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  • Rakesh Bhargava
    Mr. Bhargava’s Wall Street experience spans over twenty-two years. He has served as Vice President and Partner at Kidder Peabody; as a Senior Vice President at Smith Barney and head of India distribution; as Executive Director in charge of South Asia distribution at CIBC Oppenheimer Corp.; as Executive Vice President in charge of the Middle East and Asia at Laidlaw Global Securities, and as Director of Investments at Wachovia Securities. In July 2004, Mr. Bhargava left Wachovia in order to form his own Broker Dealer – Bhargava Wealth Management LLC (member NASD/SIPC) and his Advisory firm – Blue Spruce Global Advisors LLC (SEC registered investment advisor).

    Mr. Bhargava is an advisor to a significant family office on their hedge fund allocations.

    Blue Spruce Global Advisors LLC is the Investment Manager of the Sidra Fund Ltd. (a global multi-strategy fund of hedge funds). The Sidra Fund is Cayman Incorporated and listed on the Dublin Exchange.

    Mr. Bhargava has moderated a panel on the topic “Surveying New Opportunities in India” at the MARHedge Institutional Investment Conference held in San Francisco on June 27th-29th, 2005, and a panel on India “A New Essential Part of Your Portfolio” at the CIFA Conference on March 14th-15th in Geneva. He was a keynote speaker on the “Economic Situation in India” at the Jetfin Conference on “Indian Hedge Funds” held in Geneva on June 13th, 2006.

    Mr. Bhargava holds an Advanced Professional Certificate in International Business Management from the Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, an MBA in marketing from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio and a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India.

    Mr. Bhargava was a director of the Hudson County (New Jersey) Chapter of the American Heart Association and is an active member of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur Alumni Association in the US.

 

  • Terry Collison
    Terry Collison is a Partner in Blue Rock Capital, a $51 million Delaware-based venture capital fund that developed a portfolio of equity investments primarily in seed-stage and early-stage companies. Mr. Collison has served as a Director and Board observer for a number of these companies. Separately, Mr. Collison serves as an independent outside Board member for Aviom, Inc. (streaming signal transport technology) and as a long-time Board advisor to Accugenix (genetically-based analytical testing). He also serves as a Director or Advisory Board member of Ranch Networks (Morganville, NJ), Grover Pro (Woburn, MA), and Adify Corp. (San Mateo,CA).

    Prior to forming Blue Rock Capital, Mr. Collison served as a venture advisor to private investors and venture funds, to Pennsylvania’s Ben Franklin Partnership, and to other early-stage funds in the Mid-Atlantic region. He is known for helping a wide variety of companies develop venture concepts, product commercialization strategies, management teams, marketing programs, formal business plans, and new funding.Companies he has advised have regularly been selected for the Philadelphia 100™ and for venture fairs in the Mid-Atlantic region.

    Mr. Collison has served as President of the Entrepreneurs' Forum of Greater Philadelphia and served on its Board of Directors. He was a co-founder of the Delaware Entrepreneurs' Forum and served as its first President. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Delaware Innovation Fund and the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group.

    Previously Mr. Collison has been part of new venture teams at General Electric and MTI of Latham, NY (Ford Motor Company was the corporate sponsor). Mr. Collison has lectured at the Wharton School and elsewhere and he was a co-founder of the innovative School of Architecture and Environmental Design of the State University of New York (SUNYAB). He has appeared as a featured speaker at conferences sponsored by inc. MAGAZINE, the National Business Incubation Association, the Licensing Executives Society, the Association of University Technology Managers, the US Department of Commerce, and other organizations.

    Mr. Collison received his Master's degree in Planning with High Honors from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his B.A. cum laude from Williams College (PhiBeta Kappa).

 

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