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November 17, 2008 |
William Early Van Cleve, Jr. - Managing Director
Mr. Van Cleve provides business development, acquisition, and marketing services and is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors. He is a twenty-year veteran of retail trading in securities, commodities and private equity and has held Series 3, 7, 22, 63 and 65 licenses. He previously was appointed to the Executive Committee for Million Dollar Producers with American Skandia/Prudential Insurance in 2006 and served as First Vice President at Wachovia Securities. At Oppenheimer, he created and initiated the mutual fund and variable annuity wholesale trading division for the southern region in 2004. He was responsible for SOES and Level 2 and 3 trading and operations in 2000, utilizing his prior experience heading up an aggressive build-out of early-stage wireless and cellular network infrastructure for most of Southern California and the Southwest region in 1997. Mr. Van Cleve had joined the venture capital firm of Omnivison Wireless in 1994 in Del Mar, CA, securing seed capital and mezzanine financing, and participating in the acquisition of wireless [high and low bandwidth] and cellular radio-magnetic spectrum licensing from the FCC as a consultant. He also headed up the oilfield property acquisition division for Swift Energy, supervising the capitalization for several deep-water drilling enterprises off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA for American Energy in Los Angeles in 1992. As Assistant Regional Manager for The International Trading Group, Ltd., he was responsible for managing a team of 13 commodity traders, specializing in arbitrage and early derivatives trading in the FOREX, metals and agricultural markets. Mr. Van Cleve graduated with a BA from Mississippi State University following military service in the United States Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, CA., participating in WESTPAC operations utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology available at the time for TOW and DRAGON ground-to-ground intercept missions. He was honorably discharged as a platoon commander of a special weapons battalion.
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