Bill Schachter......Voice: (845) 507-6001
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Bill Schachter has over 30 years of diverse corporate management experience, including managing domestic and international business development for marketing and financial services companies, such as Active International.

Mr. Schachter received his degree in Business Administration from the University of Rhode Island and, after graduating ROTC, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Army. Mr Schachter successfully completed the Army's Airborne, Ranger and Special Warfare Training, and was promoted to Captain, commanding a Specila Forces "A" Team in Vietnam.

After release from the Army, Schachter worked for the Roerig Division of Pfizer and then joined Crain Communication selling advertising space for Promotion Magazine. He left Crain Communications to join East West Network, the leading in-flight publisher. During 5 years with East West, Mr. Schachter rose from sales to the manager of the Los Angeles office and then was transferred to New York to run it's New York office. Bill was then recruited by the publishing division of OAG (at that time a division of Dun & Bradstreet) to start Frequent Flyer Magazine. The magazine became profitable 18 months after it launched.

Mr. Schachter was the asked to join CSI International, a startup corporate barter company. As Sr. VP of Sales, he led the company through a strong growth period and was promoted from Sr. VP to President. In 1993, he bought the company and sold it 5 years latter to Active International, the largest corporate barter company worldwide. Mr Schachter's initial duties at Active were Sr. VP International Sales, supervising sales in 15 offices outside the US. After 2 years, Schachter was transferred to London to become President of Active Holdings Europe, with offices in London, Paris, Dusseldorf and Madrid. Under Mr. Schachter’s leadership, these combined offices went from a negative $2.3million EBITIDA to a positive EBITIDA exceeding $4million.

Since 2000, Bill has been a key player in two successful internet start-up companies. One company markets a desktop broadcasting system over a virtual private network, and the other produces a platform-independent operating system that delivers rich web applications transparently on laptops, tablet PC’s, pocket computers, and mobile phones.

Mr. Schachter is married with two daughters and 8 grandchildren, and currently resides in Ft Lauderdale, Florida and New York City.

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