management

Ganart Technologies is managed by what can only be characterized as creative brilliance. The core founders group is global in culture. Therefore world-needs and opportunities are top of mind for big picture problem solving.

Management at Ganart isn't a collection of delegators. To join this brilliant group you have to possess proven skills and creative brilliance in your respective field(s). That means proving brilliance daily, and proving it beyond business days too.

These stars of their respective fields all join together as a cohesive team although they may be globally apart.

Their passports have a lot of ink; their minds are focused as one, all to invent a new financial system that benefits everyone.

Management by definition is a confining label at Ganart. It's more of a directorship. We direct ideas into reality to last longer than our lives. It's "the objective content of thought" made into reality, and then putting it in the hands of the world, that turns us on.

Art Holbrook

Chairman and Global CEO
Founder
Chairman – Ganart Media

Mr. Holbrook has over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience in multiple businesses serving in various capacities as President, Principal, General Manager, and/or a member of the Board of Directors of several private equity owned ventures.

After completing a Harvard Business School consulting assignment with Landmark Communications in 1979, Mr. Holbrook developed a keen interest in the future of telecommunications and wireless transactions. Shortly after graduating from Harvard Business School he founded multiple private equity start ups and/or acquisitions of privately held investments in the Cable TV and Satellite Communications industries (successfully operating, organically growing, horizontally expanding, and ultimately selling the businesses), including:

• Communications Funding Partners - start up – 1980

• Telecable of Springfield - acquisition – 1980

• Telecable of Ambler - acquisition – 1980

• Telecable of Montgomery County - start up – 1980

• Communications Funding Associates - start up – 1981

• Star West Communications - acquisition – 1981

From 1998 through 2009 Mr. Holbrook served as Chairman and Global CEO of Humanetics, a manufacturer of custom precision fabricated metal parts and products for Fortune 500 OEMs and their CEMs, serving international markets including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China and India.

Mr. Holbrook holds the following degrees and distinctions:

• Master of Business Administration (MBA), 1979 – Harvard Business School

• Bachelor of Science in Economics (Magna Cum Laude), 1977 – University of Utah

• Bachelor of Science in Accounting (Accounting Department Scholar), 1977 – University of Utah

• Elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society (founded December 5, 1776), in 1977

• Inducted into the Beehive Honor Society, the oldest local honor society at the University of Utah (founded in 1913), Class of 1977

• Awarded single annual "Dean’s Award of 1976 for Outstanding Contributions to the University of Utah" in recognition of restructuring the $400,000 USD annual student government budgeting process

• Sponsored by the University of Utah, in national competition against 276 colleges and universities, won an appointment as 1 of only 14 students chosen as a U.S. Federal Government Budget Analyst, as an undergraduate (11 of the 14 were graduate students), summer 1976

• Mr. Holbrook served in the United States Army – 1972 to 1974

• Upon high school graduation, Awarded Honors at Entrance Scholarship, 1971 – University of Utah

Webb Edwards

Co-founder

Most recently Mr. Edwards has been consulting and speaking at various events.  He served on the Board of Carreker Corporation and also consulted with the company. He has also served on the Board of Minnesota Mutual.

He consulted with Knowledge Learning Corp. located in Los Angeles and Portland for most of 2006 assisting with a recent merger and the development of a new technology infrastructure.

Prior to his retirement in 2006 he served as Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo Bank with $482 billion USD in assets.  His areas of responsibility included the project management office, infrastructure technology operations (network, LAN/desktop, data center, information security and risk), application development, payment systems strategy and execution, retail phone banks, payment operations for wholesale and retail, ATM operations, risk management, and enterprise technology and data architecture.  He directed Wells Fargo Services, the technology and operations subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co; responsible for 21,000 employees and an annual budget of $2.2 billion USD. Mr. Edwards retired in 2006, recognized in the industry as the “Father of Modern Electronic Banking Transactions”.

Before the 1998 merger with Wells Fargo, in which Mr. Edwards was responsible for managing the merger of Technology and Operations when Norwest was acquired by Wells Fargo, Mr. Edwards was Executive Vice President of Norwest Corporation and President for Norwest Services, Inc.  During his tenure with both organizations he was involved with the successful conversion of over a hundred other bank, brokerage and mortgage acquisitions.

He joined Norwest in 1995 after serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Information Services for First Interstate Bancorp and Senior Vice President of Mercantile National Bank in Dallas, Texas.

From 2006 through 2009 Mr. Edwards provided consultancy and advisory services and has been a featured speaker to the financial and transaction automation community. During this period Mr. Edwards, noted for his philanthropy, donated his $10,000 USD per day consultancy fee to charitable organizations.

Mr. Edwards began his career with the Nashville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 1984 until 1995. 

Recent assignments include:     

• Personalysis Corporation

• Sungard

• Lighthaus Logic

Recent speaking engagements include:

• Microsoft

• Cisco

• Filenet/IBM

• SunGard (likely datacenter site for Ganart Technologies)

Mr. Edwards holds the following degrees and distinctions:

• B.A. and M.A. in Economics and Finance at Middle Tennessee State University

• Stonier Graduate School of Banking

• University of Tennessee Executive Development Program

• Tennessee Young Bankers School

• Harvard Business School Executive Training

Additional Information:

• August 2002 – Elected to the Board of Directors for Securian Financial Group Inc., parent company of Minnesota Life Insurance Co.  He served on the board’s audit and investment committees

• January 2006 – Joined Carreker Corporation’s Board of Directors

• August 2006 – Named Chairman of Carreker’s Board of Directors

• Electronic Financial Transaction legislation and policies authored by Mr. Edwards have been adopted by countries and worldwide companies

Charles Hasty

Member, Board of Directors
Co-founder

Mr. Hasty worked for IBM for 7 years before starting his own company Cardio Systems in 1969. He developed the first fully hydraulic radiolucent bed for intensive care units, the first cardiac chair position for intensive care beds and the first intensive care bed with a built in scale system. 

Mr. Hasty has worked in the fields of neuro-radiology, nuclear medicine, and intensive care. He holds 7 patents, one with IBM in the field of testing magnetic material and obtained 6 others during his tenure at Cardio Systems. In 1976 he started a second company, Humanetics. Cardio Systems was sold in 1998. Mr. Hasty remains a Director of Humanetics.

Mr. Hasty holds the following degrees and distinctions:

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1961 – University of Texas at Austin

• Member of Tau Beta Pi & Pi Tau Sigma

• In 1958, as a sophomore, was selected “Outstanding Mechanical Engineer of the Year” by Pi Tau Sigma (Pi Tau Sigma members have to be seniors)

• In 1962, was given full scholarship to Stanford University by IBM

• Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1964 – Stanford University

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Anthony Cacheria III

President & Chief Operating Officer
Member, Board of Directors
Member, Board of Directors – Ganart Media
acacheria@ganart.com

Mr. Cacheria has over 20 years of diversified corporate finance and operations experience in companies ranging from start up to small capitalization to multi-billion dollar enterprises. He initiated his career at GE Capital on the audit staff of the corporate finance group performing due diligence on 40 + companies in the media, telecom, retail, industrial and services industries. His vast experience provides a strong background in funding and strategic structuring necessary to provide critical working capital and manage fiscal responsibility.

Mr. Cacheria’s experience includes: Senior Financial Executive, Senior Managing Director and Sr.V.P. with such world class financial institutions as JP Morgan, Banc of America Securities, Bank of America, GE Capital and The Bank of New York. Mr. Cacheria has an extensive capital formation track record during his tenure with financial organizations. His CFO experience with early stage companies provides hands-on financial leadership.     

Mr. Cacheria holds the following degrees and distinctions:

• Masters of Business Administration (MBA), 1992 – Southern Methodist University

• Bachelor of Business Administration – Finance (BBA), 1986 – Hofstra University

• Graduate level classes in Strategy and IT, Nanyang Technological University.  Worked in Singapore financial district for Bank of New York.

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Wayne McHugh

Managing Director – Sales
Member, Board of Directors – Ganart Media
wmchugh@ganart.com

Mr. McHugh has over 25 years of operations management experience in the fields of sheet metal fabrication, stamping and injection molding as well as contract manufacturing. He previously was the Chief Operating Officer of Humanetics, overseeing all U.S. locations. Mr. McHugh was also with Trend Technology for over 4 years during which time he was responsible for sales efforts of 11 plants worldwide, working with contract manufacturers and Fortune 500 companies across all market segments including consumer electronics, medical, enterprise management, computer and peripheral and automotive. Mr. McHugh also served for two years as operational lead in both Micronesia and India.

Kristopher Glover, Jr.

Chief Technology Officer
Member, Board of Directors – Ganart Media 

Mr. Glover has extensive experience leading software development teams in startup environments.  He has architected solutions from the ground up in the telecommunications, consumer software, and financial services industries, and has led many software development teams toward execution of the corporate vision. Mr. Glover has the unique ability to transform customer requirements into working technical solutions, utilizing rapid prototyping and agile software development philosophies to compress software development cycles and optimize outcomes. 

Mr. Glover studied computer engineering at Worchester Polytechnic Institute in Worchester, MA and has completed graduate level coursework in the Computer Science department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. 

David Hooker

Chief Software Architect

For over 20 years, Mr. Hooker has created leading-edge software and systems solutions across many industries including travel, retail, consumer electronics, and banking. From creating software for embedded devices to designing and building enterprise level industrial strength systems, Mr. Hooker has made a career out of delivering robust and innovative solutions. He brings a unique blend of technology expertise and thought leadership to Ganart, leading the architecture design and development for all systems, including our unique next-generation transaction processing platforms.

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other key executive group

Frank Bennett

Special Projects

Mr. Bennett is an Attorney licensed to practice law by the State of Utah. As an Attorney, Mr. Bennett focuses primarily on resolving business problems (e.g., contract, business owner, securities, and tax matters) often involving civil litigation in state and federal courts. He was a Certified Public Accountant (“C.P.A.”) licensed by the State of Texas. The business and industry experience of Mr. Bennett includes working for Arthur Andersen & Co. and Exxon. At Arthur Andersen & Co., Mr. Bennett served on the Worldwide Oil & Gas Industry Team (headquartered in Houston, Texas). In that capacity, he was responsible for the daily operations of the Oil & Gas Industry Survey. This Survey annually analyzed the financial statements and Form 10-Ks of 200 to 400 of the largest publicly-held petroleum companies filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. At Exxon, Mr. Bennett served as the Budget Analyst responsible for the financial reporting of the $1.1 billion USD Mobile Bay Project (headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana) and as the Exxon Company U.S.A. Upstream Financial Coordination Depreciation (“DD&A”) Financial Analyst (headquartered in Houston, Texas).

Mr. Bennett served as the National Chairperson of the Financial Reporting Committee of the Council of Petroleum Accountants Societies (“COPAS”). He also was the Editor of the Oil & Gas Performance Measures white paper published by COPAS.

Mr. Bennett holds the following degrees and distinctions:

• U.S. Senate Intern in Washington D.C. to the former U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss (Democrat - Utah), Senate Budget Committee

• Passed the national C.P.A. examination on the first sitting

• Honors Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of Utah

• Juris Doctor (“J.D.”) from the College of Law, University of Utah

Purnendu Mishra

Director – Finance

Mr. Mishra has experience in entrepreneurial ventures, business planning and analysis, investment/financial analysis, capital budgeting, corporate legal documents, and general administration. He has been a key member of several global initiatives including JVs, Partnerships, and Greenfield ventures.

Mr. Mishra holds the following degrees and distinctions:

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) – University of Texas at Dallas

• Master of Science in Computer Applications – Birla Institute of Technology, India

• Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Physics – University of Delhi, India

• Elected to membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, international academic honor society for business students and scholars

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