M·CAM, Inc.

Management Biographies

 

Colleen C. Martin is the Controller of M·CAM. She has served in the capacities of CFO and Controller for both M·CAM and its predecessor corporation, Mosaic Technologies, Inc.

Colleen has been deeply involved in the growth of public and private sector entrepreneurship enablement in the United States having been a founder and Executive Director of the Charlottesville Venture Group - recognized nationally as one of the leading models for educating entrepreneurs and investors in private equity business development.

In addition, she serves on numerous civic and business boards including the University of Virginia's Nursing Ventures Advisory Board and the Paramount Theatre board for whom she also serves as Treasurer. Colleen is a graduate of Goshen College and served on the Alumni Board as both member and President. She resides in Charlottesville with her family.

 

David E. Martin is the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. Actively engaged in global ethical economic development, Dr. Martin's work includes financial engineering and investment, public speaking, writing and providing financial advisory services to the majority of countries in the world. Dr. Martin is the architect and founder of the Global Innovation Commons and is the author of the international legal framework for the Heritable Knowledge Trust and Heritable Innovation Trust programs. His work on ethical engagement and stewardship of community and commons-based value interests is at the forefront of global financial innovation. Dr. Martin is also a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

A spokesperson for global intellectual-property accountability and quality reform, Dr. Martin has worked closely with the United States Congress and numerous trade and financial regulatory agencies in the United States, Europe, and Asia in advocating and deploying infrastructure to support growing reliance on proprietary rights in business transactions. M·CAM has supported the modernization of intangible asset, tax, and accounting laws through its work with oversight agencies and policy makers.

Dr. Martin has founded several for-profit and not-for-profit companies and organizations and serves on several boards. He was the founding CEO of Mosaic Technologies, Inc., a company that developed and commercialized technologies in advanced computational linguistics, dynamic data compression and encryption, electrical field transmission, medical diagnostics, and stealth/anechoic. He was a founding member of Japan's Institute for Interface Science and Technology (IIST). He founded and served as Executive Director of the Charlottesville Venture Group. He has served as a board member for the Research Institute for Small and Emerging Business (Washington, D.C.), the Academy for Augmenting Grassroots Technological Innovations (India), the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce (Virginia), and the Charlottesville Industrial Development Agency (Virginia), Humanitad (U.K), Global Urban Development, and many other agencies dedicated to ethical human development.

Dr. Martin's work as a Fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and his related work at the Indian Institute for Management Ahmedabad, India, has brought unprecedented curricular focus to areas of intangible-asset risk management, finance, and accounting standards. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Martin has closely advised innovation-based finance and investment programs in India, Brazil, Mongolia, China, Denmark, the European Union, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. He has served as the Constitutional and Economic advisor to the Autonomy Committee of East New Britain and New Ireland, Papua New Guinea and has worked with ethical trade frameworks for the Kingdom of Tonga, the Independent State of Samoa, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.

Dr. Martin has received several honors for his contribution to domestic and international entrepreneurial activities. Highlights include:

Dr. Martin has publications in law, medicine, engineering, finance, and education. He maintains active research in the fields of linguistic genomics, fractal financial-risk modeling, and cellular membrane ionic signaling.

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David Pratt is the President of M·CAM, Inc. David focuses on strategic innovation commercial, financial and risk management services including technology and vendor qualification, innovation competitiveness assessment, and commercial security and intelligence. He leads the public policy activities of M·CAM in its interactions with the U.S. government.

He has broad experience in financial services and public policy. Before joining M·CAM, he led the Financial Services practice at Columbus Newport LLC, a company specializing in developing growth-stage companies in the technology and financial sectors. He spent twelve years as Senior Vice President for Federal Affairs and Business Development at the American Insurance Association, working with large commercial insurers on a wide range of public policy, financial, and technology issues.

Prior to his time at AIA, David served for ten years on the leadership staff of the United States Senate, as a Senate Officer in the role of the Secretary for the Majority, responsible for legislative floor operations under the direction of the Senate Majority Leader. He filled a similar role previously as Secretary for the Minority, after serving on the personal staff of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd. David received a degree in economics and political science from St. John Fisher College in Rochester N.Y. He is actively involved in leadership and training activities with the Boy Scouts of America and its Order of the Arrow, and is Scoutmaster of Troop 114 in Ivy, Virginia, the birthplace of Meriwether Lewis. He lives in Charlottesville with his wife Margaret, son Conor, and daughter Ciara.

 

Adam Tepper is Managing Director of Global Capital Markets. Adam Teppter joined M·CAM, Inc. in November 2009. He brings nearly 14 years experience in finance, capital markets and strategic development to his role at M·CAM. Adam's responsibilities include sourcing, structuring and managing M·CAM's capital structure. Additionally, Adam is responsible for corporate development and financial strategic development.

Prior to M·CAM, Adam was a founding Principal of GroundWork Equity, LLC. At GroundWork, his responsibilities included originating, structuring and negotiating engagements with businesses ranging in size from concept to $50MM in revenues across a variety of industry sectors including, but not limited to, K–12 education, consumer beverage, new media and defense procurement. Adam was also responsible for developing and optimizing all functions within select companies of the GroundWork portfolio.

While at GroundWork, Adam was one of three co–founders and CFO of Perceval Interactive Media, LLC / TeleGalería LLC, an all–Spanish multi–media consumer sales network similar to QVC. His responsibilities included building and managing the financial, sales and distribution systems as well as establishing the strategic and tactical plans for the business plans.

Adam began his career as an investment banker at Prudential Securities (Prudential) in the asset–backed finance group. During his three years at Prudential, Adam structured and raised nearly $5 billion in asset–backed securities (ABS) backed by both consumer as well as commercial assets. Additionally, he helped to structure and set–up a joint–venture between Prudential and Charles A. Koppleman (former chairman of BMG/EMI Records), CAK Universal Credit Corp., to provide financing to entertainers by taking future royalties as collateral against loans.

In April 2000, Adam was part of a select group of bankers that were hired away from Prudential by Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). Over the next five years, Adam applied his expertise in structured finance to the aircraft leasing, airline and rail industries during which time he helped to generate in excess of $100 million in revenue to CSFB through a variety of corporate finance activities. These projects included the structuring and sale of over $5 billion in aircraft–backed debt and equity securities, the $3+ billion restructuring of Brazil' largest airline (TAM Airlines) and a $500+ million, out–of–court restructuring of Pegasus Aviation, Inc. which included a $250 million private equity recapitalization by OakTree Capital. Pegasus Aviation was subsequently sold to Terra Firma for approximately $5 billion.

Adam graduated in 1996 from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurial management.