Management

Lang, Gentile & Webster

• Greg Webster - Chief Executive Officer and Director

  Mr. Webster brings over 20 years of management experience throughout the financial services, brokerage and insurance industries, including extensive global wealth leadership experience.

  Prior to his current position at Fund.com, Mr. Webster was the President and CEO of HSBC Brokerage (USA) Inc., one of the largest banks in the world, where he was responsible for approximately $32.5 billion of client assets. Mr. Webster additionally held a seat on the Board of HSBC Asset Management (Americas) and served as Head of Securities of HSBC North America. In the latter role, Mr. Webster served on the board of directors and oversaw all the wealth management advisory services of HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. and Merrill-Lynch HSBC (Canada) Inc., and was responsible for trading and execution services for HSBC subsidiaries and international affiliates.

  Before joining HSBC in 2000, Mr. Webster led the Guardian Life Insurance Company in the formation and SEC Registration of a newly formed broker/dealer, Park Avenue Securities, LLC. Mr. Webster served as President of Park Avenue Securities, where he managed the securities operations and the distribution of wealth management and insurance products through a field force of approximately 4,000 registered representatives across the country. Prior to Park Avenue, Mr. Webster was the Chief Operating Officer for NYLIFE Securities, Inc., a subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, where he managed the wealth management proposition for approximately 8,000 Registered Representatives nationally. Mr. Webster was previously a Director of Private Client Services at Dreyfus Service Corporation, a subsidiary of Mellon Bank.

• Philip Gentile - Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President
  Mr. Gentile has over twenty-five years of experience in the financial services and securities industry. Prior to joining Fund.com, he served in Morgan Stanley’s Global Wealth Management Group as Vice President of Vendor Management Office, where he managed the bank’s technology and operations vendors. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Gentile was Vice President of Business Operations at Standard & Poor's, Inc., a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill. In addition to working at top-tier financial firms, Mr. Gentile has also owned and operated his own businesses, including CyberVestors where he developed a marketing newsletter for a small brokerage firm utilizing Earnings Surprise as a method of identifying investment opportunities for individual investors. Prior to that, Mr. Gentile was a Senior Vice President and co-founder of Global Information Technologies, a re-distributor of online financial services to brokerage & money management firms who provided aggregation, research and reporting on equities. He began his career as Vice President of Equity Research for Shearson Lehman Brothers, where he managed product development for an institutional service, FINSTAT, which provided research, analysis, back-testing and reporting for equities and mutual funds. Mr. Gentile received his B.S. in Quantitative Analysis and Economics from Manhattan College , and subsequently attended Pace University's MBA Finance Program.
• Michael Hlavsa - Chief Financial Officer
  Mr. Hlavsa has served as Fund.com’s Chief Financial Officer since November 2007. Mr. Hlavsa is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor. From its inception in March 2007 to the present, Mr. Hlavsa has served as Chief Financial Officer and a Director of Asia Special Situation Acquisition Corp., a blank-check company. From October 2004 to the present, Mr. Hlavsa has been the principal owner of Signature Gaming Management LLC, a consulting firm specializing in advising emerging companies engaged in gaming operations. Mr. Hlavsa currently serves as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Kiowa Casino Operating Authority, a Native American entity, where he is responsible for the financial management of the casino and for leading the restructuring of $80 million in debt. From February 2005 to August 2005 Mr. Hlavsa served as chief executive officer for Titan Cruise Lines, a casino business which operated a 2,000-passenger ship and high-speed shuttles. From July 2001 to October 2004, Mr. Hlavsa was the Chief Executive Officer of SunCruz Casinos, the largest day cruise gaming company in the United States. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Hlavsa was Managing Partner at Casino Princesa, in Miami, Florida, where he was responsible for the development and operation of a mega-yacht gaming vessel. From 1993 to 1997, he served as Chief Financial Officer and also Vice President, Midwest Region, for Lady Luck Gaming Corporation, a publicly traded company. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Hlavsa was the Vice President of Finance and Administration for the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. He gained his first 12 years of gaming experience in Atlantic City, New Jersey, serving in a number of audit and finance positions with well-established gaming companies including Caesars, Tropicana and Trump Plaza. He received his bachelor of science degree from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York in 1975.
• Lucas Mann - Chief Marketing Officer, Director and co-founder
  Lucas has most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer for the online media/social networking site, Music Nation, a venture he co-founded with Kevin Ryan, former CEO of online advertising pioneer DoubleClick (sold for $1.1 billion and later re-sold to Google for $3.0 billion) and seed investor in HotJobs (sold to Yahoo for $450 million). Previously, Lucas served as president of Clique Inc./Sparkart LLC, an award-winning Silicon Valley-based new media company whose clients included Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. Because of his expertise in intellectual property rights issues, Lucas frequently speaks in front of organizations such as the Texas Bar Association, and at major media summits, including South by Southwest. He regularly appears in the media, and is in charge of managing public relations.