Asher E. Fogel
Managing Partner, CEO & Co-Chairman
Mr. Fogel has an extensive experience in the investment banking and corporate banking industry. Mr. Fogel worked for Citigroup in London and New York where he held a variety of senior positions in the areas of corporate finance, capital markets, and investment advisory. Mr. Fogel was a Managing Director of Citicorp Securities Inc. In 1998 Mr. Fogel led a U.S. investor group to acquire the Ampa Group in Israel. Ampa is a diversified group involved in Real Estate, Packaging, Consumer Products and Financial Services. After completing the acquisition of Ampa, Mr. Fogel served as Chairman of Ampa Investments and Managing Partner of the Ampa Group. In 2000 Mr. Fogel acquired the Industrial Development Investment Company ("IDIC") and established Ampa Capital and grew the company into the largest non bank finance company in Israel specializing in asset backed financing. In 2005 Mr. Fogel returned to the U.S. to take up the position of CEO of U.S. Energy Systems Inc. ("USEY"). USEY is a "clean and green" independent energy company. Mr. Fogel served as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of USEY until June 2007.
Mr. Fogel holds a BA in Economics and a MBA from the Hebrew University. He also attended the Advanced Management program in the Harvard Business School specializing in Finance.
Adam D. Greene
Founding Partner & COO
Mr. Greene is an experienced investment banker specializing in structured finance, project finance and corporate finance. In 1997 he joined Mr. Fogel in forming Dovertower Capital, a small investment banking boutique specializing in international and domestic structured corporate finance. In 1998 Dovertower Capital led the first leveraged buyout transaction in Israel, leading to the acquisition of the Ampa Group in Israel. In 2000 Mr. Greene helped form Marathon Capital - a boutique investment bank specializing in the green energy sector and became a Managing Director of Marathon and ran their New York office.
In 2005 Mr. Green joined Mr. Fogel in USEY as the Executive Vice President of the company. Later on Mr. Greene was also appointed as CEO and chief restructuring officer of U.S. Energy Biogas, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of USEY. During his tenure with USEY Mr. Greene led a company transforming acquisition of natural gas properties in the UK.
Mr. Greene has a BA in Economics from Oberlin College and has attended New York University's Wagner School of Public Administration.
Henry Schneider has over 20 years of investment banking and principal investing experience. As an advisor, principal and corporate officer he has structured and managed over 20 companies, both public and private and has raised more than $400 million in equity and debt financings. From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Schneider was an associate at Drexel Burnham Lambert specializing in Taxable Institutional Fixed Income Products and Portfolio Strategies. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Schneider was an associate with S&S Investments and Wood Gundy, specializing in mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring. From 1994 to 1996 Mr. Schneider was a principal of Global Capital Resources, Inc., a private merchant bank investing in a wide variety of businesses. Over the last 10 years, Mr. Schneider has invested in a wide variety of industries and has sat on the board of directors of numerous companies.
Mr. Schneider has a BA in from Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University School of Management.
Rick Rosenbloom has nearly 20 years of asset investment, restructuring, M&A and operational experience including acting as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Hilco Trading Company, C.O.O and head of acquisitions for an international brand marketing and specialty advertising firm, Principal of Continental Plants a vulture investment and distressed debt firm and most recently as a Principal of Gemini Partners, a boutique investment banking firm.
He started his career in Chicago with Kirkland & Ellis and Schiff Hardin &Waite in their bankruptcy and restructuring practices. Mr. Rosenbloom holds a JD-MBA degree from UCLA and graduated with distinction from the Honors College of the University of Michigan.