Kenneth J. Kwit, following Cartel’s being fully vested, has been tagged to serve as COB and share in the responsibilities for identifying and managing the investment department of the Company, as well as addressing and administering to all Corporate legal matters.

 

Mr. Kwit's extensive entrepreneurial background includes over thirty years experience as CEO of consumer product companies, with heavy emphasis on franchise and general business opportunity marketing and specialty retailing, steming from 1964 when Mr. Kwit co‑founded the New York City Corporate Law Firm, Roth, Carlson, Kwit, Spengler & Goodell, which grew to approximately 90 lawyers, the law firm specializing in IPO's, mergers and acquisitions.

 

Mr. Kwit has served as Chairman of the Board, CEO and Minority Partner for Expressions, Corp. (Metaire, LA), a leading upscale U.S. furniture manufacturer wherein he arranged the acquisition and financing via leveraged buyout of the company; Chairman for Sonoma Vineyards Corp., where he negotiated a comprehensive financial and management restructuring of this public company. He led the evolution of the company from that of an integrated premium wine company to that of a major direct marketer of products through mail order, telemarketing, and a chain of specialty retail stores. Through a series of acquisitions and joint ventures, company sales rose from $5.7 million to over $63 million during his tenure. While still at Sonoma, Mr. Kwit created Post Tool Corporation, a chain of specialty retail stores that sells tools and light machinery to a wide range of customers and professionals. In 1972, Mr. Kwit joined Norton Simon, Inc., a $2+ billion consumer products company. Serving as Vice President Corporate Affairs and Legal, he planned and was responsible for the acquisition and merger of Max Factor and Company, Inc. and Halston Enterprises.  Additionally, he was responsible for the divestiture of Can Division, publishing business (McCall's magazine), pharmaceutical division (Denver Chemical Manufacturing Company), and the company's graphics division.

 

Mr. Kwit's academic accomplishments include graduating in the top five of his class with a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University Law School, BA from Cornell University and a Clerkship on the Federal Court of Appeals.

 

       Michelle Lee, serves as  Corporate Secretary and CFO. She  coordinates the efforts between Cartel Funding and Confluence Equity Management. Since 1999 to the present Mrs. Lee has headed-up her own business management and accounting firm, SOHO SOCAL Roadrunners, LLC. From 1997 through 2001, Mrs. Lee was V.P and Corporate Secretary for Francap Corporation, a franchise development company. Mrs. Lee graduated INHA University, Incheon, Korea 1982, graduating in the upper 10% of her class.

 

       James Guzzie Rose, Executive V.P. Marketing; CMO, has also been, and continues as a Netword Investor/Partner since January 2003. Prior: founder and president of Quality Solutions Technology, an internet sales and marketing company of 14 years, preceded by 10 years as executive V.P. of Nova Card Publishers, an advertising and mass merchandising corporation.

 

An Acknowledged Business marketing consultant for twenty two years and a cut-to-the-chafe, bottom-line motivational speaker, James Rose has been associated with both the Brick & Mortar & Internet world of product promotions, services, public relations and advertising, nationally and internationally, where his accomplishments have proven him a high volume revenue producer, training executive and motivational speaker with exceptional communications and  public relations skills and sound work ethics.

 

Born in Chicago IL, Mr. Rose  attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute where he achieved the status of  violinist  Virtuoso Soloist and where he also gained the opportunity to attend the Yehudi Menuhin school of fine arts in Europe. Mr. Rose continues his music as an erstwhile hobbyist.

 

       Alex W. Park, Netword/Chief Technology Officer (CTO), apark@netword.com. Mr. Park (Bilingual: Korean, English) has specialized in software and hardware systems in academic and industry environments since 1985. His background includes  5 years WEB based application and User Interface design and coding; 6 Years as solution director, National financial network (South Korea); 6 Years CDMA 1x, CDMA2000 design and integration (USA); 6 years network system engineer. (South Korea) Education: 1997-1999: MS of Computer Science (2nd MS); 1990-1992: MS of Computer Science; (Specially Network software: MHS performance Tool design); 1986-1990: BS of Computer Science.

Mr. Park’s Client List and work experience includes: Software/Systems Engineer: Ericsson Inc. Santa Barbara. IP RADIO Product Unit 2000-2008; Systems Engineer: Ericsson Inc. Santa Barbara May.1999 – 2000; Systems Engineer: GIANT Information System, South Korea Jan.1997 - Aug.1997; Systems Engineer: DATACOMM Co. Ltd. South Korea May 1994-May 1997; Software Engineer (Network software) DATACOMM Co.Ltd. Jan.1992-May 1994. LAN/WAN Network design and maintenance Rural Development Administration (Korea 1995-97); Ministry of Home Affairs (Korea 1994-95); Ministry of Communication (Korea 1993); Samsung Data System (SDS) - IBM/SNA based network; Lucky Gold star EDS, IBM/SNA based network; YC&C - IBM/SNA based network; ROM Korea - AS400/LAN network.

Detail areas of expertise: NET, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 environment developing (C#, Visua Studio 2005,2008), SilverLight; JAVA technologies and Script languages (CGI, PERL, PHP); CDMA IWF 2G, 2.5G implementation and integration for Korean/US/Canada Market; TCP/IP based Network System design and Integration; X25 Packet Network and FR(Frame Relay) Network Consulting; IBM/SDLC Network Integration; High-End GUI customizing for End users & Unix/Linux system operation.  Specialization knowledge background: J2EE/J2SE/J2ME. CDMA/IWF: I95-AB, IS658, Q92x, Q93x, CDMA2000, WCDMA. TCP/IP family: TCP/UDP, IP, PPP (LCP, IPCP), FTP. Packet Network: X3, X25, X.121, X75. Frame Relay, ATM. Operating Systems, Languages and Tools: Operating Systems-  WINDOWS (DOS, WIN95, 98, 2000, XP and NT), Windows Server, Linux (Red hat), UNIX (Solaris), HP Open View.  JAVA applications (J2ME/J2SE/J2EE).  Languages- C, CPP, C#, Java (JFC), Visual Studio .NET platform. Tools- RADCOM analyzer, Sniffer, LE2000.
 
 
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