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Bart Timm
Bartholomew Timm is the Executive Director of MBA Programs at The George Washington University, as well as a faculty member at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., where he teaches in the graduate, professional and undergraduate business programs. He specializes in change management, team and group dynamics, effective leadership, strategic planning, for profit and non-profit business development, and hiring, turnover and staffing solutions, and has published and spoken on these and related topics.
Mr. Timm's additional experience over the past twenty five years includes executive positions with AT&T, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Grubb & Ellis, Georgetown University Medical Center and the National Association for Home Care (for-profit affiliate, Washington D.C.), where he served as COO. He has also served as Executive Director of Georgetown Medical Center's Cardiovascular-Kidney Institute where he supervised all management, growth and funding activities, CEO of a multipurpose home health care company, and as an officer on active duty in the United States Navy.
Mr. Timm has taught business for more than a decade at Georgetown, Indiana University, Notre Dame and other universities.
Mr. Timm earned his M.B.A. from Notre Dame and his B.S. in biology with honors from Hiram College in Ohio.
Mr. Timm may be reached by phone at 202-994-4856 or by e-mail at btimm@georgetownadvisory.com or btimm@gtadv.com .
Bert Kelley
Bert Kelley has advised on legal and business matters for the past twenty years, practicing in both corporate and law firm settings. Since 1990, he has served as counsel for the Kabool Group of companies (headquartered in Asia, 10,000+ employees worldwide) overseeing matters in the areas of litigation, venture capital investment, business development, dispute resolution, employment, contracts, intellectual property, commercial and regulatory law. In addition, he has served as counsel for the non-profit Institute for Injury Reduction.
Mr. Kelley is a faculty member at Georgetown University and University of Maryland School of Business, teaching business law and related subjects at both the graduate and undergraduate level. His research on legal and business issues has appeared in Law and Policy (Blackwell Oxford Publishing, England), on the CBS News and other media and publications. Mr. Kelley also holds a patent on the Liblex business method for online legal content management. Mr. Kelley graduated Princeton University with a B.A. in economics and earned his J.D. at Vanderbilt Law School.
Mr. Kelley has been admitted to practice law in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and California. He is registered and provides services as Hubert Kelley LLC, a Virginia Limited Liability Company, on file with the Virginia Corporations Commission. Mr. Kelley may be reached by phone at 202-903-6333 or by e-mail at bkelley@georgetownadvisory.com or bkelley@gtadv.com .
Ron Gerber
Ronald J. Gerber is the CEO of Angelbeat, Founder of Gerber & Company, LLC, and serves on the Board of Directors and is a former President of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York.
Angelbeat has held over 300 Advanced Technology Symposiums on Security/Network/Wireless/VoIP throughout North America since its founding in 1998. Angelbeat is the largest technology event company in North America based on its 56-city geographic coverage. These forums bring together IT/telecommunications executives with global technology leaders from Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, HP, IBM, Juniper, Symantec, Check Point, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Cingular, RIM and others.
The New York Times has selected Mr. Gerber to write quarterly supplements on the wireless industry for the New York Times Advertising Department. Further details are available at http://www.angelbeat.com/.
Before starting Angelbeat, Ron Gerber founded and managed Gerber & Company, LLC (“GC”), a specialized consulting and M&A firm. Ron Gerber restructured $4 billion Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), leading to a spin-off of its Authentec biometric fingerprint unit, Terion wireless two-way dispatch system for fleet management, and Intersil semiconductor operations specializing in Wi-Fi 802.11 chipsets. For $2 billion Systemax (NYSE:SYX), Gerber negotiated and implemented their ISP partnership with MSN, auction alliance with Amazon and on-line financial services tie with USABancShares.com. Further details are available at http://www.gerbercompany.com/
From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Gerber worked for Pittway Corporation (NYSE:PRY), holding senior management positions including Vice President of Marketing, Vendor Relationships and Purchasing for its $1.2 billion ADI distribution subsidiary and Vice President, Business Development for its Ademco manufacturing subsidiary. He launched their website, adapted EDI linkages to IP-based Internet applications, coordinated biometric initiatives such as incorporating voice recognition technology in alarm equipment, expanded sales of wireless alarm systems using low-cost, high-reliability and low-data-content transceivers, created new marketing programs for its Alarmnet wireless/cellular alarm monitoring network, developing an OEM spread spectrum product for high-reliability, low cost and low data content applications, advised its Cylink affiliate on new markets for its encryption technology and divestiture of its high data content wireless transmission business unit and structured an innovative home networking joint venture with Microsoft, TCI and PG&E.
From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Gerber worked for the AVX Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:AVX). Gerber was in charge of and led a successful turnaround of its $400M Surface Mount Manufacturing Division, reversing a (10%) loss to 9% profitability in just two years while growing sales by 30%. Key customers included the world’s leading telecommunication firms such as Lucent, Nortel, IBM, Motorola, etc. Many of its products were used for military and NASA/satellite applications. He has also worked for Accenture (Andersen Consulting).
Mr. Gerber received a B.S. in Engineering from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He currently serves as Director of the Harvard Business School Club of New York and previously served as President of both the Harvard Business School Club of New York and the Harvard Business School Club of Dallas.
Mr. Gerber may be reached by phone at 212-812-2311 or by e-mail at rgerber@georgetownadvisory.com or rgerber@gtadv.com .
Joshua Newberg
(1959 - 2007)
Joshua A. Newberg was an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, where he specialized in teaching business law. For the past eight years, he taught courses including the Legal Environment of Business, Business Ethics, Law for Managers, and Law and Technology. In addition to teaching at the Smith School, Prof. Newberg conducted training seminars in contract law and negotiation.
Before joining the Smith School faculty, Prof. Newberg practiced law with
the leading international law firm of Shearman & Sterling and spent several years in government with the Federal Trade Commission. At Shearman & Sterling, he practiced in the areas of international trade, corporate litigation, and antitrust. He then served as a staff attorney with the FTC’s Bureau of Competition and as an Attorney-Advisor to Commissioner Roscoe B. Starek.
In the past decade, Mr. Newberg has published numerous articles, spoken
widely, and held several notable leadership positions: President,
Vice-President, and Secretary of the Mid-Atlantic Academy of Legal Studies in Business; Staff and Articles Editor of the American Business Law Journal; and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for the non-profit
organization, DC College Bound. Prof. Newberg’s articles have been
published in leading law journals, including the Harvard Journal of Law &
Technology, Georgetown International Law Journal, North Carolina Law
Review, and the Columbia International Law Journal. He currently serves as Assistant Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.
Mr. Newberg graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was Associate Editor of the U. Penn. Law Review. He clerked for Chief Judge William J. Holloway, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Mr. Newberg received his M.A. and B.A., summa cum laude, from the
University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Washington, D.C. and New York Bar Associations.
Josh was a respected scholar and professional, a valued and generous colleague, sensitive and thoughtful to all, and our good friend.
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