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GHVP’s Management Team

Advisory and Direct Investment Clients

GHVP's Management Team

RALPH HEYWARD ISHAM
Managing Director

Ralph H. Isham is founder and Managing Director of GH Venture Partners LLC ("GHVP"). Since 1990, Mr. Isham has directed GHVP’s private investments as principal and agent in numerous emerging growth companies in the field of telecommunications, transportation technologies, and health care services.

Before joining GHVP, Mr. Isham worked as a consultant to corporate management with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and with Strategic Planning Associates (Mercer Consulting acquiree). His responsibilities included development of long-range business strategies for domestic and international markets of Fortune 100 companies. In addition, Mr. Isham worked at the American Stock Exchange as a Director under Mr. Arthur Leavitt, the former Chairman of the American Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Isham was formerly a Fellow with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the SALT II treaty hearings. He also served on the staff of Congressman James W. Symington of St. Louis, Missouri and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.

Mr. Isham graduated from Yale University with a BA Degree in International Relations in 1979 and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1983. In addition to his corporate directorships, Mr. Isham is the co-founder of the Vienna-based International NeuroTrauma Research Organization, a leading medical organization devoted to conducting research and improving the care of patients with traumatic neurological injuries. Mr. Isham also serves on the Yale Development Board and the Yale University President’s Council for International Activities, as well as the President's Council of the Peconic Land Trust of Southampton, NY.
In addition, Mr. Isham is a trustee of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), headquartered in London.

ARNOLD P. KLING
Managing Director

Arnold P. Kling serves as a Managing Director. Previously, Mr. Kling was the President of Adelphia Holdings, LLC., a private merchant banking firm, where he helped implement the investment activities for its partners, as well as advising clients with respect to capital expansion, strategic alliances and mergers.

Prior to joining Adelphia Holdings, from 1995 to 1999, Mr. Kling was a Managing Director and General Counsel of GHVP. From 1993 through 1995, Mr. Kling was a senior executive and General Counsel of a NASDAQ-listed licensing and multimedia company where he was responsible for coordinating all of the Company’s business and legal affairs. From 1990 through 1993, Mr. Kling was an associate and partner in the corporate and financial services department of Tannenbaum, Helpern, Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, a mid-size New York law firm. At Tannenbaum, Helpern, Mr. Kling had a diversified corporate practice where he specialized in private and public capital formation for both domestic and foreign companies as well as investment companies and funds, corporate acquisitions and divestures.

Mr. Kling also advised numerous public and private boards in the entertainment, communications, and financial services industries. Mr. Kling received his BS degree, cum laude, from New York University in International Business in 1980 and his JD degree from Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in 1983.

NOEL C. RIMALOVSKI
Managing Director

Noel Rimalovski brings a deep background in M&A and private equity management to GHVP, and is involved in research, due diligence, financial structuring and the ongoing operations of companies.

Mr. Rimalovski was Senior Vice President at Macquarie Capital (USA), 2007-08, in the Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment and Technology Group. While at Macquarie, he completed $1.8bn of investments in the telecommunications sector. Prior to Macquarie, he was Director in the Mergers & Acquisition Group of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and its predecessor Wasserstein Perella, where he completed transactions in the Media, Telecommunications, Technology and Consumer sectors. Prior to WP, he gained entrepreneurial experience as a banker on structured financings, securitizations and proprietary investments at Millennium Capital Markets and Lazard Frères. Mr. Rimalovski earned his MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, where he made the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. He holds a BA, Quantitative Economics, from Tufts University.

GH Venture Partners, specialized in advisory and direct investment clients, provides limited direct capital infusions and offers you its breadth of experience.

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