Michael J. Cerminaro

Mr. Cerminaro leads the capital formation process while sharing the strategic management for the Company with Mr. Woodall. He is responsible for legal, finance & accounting, sales & marketing, and manufacturing activities of the company.

He has extensive experience in early stage company development, as well as, private equity leadership. Mr. Cerminaro is the founder of the Cerminaro Group, a private equity advisory and principal investment group, where he serves as the President and CEO.

He was a co-founder of Sound Harbor Partners, a private credit management firm with over $2 billion of assets under management that he successfully exited. He was one of the original senior partners who built and developed BlackRock Private Equity Partners (PEP), a $5 billion global private equity investment platform. While at BlackRock PEP he served as the Chairman of the Investment Operating Committee, Chairman of the Investment Valuation Committee, and as a member of the Management Committee.

He was also a co-founding member of the private equity advisory platforms of UBS Warburg and Bank of America Capital Markets. Mr. Cerminaro has been an angel investor in numerous start-ups and has served on the board of directors for a number of early stage companies as well as the advisory boards of several leading private equity firms in the US and in Europe.

He received his undergraduate degree with a double major in Economics and Business Administration from the State University of New York at Brockport and received an MBA in Finance from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.