to direct the country's 26 HIDTA's, with an annual budget of a quarter billion dollars. Mr. Peters also represented the White House with police, prosecutors, governors, mayors and many non-governmental organizations. Mr. Peters began his career as a State prosecutor when he joined the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office in 1983. He later served as a Chief Deputy Attorney General of the Organized Crime Section, and in 1989 was named the first Executive Deputy Attorney General of the newly created Drug Law Division. In that capacity, Mr. Peters oversaw the activities of 56 operational drug task forces throughout the State, involving approximately 760 local police departments with 4,500 law enforcement officers.
Mr. Peters consults to national and international law enforcement organizations on narco-terrorism and related intelligence and prosecution issues. He is an associate member of the Pennsylvania District Attorney's Association, and a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, where he sits on their Terrorism Committee. Mr. Peters has devoted his entire career to public service.
John Gerlach
A Director of the Company since December 1997, Mr. Gerlach is chairman of the M&A Committee and a member of both the Audit and Compensation committees of the Board of Directors. He is currently Senior Executive Professor of the graduate business program and Associate Professor of Finance at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Previously, Mr. Gerlach was a Director in Bear Stearns' corporate finance department, with responsibility for mergers and financial restructuring projects; President and Chief Operating Officer of Horn & Hardart; and Founder and President of Consumer Growth Capital. Mr. Gerlach also serves as a director for Uno Restaurant Co.; SAFE Inc.; Cycergie (a French company); Akona Corp.; and the Board of Regents at St. John's University in Collegeville, MN; he is a member of an advisory board for Drexel University's College of Business & Administration.
David C. Stoller
A Director of the Company since March 2004 and a member of the Audit Committee, Mr. Stoller has been involved in public and private finance for the last 20 years. Mr. Stoller began his professional career as an attorney. He was partner and co-head of global finance for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP where he helped build one of the world's largest and most successful practices, participating personally in financings totaling more than $4 billion.
At the end of 1992, Mr. Stoller joined Charterhouse Group International, a large New York City-based private equity firm, as chairman of its Environmental Capital Group. In 1993, Mr. Stoller, through the Charterhouse Environmental Group, launched American Disposal Services, an integrated waste management company that ultimately acquired and consolidated, with $34mm in equity capital, more than 70 waste management companies, located principally in the Midwest. American Disposal had a successful IPO in July 1996, and shortly afterward, Mr. Stoller, still chairman, became a general partner at Charterhouse and actively participated in raising $1 billion for Charterhouse's third private equity fund. American Disposal was sold in 1998 to Allied Waste for a price exceeding $1.3 billion. In August of 1998, Mr. Stoller left Charterhouse to launch Americana Financial Services, raising over $25mm in private equity capital. Americana (now the American Wholesale Insurance Group) is currently one of the top five largest private wholesale insurance brokerages in the United States.
In 2002, Mr. Stoller launched TransLoad America LLC, which is principally in the business of transloading and transporting waste materials by rail, with an initial focus on the northeastern section of the United States. Mr. Stoller holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania; an M.A. from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research; and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.
Seymour Jones
A Director of the Company since June 1996 and a member of the Audit Committee, Mr. Jones has been Professor of Accounting at New York University since September 1993. From April 1974 to September 1995, Mr. Jones was a senior partner of the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In addition to 40-plus years of accounting experience, Mr. Jones has more than ten years of experience as an arbitrator and an expert witness, particularly in the areas of fraud, mergers and acquisitions, and accounting matters. Mr. Jones also functions as a consultant to Milberg Factors and CHF Industries, and serves as a director for Reliance Bank.
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Share Structure
39M O/S
100M A/S
Float 28m