Management, Board and Investors Biographies

Safety Capital Partner has a seasoned management team, with the right skills and expertise to attract, review, analysis, select and grow their portfolio companies. Safety Capital Partners can also assist with just securing financing or assist with pending mergers your company has plans for in the near future.

Leonard R. Nuth - President and investment partner of Safety Capital Partners. Leonard is also the founder and President of SafetyHQ, Inc. Mr. Nuth was the former president of Safety.com. Mr. Nuth has over 20 years of experience in the safety and security industry, business ownership, retail management, banking, real estate development and large scale auctioneering. Mr. Nuth was the former Senior Vice President of B2B at Safetytips.com where he developed the company's overall business strategy, created core revenue models, established US and international channel distribution relationships and directed the company's overall acquisition strategies.

Mr. Nuth spent over 10 years in the law enforcement, corrections and safety industry, and graduated with a BA in Sociology with a minor in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Nuth is a current member of the National Association Safety Professionals, Homeland Security Industry Association, Safety and Health Council of New Hampshire (National Safety Council NH Chapter), Association of Internet Professionals, Massachusetts Electronic Commerce Association, New England Healthcare Consortium, New England Chinese Information Network Association, Merrimack Valley Venture Forum and the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Charles Kosta - is the CTO and investment partner at Safety Capital Partners. Mr. Kosta is co-founder and CTO for SafetyHQ, Inc. Dr Kosta has a background in contemporary computer based sciences and has managed to succeed in a series private sector positions that brought him eye to eye with the challenges of responding to government standards and regulation. He was previously Vice President of Engineering at Safety Net Solutions, Inc. While handling several top management roles at SNS, Dr. Kosta led extensive work with the US Departments of Transportation, Justice and Defense. His government experience includes systems integration for the U.S. Air Traffic Management and Routing System under the DOT's Pre-Y2K deadline. He had a management role in DOJ/INS Re-architecture Analysis and was a member of the DOD’s, Joint Training System development team with Dynamics Research Corporation.

In addition to doing research in Parallel Expert systems for NASA Johnson Space Center, Chuck did research work on Solar Cell inspection and assembly with the Dept. of Energy and Spire Corporation. Dr Kosta received his doctorate in Intelligent Actors and Knowledge Based Systems from the University Of Mass. His dissertation work investigated the use of 3D virtual worlds for purposes of control, collaboration and training in an internet environment. In addition to his government projects responsibilities, Chuck also led SNS's internal Web initiative and participated in several successful high end internet back-ends for private sector clients including Engage and Avid Technologies.

Elenka Czaja - is COO and investment partner at Safety Capital Partners. Mrs Czaja was the former Director of Internet Content at Safety.com. Ms. Czaja has over 25 years of business management and market experience. She was the co-founder and Executive Vice President of Metzger/McGuire, a national company providing products, services and education to Fortune 500 Distribution Center Executives. As Executive Vice President of Pluramed, a startup focused on the integrative medicine industry, she oversaw the development of web site architecture, content management and channel marketing. Her work in the construction, distribution, food, pharmaceutical, education and healthcare industries provides her with first-hand product and market knowledge. Ms Czaja earned a BS from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and an M.Ed from the University of New Hampshire.

Mr. Bernard Ussher - is analyst and investment partner at Safety Capital Partners. Mr Ussher was company's Director of Sales at Safety.com. Previously, Mr. Ussher was Vice President in charge of acquisitions for SafetyTips.com where he handled the acquisition of APBNews through bankruptcy court. He was formerly the US fund manager with MIP Equity Fund, a Dutch based $350M private equity fund, in which position he served on the boards of HHB Softron, Aries Technology and Palladian Technology. Mr. Ussher received his BS Degree of Electrical Engineering from University College, Dublin, Ireland and his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.



Board Members

Ross Miller - Board Member, Mr. Miller is the founder (1992) and President of Safety Net Solutions and as such has provided innovative software solutions to a large client base by combining extensive hardware, software, and firmware experience with proven project management skills. Mr. Miller is very skilled at working closely with executive management, clients, sales, marketing, and engineers to deliver quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner. He is an innovative software architect and programmer, and has a long and distinguished career developing and implementing quality products.
Mr. Miller has a wide variety of technology skills, which he is very effective at bringing to bear on the projects he takes on. He is a skilled architect in the area of networking; is proficient in over twenty computer languages including Java, Visual C/C++ and Visual Basic; has worked in a variety of operating environments such as UNIX, Linux, Windows NT/2000 with clustering, Solaris and HP-UX; and has experience with the major database products Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server Clustered. He has expertise in Distributed Applications development, Parallel Applications development, and Expert Systems development; as well as extensive Program Management, Project Leadership, Software and Systems Architect, Consulting, and Senior Developer experience.

George Markowsky - Board member Mr. Markowsky is the president of Ayersisland.com, a thinktank located just south of University of Maine at Orono, ME. - President of Ayers Island, LLC. He came to the University of Maine in 1983 to assume the first permanent chair in the Department of Computer Science. Prior to joining the University of Maine, George worked for ten years at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There he pursued key work in the foundations of computer science and performed research in various theoretical and practical subjects.

George also founded Trefoil Corporation in 1994 as a computer software and general consulting firm. Trefoil offers custom programming and a wide variety of technical services.
 

Key Investors

Mr. Robert Norton, President and CEO of C-Level Enterprises (formerly Condor Enterprises) has over 15 years as full-time President and CEO of numerous successful companies. Two grew to over $100 million in annual sales while Mr. Norton was there and one grew from $0 to over $1 billion in revenue today. He has helped launch eight startup companies and over 30 products. His experience spans all key disciplines needed to start, grow and exit businesses in several industries. He can provide a breath of experience and perspective across all disciplines that only experienced CEOs can.

With 22 total years experience, including former positions as Senior Software Architect, VP Engineering and CTO, Mr. Norton cna understand both deep technical issues and strategic management issues. So often operations, product development and marketing issues are deeply interwoven, requiring multi-disciplinary experience to effectively solve problems. Mr. Norton's breath of experience allows for complete validation and/or improvement of entire business models for maximum growth and profit. He is also a specialist at designing long-term competitive advantages into businesses so profit margins can be maintained and stockholders build sustainable revenue and profits that can justfy high multiples on exit.