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ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Luis Chang
Advisory Board Member ~ Asian Business Consultant
Mr. Luis Chang is currently the President and Executive Committee Member of Everbright Development Overseas, Ltd., which was founded by his grandfather Mr. Guangying Wong in the early 1980s. Mr. Wong also founded China Everbright Group and served as the Chairman. In addition, during the 1970s, Mr. Wong was a member of the PRC’s economic growth council and was responsible for the development and management of a government-backed international trade consortium. This consortium comprised business and government leaders in the areas of international finance, transportation, logistics and communications. From 1983 to1993, Mr. Wong served as the Vice Chairman of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC); from 1991 to 2003, Mr. Wong served as Standing Committee Vice Chairman of the People’s Assembly of the PRC.
During Mr. Chang’s tenure with Everbright, he has managed numerous corporate assets and acted as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Operations of several Everbright holdings. Prior to working with Everbright Overseas Development, Mr. Chang was the Executive Director of the real estate investment banking firm Universal Investments Group and the Development Investment Company of France. In addition, Mr. Chang held the Managing Director position for Sunford Bullion International Company in Hong Kong from 1985 to 1989. Mr. Chang received his Bachelor of Sciences degree in Philosophy with honors from the Université of the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III).
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William J. Collum
Advisory Board Member ~ Technology Consultant
With more than 25 years of experience, Mr. Collum is a senior executive and e-commerce expert. He has an extensive background in several high-technology industries, including telecommunications, defense, e-commerce, and e-government. Since beginning his career with Bell Laboratories, Mr. Collum has held a wide variety of managerial and executive responsibilities at both Bell Labs and AT&T, including laboratory supervisor, product manager, mergers & acquisitions analyst, and general manager. He has participated in a number of large acquisitions, merged complex business processes and organizations across enterprise boundaries, assisted in the creation of a major new telecommunications company, planned products and product lines, and has held P&L responsibilities for a number of high-growth organizations.
After a long and successful career, Mr. Collum retired from corporate life in the early 1990's. He then began a second career as a business re-engineering consultant. In this capacity, he has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies, helping them to assess and improve business processes, organizational structures, technology applications, and corporate cultures. Mr. Collum has worked with companies and government agencies all over the world, and is well known as the author of a powerful enterprise modeling method, that provides valuable new insights into enterprise structures, behaviors, and efficiencies. While Mr. Collum's services are still in strong demand, and he occasionally consults with past clients from time-to-time, he has discovered that his true passion is helping startup or distressed companies break through to the next level of success.
Mr. Collum received his B.S., M.S.C. in Math and Computer Science from Monmouth College and an MBA in Finance from Tulane Graduate School of Business.
William J. Cox
Advisory Board Member ~ General Consultant
William Cox currently serves as a Board Member on CB Capital Partners' Advisory Board. Mr. Cox is the Principal in Cox Financial Consultancy. He specializes in financial planning for high net worth individuals, functioning as their CFO in a virtual family office for each family with whom he works. In addition to the normal financial, estate planning and tax planning activities, Mr. Cox is particularly active in working with his clients on alternative investments.
Mr. Cox was a co-founder of Regenesis Bioremediation Products with Gavin Herbert and Dr. Stephen Koenigsberg. He joined the company as CFO when it began its active sales and marketing activities, after running the business planning and fund-raising activities in early days of the company’s evolution. Regenesis was one of the few environmental companies launched in the early-mid 1990s that ultimately proved to be a financial success. Mr. Cox was a Board member of the Company, and ultimately was promoted to President.
Prior to joining Regenesis Mr. Cox worked for Mr. Gavin S. Herbert, Chairman Emeritus of Allergan, and his extended family on his personal financial and business activities for 14 years. For part of that time he was also Controller of Nelson Research, a pharmaceutical development company listed on the NASDAQ. Earlier in his career Mr. Cox held various financial positions at Nichols Institute. Prior to that he was a Director of Financial Analysis at Allergan Pharmaceuticals and a CPA at Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Mr. Cox holds a Bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Chris Massey
Advisory Board Member ~ Financial Consultant
Mr. Massey serves as a Board Member on CB Capital Partners' Advisory Board. Mr. Massey brings a wealth of experience in business development and financial services to the firm. For eighteen years, Mr. Massey was the Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche's Orange County office. During his tenure, the Orange County office experienced growth an expansion from 22 employees to over 800 at the time of his departure resulting in the largest employer in Orange County. In addition, Mr. Massey managed and oversaw the integration of several mergers, business development, and the introduction of new services including the launch of a successful consulting practice with over 200 employees.
Mr. Massey has also served as the CEO for a number of companies that provide healthcare cost reduction services.
Mr. Massey is a graduate of the University of Southern California and currently sits on the Board of several non-profit organizations.
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Michael L. Meyer
Advisory Board Member ~ Real Estate Consultant
Michael L. Meyer currently serves as a Board Member on CB Capital Partners' Advisory Board. Mr. Meyer retired in 1998 as Managing Partner of the E&Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group of Ernst & Young LLP’s (EYKL) Orange County Office. Mr. Meyer originally started with Kenneth Leventhal & Company (KL) in Los Angeles in 1963. Currently, Mr. Meyer is a real estate investor and CEO of Michael L. Meyer Company and Managing Principal of AMG Realty Investors, which is a principal and/or advisor to a select group of real estate entities in providing business, financial restructuring and investment strategies. He also is a Principal in several land and development companies and was a Principal in two firms which acquired $1.6 billion of non-performing real estate bank loans and properties in Japan.
Mike has been active in the Southern California and national real estate industry for almost 40 years, and was a key partner in growing the firm to become the largest group of real estate accounting and consulting professionals in the nation. As a Managing Partner of EYKL, Mr. Meyer was responsible for overseeing and coordinating client services through a staff of 170. EYKL was a leading restructuring and RTC consultant, specializing in non-judicial reorganizations and debt modification, determining Derived Investment Value for portfolio dispositions, providing due diligence for portfolio acquisitions and developing business and financing strategies and structures. Mr. Meyer also headed teams that provided accounting, tax, and consulting to public and private entities, bankrupt estates, master plan community developers, homebuilders, commercial property owners and lenders.
Mr. Meyer is a board member of City National Bank, Paladin Realty Income Properties, Inc., and South Coast Repertory; founder and board member emeritus of the Orange County Forum; he was previously a director of William Lyon Homes, the Building Industry Association Foundation, the Construction Industries Alliance for the City of Hope; chair of the United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society; chair of the Advisory Board of the Real Estate Program and current Executive Advisory Board Member of the UCI Merage Business School Real Estate Program; member of the UCI Chief Executive Roundtable; and President of the Board of The Wellness Community—Orange County. Mr. Meyer is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, and American Institute and California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Mr. Meyer is a native of Omaha, Nebraska and is a graduate of the University of Iowa.
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Richard A. Schatz, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Advisory Board Member ~ Healthcare Consultant
Dr. Richard Schatz serves as a Board Member on CB Capital Partners' Advisory Board. Dr. Schatz is currently the Research Director of Cardiovascular Interventions at the Heart, lung, and Vascular Center and Co-Chairman of the Division of Cardiology at The Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.
In 1985, Dr. Schatz began a collaboration with Dr. Julio Palmaz from UTHSC in San Antonio to help develop a novel approach to angioplasty. Together they pioneered the field of vascular stents. Dr. Schatz holds several patents as the inventor of a variety of coronary stents. Due to the successful development of the coronary stent and multiple patents, Dr. Schatz is recognized as an international expert in the area. He has published and lectured extensively on this topic and others in the field of cardiology.
Dr. Schatz attended Duke Medical School from 1973-1977 and studied at the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam, Holland in 1976 with Drs. Hugenholz, Bom and Roelandt and at Oxford University, Oxford, England, and with Dr. David Weatherall. Dr. Schatz served his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco from 1977-1980. He did his cardiology fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and was a member of the cardiology staff from 1982-1987and as acting chief of the cardiology service from 1986 to 1987. From July 1985 to June 1987 he also held the position of Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Recognizing his career accomplishments, he was recently honored as the Distinguished Alumnus for 2003 and as Lifetime Scholar Award of the Barton Hayes Society, October 2005 by Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Schatz continues to work full time at Scripps Clinic as an interventional cardiologist, con-ducting clinical trials, teaching and lecturing worldwide.
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Ernest M. Vandeweghe, M.D.
Advisory Board Member ~ Healthcare Consultant
Dr. Vandeweghe has had a long and distinguished career as a professional athlete, successful physician and respected industry financier. A native of New York with family ties to the Bank of New York, Dr. Vandeweghe attended Colgate University and served as an intern at Bellevue Hospital and pediatrics resident at Babiews Hospital in Columbia. He was Chief of Pediatrics at the USAFE Hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany; Chief of Pediatrics at Prairie Medical Group in Inglewood, California and Cardiac Consultant at Daniel Freeman Hospital. Dr. Vandeweghe currently serves as Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Adolescent and Sports Medicine at UCLA Medical Center, Westwood, California.
Dr. Vandeweghe’s long list of achievements include: Colgate University Hall of Fame; Basketball Captain; All American; All East; East-West All Star Game MVP; Madison Square Garden All Decade Team; All-American Soccer Team; Olympic Team selection committee and Presidential commission member. Dr. Vandeweghe played NBA basketball for the New York Knickerbockers (1949 – 1956), reaching the championship finals in 1951, 1952 and 1953. After retiring from professional sports, Dr. Vandeweghe served as team physician and team consultant for the Los Angeles Lakers for over ten years. He was appointed the AAU Basketball Chairman, and to the USA Olympic Committee. He founded Golden State Boys Basketball; Basketball Congress International; Summer Pro, College, High School Basketball League.
Dr. Vandeweghe is the author of many books and articles including: “America Needs A Mother Movement”, and “Growing With Sports: A Parents Guide to the Young Athlete”. He has also produced several television programs including, "Body and Sports" for Equitable Life Sports Medicine, and "What Price Winning" which addressed college sports problems.