The Telmarc Group
A Technology Investment and Management Company
Principals
Dr. Terrence P. McGarty
Dr. McGarty ("Terry"), is the Managing Partner, has been the
founder of Telmarc and has been with the Company since its founding
in 1984, except during the period of 1986 thru 1992, when he left to
join NYNEX. Dr. McGarty holds a Ph.D. from
MIT
in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, has studied in the joint MIT/Harvard HST program in
Medicine. He has been President
of Warner's Electronic Media Company, and COO of NYNEX Mobile
Communications Company.
Dr. McGarty has been personally involved in the structure, financing, operations and management of most of the Telmarc investments. He has managed businesses world wide and has had offices in Prague, Moscow, Warsaw, Athens, and Bangkok, as well as operations in over twenty five countries. He has written extensively in the area of telecommunications and other areas and is a recognized expert in many litigation support areas. Dr. McGarty had recently also returned to MIT (2005-2012), on a pro bono basis, as a Research Affiliate in RLE in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences where he advised doctoral students in the communications area and had begun investigating genomics for potential development and investment opportunities. He started his career at MIT both as a student and a faculty member. Terry has also been a Member Urology Council, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (2019-Present), Member, Columbia University Medical Center Committee on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design (2018-present), Member of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Cancer Advisory Council (2016-2018)
Dr. McGarty is the author of sixteen books including Business Plans that Win Venture Capital, Wiley (1989). He was Vice Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Presidential Committee on the Internet (1998-2000) Dr. McGarty has been on the boards over two dozen companies including MDSI, a public company, in which he was also head of its Audit Committee.
Dr. McGarty is supported by colleagues with whom he has worked with in the past. These colleagues are independent advisors to Telmarc and have participated in various prior investments and management positions in Telmarc entities. tmcgarty@telmarc.com
Mr. Archie Typadis, Esq
Mr. Typadis is a Senior Adviser and has been involved in the
development, financing, and management of fiber to the home optical
networks in rural New England. From 1996 until 2001, Mr. Typadis
served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel and director
of COMAV Corporation, a facilities based competitive local exchange
company providing local, long distance telephone, and
high
speed Internet (DSL) services.
Mr. Typadis identified, negotiated and closed on the initial capital financing of the COMAV. Mr. Typadis represented COMAV in merger and acquisition negotiations and had overall responsibility for all due diligence compliance on $150 million high yield equity financing offering. Mr. Typadis negotiated and closed all employment, regulatory matters, real estate, vendor financing, and equipment and property leases. Prior to joining COMAV, he served as General Counsel to two telecommunication startups.
For the past 25 years, Mr. Typadis' practice has concentrated in telecommunications, corporate, banking and litigation matters. Mr. Typadis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Northeastern University and a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School.
Mr. Andrew Gregor
Andrew Gregor serves as Senior Adviser of Telmarc, practicing in our business
development, financing and private equity practice. Most
recently, Mr. Gregor has been responsible for Corporate
Finance and Business Development, as a Senior VP and
Treasurer at Sirius XM Satellite Radio. In his years at
Sirius, he
lead
successful expansion efforts in Canada and other parts
of the world, and was also responsible for over $3
billion in debt and equity financings. Most recently, he led the
restructuring of the Sirius balance sheet, caused by its
strategic merger with its major competitor, XM. .
He has previously held executive positions with a number
of major public and private companies in the US and
Europe, with responsibilities as a CFO for financings,
acquisitions, divestitures, financial reporting and
controls and strategic planning. Previously, Mr. Gregor
was the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of
Zephyr Communications, a Telmarc investment. At Zephyr, he along with the CEO
raised over $100 million in venture financing and
managed its operational rollout in the US and
Central Europe. Prior to Zephyr, he was Chief Financial
Officer of several publicly traded media, entertainment
and consumer goods companies, including GT Interactive,
a leading video game developer which he took public in
the largest venture backed IPO of 1995, and Lillian
Vernon, the specialty direct marketing retailer. During
Mr. Gregor's career, he has been personally responsible
for in excess of $7 billion in financings, and a like
amount of acquisitions and divestitures. He began his
career in investment research and spent much of his
career in the Controllership and Treasury areas of major
public corporations.
Mr. Gregor has assisted Telmarc through his own company,
Putnam Capital Services, LLC,
in several investment evaluations. Mr. Gregor holds an MBA
from the Wharton School where he was recognized as a
Baker Scholar, and a BA from Wesleyan University.
Dr. Lloyd Nirenberg
Dr.
Nirenberg is Senior Technology Advisor of Telmarc and
represents Telmarc in Silicon Valley. Dr. Nirenberg has
contributed extensively to many of the key innovations in
communication system design and financial engineering. He
has over 30 years experience in diverse wireless
communications industries as an engineer,
general manager,
deal-maker
and consultant. He has
experience gained from working on
satellite communications systems, terrestrial digital radio
and packet switching networks, and developing semiconductors
for wireless
communications. Some of his
technical innovations are marked by publications in IEEE
journals. Dr. Nirenberg also innovated in the valuation of
intellectual property, by applying techniques in financial
engineering to managing risk and value in IP transactions.
Currently he applies his expertise in technology, economics
and competition to assist clients craft strategies for
growth in the face of varied opportunities and risks.
Business operations seeking help defining product road maps
or placing a value on their IP can benefit from consulting
him.
He has a Ph.D. (EE) from UCLA, and
was a Hughes Doctoral Fellow. Dr. Nirenberg and Dr. McGarty
have been associated for almost fifty years working on a
variety of commercial and Government projects.
lnirenberg@telmarc.com
Dr.
S.
Ted is a Senior Advisor and a member of
the Division of Nuclear Medicine and M
molecular Imaging at Brigham
and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor of Radiology at Harvard
Medical School. His residences and fellowships were at the Royal
Victoria Hospital /McGill University and at Yale Medical School. He
founded the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at
Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)
in 1970 and served as its chief until 2011.
He has published more than 300 original articles; several review articles and book chapters, and the IV edition of a textbook entitled “Pediatric Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging” published in 2014. He received several awards including the George V. Taplin Award and the Holman-Kaplan Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the Mentor of the Year Award form the American College of Nuclear Physicians, and the Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award form the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
Howard Reis is a Senior Advisor in the
Health Care area to Telmarc and President
of
HEALTHePRACTICES, a firm which performs business development and
consulting for companies involved in Telemedicine and Medical
Imaging. Prior to a brief tenure in the Medical Imaging group at
Accenture, Howard was Vice President of Sales/ Director of Business
Development at Imaging On Call, a teleradiology provider which was
acquired by RadNet, Inc. Previously Howard worked at the
intersection of the healthcare and telecommunications industries,
delivering high speed broadband data communication to hospitals and
other medical facilities. At Telcordia Technologies (formerly
Bellcore) Howard was Vice President in the Professional Services
division providing consulting services to start-up companies in the
telecommunications industry. Howard’s first exposure to Medical
Imaging was as a project manager at Nynex Science and Technology for
its Media Broadband Service, managing early telemedicine trails with
four teaching hospitals. Howard has an MBA in Finance from NYU and
has published several articles on Teleradiology, Telecommunications
and Telemedicine.
hreis@healthepractices.com
Misha Kazachkov
Misha Kazachkov has been an Advisor to
Telmarc since 1996. He assisted Telmarc's
development
of Zephyr in Russia and other countries in Eastern Europe.
From July 1991 to August 1993, Kazachkov was with the Harvard Law School. He spent the next four years as a senior fellow at the Edward Murrow Center for International Communications at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of the Tufts University.
In 1992 Kazachkov led a team of top Russian television professionals and, working with American colleagues, created Freedom Channel, an American 501c(3) focusing on Russian media, polling and telecommunications industry.
He was executive producer for over 20 documentaries, filming in Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, and the U.S. The programs aired nationally in Russia to audiences of 15 to 25 million per segment. In 1994 Freedom Channel consulted the State Duma (national parliament) in establishing its radio and television service. In 1995 Kazachkov edited a White Paper on the Future of Russian Telecommunications presented to the State Duma. The White Paper was prepared by a team of experts from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and MIT.
In late 1996 the World Bank Information for Development program awarded him a grant to draft guidelines of Russia's national policy in telecommunications and information technologies. In the process was founded Russian National Institute for Information Society existing to this day.
He is a Board member of the Human and Civil Rights Federation of America, Kazachkov continues to be active in the public service domain. Kazachkov’s work in the commercial sphere started in business consulting for the telecommunications and electronic media industries. Chairman of the board of Global Information Industries and Technologies, Inc. (GIST), an Arlington, VA consulting company focused on emerging markets, he supervised publication of a weekly industry newsletter distributed to corporate subscribers via the Internet. GIST served as expert partner in an Arthur Anderson led consortium tasked with preparing for privatization of a quarter of Russian government-controlled telecoms.
After the dot.com bubble burst Kazachkov expanded his consulting to the area of business operational innovation. Managing partner of Overseas Engineering, LLC of Cambridge, MA, he gained extensive experience in the field of technology transfer and intellectual property development. Among his clients were State University of New York (SUNY) system and UMass Boston.
Experience
The Telmarc Principals have worked together in many ventures over the years and they each have extensive business experience which they bring to each new opportunity.