M·CAM, Inc.

Management Biographies

 

Yoav Millet is CEO of M·CAM, Inc. and Managing Partner of our funds. Yoav has over 20 years of professional experience and over 12 years of direct private equity experience with a focus on identifying and monetizing value from intellectual property assets in broad spectrum of industry sectors.

Prior to M·CAM , Yoav served as a Senior Managing Director of alseT-IP Structured Finance LLC, a private equity firm focused on IP royalty interests finance. Prior to alseT-IP, Yoav served as a Managing Director for Juno Investments LLC, a private equity buyout fund focused on special situations investments in the homeland security and healthcare sectors.

Prior to Juno, Yoav served as Managing Partner of an international VC fund where he is credited with repositioning this fund into one of the leading early-stage life science funds in Israel.

Over the course of his career, Yoav has personally initiated and negotiated more than 20 venture investments, and held board seats and executive management positions in a variety of early-stage life science and technology portfolio companies. Yoav has also raised more than $200 million in direct and follow-on investments for portfolio companies from leading international venture firms and corporate partners.

Prior to heading the AG-Tech Fund, Yoav co-headed the investment banking activities of Clali & Associates Financial Management Investment Group. Yoav also managed two institutional investment companies and led a broad range of transactions for emerging growth companies including mergers and acquisitions, corporate partner agreements, public offerings, and private placements of equity and debt.

Prior to joining the Zannex Group in 1992, Yoav was an internal bank auditor with Israel General Bank, (LCF Edmond De Rothschild), and a manager at two public accounting firms.

Yoav is a CPA and holds dual Bachelor degrees in Accounting and Economics earned at Tel Aviv University.

 

James E. Hoffmann serves M·CAM, Inc. as Chief Financial Officer. He brings a strong global strategic development and finance background to M·CAM. His focus has been on challenging markets and alliances for a broad range of industries including technology, wireless telecommunications, and content management as well as traditional manufacturing. Salient project successes include a President and CEO role leading the successful turn around and sale of an enterprise software division of Fujitsu Software Technology Corporation. From 2001- 2003 Jim more than doubled the revenue of the division, greatly increasing its exit value for the parent and guaranteeing long-term value for the globally dispersed employees and multinational customer base.

In 2004 Jim participated in the development of national level methodology for addressing globalization risk for American small and midsized enterprises focused on Greater China and the Middle East. Jim's specialty is cross cultural business where he has developed extensive experience and contacts. Jim was raised in Asia and the family has been active in Asia for generations. Jim is a professional associate of XRG-China as well as a principal Director in NaVeste LLC, Transforensic LP, and Valley Dominion LLC.

Jim is a graduate of Trinity University with a BA in History and Political Science and holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He lives with his family in Keswick, Virginia.

 

Jeremy Boccabello serves as the Executive Vice President of Global Markets for M·CAM, Inc. Immediately prior to joining M·CAM, Jay served as Managing Director for Oasis Principal, an investment advisory firm. He brings a diverse blend of experience in early-phase startup leadership, management consulting, program building, process engineering, senior advisory work, research and international experience to the structuring of solutions to complex market needs.

He has previously served as Managing Director in McDowell Group, a services firm specializing in Critical Infrastructure Resilience, and as Chief Strategy Officer for the Global Resilience Group. Jay also served as a market development leader in the organizational resilience practice of Booz Allen Hamilton, as a senior advisor to the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of Labor, the Office of Commissioner of the IRS, and a consortium of 30 C-Suite executives of US-based global footprint companies building a framework for the development of organizational resilience. He also served as an engineer in the semiconductor industry developing new products and building manufacturing lines internationally.

Jay holds a Bachelor's in Engineering from Clemson University and a Master's of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy [ABD] from Oxford University. Jay lives with his family in Leesburg, Virginia.

 

David Pratt is Executive Vice President and Managing Director 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.

 

David E. Martin, PhD, is the Executive Chairman of M·CAM, Inc., the international leader in intellectual property-based financial risk management. M·CAM has established a global standard in intangible asset-backed finance, innovation finance arbitrage for the public and private sector, technology proliferation and counter-proliferation tracking, and patent quality and commercial validity assessment and management. 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 intellectual property, 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 IIST (Japan), the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce (Virginia), and the Charlottesville Industrial Development Agency (Virginia).

As a former Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, Dr. Martin founded the University's first wholly-owned, for-profit, research and development, and technology-transfer corporation. Engaged in domestic and international technology transfer, clinical research, and financing, this company pioneered new techniques in innovation management that have become industry standards. In 1999, Dr. Martin was appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to serve on the Joint Commission on Technology and Science and has served the General Assembly and Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) on numerous occasions.

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 intellectual property-based finance and investment programs in India, China, Denmark, the European Union, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.

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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