 Tom Holzel, Boston  Holzel is the founder of Velocity Associates. He has been conducting highly
successful Strategic Positioning
campaigns for large and small technology companies and products. His expertise in product assessment and the development of strategic positioning campaigns has consistently produced outstanding results for many start-ups as well as for some of the world's most respected corporations, including Raytheon, Sony, and IBM.
While still a prototype, Holzel sold a medical flat panel digital display (to Zoll Medical) for $12m–thereby helping fund the display manufacturer’s (PixTech) IPO. He sold a high-density low-voltage power supply to Motorola for $20m–again, while still a prototype. Holzel has been a company officer in four start-ups--American, English and French--that led to IPOs. Most recently, he helped raise $7m for a British R&D start-up in Oxfordshire,
UK. With
a degree in economics from Dartmouth College, he is also a recognized expert in flat panel displays. He has four patents to his
credit--all sold or built. He is a prolific writer--a published author
of several books and scores of magazine articles (and websites). Holzel is a
Fellow of the Explorers Club and winner of the Rolex Award for Enterprise.
He is an accredited Executive Associate of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB) .
The Institute accredits and connects a network of 4000+ senior businessmen who possess every business skill imaginable. Velocity Associates can call on this network to help solve difficult or unusual business issues.
Contact: THolzel@velocityassociates.net
Anja Bernier, Boston
Prior to joining Velocity Associates, Anja spent over a decade working in Marketing and Business Development for some of the world’s leading consumer goods companies such as Kraft Foods and Dannon. Her work experience covers 5 countries on 3 continents and includes brand responsibility for mega-brands such as Philadelphia cream cheese and Macaroni & Cheese. She has developed successful marketing and business development campaigns with multi-million $ budgets, as well as campaigns on a shoestring budget.
She graduated cum laude from the Amsterdam School of Business (The Netherlands) and the University of Applied Science Dortmund (Germany) with a Bachelor of International Business in a trilingual (German, English, Dutch) double-degree (German and Dutch) program, sponsored by the European Union.
She is sought after as a speaker at national and international conferences and
has been a guest lecturer on Marketing, International Business and Entrepreneurship at Boston University (MBA program), University of Munich/Germany, Simmons College and Suffolk University.
She is an accredited Executive Associate of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB).
Contact: ABernier@velocityassociates.net
Jonathan Lang, Washington, DC.
 Founder
and President of Chamber Advisors LLC in Northern Virginia, Lang has extensive
experience in selling both products and services to the federal government
utilizing the GSA Schedules and SBA HubZone and 8A certification programs.
His clients have included government entities (SPAWAR, DARPA, ONR) and
large commercial enterprises (Grumman Data Systems, AT&T, MCI).
He has extensive experience with start-ups, internet entities, business
turnarounds, and mergers and acquisitions utilizing skills in strategic
planning, budgeting, marketing, and organization development.
He propelled design and
introduced first use of multi-screen presentation workstations in Pentagon and
other military command and control centers worldwide.
Led
development and sold the first fiber optic sensor based weigh-in-motion
equipment for use in Afghanistan in 2003.
He acquired patent rights and designed prototype of a fiber optic switch for use
in communications applications in 2001 and expanded the company’s market
overseas to China, Iceland, Japan, Portugal and elsewhere.
Nominated for the KPMG Peat Marwick 1992 High Tech
Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Recognized as a member of the Fast 50 Council of rapidly growing companies in
the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington areas. Company ranked 21st in Washington
Technology's Fast 50 based on growth. Joanthan is an Accredited Executive Associate of the Institute for Independent Business .
Contact: JLang@velocityassociates.net
Walter Zwick, London
Walter Zwick is Chairman and CEO of IB Desktops Limited, a
 provider of hosted computer services to the small business market in Britain. Zwick was educated at Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His early carrier was with Hughes Aircraft (Programmer), IBM (Sales and Systems Analysis) and Cresap, McCormick, and Paget (Management Consultant). He was one of four Americans sent to Brussels in 1970 to establish a European practice for Cresap, then a leading strategy consulting firm. He established his own consulting practice in 1974 working primarily with the IT directors of leading European retail companies (Woolworth, House of Fraeser, Group Printemps, etc.
Since 1980 Zwick has been involved in strategy and financial consulting to the IT industry. He has assisted clients in capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, development of international distribution networks, and company sales. In the role of consultant/financial advisor to the British IT industry, Zwick has worked for each of these five clients for more than ten years. Computeraid Services had eight employs and £650,000 sales when he began assisting its management in 1981. When sold in 2001, it had just under 1,000 staff and sales of £100 million. Pennine Computer Services was valued at £750,000 when Zwick raised an initial venture investment in 1985. He helped sell the company for £60 million in 1999. Zwick has also started three IT companies that were all sold for a profit. He is an Accredited Executive Associate of the Institute for Independent Business .
Contact: WZwick@velocityassociates.net
Toshihide Yoshida
 , Tokyo, Japan
Mr Yoshida is CEO of TechnoAlliance, (TA) a Japanese firm which provides high-technology venture businesses in the US and Europe with the broad range of consultation services. Its services include formation of strategic alliances with Japanese companies, advice for easy access to Japanese market, establishment of distribution networks, establishment of Japanese subsidiaries or joint ventures, financial arrangements, technical licensing and marketing in the specific areas of semiconductors, displays and computers.
TA offers a wide range of consultation services including marketing, funding and establishment of affiliates in Japan The company is proud of providing hands-on daily assistance to its clients. TA utilizes the long-term personal relationships which the executives have established with the venture capitalists, high technology entrepreneurs and companies located in the USA and Europe. To be successful with such services requires understanding of the differences between the management concepts between USA/European and Japanese companies. TA has been successful in preparing the best environment for establishing continued long-term relationships based on mutual trust and confidence. TA builds bridges between partners or alliances and also provides "Hands On" service and support. TA has proven to be successful in developing and implementing market and sales channel strategies.
Contact: TYoshida@velocityassociates.net
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