William H. Carpenter, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer and Director.
Mr. Carpenter was a co-founder, President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Brand Builder from
1988 through 2000
of Prime Retail (NYSE). During this time, he led the team that took the company from 3 initial employees to over to 1,400 employees. In 1994, he took Prime Retail public, raising over $280 million, and in 1997, he was instrumental in a secondary offering of $140 million. He was awarded Developer Of The Year and the Award of Excellence for Off-Price Development from Value Retail News. Mr. Carpenter was the recipient of Ernst & Young's 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year award for Maryland Real Estate. Prior to starting Prime Retail, Mr. Carpenter was Executive Vice President of PGI, President of D.I. Realty (a division of Design International) and a senior regional director of The Rouse Company.
Mr. Carpenter is a prominent and active community leader. He currently sits on the board of the Severn School, College Bound Foundation and was on the board of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Aquarium. Mr. Carpenter has lectured and chaired in several other industry panels and committees.
Director of uBee.com
Kenny Mizel. President and Director
From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Mizel served
as President and COO of Imaginarium. Imaginarium was the leading
educational toy retailer in the US until being sold to Toys R Us.
Prior to this, Mr. Mizel held other CEO positions with other leading
high end specialty retailers including Designer Connection, Rodier
Paris and He-Ro Group (NYSE). As
CEO of these companies, he was responsible for the implementation of
the overall operations and long term planning. Mr. Mizel utilizes keen
analysis, insights and a team approach to drive organizational
improvements and implementation of best practices for those companies.
Mr. Mizel is active in his community and involved with numerous trade
organizations. Director of uBee.com
Christopher A. Schrand.
Chief
Financial Officer and Director
Mr. Schrand is a Certified Public Accountant with experience in both corporate and public accounting. Mr. Schrand served as the Vice President and Controller of TeleCorp PCS, a wireless telecommunications service provider with over one million subscribers throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Mr. Schrand has extensive experience in complex financial transactions including debt and equity offerings, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions. During Mr. Schrand's tenure as part of the senior management team at TeleCorp PCS, the company completed debt and equity transactions totaling in excess of $1.5 billion, merger and acquisition transactions totaling in excess of $4.5 billion and the ultimate sale of TeleCorp PCS to AT&T Wireless in a transaction valued in excess of $7.0 billion.
Prior to joining TeleCorp
PCS, Mr. Schrand was a manager in the Assurance and Business Advisory
Services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington, D.C. Mr.
Schrand is a certified public accountant in the State of Maryland and
has bachelor degrees in both finance and accounting. Director of
uBee.com