Mr. Sandiaga S. Uno, also known as Sandi, MBA, serves as President Director at PT Indonesia Bulk Terminal (IBT), PT Saratoga Infrastruktur, and PT Interra Indo Resources. Mr. Uno serves as the President Director at PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya Tbk, PT Mitra Global Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Fleur Enterprises Limited, PT Lintas Marga Sedaya and Attica Finance Limited. He served as a Director of General Affairs at PT Adaro Energy Tbk until July 28, 2015. Mr. Uno co-founded PT Recapital Advisors in 1997. Previously, he served as the President Director of PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya Tbk from 2004 to April 2, 2015. He served as Vice President for Small and Medium Enterprises of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) from 2009 to 2010. Mr. Uno served as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at NTI Resources Ltd., from September 1995 to 1998. He served as Group Investment Manager at MP Holdings Ltd from May 1994 to August 1995. He served as Financial Analyst at Seapower Asia Investment Ltd. from July 1993 to April 1994. He served as a Co-Founder, Chief Executive, Founding Partner, President, Principal, Managing Director and Director of PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya Tbk (Saratoga Capital Investment). He began his career with the Summa Group of Companies, as Finance and Accounting Officer until June 1993. Mr. Uno serves as the President Commissioner of PT Bonecom Industri Pangan. He served as President Commissioner of PT Capitalinc Investment Tbk until September 22, 2010. He served as Deputy Chairman of Interra Resources Ltd. from July 1, 2005 to April 28, 2016 and its Non-Executive Director from July 1, 2003 to April 28, 2016. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce (KADIN) in UMKM and Cooperative Body Affairs. He serves as a Member of Board of Commissioners at PT Seroja LD Maritim. He has been an Independent Commissioner of PT Duta Graha Indah Tbk since September 2007. Mr. Uno serves as Commissioner of PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya Tbk and PT Medco Power Indonesia. He serves as Commissioner of PT Saptaindra Sejati, PT Global Kalimantan Makmur and PT Makmur Sejahtera Wisesa. He serves as a Commissioner of PT Adaro Indonesia. He served as an Independent Commissioner of PT Nusa Konstruksi Enjiniring Tbk from September 2007 to June 15, 2015. He served as a Commissioner of PT Berau Coal Energy Tbk since March 2010. He serves as a Director of PT Adaro Energy Tbk. Previously, he served as a Non-Executive Director at Van der Horst Ltd. since July 2003. He served as a Commissioner of PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure Tbk from March 2010 to April 25, 2012. He served as Director of PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya Tbk. He served as the Chairman of Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI) from 2005 to 2008. He was the team manager for the Indonesian Women National Basketball team for the 2005 Southeast Asia Games in Manila. He served as a member of Asia Society’s Asia 21 fellows, class of 2008. He was elected as a member of Indonesian Economic Council (Komite Ekonomi Nasional) in June 2010. He served as Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperatives sector from 2004 to 2010. He is an elected member of the Indonesian Economic Committee (KEN) since 2010. He was awarded the 2008 Indonesian Entrepreneur of the Year by Enterprise Asia. Mr. Uno holds a degree in Master of Business Administration majoring in International Business and Finance at George Washington University, Washington, USA, in 1992 and a Degree in Bachelor of Business Administration, majoring in Accounting from Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA in 1990.

Arkady Itkin is a civil litigation attorney specializing in a wide range of employment related issues, claims and wrongful termination cases, as well as serious personal injury cases, and business litigation (drafting contracts and representing individuals and businesses in contractual disputes). He is licensed to practice law in the State of California and Northern and Eastern U.S. District Courts.

Mr. Itkin graduated from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2007, and received his M.A. in Philosophy with the emphasis on Greek/Roman philosophy at San Francisco State University. Prior to, and while attending law school, Mr. Itkin worked as a paralegal and a law clerk in several prominent civil litigation law firms in San Francisco and Sacramento, including the Choulos, Choulos & Wyle firm in San Francisco, and the legal department of Union Pacific Railroad Company in Sacramento.

Mr. Itkin is a member of American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section of the California Bar, San Francisco and Sacramento Bar Associations, California Employment Lawyers Association, and Consumer Attorneys of California Association. He is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education classses for attorneys throughout Northern California.

Mr. Itkin is fluent in Hebrew and Russian. In his free time, he enjoys playing and watching tennis, reading, writing, mixing music, and photography.
 

http://www.arkadylaw.com/

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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR

Tess has spoken regularly at the United Nations (Geneva and New York) and other international platforms on behalf of women & children with the message of using media and technology to bridge the cultures of the world.

Her career in the entertainment and technology industries has spanned 25+ years, Tess has a passion and commitment to lead initiatives and programs that have a major give-back to the world.

GLOBAL WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT NETWORK – FOUNDED IN 2012
WORLD TRUST FOUNDATION – FOUNDED 1994
UNITED NATIONS – SINCE 2000
SPARK -ART PROJECT – 2016
WATER BEARERS – 2016

HERE ARE A FEW INITIATIVES THAT LEAD THE STORY 
FOR TESS’S JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD:

Sri Lanka – Rebuild Homes post tsunami
Guatemala – Macadamia Tree Project for Farmers
Vietnam – Orphanage build sleeping quarters
Thailand – Orphanage bring instruments and art program to music school
Cambodia – Orphanage
El Salvador – Sewing School bring sewing machines to empower revenue for women
Ghana – 3 day workshops for young leaders
South Africa – Orphanage
Ghana – Orphanage – art workshop and donation of art supplies
Ghana – donation of water filters in village, school and maternity ward in hospital
Haiti – Solar Tents post Earthquake

[GWEN_Logo_BG-PRL_3 copy] Global Women’s Empowerment Network (GWEN) is a not-for-profit organization that empowers women and children through human rights issues (domestic violence, sex trafficking, child marriage, etc.)

Matt Rusling is an international journalist and entrepreneur.

 

The founder and CEO of Borderless News Online, he has covered numerous Asian countries for a decade. He continues to publish with major U.S. publications and global news wire services. He has appeared as an expert on various radio outlets including BBC News and National Public Radio. He has interviewed top politicians and business leaders in Asia and has conducted on-the-ground investigations into criminal organizations and human rights abuses at his own personal risk.

 

He has covered human trafficking, Asia's Internet revolution and Asia's rapidly shifting economic, political and social landscape.  He spent five years reporting from Asia and also lived in Africa and Europe, living nearly a decade in total outside the U.S. He has a masters of journalism from Northwestern University's Medill Graduate School of Journalism and is fluent in Japanese and German, and speaks some Chinese and Korean.

 

http://www.borderlessnewsonline.com/

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-rusling/

Michael H. Trenholm is a resident partner in our Palo Alto office.  Mr. Trenholm focuses on representing companies with their patent, copyright and trademark matters including patent procurement, licensing and litigation related issues.  Mr. Trenholm has also worked extensively in the Inland Empire region of Southern California and maintains a practice in Southern California.

Mr. Trenholm is active in a wide variety of legal and technical organizations in both the Silicon Valley and Southern California.  He is formerly the President of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and served on the Board of Directors for the Riverside County Bar Association.  Mr. Trenholm has also taught law school and university level classes on intellectual property law and general business law at the University of LaVerne and at campuses of the California State University.

Mr. Trenholm joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 1998.

Education

University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law (J.D. 1992), Order of the Coif
University of California - Los Angeles (B.S. Electrical Engineering 1987)
 

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California Business and Securities Attorneys Methven & Associates

Methven & Associates is a law firm handling business and real-estate law. One of our specialties is securities law: We advise companies and funds (syndications) that are raising money what type of offering is best for them and handle the disclosure documents and filings. See below for more information on this.

Our clients' businesses range in size from individuals and an entrepreneurs' first start-ups through large multinational corporations. We provide legal advice and representation regarding contracts, corporations, LLC's, LLP's, partnerships, trademarks and other intellectual property, web-site terms and conditions and privacy policies, licenses, confidentiality agreements, leases, real estate syndications and investment, and related litigation, arbitration and mediation.

If you think we can help you with your business case, securities issue, intellectual property, or some other legal matter, please contact us.

Learn how to raise money without violating the law at our Securities Law blog.
 

http://www.methvenlaw.com/

Nicole Coady is a writer, director and producer with over 15 years of Hollywood film making experience. Entertainment Weekly has this to say about her first high grossing film: “Embrace of the Vampire plays the vampire/victim dynamic to the hilt and packs a substantial punch!” and USA Today hails her work as, “A delight!”
 
Nicole received her Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in Film.  She went on to pursue a career in the film industry working for such companies as the Creative Artists Agency, producer John Hart’s Hart Hubbard Films, and Tristar Entertainment before embarking on screenwriting.  She had the good fortune to have her screenplays produced by major Hollywood players, New Line Cinema and 20th Century Fox.  In addition, she authored scripts for two children’s animated features showcasing the top selling Bratz line of dolls for MGA, Livin’ It Up With The Bratz and Little Bratz Party Time. 
 
Building upon her years as a successful screenwriter, Nicole is looking forward to taking the next step in her carreer, directing The Brothers Grimm’s 12 Dancing Princesses, a fairytale she has loved since childhood.  As a former young dancer who studied with The Joffrey Ballet prior to attending Vassar, she is excited to bring her knowledge of dance and storytelling together through the medium of film to create a magical princess movie in the vein of such box office hits as Cinderella and Frozen.
 
http://12dancingprincessesfilm.com/team/nicole-coady-writerdirector/

Jeffrey Marks is a corporate attorney and entrepreneur.  As an attorney, Mr. Marks specializes in general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, and general business transactions.  He has a broad range of experience, having practiced both as an attorney for a major law firm and as in-house counsel to a publicly traded Nasdaq high technology company.  As an attorney at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, Mr. Marks received the experience and training of a large law firm, and through his tenure as in-house counsel to FutureLink Corp., he gained an understanding of the business and operational needs of companies and has developed a practical approach to advising his clients.

 

Mr. Marks is currently a principal of the Newport Beach law firm of Alliance Legal Partners, Inc., and represents and counsels companies and individuals on various transactional and corporate matters.

 

Mr. Marks is also a founder and the Chairman of Titan Brands, a successful restaurant company with five restaurants in the State of Nevada.

 

http://www.alliancelegalpartners.com/