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Advisory Board
Gary D. Kennedy
Robert E. Riley
James Caparro
George Wishart
Steven L. Norris
Dr. Alex Cadoux
Dr. Lubomira Scherschun
Dr. Sebastien Gay
Gary D. Kennedy
Gary D. Kennedy is a member of Talos’ Advisory Board.
Mr. Kennedy is the Founder and Chief Executive officer of RemedyMD Inc. a privately held healthcare software company. He is the founder and managing partner of Double Eagle Ventures, a private venture fund targeting seed stage investments in the United States and Brazil. The fund has invested in seven companies since its inception in 2002. Mr. Kennedy was the first investor in TenFold Corporation, a software and technology developer, in 1996. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tenfold from 1996 to 2001. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Kennedy served as Mission President for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Sao Paulo, Brazil. From 1990 to 1993, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of PRC, Inc a systems integration company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Black and Decker. Prior to joining PRC, he served in various executive and management positions at Oracle Corporation from 1982 to 1990 in roles including National Sales Manager, Senior Vice-President of Oracle Corporation and President of Oracle USA. He was one of the first 20 employees of Oracle. Prior to Oracle, he was a Marketing Manager for Intel Corporation.
Mr. Kennedy holds a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from the University of Utah.
Mr. Kennedy was named Utah Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999 by Ernst and Young.
Robert Riley is a member of the Talos Advisory Board.
Riley has enjoyed a successful career primarily in the luxury hospitality and property fields with extensive acquisition, disposition, development, project and corporate management experience on four continents. He was the Chief Executive officer of Armani Hotels and Resorts. Le Meridian Hotels and Resorts, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, ResidenSea and Crown Limited.
He worked in commercial property and management with VMS Realty Partners, Kimball Small Properties and Gerald D. Hines. He began his professional careet as an attorney with the Ford Foundation and Davis, Polk and Wardwell.
He received his law degree from the University of Virginian and undergraduate degree from Randolph-Macon College where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
James Caparro
James Caparro is a member of Talos’ Advisory Board.
Caparro has achieved international recognition for repeated start-up and turnaround success in diverse entertainment and distribution roles. He was the Founder and President of Entertainment Distribution Company, an independent distribution company for gaming, video and music companies from 2004 to 2008. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Elektra Atlantic, the manufacturing, packaging and distribution operation for Warner Music, responsible for six Warner Music Group operating companies employing more than 7,000 people worldwide and was responsible for the transformation of Warner's New Media and E-commerce activities worldwide from 2002 to 2003. He was the Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group's Island Def Jam Music Group which he created in the integration of fourteen diverse record labels into one autonomous entity from 1998 to 2001. From 1988 to 1998, he worked in several roles within PolyGram and served as President and CEO of PolyGram Group Distribution from 1992 to 1998 and was responsible for creating PolyGram's New Media Technologies and PolyGram's independent and alternative labels focusing on niche musical genres. Caparro started his music and entertainment career with Sony/CBS/Epic Music where he held management and executive roles in sales, marketing and management.
Caparro performed post graduate work in the MBA programs at the New York City School for Social Research and Golden Gate University and received his Bachelor of Arts from William Patterson College.
Jim currently serves on the Board of Directors of several companies including Blip.FM, ShoutCrowd and Headliner.FM and the T.J .Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and Aids Research. He is past Board Director of Net Radio Corporation, Intent Media Works and Atari Corporation, where he also served as Interim CEO.
George Wishart
George has years of marketing and advertising experience, including 11 years with Kraft Foods as a marketer, a business director, and as President of the Jacob Suchard International division. He also spent a number of years with various leading advertising agencies.
In 1999, George joined VNU (now The Nielsen Company) to lead its retail geo-demographic targeting business. In 2000 VNU appointed George President & CEO of MediaPlan prior to him merging MediaPlan with Interactive Market Systems to create the world’s leading provider of systems and solutions for the media industry, conducting business globally in 68 countries.
In early 2006 George was named Global Managing Director of Nielsen In-Store and led The Nielsen Company’s In-Store efforts to provide In-Store insights to Nielsen clients and the industry. He was recognized in 2008 for his leadership and was awarded the industry Media Mavens Award by Advertising Age, the world’s leading marketing publication. More recently (2010) he was asked by Ad Age to author an industry white paper on Shopper Marketing (http://adage.com/whitepapers).
In 2009, George was elected a Director of Trilogy Payment Services Inc. (TPS), a Nevada based consumer bill payment service. Since joining the TPS board George has played an active, lead role in re-launching this business.
George has acquired a unique combination of marketing, retail and managerial experiences which he now uses as an investor and advisor to companies in the marketing and retail sector.
Stephen L. Norris
Stephen L. Norris is a member of Talos’ Advisory Board.
Norris was a co-founder of The Carlyle Group in Washington D.C., serving as president of its management company from 1987 to 1996. Norris was involved in the decision-making process in every major Carlyle investment decision from its beginning as a $105 million fund that made investments of more than four times that amount through extensive use of co-investors and strategic partners. Those investments yielded an annual return on investment in excess of 40 percent. He also served on the boards of directors of major Carlyle portfolio companies.
Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to Prince Al- Waleed bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating the re-capitalization of Citibank, returning over $15 billion in profits on about $590 million of equity invested. He also advised or played a key role in other Kingdom Holding Company investments.
He was appointed by former President George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment Board.
Since 1997, Norris and his team have worked on real estate investments in Europe and the United States, including the privatization of Thompson CSF; the recapitalization of Suez; the acquisition of portions of Credit Foncier's real estate portfolio in Paris by the German firm of IVG; the formation of Nomura's (London) bid for Dutch mortgage bank; the offer by a major of Saudia Arabian investment firm for Lamborghini in Italy; and the formation of a bid by Leucadia International's for the Labouchere Bank in Holland, among other deals. He also negotiated and structured investments in Synxis Corporation, backed by Norris, George Soros, and MARC Global Holdings.
Norris served as a law clerk on the U.S. Tax Court. He earned a bachelor’s degree in science and his law degree from the University of Alabama. He was a fellow at Yale Law School and earned his doctor of law degree in taxation from New York University.
Dr. Alex Cadoux
Dr. Cadoux operates a medical clinic integrating nutritional, orthomolecular, preventative, herbal and homeopthic medicine with conventional medicine in Tuscon, Arizona.
After completing his medical training at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1981, he pursued specialty training in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, George Washington and Baltimore Shock Trauma Hospitals. He has attained board certification and fellowship status.
Dr. Cadoux served as the Medical Director of a large, urban emergency department in Baltimore, Maryland. During his tenure of seven years, he reduced medical malpractice losses to zero, doubled annualized ambulance visits, doubled inpatient admissions from emergency department care, and served as the Medical Director for the State of Maryland's, Region 3 Emergency Medical System, supervising more than one million ambulance runs annually.
Dr. Cadoux began training in 1995 in cosmetic surgery and laser medicine which he practices in both Tuscon and Beverly Hills. He maintains homes in Los Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Scherschum is an active researcher in dermatopharmacology and photodermatology focusing on both clinical trials and academic research. She currently is the staff dermatologist for the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Medical Group.
After completing her medical training at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Dr. Scherschum was the Senior Tenured Attending Staff Physician at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Sebastien Gay is a member of Talos’ Advisory Board. He is a private consultant and a faculty member of the department of economics at the University of Chicago. He has worked on internal and litigation-related projects including wage dispute resolution, diversification and performance, business strategy, and company valuation. His consulting work has spanned a wide range of industries from pharmaceuticals to media.
Gay previously was a litigation consultant at Cornerstone Research, a leading firm in the industry, where he specialized in antitrust disputes and provided his management consulting expertise to resolve complex financial issues.
Gay collaborated in developing a new graduate program at Stanford University with an emphasis on establishing infrastructure for performance indicators. He launched his consulting firm, SGRC LLC, to provide business clients with creative, sophisticated solutions to evolving challenges in commercial litigation and business strategy. Gay also provides advanced training for consultants entering the industry or in need of greater versatility in their practice areas.
Gay is currently conducting research on behavioral economics, pricing theory, and advertising strategy. He enjoys close ties with the consulting world, serving both as advisor and experienced consultant for several firms. Gay publishes his research in and serves as a referee (i.e., reviewer) for economics journals. He is a partner of the American Economic Association.
He is fluent in French; conversational in German and Spanish.
Gay earned his doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago, where he specialized in microeconomics and industrial organization theory. He received a master of arts degree in business and statistics from the National School of Statistics and Economic Studies in Malakoff, France, and a master of arts degree in mathematics from Paris VII Rene Descartes University in Paris, France. He also received a master’s degree in political science and economics from the National Institute of Political Science in Paris, France. He received his masters of business administration degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure in Cachan, France.