Marco Alfonsi has been a financial service professional for over 20 years. Throughout his career, Mr. Alfonsi was directly and indirectly involved in raising over $100 million dollars for small and medium sized business. Prior to his involvement in the financial services industry, Mr. Alfonsi has owned, operated, financed and sold several businesses. Mr. Alfonsi successfully started and managed two companies (ExecuteDirect.com, and Bakers Express of New York, Inc.), and held senior management positions with a number of financial institutions including Global American Investments, Clark Street Capital, and Basic Investors.
Mr. Teeple was engaged from 2017-2018 with Solis Tek, Inc. (OTCQB:SLTK) a California based publicly traded corporation as Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary , and Chief Compliance Officer. Solis Tek, Inc. a NV Corporation, is a developer of lighting and nutrient products, and most recently in cultivation and processing for the cannabis industry. Previously, from 2015-2016 Mr. Teeple was Chief Financial Officer and Secretary for Zonzia Media, Inc. (OTC:ZONX), a provider of streaming video and content to cable subscribers and hotel networks throughout the eastern US. From 2008 to 2014 Mr. Teeple was Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Indigo-Energy, Inc. (OTC:IDGG) a publicly traded company in the oil and gas exploration business. Over the prior three plus decades Mr. Teeple through his turnaround consulting business, Stan Teeple, Inc., has held numerous senior management positions in several public and private companies across a broad spectrum of industries. Additionally he has operated and worked for various court appointed trustees and principals as CEO, COO, and CFO in the entertainment, pharmaceuticals, food, travel, and tech industries. He operated his consulting business on a project-to-project basis and holds various other directorships. His businesses operational strengths include knowing how to manage and maximize the resources and preserve the integrity of a company from start-up through to maturity and corporate compliance in a regulatory environment.
Marco Alfonsi has been a financial service professional for over 20 years. Throughout his career, Mr. Alfonsi was directly and indirectly involved in raising over $100 million dollars for small and medium sized business. Prior to his involvement in the financial services industry, Mr. Alfonsi has owned, operated, financed and sold several businesses. Mr. Alfonsi successfully started and managed two companies (ExecuteDirect.com, and Bakers Express of New York, Inc.), and held senior management positions with a number of financial institutions including Global American Investments, Clark Street Capital, and Basic Investors.
Phil's practice is devoted primarily to Corporate Finance/Securities Law, Acquisitions/ Mergers and Business Law.
Phil counsels clients with respect to the raising of capital in the public and private markets. He prepares prospectuses and private offering documents required in connection with the public and private sale of securities and advises as to ongoing compliance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and state securities bureaus, including the preparation and review of periodic reports required to be filed by issuers of securities.
Phil represents purchasers and sellers of businesses, including transactions involving mergers, consolidations and asset sales. He also counsels clients as to the appropriate structure of acquisition transactions and prepares securities filings and public disclosure documents required in connection with the purchase and sale of publicly traded corporations.
Phil advises clients in the formation and establishment of businesses, including corporations, general partnerships, limited partnerships, investment funds, joint ventures and limited liability companies. He prepares shareholder agreements for new and existing owners of corporations, including "buy/sell" arrangements and handles ongoing counseling of clients in various business agreements, such as license agreements, distributorship agreements, technology transfer agreements and employment agreements.
James provides clients with legal strategies to protect and enforce their intellectual property rights, particularly in cutting-edge areas of software, information technology and tech-enabled hardware. With a heavy focus on emerging growth and venture backed companies, he frequently advises tech startups and the investors who back them. He also represents the full range of participants in the rapidly growing esports industry.
In his intellectual property practice, James supports clients of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 100 companies, as well as private and public universities. A former software engineer, he advises businesses in the computer hardware and software sectors, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. James also represents clients in a variety of other verticals, including consumer packaged goods and mechanical devices.
His practice covers management of the entire intellectual property lifecycle. James helps his clients secure rights, develop substantial and lucrative patent portfolios, and resolve intellectual property litigation and licensing matters. He also regularly prosecutes patents before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its foreign counterparts.
In the emerging growth company and venture capital space, he acts as outside general counsel for rapidly expanding early-stage companies and the venture capital funds that invest in them. Backed by colleagues in more than 70 practice areas, James is able to provide counsel on the issues emerging growth companies face on an everyday basis, such as raising capital, navigating employment issues and protecting intellectual property.
In his esports practice, James represents esports players, organizations and teams in their management, contracts, NIL and branding matters. An avid gamer, he understands the industry and is able to provide practical legal solutions to meet the real-world needs of talent, teams and agencies.
Mr. Gallo is a Finance Industry Executive and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience. Currently, Tom is Managing Director of Cash Village Holdings, a revenue-based finance company. Tom has been CEO of Magna Global Ventures, a strategic advisory firm since 2021. He works directly with Low Tide, LLC, and Nascent Pharma as the Principal Senior Advisor to each company's CEO. He advises on strategy and financial engineering. From 2017-2020, Tom was Executive Director of Notis Global Holdings, an acquisition company. From 2010 to 2017, Mr. Gallo, through The Strategic Advisory Group worked with CEO’s and board members of public and private companies where he advised on business development, strategic planning, change management, team building, as well as investment banking and raised capital through his association with various broker-dealers. From 2003 – 2010, Mr. Gallo co-founded Moneta Capital Advisors, a merchant bank focused on investing and advising service industry providers. From 1991 to 2001, Mr. Gallo was a co-founder of M.S. Farrell & Co., a Wall Street investment bank and brokerage firm where he held various C-level positions including Chairman, CEO, and President. Over his career, he has held board positions at both public and private companies in industries such as medical devices, entertainment, consumer products, and motorsports. He earned his degree from the College of Business Administration at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY.
Mr. Blackmon is the co-inventor of Nascent Pharma, LLC’s two “composition-of-matter” Patents which are the core of the Company’s intellectual property assets. He studied chemistry at John Hopkins University which prepared him for his career in the cannabis horticultural industry. Previously Mr. Blackmon was CEO of United Cannabis Corporation with over $20 million in annual revenues in the cannabis growing and processing space.
As Chief Executive Officer and President of Blackmon Consulting for over a decade, Mr. Blackmon served as the Chief Operating Officer/co-owner of Sweet Lawn Landscaping of Tampa Florida, President and owner of Blue River Inc. a developer of retail aromatherapy products, and Chief Technical Officer/Master Grower of River Rock LLC growing it from a “mom-and-pop” operation into a sixty thousand square foot industrial hemp facility with a six-hundred-acre hemp grow in Colorado. Additionally, through Blackmon Consulting and twenty years of experience, Mr. Blackmon has been a consultant to the cannabis and marijuana industry for a number of successful growers and processors throughout the United States regarding cultivation methodology and processing system management.