Emanuel Martinez, CPA, MBA

Overview

General Managing Director

Greenhills Capital Partners l Greenhills Ventures
GreenHills Ventures | greenhillsventures.com
Mr. Martinez is the General Managing Director of GreenHills Ventures, LLC, a private investment holding company managing several investment arms headquartered in New York City and Luxembourg. Mr. Martinez manages the firm's investment activities, portfolio management activities, strategic partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions with a primary focus on the sectors in which the firm makes its investments. Prior to joining GreenHills Ventures, Mr. Martinez is a private investor who participated in the successful acquisition of sixdegrees by YouthStream Media Network (OTCBB: YSTM) for $125 million and E@wonders, Inc. by BuyItNow for $150 million. Mr. Martinez is also a financial consultant and advisor to various multi-family offices and corporate investment firms. Mr. Martinez brings a wealth of investment and merger and acquisitions experience. Prior to GreenHills Ventures, he was Managing Director for Mergers & Acquisition at Citibank, NA, and at Managing Director for Centurion Holdings at American Express Corporation, and management positions at Coastal Oil, Inc. Inlumen, Inc., Dial Corporation, Seagram's Beverage Corporation, Olsten Financial Services, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (formerly Coopers & Lybrand, LLP). In 1994, Mr. Martinez was appointed by the Governor of Georgia, Zell Miller, as a member of “Operation Legacy” to work with Fortune 1000 companies in preparation for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Mr. Martinez holds a M.B.A in Finance and a B.A. in Accounting from St. John's University and a former Certified Public Accountant. He earned a Post Graduate degree in Executive Management Program in Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Martinez is a Limited Partner of GH Fund I, GH Fund II, GH Wealth Management Holding, GH Angel Capital Group and serves on the advisory board the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce, the AngelPool Advisory Board (angelpool.org), and VigiTrust LTD (vigitrust.com) among a few of his investment activities. Mr. Martinez is an investor and shareholder in AdmieMobile, True Share Vault, Cloudnician, N2-GS, Inc., Soshio, Inc., Cyberis Group (cyberisgroup.com), and EdgeChain (edgechain.net). Mr. Martinez and GreenHills Ventures support several charitable organizations, civic organizations, law enforcement agencies including New York City Police Benevolent Association (NYCPBA) . Mr. Martinez supports the homeless and soup kitchens in New York City. Mr. Martinez is fluent in Spanish, conversant in Italian and Hebrew (Ladino) and lives in New York City.

Board Experience

Chairman, Advisory Committee and Shareholder Investor

Wasabi Life

Dec 2014 - Present (7 years) | Private | Board of Advisors | Committee Service: Audit, Executive, Finance | Officer: Chair

Wasabi Life is a mHealth and wellness company to improving people's lifestyle and health, Wasabi connects most of the popular Wearables and eHealth apps in the market, Wasabi helps train and optimize people with their physical goals and help them chose a healthier diet and change behavior to improve healthy outcomes. Wasabi combines a games, goals, and social attributes into its application to improve engagement and track successful person outcomes in a personalized and highly confidential manner. Wasabi offers Apps and cloud based dashboard to provide data on scores and goals. Wasabi is targeting corporate wellness clients.

Board Member, Shareholder and Investor

AdmieMobile

Jul 2010 - Present (11 years) | Private | Board of Directors / Trustees | Committee Service: Finance, Other

Confidential - Peer-to-peer mobile security network

General Managing Partner and Limited Partner

Greenhills Capital Partners

Mar 2015 - Present (6 years) | Private | Board of Directors / Trustees | Committee Service: Executive, Finance | Officer: President

GreenHills Capital Partner is a private investment holding company that manages several investment arms headquartered in New York City and Luxembourg. Mr. Martinez is the General Partner and Limited Partner for the firm. Greenhills Capital Partners holds certain asset, interest and distributions for a select number of investment activities.

Advisory Committee

Spain-US Chamber of Commerce

Nov 2014 - Present (7 years) | Non-Profit | Board of Advisors | Committee Service: Finance

Founded in New York in 1959, the Spain–United States Chamber of Commerce has become one of the leading transatlantic business organizations fostering economic ties between the two countries. Our guiding mission is to advance, promote and assist in the expansion of bilateral trade and investment between Spain and the United States. The Chamber brings together businesses. Ranging from individual entrepreneurs to large corporations, our membership includes the most important and influential companies from both countries, including major players in banking, energy, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, accountancy, law, management/business consultancy, fashion, food and beverages, airlines and furnishing.
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Chairman, Finance Committee and Shareholder Investor

True Share Vault

Mar 2012 - Present (9 years) | Private | Board of Advisors | Committee Service: Finance | Officer: Vice-Chair

True Share Vault is a cloud based data management and business analytics software and technology start-up company. True Share Vault provides a customer centric highly secured and scalable cloud computing solution to various businesses and industries. Its services offerings include CloudTightâ„¢, which enables companies to manage multiple disparate projects with varied levels of complexities into a streamlined data management and analytics platform designed to improve workflow, productivity, sales, projects, data, and predictive analytics to manage key business decisions. CloudTightâ„¢ offers a unique online, highly scalable cloud based solutions where confidential information can be stored, analyzed to provide business intelligence for important tasks and projects to give our clients a way to prioritize their daily activities focused on increasing business.

Advisory Committee

OneMedPlace

Jan 2014 - Mar 2015 (a year) | Private | Board of Advisors | Committee Service: Finance

OneMedMarket - OneMedMarket delivers the fundamentals for intelligent investing in private healthcare and life science companies. For more information visit onemedmarket.com
OneMedPlace - OneMedPlace is a research and media organization which provides the most promising ideas, technologies and companies in life sciences in a unique multimedia platform. We aim to build one place where investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and scientists can connect and access the information and resources they need.Our research and editorial thus focuses on providing a network of industry insiders with deal-flow and news. Our multimedia platform helps the best emerging growth companies tell their story better. We focus on: onemedplace.com. OneMedRadio Interview with Emanuel Martinez, General Managing Director, GreenHills Ventures - greenhillsventures.com/..

Chairman, Advisory and Selection Committee and Limited Partner

Greenhills Ventures Angel Capital Group

Jan 2014 - Present (7 years) | Private | Board of Advisors | Committee Service: Executive, Finance

GreenHills Ventures Angel Capital Group seeks to invest in companies where its members have strong high level business relationships and expertise. GHACG will invest $50,000 - $500,000 in multiple tranches over a short period of time usually to further enhance or develop products within healthcare technology, cloud, data analytics, and other related sectors. GHVACG aims to investments in companies which can benefit from the firm’s relationship with corporate strategic partnerships which assist our portfolio companies during their start up period. GHACG investments are designed to assist our portfolio companies define a better execution plan for their company with some value added strategic partners to increase commercialization or revenue generation which allows the company to explore first institutional round investment at higher valuations. greenhillsventures.com/..

Outside Observer and Finance Committee and Shareholder Investor

Cloudnician

Jan 2014 - Present (7 years) | Private | Supervisory Board | Committee Service: Finance

Cloudnician, LLC., (kinician.com) is a Mobile-Cloud Software platform for Big Data that provides Sustainable Value business intelligence analytics. We are developing a sector agnostic platform to initially for the $1 trillion construction IT industry in the U.S. The workflow system will empower all project stakeholders, including the lending institutions and insurance bond and surety companies, data transparency from design through project completion. Cloudnician’s new technology, the Electronic Data Plate™ is a unique way to capture, sift and organize data by industry standard cost codes. We achieve small screen ease of use with a stylized, color- coded, icon driven interface that is simply dynamic, and where any data point is only 2 clicks away. Cloudnician, LLC., was founded by CEO James Grundvig and Stanford University PhD CTO Jack Cheng, who is an industry expert on supply chain logistics and interoperability issues of IT systems. Cloudnician is partnered with Palomino.

Advisory Committee, Northearn Region

AngelPool

Jan 2013 - Present (8 years) | Non-Profit | Board of Advisors

AngelPool is the largest organization of angel investors in the world. In 2011-12, AngelPool directly assisted 290 startups who were able to raise over $348 Million in funding. AngelPool is dedicated to finding and investing in the best tech disruptors and entrepreneurs globally to drive jobs, innovation and growth. angelpool.org

Member and Shareholder Investor

Facet Pricing

Jun 2013 - Dec 2014 (2 years) | Private | Board of Directors / Trustees

Facet Pricing, LLC. is a data analytics software utilized by manufacturers to establish a simple strategic pricing policy that will increase their overall gross margin. The company provides their clients with proprietary data driven tools to identify pricing inconsistencies within their product and customer mix and providing this valuable data information back to the clients in order to realize immediate gross revenue improvement.

Advisory Committee and Shareholder

N2 Global Solutions Inc

Mar 2014 - Mar 2015 (a year) | Private | Supervisory Board | Committee Service: Finance

N2 Global Solutions, Inc. recognized the vital need for a nontraditional “dumb,” electrical receptacle by developing a system that incorporates automated techniques driven by a dynamic data warehouse exchange to optimize energy usage, increase consumer safety and create jobs. This innovation called uCommand, empowers end-users to reduce energy consumption and lower their energy bills. This network of smart modules retrofit into existing junction boxes replacing conventional sockets, switches and light fixture apparatus to provide control and reporting functions that govern energy usage throughout an existing building while creating a new standard in new construction. Small add-on modules can also provide Intercom, Fire Safety, Motion Detection, Surge and Ground Fault Protection. uCommand communicates with its modules using industry standard ZigBee mesh network and ultimately to a cloud-based system, which stores, analyzes and reports energy consumption.

Advisory Committee, Shareholder

Soshio

Mar 2014 - Mar 2015 (a year) | New York City | Private | Supervisory Board | Committee Service: Finance

Soshio is a global leader in Chinese social media data analytics. Currently ranked as one of the most promising companies in Big Data by CIO Review, and #1 in Google organic search results, Soshio’s proprietary platform sources, analyzes, and reports on key data points inside Chinese social data. This results in actionable intelligence multinational clients can use to utilize the platform to make pricing, product, service, design, public relationship campaign, and other related business decisions.

Shareholder, Outside Observer, and Investor

Several Companies- Medical Device, HealthTech, Mobile, Cloud, Other

Apr 2015 - Apr 2015 (a month) | Private | Board of Advisors | Committee Service: Nominating & Governance, Other

Serve on over 15 private companies in healthcare, mobility, cloud, medical device or as an Outside Observer overseeing investments made by Greenhills Fund I & II and Greenhills Angel Capital Group (greenhillsventures.com/..).

Chairman, Advisory Committee and Shareholder Investor

GWUM Systems

Sep 2006 - Present (15 years) | Private | Board of Advisors | Committee Service: Executive, Finance | Officer: Shareholder

GWUM™ Systems delivers an open technology platform and smart-client model picks up from where most mobile middleware vendors are stalled by the virtue of its standards-based integration capabilities including a wide-range device support and multiple enterprise apps offering with automated event management and workflow functionality. GWUM Systems is a private label partner with Oracle Corporation and Microsoft Corporation providing App server products and services.

VigiTrust Advisory Board (Northeast United States)

VigiTrust LTD

VigiTrust is a global leader in the provision of security assessments and security learning solutions, including eSEC its flagship e-learning solution. VigiTrust specializes in security compliance and corporate governance by helping its global Fortune 500 customers comply with legal frameworks such as US Federal and State regulations and European Directives. It is a pioneer in the development of compliance programs for industry frameworks and standards focusing on PCI DSS and ISO 27001. VigiTrust has developed in-depth expertise in securing payment and government transactions and has been retained as external security subject matter experts by global retailers and payment service providers as well as government departments and agencies in North America and Europe. Founded in 2003 in Dublin, Ireland, where it is headquartered, VigiTrust opened its US base in New York and its European base in Paris in 2008.

Employment

General Managing Director and General Managing Partner

Greenhills Ventures

Jul 2001 - Present (20 years) | New York, New York | Private

Mr. Martinez is General Managing Director for Greenhills Cap Partners, a Limited Partnership Holding company and GreenHills Ventures, LLC, a private investment holding company managing several investment arms headquartered in New York City and Luxembourg. Mr. Martinez manages the firm's investment activities, portfolio management, strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions with primary focus on the sectors the firm makes its investments.

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International Experience

Luxembourg

Mar 2002 - Jun 2015 (13 years)

Greenhills Capital Partners, Greenhills Ventures, Greenhills Wealth Management Holdings is a private investment company and GHV Fund I & II are private investment trust companies based in Luxembourg (SARL) making invests in the United States. Greenhills Capital Partners works closely with family offices and off shore family trusts to establish investment companies to maximize the highest possible investment returns in a most favorable tax distribution possible. greenhillsventures.com/..

Certifications

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Inactive, MBA

Private Equity, Off Shore Trust, Corporate Formation, M&A , License: Certified Public Accountant (Inactive), MBA November 1987 - December 1990

CPA, MBA

CPA, MBA, Mergers & Acquisition, Trust Formation , License: September 1987 - December 1995

Skills & Expertise

Cloud Computing
wirel
Mobile Devices
Healthcare Information Technology
Healthcare Industry
Medical Devices
Acquisitions
Strategic Planning
Strategic Leadership
Strategic Partnerships
Angel Investing
Corporate Advisory
Business Analysis
Business Development
Corporate Finance
Business Financials
Start-up Consulting
Board Governance
Valuation
Private Placements
Private Equity
Venture Financing
Venture Capital
Investment Advisory
Financial Analysis
Finance
Accounting
Mergers & Acquisitions

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Education

St John's University

BS Accounting and MBA Finance, Accounting and Finance Sep-1978 - Sep-1982

Debate, Chess, Basketball Varsity Farm Team (Redmen)

Harvard Business School Executive Management Program

Executive Management Program, Mergers & Acqusition and Corporate Finance Apr-1986 - Mar-1987

Awards

Beta Gamma Sigma National Honors

St John's University Beta Gamma National Honors Society

Aug 1980

Centennial Olympics Award

Governor of Georgia, Zell Miller and US President Jimmy Carter

Aug 1996

Languages

Spanish

Professional

English

Professional

Hebrew

Professional