| Armie Carabet, Founder, CEO, Board of Directors Chairman |
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Mr. Carabet brings a tremendously successful business history to ClickN KIDS. In the last fifteen years Mr. Carabet has
owned and operated many successful companies. His experience as an owner, franchisor, franchisee, marketing director and general manager have
provided him with the insight, understanding, work ethics and capabilities to successfully lead ClickN KIDS, Inc. His business highlights include:
Co-Founder of TyRyMow Affiliated Holdings, a California company with many successful business enterprises, such as Money Mailer Gold Coast, a
nationally recognized marketing and direct mail franchise and a former partner and Marketing Director of Norman International Inc., an international
import, export and manufacturing company.
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| Alan Ray Scalone, Founder, Director and SVP Business Development |
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Mr. Scalone brings to the Company 20 years of Fortune 100 corporate tenure as well as 5 years startup venture consulting. Mr. Scalone began
his professional career in 1979 as a software programmer for Honeywell Corporation's Process Control computer division in Phoenix, Arizona developing software systems that
control paper mills, oil refineries and electric utility plants. Mr. Scalone completed his tenure with Honeywell 10 years later as a Senior Systems Engineer for the
division's elite global post sales technical support group. He then took on the task of establishing and managing the hardware and software manufacturing quality assurance
departments for Hypercom, Inc. which led to the successful launch and market penetration of Hypercom's Point of Sale credit card transaction processing product line. After
Hypercom, Mr. Scalone accepted a Senior Engineering position in Motorola's Corporate Applications Engineering department where he designed and developed Motorola's worldwide
Intranet communications software systems.
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| Keith Klein |
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Mr. Keith Klein brings to the Company two decades of entrepreneurial business acumen including 24
years of executive staff recruitment expertise as Founder, Chairman and President of Klein & Associates and CKM Staffing, Inc.
Besides his knowledge as a businessman, through CKM Staffing, Keith also provides immediate access to the best individuals for any
position the Company needs to fill. Additionally, Mr. Keith contributes to the Board access to value added investment and business
partners.
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| Dr. Norman Carabet |
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Dr. Carabet is a highly successful physician, entrepreneur, and investor. In addition to providing access to capital, Dr. Carabet will also
lend his 50 years of professional experience to ClickN KIDS. Having successfully built one of the largest private medical practices in the Los Angeles area through
much of the 80s and 90s, Dr. Carabet operated multiple medical offices with dozens of staff, including doctors, nurses, physical therapists, medical transcribers,
support staff and a complete administrative staff for billing and operations. A successful real estate investor and entrepreneur, Dr. Carabet has owned restaurants,
airlines, food and marketing franchises as well as several commercial real estate properties among his many endeavors.
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| Richard K. Jones - Advisory Board |
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Richard is a Fortune 1000 level IT leader with a wide range of business management, operations and financial
management skills. His recent focus has been improving customer service and satisfaction while lowering operating costs through
consolidation, optimization, and process improvement. While Jones is best known for the awards he and his teams have won for
Technology Innovation in the Financial Services industry, he also has a strong background with Retail and Manufacturing companies.
His background, experience, and management skills make him ideal for a senior management role in a company that values leadership,
customer focus, innovation, enterprise architecture, quality management, and operations efficiency.
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Jones' management style is one of vision and strategy establishment, business alignment, and empowerment of his staff. He believes
in continuous process improvement and quality control using Six Sigma techniques, and establishment and monitoring of the vital
metrics and key drivers of the state of health of the company. His staff enjoys working for him; he generates strong loyalty and
support from his employees. Jones has a track record of recruiting and development strong and motivated management teams.
Jones recently completed his Scrum-Master training and is a Certified Scrum-Master. This is a discipline that utilizes the popular
Agile approach to Project Management.
For the past nine years, Jones has demonstrated leadership and success as a C-Level executive managing over 1,000 employees and an
operational budget of over $ 300 MM. He has been responsible for strategic planning, engineering, operations, security and risk
management, compliance to industry standards, new product development, and client support and satisfaction. As president of his
own company Bethany Computer Systems, Jones worked with a variety of clients in the manufacturing, and insurance fields. Major
clients included Lockheed, Hughes, Xerox, Allianz Insurance, Olivetti, Technicolor, and Buena Vista Home Video. Repeatedly, Jones
and his organizations have been the recipients of awards for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Excellence.
Jones has a wide range of knowledge in the financial services industry. This includes mortgage banking, retail banking,
commercial banking, and insurance. He has good understanding of Core Banking Systems, and ERP systems such as SAP, JD Edwards,
and Oracle. His teams developed systems and products in the U.K. in support of their Global businesses and he has significant
International experience. Jones uses strong project and portfolio management disciplines to ensure that projects are in alignment
with strategic business requirements and are prioritized appropriately. Projects are delivered on-time and on or under budget.
He has a track record of strong execution.
Jones is knowledgeable regarding regulatory compliance, risk management, and security requirements for all sizes and types of
companies. He is well-versed in the design and deployment of appropriate security and privacy systems.
Jones was Chief Information Officer of Fiserv, Inc. from January 2008 to July 2009, and CIO of Countrywide Financial Corp. from
2000 to 2007. In 2003 he was recognized by CitiBank/Salomon Smith Barney as CIO Of The Year, and by ComputerWorld as one of the
"Premier 100" IT leaders. Information Week 500 ranked Countrywide IT in the top 50 innovative users of technology in 2001, 2003,
and 2004, and ranked Fiserv in the top 5 in 2008.
Employment History:
July 2009 - present
Consultant. IT Senior Management contracting - http://ITAdvancedTraining.com
Los Angeles, CA
Jan. 2008 - present
Chief Information Officer and EVP - Fiserv, Inc.
Brookfield, WI
Jones reports directly to the CEO of Fiserv and has oversight responsibility for global technology infrastructure and product
development, and spearheads programs designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the company's dispersed technology
resources. He manages an operational expense budget of $ 200 MM, and capital budget of $ 350 MM. He directly manages over 1000 IT
professionals, and indirectly another 2000 IT professionals. In his first year with Fiserv, Jones was responsible for over $ 22MM
in savings through improved operational efficiencies and consolidation of assets.
Jones was instrumental in winning a top honor from InformationWeek in the fall of 2008. The magazine named Fiserv No. 1 in the
Banking and Financial Services category and ranked Fiserv No.4 overall on the 2008 InformationWeek 500.
Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2007
Chief Information Officer and Sr. Managing Director -
Countrywide Financial Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
In the fourth quarter of 1999 Jones responded to the emergence of Internet pure play competitors such as eLoan and LendingTree by
completely revamping countrywide.com and supporting systems by March 2000 to become one of the country's premier loan origination
web sites. Jones managed an overall Expense Budget of $ 800M and Capital Budget of $ 500M. He managed over 4000 technical
professionals. He introduced and developed several key products and technologies at Countrywide, including automated underwriting
and appraisal systems, Call Center technologies, Document Management systems, and server and storage management systems. He
implemented Business Intelligence systems and Dashboard reporting technologies to improve the management of the business.
Oct, 1996 - Jan. 2000
Executive Vice President - Countrywide Financial Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities included all Infrastructure, Enterprise IT Architecture, and eBusiness technologies. He was responsible for
Countrywide's Data Centers, Engineering, and Operations environments. He established the Countrywide eBusiness division in
partnership with Countrywide marketing and business executives.
Aug. 1992 - Sept 1996
Director of Computing and Communications - Technicolor, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
Jones was responsible for all Technicolor infrastructures and the global network (L.A., Memphis, Detroit, London, Rome, Milan,
Amsterdam). He developed systems in support of Technicolor's video and CD/DVD manufacturing and distribution businesses.
Technicolor in partnership with Disney (BVHV) developed a ground-breaking video distribution system. Jones developed the
Technicolor IT systems: inventory management, distribution, shipping, returns processing, etc.
May 1986 - July 1992
Owner/President - Bethany Systems
Thousand Oaks, CA
Provided consulting and project management services in IT development and networking. Key clients were Technicolor, Lockheed,
Hughes, Allianz Insurance, and ISC/Bunker Raymo. In partnership with ITAC, Inc. Jones led a development team to build a PC-based
back office branch banking system for ISC/Bunker Raymo. Bethany developed vertical market solutions for the manufacturing and
retail industries. Jones is well versed with Just-In-Time manufacturing principles and the manufacturing inventory control,
bill-of-materials assembly, supply chain management, and vendor management systems required to support them. He has strong
knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP, JD Edwards, and Oracle. In 1991 Bethany was named one of the top 100 VARs (Value Added
Resellers) in the country.
1984 - 1986
Partner - JNL EFT Consulting Services
Toronto, Canada
Provided EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) consulting and network consulting services to the big five Canadian Banks. Specialized in
Shared ATM, Point-Of-Sale, and Funds Transfer Networks). Series/1 ATM switching technology.
1982 - 1984
Manager - Network Architecture and Planning - Bank Of Montreal
Toronto, Canada
SNA networking specialist. Branch banking and ATM networks. Large Funds Transfer Network project using Burroughs systems. (Telenet,
SWIFT, etc.)
1979 - 1982
Manager - Network Architecture - Royal Bank Of Canada
Toronto, Canada
SNA networking specialist. Worked with Phillips to build the first non-IBM SNA branch banking system. IBM Mainframe systems using
IMS/Fast Path and CICS.
1976 - 1979
Customer Engineer; SNA Support Specialist -
IBM - International Business Machines
Toronto, Canada
Trained to support IBM MVS and DOS/VS mainframe systems. Specialized in SNA related networking software: VTAM, NCP, CICS, TSO.
Regional (Ontario, Canada) support specialist for SNA software support.
Formal Education:
Bachelor of Mathematics/Computer Science program - University of Waterloo (1969 - 1972)
Executive Development Program - Countrywide - Los Angeles, CA
C.S.M. Certified Scrum Master http://scrumalliance.org
Affiliations:
Wellness Community; Ventura County; Board Of Trustees
UCLA Brain Cancer Genome Project; Board Of Directors
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| Steve Deutsch - Advisory Board |
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Steve Deutsch brings over 20 years of mortgage banking experience to Zen Private Wealth Advisors Inc., with specialized focus on High Net Worth Clients. As the Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at Zen Private Wealth Advisors Inc., he identifies complementary businesses where a Full Services Credit Platform can bring incremental revenue streams and differentiation with credit product offerings.
Steve started his career at Warner Center Funding in 1989. He then joined Coastline/S&L Mortgage, where he created a partnership with City National Bank to execute jumbo and super jumbo mortgages for their High Net Worth clients.
In 1994 Steve was brought over to Oakmont Mortgage's Westside office. After six years at Oakmont, Steve joined Metrociti Mortgage where he twice earned a position in the Presidents Club for his performance.
In 2003, Steve shifted his focus to creating joint ventures and strategic partnerships. He served as the company's liaison with BDO Seidman and Assante - Loring Ward.
Later, he joined First Financial (Prudential California Realty), an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway, to help start their Private Mortgage Banking Division, before he rejoined Prospect Mortgage to work in their Private Mortgage Banking Group.
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| Michael Alan Rubell, MBA, CSS - Advisory Board |
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Mike Rubell is national authority in the field of occupational safety and health. As founder of the National Compliance Institute Mr. Rubell implemented programs that served thousands of
companies nationwide. With numerous health and safety certifications, Mr. Rubell is a safety trainer for OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, an agency of the US government.
A distinguished national speaker and instructor at universities, the US Air Force and Department of Justice, Mr. Rubell's undergraduate work focused on Environmental Sciences, Environmental
Management and Industrial Safety Management with his MBA from Pepperdine University in Behavioral Science. He will be authoring a future ClickN SAFETY product teaching children how to
incorporate safety into their lives.
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| Bonnie Kanner - Advisory Board |
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Bonnie's earlier background is the film industry both as a producer and director of new business development and financing. However it is her commercial and business awareness that she brings to US companies and transactions that adds value to client support in finance and market expansion.
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