Board of Directors 

Jerry Gruenbaum - CEO

Attorney Jerry Gruenbaum who operates from the Westport, Connecticut office has been admitted to practice law since 1979 and is a licensed attorney in various states including the State of Connecticut. He currently serves as an officer and/or member of the board of directors of various publicly traded companies. A holder of securities licenses Series 4, 7, 24, 27 53, 63, and 65, he is the Chairman of the Board, and CEO of the Puritan Financial Group, a publicly traded financial company, and its NASD member, SEC licensed brokerage firms Puritan Securities, Inc. headquartered in Westport, Connecticut, with offices in New York City, New York and West Palm Beach, Florida. He is a former President and a Chairman of the Board of Directors of a multinational publicly traded company with operations in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. He worked for the tax departments for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG Peat Marwick LLP) and Arthur Anderson & Co. He is the current securities Compliance Director for Puritan Securities, Inc. and previously served in that capacity for CIGNA Securities, a division of CIGNA Insurance. He has lectured and taught as a member of the faculty at various Colleges and Universities throughout the United States in the areas of Industrial and financial Accounting, taxation, business law, and investments. Attorney Gruenbaum graduated with a B.S. degree from Brooklyn College - C.U.N.Y. Brooklyn, New York; has a M.S. degree in Accounting from Northeastern University Graduate School of Professional Accounting, Boston, Massachusetts; has a J.D. degree from Western New England College School of Law, Springfield, Massachusetts; and an LL.M. in Tax Law from the University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida.

Nathan Lapkin - CFO

Mr. Nathan Lapkin who operates from the Westport, Connecticut office serves as a legal assistant and as an advisor on matters relating to securities and finance. His ten-plus year career includes positions in corporate finance, institutional trading, institutional sales and investment banking. He currently serves as an officer and/or member of the board of directors of various publicly traded companies. A holder of securities licenses Series 7, 24, 63, and 65, he is the Chief Financial Officer and member of the board of the Puritan Financial Group, a publicly traded financial company, and of its two NASD member brokerage firms Puritan Securities, Inc. headquartered in Westport, Connecticut and Knightsbridge Securities, Inc. headquartered in Tampa, Florida. He previously worked for Thompson Financial in New York City, and sat on Morgan Stanley's domestic and international trading desks and HSBC's International trading desk. He worked in the domestic U.S. Institutional sales desk at UBS Warburg, where he was given direct responsibility and co-responsibility for large institutional accounts, including several hedge funds. He previously was employed in the corporate finance department of LensCrafters' Canadian headquarters in Toronto where he was involved in a CDN $20 million sales retail optical chain acquisition, in addition to the capital and operational budgeting. As a financial analyst, Mr. Lapkin wrote the monthly management discussion and analysis used for corporate reporting. Mr. Lapkin graduated with honors from Syracuse University with a Masters in Business Administration (concentrations in Finance and Statistics) and the University of Manitoba, with a Bachelor in Commerce with concentrations in finance and economics.