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Published on: 3/27/2009
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Bruce Berman 51 Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Principal Financial Officer
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BRUCE BERMAN: Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Principal Financial Officer
In 2001, Mr. Berman founded Berman Investment Group LLC ("BIG").
From 2003 to 2007 at BIG, Mr. Berman led the development and marketing of over $20,000,000 in financial empowerment books and CDs, including his book, "I Got Here.
You Can Too!"(R), a book on how to start, fund, and run companies that has approximately 500,000 copies in circulation, and 15 financial empowerment CD's with approximately 3,000,000 copies in circulation targeted at a similar demographic as Bank Freedom consisting of Credit and Debt Repair, Internet Marketing, Real Estate, Sales, Negotiating, using eBay, Being Your Own Boss, and Residual Income.
He wrote, produced, performed, and aired ten TV commercials, twenty radio commercials and was responsible for the purchasing and airing over 100,000 spots specifically targeted at a similar demographic.
Mr. Berman was nominated by Sprint(R) for the Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for a technology development company he founded in 1999 and took public in 2000.
During 1990 to 2000 Mr. Berman was a business consultant.
Mr. Berman advised companies on formation, capital raising, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, marketing growth and becoming public.
Although he never held a securities license, Mr. Berman was the beneficial owner of an NASD licensed broker-dealer he started in 1999.
Other Companies founded and headed by Mr. Berman include
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TAEI, a pioneer in wind energy development in the US from 1983 to 1988, With TAEI, he purchased several companies within the industry including a NASD licensed broker dealer, a licensed construction company and a manufacturing facility which in a few short years employed over 100 staff.
Two years after the federal and state tax credits financing wind energy expired in 1985, TAEI ended up in chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1987.
For approximately a year Mr. Berman was the court-appointed trustee and negotiated the resolution of tens of millions of dollars worth of contracts.
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Based solely on our review of the copies of the Forms 3, 4 and 5 and amendments thereto furnished to us by the persons required to make such filings during fiscal 2008 and our own records, we believe that Mr. Berman, Mr. Christiansen and Mr. Galasieski each failed to file timely a Form 3 to report initial beneficial ownership.
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