Steve Chrust

Steven Chrust is founder and Senior Managing Partner of Centripetal Capital Partners (www.centricap.com) a private equity investment firm founded in 2004. He is also Founder and President of SGC Advisory Services, Inc., since 1991. Mr. Chrust serves on several boards, including as Chairman of APJeT, Inc., Cytogel, ImFree and IMCS. He is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research and the New York Society of Securities Analysts. He has lectured at the Harvard Business School and testified before Congress concerning the break-up of AT&T, and before state public utility commissions on various regulatory matters. In 1994, he co-founded WinStar Communications, Inc., a facilities based local telecommunications provider utilizing fixed wireless technology and served as its Vice Chairman until the end of 1998. Mr. Chrust also served as Chairman of Worlds.com between 1999-2001. Mr. Chrust began his career in 1970, at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc., a financial institution handling more than $400 billion in client assets, currently known as AllianceBernstein. While at Bernstein, he was Director of Technology Research and ranked in the top tier of telecommunications analysts for more than a decade by Institutional Investor and ranked the #1 analyst in the sector for five consecutive years in their all-star ranking. Mr. Chrust is a graduate of Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York and attended its business graduate school.