Globalisation:Paul Serotkin
Mr. Serotkin is currently the Executive Vice President, Operations and Finance, for Glevum Associates, and he also serves as Senior Adviser to Venture Management. He has years of experience in working in the corporate sector, his interests lying in corporation growth strategies and strategic partnerships.
Background
Mr. Serotkin earned his BA degree in accounting from Northeastern University, where he later on also studied business and finance, and he holds a MA degree in Communications from Boston University [1].
He started his career as a Director with the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE), an association helping to provide 'legislative voice for small business at the state and federal levels and to make practical information available to help business owners grow their companies' [2]. Since then he has served on several company and organization boards, including Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), the New England Chapter Board of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA),and the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE)[3].
Mr. Serotkin continued his career in corporate world managing corporate development for Pacer Infotec, a defence company which provides engineering services and produces flight simulators and helicopter navigation systems [4]. In 1998 Pacer Infotec merged with Intermetrics forming AverStar,a software engineering company providing services to for example NASA and the US Department of Defence [5], where he became the Director of Corporate Development. In 2000 the company was acquired by Titan Corporation. Upon acquisition he became Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Strategic Planning, for AverCom Corp which is a Titan subsidiary producing computer hardware and software[6].
In 2002 Mr. Serotkin founded Minuteman Ventures LLC, an investment bank which provided mergers and acquisitions advisory services to support corporate and private equity buyers and sellers that operate in the government sector - including homeland security, defence, emergency response, logistics, intelligence and civilian agencies [7]. In 2008 Minuteman was merged into Venture Management forming a boutique investment bank which provides M&A advisory services to technology based businesses, particularly for professional services firms in the aerospace, defence, intelligence and homeland security sectors [8] where he still works as a Senior Advisor. He is also a former Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Director of Corporate Planning for UFA, a software engineering firm which supplies simulators to civil aviation, military, and university customers all over the world [9].
External Links
The Smaller Business Association of New England
Association for Corporate Growth
New England Chapter Board of the National Defense Industrial Association
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education
Notes
- ↑ “Paul Serotkin”, Linked In, accessed 03/11/2010
- ↑ "About SBANE", SBANE, accessed 08/11/2010
- ↑ “Glevum Associates Leadership Team”, Glevum Associates, accessed 04/11/2010
- ↑ "Founder Profile", Minuteman Ventures LLC, accessed 07/11/2010
- ↑ “Pacer Infotec And Intermetrics Combine To Form Averstar”, Bnet, accessed 04/11/2010
- ↑ "Venture Management Team", Venture Management, accessed 08/11/2010
- ↑ “Paul Serotkin”, Linked In, accessed 03/11/2010
- ↑ “Venture Management Homepage”, Venture Management, accessed 08/11/2010
- ↑ “UFA Homepage”, UFA, accessed 08/11/2010
