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Howard has over 20 years of corporate finance, investment banking and CFO operating experience. As a senior executive, Howard’s career has centered on serving entrepreneurial middle market companies seeking significant investment capital and merger and acquisition assistance. He has extensive experience in operations, management, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, strategic financial planning, information systems development, SEC matters, workouts/turnarounds and debt and equity fund raising. Howard has successfully managed or advised companies through rapid growth, restructuring and other significant transitions. Before founding Chartworth, Howard was Chief Financial Officer of Aprisma Management Technologies, a global network management software company. Howard was recruited to manage the company’s spin-off from its publicly traded parent company, Enterasys Networks. While at Aprisma, Howard led the company’s registration process with the SEC, assembled a team of leading Wall Street investment banks to manage the spin-off and provide after-market research coverage and coordinated due diligence activities on behalf of private equity firms interested in purchasing the company. After successfully completing the sale of Aprisma to a leading private equity firm, Howard launched Chartworth. Before Aprisma, Howard was Chief Financial Officer of HoustonStreet Exchange, Inc., a venture backed, technology start-up established to create an on-line trading exchange for energy. At HoustonStreet, Howard was responsible for the capital raising activities of the company and successfully managed the company’s Series A private placement in Europe and Series C private placement in the United States. In addition, he managed the company’s business development and partnering activities with other energy and solutions providers. Following the company’s rapid growth, Howard was instrumental in stabilizing the company financially and implementing successful restructuring of its operations that led to profitability. As a result of Howard’s leadership, the company today operates profitably in a successful market niche. | 