Preston Hollander, Managing Partner

Mr. Hollander has been involved with numerous start-up companies as an investment advisor, passive investor, investor owner, and founder.. 

He founded and expanded Capital Development Associates, a full service brokerage firm that he grew to 28 offices in 16 states. CDA was the first company to select private money managers for pension funds instead of utilizing traditional, bank management of these assets. CDA established a sister firm, Capital Clearing Corp. (CCC), which, as a member of all regional stock exchanges, supplemented the trading capabilities of CDA. CCC was prominent in institutional third market trading which helped lead to negotiated commissions on the New York Stock Exchange. Both firms were sold in 1975.

He subsequently founded Seascape Yacht Services, with numerous locations including the Grenadines, the Bahamas, and Key West Florida. 

Other activities include the establishment of Hollander and Dobringer in 1978, a private investment banking firm with offices in Washington DC, Annapolis MD, and Munich Germany. Areas of focus included the screening and selection of investments with favorable risk/reward characteristics in the private equity and commercial real estate fields for their high net worth individual and institutional clients. During this time Mr. Hollander purchased the commercial real estate firms of National Real Estate of D.C. and Maryland, to augment the H&D services for its US and European investors.

In 1989, Mr. Hollander became commercially interested in the Internet, founding The Hollander Internet Services Group in 1991 to provide consulting to Fortune 500 companies wishing to learn more about Internet strategies, sales opportunities and applications. Subsequent to that he developed a number of small companies to experiment with the Internet areas of automated Internet information monitoring, retrieval, and analysis systems. This work culminated in the formation of Websentiment LLC, Webthread LLC, and Threadseek LLC. 

He founded the private equity firm Rowayton Group LLC in 2000 in response to significantly decreased market valuations, in order to provide strategic advice and funding to early stage private companies, with a particular focus on Information Technology.

Using its wide and varied networks of top level professionals in finance, real estate and technology, RG identifies, screens and selects unique private equity companies and real estate opportunities characterized by favorable risk/reward characteristics for its fund, and clients in the US, Europe, and Mexico. 

Henry Engler
Mr. Engler has had extensive experience within financial services and the information industry. As a former executive with the Reuters Group in London and New York, he was responsible for developing new opportunities with the company's largest clients in areas such as global investment research and cross-reference security identifiers. He also advised Reuters senior management on European economic developments, specifically the political path and eventual creation of the Euro, and was a member of the company's strategic planning group. Mr. Engler was previously an economist with Chemical Bank in New York responsible for U.S. monetary and fiscal affairs.

Robert A Lawrence
Mr. Lawrence brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. His background includes investment management, research and extensive institutional equity sales and trading with associations with Shields & Co, Oppenhiemer & Co, Liberty Asset Management and Wright InvestorsService. He was also affiliated with Bear Sterns & Co. through Neble and Lawrence as a clearing and trading brokerage house. More recently Bob has been a Senior VP of Higbee associates a well known executive search firm specializing in the management consulting and information technology industries. He is Registered Investment Advisor and a graduate of Middlebury College.

Bruce Liddy
Mr. Liddy has been professionally involved with the Internet since 1994 when he formed his first Internet company to develop Web sites and set up marketing and sales programs for his customers on the Internet. Bruce has a strong technical background combined with experience and knowledge of Internet research, sales, marketing, data retrieval and data analysis.