Greg Manning owns one of the world’s most important auction houses for stamps, Greg Manning Auctions, Inc. (GMAI), is also a major auctioneer of coins, sports cards, movie posters, comic books, and other specialty collectibles. Greg Manning does business across the price spectrum but focuses on high-end specialty markets where its expertise and customer service can serve to differentiate the company from the competition. The company has a strong presence in Europe and Asia through joint ventures in Spain and China.
Media: Tim Connally
Media
Tim Connolly is the CEO of Corporate Strategies, LLC and thrives on solving difficult business problems others find impossible to fix. For over 30 years under his leadership, Corporate Strategies has created successful financial outcomes out of business crisis, litigation resolution and growth opportunities for a broad portfolio of businesses.
Victim: Elon Musk
Victim - Individual
Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers.
Investor: Warren Buffett
Investor
Warren Buffett is as the “Oracle of Omaha,” and he is one of the most successful investors of all time. Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen. Mr. Buffett is the son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and first filed taxes at age 13. He pledges to give away most of his fortune. Last year (2019) he donated $3.6 billion, much of it to the foundation of friends Bill and Melinda Gates.
Media: C. Austin (Bud) Burrell
Media
C. Austin (Bud) Burrell is a corporate finance generalist with over 30 years of Wall Street and related experience. He was a senior derivatives specialist and development stage company investment banker for more than 35 years on Wall Street.He is a 1968 Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a graduate of the Army’s Finance Officer Advanced Course.
Victim: Dr. Patrick M. Byrne
Victim - Individual
Dr. Patrick M. Byrne received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Asian studies from Dartmouth College, a master’s in philosophy (ethics) from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate in philosophy (focusing on political theory, jurisprudence, and economics) from Stanford University. Patrick served as chairman, president and CEO of Centricut, LLC, a manufacturer of industrial torch consumables, then held the same three positions at Fechheimer Brothers, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company that manufactures police, firefighter and military uniforms. Patrick Michael Byrne is the former CEO of Overstock.com, Inc., a Utah-based internet retailer that has been publicly traded since 2002.
Official: Carl T. Hagberg
Official
Carl T. Hagberg is the chairman and CEO of Carl T. Hagberg & Associates. The company was formed in January, 2014 to separate our fast-growing business of providing highly qualified Independent Inspectors of Election from our consulting and publishing businesses. The company publishes The Shareholder Service OPTIMIZER − a quarterly newsletter that helps readers to understand and implement “best practices” in a fast-changing environment − and to get the most value possible out of their investor relations and shareholder servicing budgets.
Victim: Rodney Young
Victim - IndividualRodney Young is the CEO/President of Eagletech Communications, Inc. Eagletech manufactured and marketed telephone systems for small businesses. The company was a victim of naked short selling, which resulted in their ultimate downfall because of its inability to raise funds due to naked short selling.
Victim: Rick Smith
Victim - Individual
Rick Smith, founded Axon Enterprise (formerly TASER International) in 1993. As the TASER device became ubiquitous in law enforcement, Smith pushed the company beyond weapons technology and toward a broader purpose of using hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to make the world a safer place. Smith graduated from Harvard with a BA in biology and later earned a master’s in international finance from the University of Leuven in Belgium and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Data Guru: David E. Wenger
Data Guru
David E. Wenger is the President and Chief Executive Officer and founded Shareholder Intelligence Services, LLC (ShareIntel) in 2003. During his career on Wall Street, Mr. Wenger has been involved in numerous transactions involving investment banking, private equity financing, portfolio management, retail and institutional sales. Mr. Wenger was a founder and shareholder of Auerbach Financial Group, Inc. and Auerbach Pollak & Richardson, Inc. In this capacity, he was responsible for the strategic development and growth of the firm and he led and managed the firm’s Private Equity Group. Previously, Mr. Wenger was associated with a number of global financial firms and investment banks, including PaineWebber, Inc., Lehman Brothers and Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he focused primarily on client service, training, and new business development.
OFFICIAL: David Weild
Official
David Weild is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Weild & Co. The studies that he co-authored have documented the long-term decline in equity capital formation in the United States and provided the core arguments that gave rise to the JOBS Act and many of the specific provisions contained in the JOBS Act. For these reasons, he has been called “The father of the JOBS Act.” The work has been cited by a broad range of legislators, regulators, academics, the IPO Task Force and the White House Jobs Council leading up to the JOBS Act. David has testified in Congress (most recently in June 2013) and at the SEC (most recently at the Roundtable on Decimalization) on these and other market issues and attended the signing of the JOBS Act by President Obama in the Rose Garden on April 5, 2012.
Data Guru: Richard Clark
Data Guru
Mr. Richard “Rick” Clark began his career in Orlando serving the legal community in a full spectrum of discovery and data related services. As the industry evolved to adopt technology with the growing needs in including data as a part of the discovery process, Mr. Clark expanded his technology skill set to include information governance, litigation readiness, and analytics applications spanning platforms and workflows that encompass the full spectrum of the EDRM.
Lawyer: G. Robert Blakey
Lawyer
George Robert Blakey (born 1936) is an American attorney and law professor. He is best known for his work in connection with drafting the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and for scholarship on that subject. Under the close supervision of Senator John Little McClellan, the Chairman of the Committee for which he worked, Blakey drafted the “RICO Act,” Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, signed into law by Richard M. Nixon. After Robert F. Kennedy became Attorney General, the Department began a major effort to bring criminal prosecutions against organized crime members, corrupt political figures, and faithless union officials.
Lawyer: Brent Baker
Lawyer
Brent Baker is a shareholder and member of Parsons’ litigation, securities and regulatory enforcement departments. His practice concentrates on SEC enforcement and regulatory defense, private securities litigation and government/independent investigations. He regularly advises registered entities regarding general compliance issues and is often engaged to advise clients on investment and financial services matters, and to counsel clients during regulatory examinations, on issues ranging from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters, anti-money laundering (AML) matters and proactive compliance and remediation advice.
Lawyer: Sidney Powell
Lawyer
Sidney Powell represents individuals, corporations, and governments in federal appeals in complex commercial litigation. Powell wrote LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice after seeing a core group of federal prosecutors break all the rules, make up crimes, hide evidence, and send innocent people to prison. She continues to write articles on government misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct for The Daily Caller, the Observer, the Hill, Fox News, and other outlets.
