BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gerald C. Crotty

Founder and President, Weichert Enterprises, LLC

Gerald Crotty has an extensive background in international business, finance, government, and law. He serves on the boards of Weichert Enterprise portfolio companies and of Access Integrated Technologies, Inc., AXA Enterprise Multimanager Funds Trust, AXA Premier VIP Trust, and Jones Apparel Group, Inc. From 1991 to 1998, Mr. Crotty held leadership positions with the ITT Corporation; he served as Chairman, President and CEO of ITT Information Services and President and COO of ITT Consumer Financial Corporation. Mr. Crotty was a Founding Member of the European U.S. Trade and Investment Center in Brussels. Prior to his work at ITT, he was Counsel and Secretary to the Governor of New York. After graduating from New York Law School, Mr. Crotty joined the law firm of Hawkins, Delafield & Wood.

Mel Meskin

Palisade Capital Management 

Mel Meskin was the Chief Financial Officer, National Operations for Verizon. The National Operations organization is comprised of 70,000 employees, servicing 70MM access lines. Prior to this position, Mr. Meskin was Vice President – Finance – Consumer Division responsible for $10B in sales. Mr. Meskin joined New York Telephone in 1970.

Patrick F. X. Mulhearn

NorBelle CEO & Managing Director

Patrick F. X. Mulhearn has been Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of NorBelle, LLC, since November 2002. Mr. Mulhearn was instrumental in securing the venture capital funding and global strategic partnerships necessary to bring Cearch high-accuracy locator technology to market (3Q06). From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Mulhearn served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Milestone Management Group, a venture capital firm specializing in telecommunications. Prior to that, he served as Vice President-Corporate Communications for Bell Atlantic Corporation. In earlier executive appointments, Mr. Mulhearn was Vice President-Public Relations of NYNEX, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of NYNEX Information Resources (NYNEX Yellow Pages), and Assistant Vice President, Business Marketing Operations of New York Telephone. Before joining NYNEX, Mr. Mulhearn served for six years as Counsel   to the Mayor of the City of New York, Edward I. Koch. He also served as a top policy advisor to the mayor. In 1988, Mr. Mulhearn was awarded the Medal of the City of New York, for distinguished public service. Mr. Mulhearn holds a bachelors degree in Economics and Communications from Boston College and a law degree from New York Law School.

Norman Mohi

NorBelle Founder and President

Norman Mohi is the designer of the technology. He founded NorBelle in 1999 and is one of the authors for NorBelle’s Patents. Mr. Mohi’s engineering background is that of an aerospace engineer for Grumman Aircraft, where as an Aerodynamics Engineer/Project Engineer, he worked on several military aircraft projects for the United States Navy including the F-14D, A-6F, E-2C, and the EA-6B. Following his engineering career, Mr. Mohi had extensive experience in software design and development, managing projects for such clients as Merrill Lynch, DLJ, RIA, Thomson Financial Publishing, Neuberger & Berman, and Pepsi Cola. Mr. Mohi holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Polytechnic University in New York.

James Hume

NorBelle Chief Technical Officer

 James Hume has many years of GPS industry experience including several years as Vice President and Director of Magnavox ESC, one of the pioneers of the GPS industry. He has an extensive background in developing technologies involving wireless communications and GPS, particularly applications requiring a high degree of navigation, tracking or measurement accuracy. He has a total of 35 years of general management, marketing and product development experience and has managed several companies for the Global, Dutch-based electronics giant, Philips Electronics. For Philips’ subsidiary, Magnavox Electronic Systems Company, a strategic business unit with sales and service in over 30 countries, he was Vice President and Director of Commercial Navigation and Positioning, with full P&L responsibility.