Pedro F. Mata -  Pedro spent 29 years at W.R. Grace where he was a Senior Vice President and rotating member of the Board. Pedro served as President of Allied Food Industries, Ambrosia Chocolate Company, Baker & Taylor and Grace Cocoa. Pedro also served as President of Primedia’s Educational Group and founded MGS Mata Global Solutions. Pedro holds a B.S. and M.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Cornell University where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Pedro P. Mata - An entrepreneur focused on venture start-ups, Pedro is responsible for daily execution of representation projects for MGS clients.  Previously, he served as President & CEO of Chili Systems, Inc. and CTO of Cordia Corporation in the technology and telecomm industries. He also had an operations role as development/integration manager for Universal Recoveries serving property and casualty and healthcare insurance.  Mr. Mata holds a B.S. degree from Roger Williams University.

Jay Berkman - Jay provides three decades of senior level business development, capital raising, and marketing roles for global corporations, turn-arounds, and leading edge start-ups within the financial markets, insurance, new media, technology, and entertainment sectors. A former member of the NYSE, ASE, and CBOE, Jay's roles have included establishing an insurance claims administration company and overseeing $20 million in pending claims; he raised initial venture capital and served as one of 4 co-founders of an electronic exchange platform for fixed income products (later acquired by a global bank where he then served as a senior business development executive); Interim CEO of a NASDAQ-listed entertainment company; and Global Marketing Executive for an international on-line brokerage.  Jay graduated from George Washington University with a BBA in Finance/Accounting

Daniel Blank - Daniel has over 25 years of diverse experience as senior executive, consultant, entrepreneur and investor. Currently the President and CEO of Bright Meridian International, Daniel has held leadership positions with Wall Street firms in research, trading and technology. Prior to forming Bright Meridian, he was President of a joint venture between Reuters and the NASDAQ Stock Market known as the IRN, and spent 8 years as a senior executive with Instinet, the world’s largest agency brokerage.

As a consultant with the Zacota Group and Enterprise Analysis Corporation, he has helped clients with sales, marketing, business development and strategy from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Industries include financial services, technology and healthcare. Daniel has been a venture investor and advisor since 1999. He holds a BSBA degree from the University of Denver.

Dan Cohen - Dan has spent the last fifteen years working in some of Madison Avenue’s most prestigious global advertising agencies. He is currently a Senior Vice President/Creative Director at Publicis New York where he works with clients such as Procter & Gamble and Pernod Ricard.

Prior to joining Publicis, Dan held creative and account management positions at JWT, DDB, and McCann-Erickson. He has developed memorable communications platforms and brand identities for clients such as Hershey, Nabisco, Kimberly Clark, Schick Razors, Cadbury Adams, and Philips Electronics. Dan holds a BA in English from Brandeis University and a Masters in Marketing from the Stern School of Business.

Jerry Hui - Jerry Hui, has more than 20 years of experience in the electronics industry. Professionally chartered engineer, a technoprenuer also with good cross cultural management experience. He was in charge of a private company spanning over 8 countries in Asia, strategized successfully to bring public listing approval of the company to the Singapore Stock Exchange, after winning the prestigious Enterprise-50 Award in four consecutive years.

Besides strong management skills, he has had many years of hands on product development, experiences in working with government for overseas market development trade missions. Before his Singapore career migration, he worked in global corporations like Motorola, Avnet, gaining more than a decade of distribution marketing experiences in Australasia. He had been a regular contributing business writer by invitation to write for Singapore Business Times between 2003 to 2005.

Carolina Mata - Carolina Mata is a marketing director at Whirlpool Corporation, the largest appliance manufacturer in the world.  She has more than 17 years of experience in brand marketing and consumer loyalty, advertising, public relations, marketing communications and employee engagement.  She has held positions in marketing communications agencies where she led the technology business and transformed strategies into action.  

Carolina is a certified innovation consultant and lends those skills within Whirlpool, with strategic partners and within the community to create strategies, corporate visions and collaborative work plans.  Carolina has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of New Hampshire and a master's of business administration from the University of Notre Dame.