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OVERVIEW: Vanessa Fayzulin will manage the business in her capacity as the Chief Executive Officer. She is a high-end professional with a proven track record and successful business impact. She boasts a rich background in production, politics, finance, and non-profits. She will direct the strategy, operations, and culture of the company. She will be responsible to execute the company's overall strategic plan, managing both people & budgets, and cultivating a comfortable & productive working environment, among other duties helping to achieve strategic business targets, and ensuring the highest level of service delivery in all areas.
WORK EXPERIENCE: Vanessa Fayzulin is a bilingual media manager with nearly a decade of experience in the media industry. With a track record that reflects her adeptness at steering teams and navigating high-pressure situations, Vanessa held a prominent role at Bloomberg. There she worked with Creative Video Operations for the Bloomberg Originals team in New York. In this role, she was responsible for creating content for global partners and the marketing department, optimizing social media copy, and publishing content across Bloomberg's digital platforms using an asset management system. Now she manages her own production company, Raccoon Eyes Media. Before her current position, she worked as a Video Producer and Editor at the same company. She has also gained experience as a Video Producer and Editor at TheStreet, Inc in New York and Univision 62 in Austin.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: She studied at the University of Texas at Austin
Craig Marshak is a veteran 20 year investment banker, having graduated Duke University in 1981, then Harvard Law School in 1985. Mr. Marshak had a one year Roger Alan Opel scholarship to the London School of Economics from 1979 to 1980. After joining Wertheim & Co. in the corporate finance department, he moved to London, England in 1993 to head up the Cross Border and International Finance efforts between Schroders Investment Bank and Wertheim. During this period, Mr. Marshak advised the Government of Israel on the Privatization of Israel Chemicals as the lead Financial Advisor and Investment Banker, and played a leading role in the listing of Koor Industries on the New York Stock Exchange. He later became one of the four founding investment bankers in the establishment of the London offices of Robertson Stephens. As such, he acted as Joint Lead Book Runner on the listing of Check Point Software on NASDAQ (symbol CHKP, market cap $15 billion), advised on the entry of Applied Materials to Israel (AMAT), and advised on the merger of Telegate and Terayon, among others. He subsequently moved to the London offices of Nomura Securities, where he ultimately became co-head of a $ 400 million investment and merchant banking fund focusing on merchant banking and investments into technology related companies, with an emphasis on Israel Silicon Valley.
While at Nomura, Mr. Marshak is credited as having first identified Israel Seed Partners, backing Jonathan Medved and Michael Eisenberg in their first fund, with early funding from the Nomura Fund. Mr. Marshak thereafter subsequently provided the first round institutional funding for DealTime / Shopping.com. Shopping.com was later sold to EBAY for over $600 million. Mr. Marshak also advised 888 Holdings (then Random Logic) in its early years, prior to its London stock exchange debut. 888 Holdings presently trades at nearly a $ 2 billion market capitalization and has become a leader in the global online gaming sector. Mr Marshak arranged the first institutional round to Cyber Ark on a $ 25 mm pre money valuation which listed on NASDAQ and trades at a $ 5 billion valuation. Mr Marshak is also widely recognized as having backed the Greidinger family with a $75 mm first round investment into Cinema City which became the second largest global cinema chain in the world, called Cineworld now listed on the London Stock Exchange having just acquired Regal Cinemas in the USA.
More recently, Mr. Marshak has been a co-founder, and has acted as Vice Chairman of the Moringa Acquisition Corp, a $115 million Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) traded on the London Stock Exchange. The focus of Moringa is to primarily seek acquisitions in the Israeli technology sector. Mr. Marshak also arranged for an early round investment into INX, the first crypto trading platform to receive USA Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory approval, which is now preparing for a listing on the Canadian Toronto stock exchange.
Founder and Hexagon CEO
Joined ParagonEX: 2008
25 years of experience
Responsibilities: management of operations and strategy.
Previously at Shopping.com, Triana, XFOREX, and Easy Forex.
