GEM International Ventures - Corporate

Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown is the founder and Director of The Global Emerging Markets North America, Inc., where he oversees the New York office and manages private placements on a global basis. He is on the Board of Directors of Bahrain-based VC Bank, co-sponsor of the GEM MENA Fund. In addition he is Chairman of the CITIC-GEM Fund, a non-voting General Partner in Kinderhook Industries and on the Board of Directors of the Global Leadership Foundation. He began his career with Drexel Burnham Lambert in Sales & Trading in 1985. He later joined Smith Barney as an Investment Advisor from 1986 to 1988 and worked for Shearson Lehman Brothers from 1988 to 1993. Mr. Brown attended UCLA.

Edward J. Tobin

Edward J. Tobin is a Director of Global Emerging Markets North America, Inc., where he manages venture capital investing. In addition to his venture capital activities, he has overseen structured finance transactions in industries such as media, telecommunications, manufacturing, real estate and life sciences. Prior to joining GEM, Mr. Tobin was Managing Director of Lincklaen Partners, a private venture capital group. Previously, he had been a portfolio manager with Neuberger and Berman and prior to that Vice President of Nordberg Capital, Inc., an institutional brokerage in New York City. Mr. Tobin received his MBA from the Wharton School, as well as a Master of Science in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Economics (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania.

William Phillip Burke

William Phillip Burke Senior Managing Director of GEM International. Mr. Burke has extensive business expertise in launching small business operations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has worked for a variety of private equity firms, business consulting firms and family funded operations to launch start-up enterprises, primarily in the overseas emerging markets. With extensive experience living and traveling overseas, speaking several foreign languages, Mr. Burke has spent the last 15 years consulting to multinational corporations with a specialization in Emerging Markets. Mr. Burke oversees GEM International activities in the areas of consulting and research for international investing. He is responsible for evaluating various international economies and business sectors for international investment consulting and market research. Mr. Burke researches which markets and opportunities should be pursued, which investment professionals should be selected to manage and staff senior positions, and which sectors or companies are to be addressed by the firms's research and consulting operations. Mr. Burke also serves on the board of the international investment research and consulting operations managed by GEM International.