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John Cirigliano, Chief Executive Officer

John has more than 21 years experience in private equity investment in the services and real estate sectors; and in the last three years has built a center-city-Lexington real estate development firm to implement important elements of the College Town Plan. He is Chairman/CEO of Clearbrook Companies; Chairman of GCP Services; Managing Member of HDC Holdings; and the general partner of Corporate Capital Partners. Previously, he served as a Senior Adviser to The Red Herring magazine; a Director of Digital Origin; a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch; a founding officer of Corporate Property Investors, an REIT now part of Simon Properties; and lectured at the Practising Law Institute on real estate finance. John has used technology advances consistently to enhance sustainable results for his real estate and economic development initiatives. His extensive real estate development and financing activities have been concentrated on retail and multi-family residential.

John developed an interest in philanthropy as a scholarship student at Columbia University and has served on various boards and committees related to Columbia, Outward Bound USA, and other charities. In 1987 he endowed the John Cirigliano Scholarships at Columbia which now give preference to students from Kentucky. Columbia awarded John the Alumni Medal for conspicuous service in 1991 and the Maniatty Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004.

John has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia and speaks French and Italian. He adopted Lexington as his home and center of his private equity investment activities over ten year years ago when he met and married Nancy Schmidt Hughes. John received his AB from Columbia University and his JD from New York Law School.

George Jahelka

George Jahelka has been active with Clearbrook, its affiliates and partnerships since inception. His other experiences include managing the banking, treasury and corporate finance operations for Pacific Enterprises, a large diversified holding company, and serving as Vice President, Corporate Finance for First California Company, Inc., a large regional investment-banking firm. An expert in utility rate of return matters, George has provided testimony to federal and state regulatory agencies on "cost of capital" matters. He has an AB from Columbia University and an MBA from the University of Southern California. George served six years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. From 1971 to 1996 he was a founding director of Stewart-Walker Company, a plastic packaging manufacturing company.

Reg Norris

Reg Norris was with Transamerica Leasing Inc. for 15 years as Executive Vice President of the motor carrier group and as Vice President Finance/Treasurer. In the former position, Reg was responsible for the operations of three common carriers. He had previously been in the real estate business where he focused on financing and development of commercial properties. He was also a Fellow in the Department of Real Estate at New York University for two years. Reg is a Director of Archco Inc., a fuel management firm, and Intersafe Inc., which provides risk management for common and private carriers. He is a recognized expert in the field of transportation.

Roland Alden, Chief Technology Officer

Roland Alden has over 25 years experience in software engineering and project management at significant technology and telecommunications companies. He has expertise in large-scale software development (operating systems and programming environments), telecommunications protocols, standards development, and the recruitment and management of engineering teams. His experience includes large technology companies (MAI, Data General, AT&T) and classic Silicon Valley startups (Forethought, Go and Eo). Roland was the original developer of vCard, the "electronic business card" exchange format, is the author of several computer textbooks, and developed Internet services in Nigeria, Micronesia and Guam. He uses his exceptional technical and strategic skills to advise Clearbrook clients, to assess the technological advantages and competitive landscape of intellectual property, and to review the scope of proposed alliances, partnerships and joint ventures. Beneath the technical brilliance, Roland is an artist at heart, receiving a Bachelor's Degree with Distinction from the California College of Arts and Crafts.

 

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