Innovative Brands International Media Group, LLC
IBI is a media marketing and creative services group that has developed numerous proprietary media programs. As an international media, marketing and creative brand services organization, Innovative Brands International designs and develops innovative media strategies and operates proprietary media campaigns and creates unique vertical market growth opportunities and global media campaign exposures that benefit it’s clients and sponsor organizations by offering offsets to advertising costs while broadening the reach and effectiveness of the entire campaign.
FedNET
FedNET was formed to provide new and emerging industries with audio and video programming and data services focusing on government issues of national, state and local interests. Base programming includes live coverage of the floor of the United States Senate and House of Representatives along with gavel to gavel coverage of key Congressional Hearings. FedNET provides access to numerous facets of the U.S. Government including broadcast coverage of Congress, Federal Agencies and the White House as well as fast breaking news events in our Nation’s Capital. FedNET provides extensive congressional coverage including the following: Proceedings from the Floors of the U. S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives; Full, Gavel to Gavel Coverage of Congressional Hearings; News Conferences from the Gallery and Grounds of the Capitol; Joint Sessions of Congress. Media Production in addition to FedNET’s broadcast coverage of the United States Congress, we provide a host of media production services.
Eye of the Whale/ Full Circle Music
Eye of the Whale created a high definition musical video environment where the audience experiences Paul Gilman’s playful interaction with whales and dolphins and the sensation of swimming within the pods. The Millennium Broadcast with its message of hope is the perfect medium to deliver a message of love for the Ocean and its inhabitants. Paul delivered a powerful message through the Clean Water Campaign, resulting in forty tons of garbage removed from our beached. The song he wrote that inspired so many to action as it will through the Millennium Broadcast is Children of the Sea. Paul Gilman’s background, experience, affiliations & awards are BMI, NARAN, AFTRA, AFM, Clio, Emmy, Telly International Radio and Television, Hollywood Radio and Television, Rodey, and Best in the West. Paul Gilman studied with Dr. Abbot of the Boston Conservatory of Music before performing on National TV for ABC with Aretha Franklin. Paul hosted the Dali Lama’s Gyuto Monks and was permitted to record their ancient ceremonial chant. In a new expression of their ancient wisdom and his modern music, Paul composed and performed, “Word of Truth”.
ESAT – ASAT.PK
The eSAT Objective: eSAT, Inc is becoming the world’s leading provider of single-source solutions for global connectivity. We maintain our leadership in long haul and last mile solutions through superior technologies that support our service offerings. eSAT and its family of partner companies provide complete satellite and wireless Internet and networking connectivity solutions for our customers. eSAT develops and maintains high-level business opportunities with strategic partners. eSAT, Inc is a high-speed satellite Internet Service Provider and developer of Internet access equipment and services for worldwide delivery and connectivity. Our core technology allows users to gain high-speed access to the Internet via satellite transmission. Best of all, eSAT makes satellite Internet affordable. eSAT Global Satellite Internet (GSIT) technology makes Internet connectivity available virtually anywhere. eSAT’s Internet access is capable of transmitting digital data up to twenty times faster than a standard dial-up modem and four times faster than an ISDN cable line. With NexstreamT bi-directional satellite delivery, eSAT can offer connectivity where no landlines exist at all.
EcoAid
EcoAid a nonprofit foundation, seeking to raise public awareness of environmental and humanitarian concerns through the production of an ongoing series of music concerts, festivals and events. EcoAid events have a tone of celebration and purpose. These events represent an entertaining forum that brings the public and nonprofit organizations together. It provides an opportunity for the nonprofit organizations (NGOs) to educate the public, sign new members and network with other NGOs. EcoAid events also represent a platform to present scientifically based options to the public.
Earnware
Earnware gives businesses a competitive advantage with Internet-based technologies, that are uniquely hubbed around its cutting edge ‘Automatic Marketing tools’ – leading its clients into the 21st century with expert Internet-based marketing technology and services. Earnware’s patented ‘unified messaging system features email, fax, and voice management that is especially tailored to today’s volume marketing demands.
BartercardUSA, Inc.
BartercardUSA, Inc. the American sales, marketing and franchise division of Bartercard International, headquartered in Australia. BartercardUSA, Inc., a national trade exchange, is a Southern California-based company with20 branches strategically placed throughout the U.S.BUSA, one of the most aggressive barter operations in the country, has amassed over 4,000 business members since its Y2K launch. BartercardInternational today represents more than 50,000 member-businesses in 15 countries. The Bartercard Trading Program began in Australia in 1991 at the height of that country’s worst recession, and in ten years has seen an unsurpassed level of member growth and trade activity globally – recorded trade volume in the year 2001 of over $1 Billion has pushed Bartercard’s total trade turnover to an astonishing $3 Billion worldwide.
Protected: Lynnea Bylund’s Resume
Alpine Pictures
Alpine Pictures yodels the virtues of low-budget films such as “Dead Homiez, Paper Dragon,” and “Promise Her Anything.” The company concentrates on the domestic and international distribution of low-budget motion pictures, distributing films to theatrical, cable, broadcast, and home video (DVD) markets. Recent projects include Dark Honeymoon (staring Daryl Hannah) and Love is the Drug (screenplay by Wesley Strick, who’s past works include Arachnaphobia and Cape Fear). Brothers Ryan (CEO) and Roland Carroll (president) co-founded Alpine in 1995, after the completion of their first feature film, Witchboard, which grossed some $30 million.
Palm Beach Productions
Palm Beach Productions (PBP) – Based on the conventional game of bingo, PBP’s Bingo Las Vegas(tm) uses the broad reach of television to attract an entire nation of players. The concept represents a new dynamic, a combination of conventional game shows and casino-style Bingo games. It also brings the power of the Internet into play by enabling at-home players to go to our website and download Bingo cards quickly and easily for free. The television calling of Bingo games will allow viewers the enjoyment of playing Bingo in their own homes. More importantly, it will provide the opportunity to win real prizes – from cash to merchandise with absolutely no charge, entry fee or buy-in. PBP anticipates venue set and production started in spring of 2002.
PhaseNet
PhaseNet Corporation (“PhaseNet” or the “Company”) mission is to become a leading provider of wireless communication and broadband Internet connectivity, using a demonstrated high altitude aircraft relay wireless voice and data communication systems. The PhaseNet airborne communication system (“PACS”) will provide an alternative and or complementary communication platform to existing satellite, fixed, wire, and fixed wireless modes, to areas of the world where existing technology platforms are either under served or unable to provide service. PhaseNet’s core management team is a compelling cross-blend of talented individual experts in their respective disciplines including marketing, public relations, technology, finance and banking, legal and intellectual property and operations. Members of the team, such as Pierre Salinger (President Kennedy’s former press secretary and former Vice-Chairman of Burson-Marsteller) are of world class renown and have extensive experience working in the telecommunications arena on many levels. The teams’ valuable contacts will help speed time to market.
Stirling Energy Systems Inc.
Stirling Energy Systems (SES) is an electrical power equipment and systems integration company that is commercializing renewable energy technology products. SES holds the patents, tooling, and equipment rights to the point-focus solar dish concentrator initially engineered and built by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing). The solar concentrator was optimized to operate with a Stirling-cycle engine developed in Sweden in cooperation with Volvo and Ford. The SES/Boeing “Dish Stirling” system has held the world’s efficiency record for converting solar energy into grid quality electricity since 1984. In addition, the SES Stirling system can alternatively utilize natural gas, chemical fuels, or renewable biomass to produce grid-quality electrical power in non-solar applications. The SES technologies are applicable to individual homes, businesses of all types and sizes, and grid-scale utilities. SES is targeting U.S. utilities, foreign countries, remote communities, agricultural applications, off-grid applications and distributed power markets worldwide. The company is currently in discussions with a number of major utilities and groups in several foreign countries regarding power purchase agreement, system sales, and distribution rights. The global demand for new renewable electrical generating technologies is $100 billion per year.
Time Developments Pty. Ltd.
Time Developments Pty. Ltd., is an Australian based company, a multi-disciplinary property, design, development, and project management company. The company’s philosophy has developed through a holistic view of property functions and dynamics. The company focuses its operations in the area of life style development, considerations integrate technological sophistication and environmental sustainability. The company has undertaken an examination of the issues facing the property industry which have been identified as; Property’s high-fixed costs and low utilisation rates.The need to create solutions which cause less environmental damage. The need to integrate Internet-based communications, business networks and automation. The key to the company’s success is its ability to understand the various disciplines of property development, which include, commercial, design, town planning and construction. The company has excellent ability in directing development projects, co-ordinating activities of the project team, and ensuring that profits are maximised while risks are minimised. The company’s skills have lead to a strong following and an excellent reputation in the property industry.
Tribune Media Group
The publisher of the 10-year old Las Vegas Tribune. The Tribune is known for its hard-hitting editorial content and its relentless exposure of the corruption that has plagued Las Vegas in recent times. The Tribune is often the first and only source for Las Vegas stories that the other local papers won’t touch.
Time’saim is to create buildings and communities with an arrangement of interactive and adaptive elements, which in conjunction with their occupants, create not only a machine for living but also an organism, which enhances the living process. Embracing manufacturing processes as a means of increasing affordability, we envisage the creation of more sustainable building spaces, which will enable greater realisation of capital, human and natural resources. Our objective is to lead globally in the application of innovative philosophies and technologies to the real estate sector, and facilitate delivery of these concepts to wider markets. · To utilise manufacturing techniques, creating high performance real estate products, which will be accessible and affordable, whilst maximising return on investment. To create Internet based solutions over buildings to enable improved communications access to information networks, automation and improved distribution of goods and services. To create and provide intellectual management over communities, so that they become more responsive and supportive of their members.
Laszlo Rakoczi (1933-2009)
Finance & Technology
Laszlo Rakoczi, Advisory Co-Chair, is Chairman of Silicon Valley World Internet Center Advisory Board, Chairman and Founder EduActive and Board member of Direct Stock Market. He serves on various Advisory Boards of network oriented companies: WebLaser-VBN, Air-Power, VOXCOM Holdings, SMTV, PageActive and others. Laszlo has advised Fortune 500 companies on spinouts and divestitures. While Partner at Hambrecht & Quist Technology Partners 1984-87 he developed strategic alliances in information and networking fields. He was Executive Vice-President at Tymshare/Tymnet in charge of value application business. Before this, he was President and CEO of Standard Information Systems that developed and marketed computer information systems. Additionally, he was Manager of Advanced Computers at GE; Senior Design Engineer at RCA where he was project leader of ComLogNet, forerunner to ARPANET precursor to the Internet.
https://www.worldinternetcenter.com
Emilia Queiroga Barros
Catalyst ‘Conteúdista’
Internationally recognised, Emilia conducts works and leads change and sensitivity in aspects of human consciousness development, sustainability and innovation. She has worked 30 years as an educator, speaker and expert in knowledge based on oral communication connection, science & consciousness in evolutionary processes both individual and collective. Since 1988 Emilia has beena mentor and Special Advisor of individuals, educators, leaders and special projects of public and private organisations, nationally and internationally.
She is a passionate promoter of events and programs that increase awareness and guide people in the process of collective and collaborative thinking, transforming ideas and visions into innovative action.
Among Emilia’s accomplishments are:
Veronex Technologies, Inc.
Veronex designs, develops, licenses and supports computer software products for complete enterprise wide management application development and implementation. The Company’s I|Nova System is a fully integrated business application development, modernization and migration tool-set for competitive, innovative and flexible business systems solutions. Veronex has entered into a contract to provide an e-commerce system for a consortium of approximately 6,000 banks and their branches in the Asian-Pacific Region. The e-commerce system will handle transactions in multi-languages, in over 30 different currencies and in a geographic area encompassing over ¼ of the globe with over ½ of the world’s population, including China, India, Japan, Indonesia, etc. WebChoice, Inc.
WebChoice, Inc.
WebChoice, Inc. has developed a technology that enables all electronic equipment with audio output capabilities to link automatically to, and interact with, any on-line PC in real time. The audio output is called a Zaptone(tm), which will initiate a predetermined response on the PC. (For example, if the audio Zaptone(tm) was inserted in every television commercial for Dell Computers, the browser on the PC will automatically direct the viewers to a special page on the Dell website where viewers can participate in sweepstakes and win Dell Desktop Computers.)
Robert Patton
Financial/Accounting
From January 1992 until January 1997, Mr. Patton was active as a primary principal in the founding and development of StarTronix International Inc., Irvine, California, a NASDAQ traded holding company, with four wholly owned subsidiaries. His last position was Vice President/Chief Financial Officer of StarTronix Inc., the parent company’s major marketing subsidiary and included responsibility for all corporate accounting, administration and reporting (internal and external) on a consolidated basis. StarTronix was engaged in the development and marketing of a StarScreen telephone/computer providing access to the Internet in addition to making available services such as home banking, home shopping, stock market reporting and other premium services.
From 1984 to 1991 he was Vice President/Corporate Controller for Petrox Industries, Inc., a holding company with interests in real estate, oil and gas and small manufacturing companies including General Aluminum Forgings, Inc., Santa Ana, California, a manufacturer of precision forgings for the commercial aircraft and aerospace industry.
Previously Mr. Patton served in responsible financial/accounting positions with The Hoover Company, Teledyne, Inc., Beverly Enterprises and Santa Anita Consolidated, Inc., all NYSE listed companies. Before that Mr. Patton spent 5 years in public accounting with the Certified Public Accounting firm of Hall, Kistler & Company, Canton, Ohio. Mr. Patton is a Certified Public Accountant, State of California, a graduate of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and is listed in “Who’s Who of California Business”.
Wellness.com
Of the thousands of health and wellness sites available on the Internet today, the only way a person can tell a “quack site” or “poor product” from a legitimate one is to search through them one-by-one. Wellness.com is the solution. Wellness.com is the wellness portal of the Internet helping you find premium health and wellness information, products and services fast.
Adrian Cronauer (1938-2018)
Legal & Media
Former U.S. Air Force sergeant Adrian Cronauer co-authored the original story for the major motion picture, Good Morning, Vietnam! In that film, Cronauer was portrayed (creatively) by Robin Williams whose performance was nominated for an Academy Award. A subsequent special program on National Public Radio about the role of military radio in Vietnam earned Cronauer a 1992 Ohio State Award and two 1991 Gold Medals from the New York Radio Festival.
In 1992, he was invited to Australia to participate-pate in the dedication of that country’s Vietnam Forces National Memorial. While there, he emceed a four-hour, nationally televised, outdoor concert featuring Aussie entertainers who went to Vietnam during the 60’s and 70’s to entertain the troops from “Down Under.”
A popular after-dinner speaker and lecturer, Cronauer periodically appears as a guest on radio and television talk shows, including NBC-TV’s Today; the PBS series, Freedom Speaks; frequent appearances on ABC-TV’s late night talk show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher; numerous stints on NBC Radio’s Jim Bohanan Show; and the Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy radio programs. Adrian’s commentaries have been featured in many major newspapers throughout the country and on the NPR Radio Network.
Cronauer’s practice concentrates in information and communications law and includes extensive representation of radio stations, a satellite radio network, cable systems, and clients involved in newly emerging technologies including wireless cable and personal communications services. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Federal Communications Law Journal and among his serious published works are The Fairness Doctrine – A Solution In Search Of A Problem, Federal Communications Law Journal, Oct. 1994; and Copyright and Reproduction Rights, Art & Design Magazine, July/Aug. 1993.
XO Limited
State-of-Art web-based barter software. XO provides a complete solution for ANY barter exchange wanting to reduce its cash costs and increase its overall productivity. The company also offers a packaged barter exchange solution complete with literature and operation procedures called Ozone. More recently, the company has developed a package for the digital printing industry with full job processing, invoicing, statements, multiple pricing levels, staff management and other features required for the stream-lined running of digital print and copy shops. XO rents all of its applications for a nominal fee and provides attractive incentives for businesses utilizing its systems.
Peter Bennett (1935-2013)
Pete Bennett with Cristovam Buarque photo by Lynnea Bylund
Entertainment & Media
Designated “the number one promotions man in the world” by Performance Magazine, and “The world’s most powerful man in the entertainment industry” by Billboard, Peter has been the Promotions Director of Apple Records Company, he was the Promotional Manager for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who, as well as Personal Manager and Promoter for the individual careers of John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney. He also enhanced the careers of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Peter has devoted his life to promoting and producing celebrities, the late George Burns, Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. Also included were such stars as Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields, Steve Tyler, Eric Clapton, Michael Bolton, Vince Gil, Tony Bennett, and Bob Hope, to name but a few of the scores of big name artists that Peter has worked with.
XRAY Media
XRAYMEDIA is transforming the media industry, providing the general business community and industry professionals with a centralized state-of-the-art Media SuperPortal. Our Media SuperPortal is designed for you to access industry related information, services, and media acquisition tools. The Media SuperPortal provides a powerful service to all companies regardless of budget or internal infrastructure, easing the search for advertising opportunities for your respective products or services. XRAYMEDIA coverage providers reach your target audience Locally, Regionally, Nationally, and Internationally. Our Media SuperPortal is challenging the limits of traditional industry standards and beyond by realizing the potential of the Internet.
Marilyn Ferguson (1938-2008)
Since 1975 Ms. Ferguson has been publisher of the Journal BrainMind, with subscribers in 51 countries. Her third book, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in OurTime, has been translated into a dozen language and trade soft cover have sold more than 700,000 copies in North American. She lectures, leads seminars, and is an editorial and business consultant. Honors: Marilyn has received the University of Southern California award for distinguished service to the community,” and honorary doctorate from JFK University, the Library Trust Award from Brandeis University, and was chosen as “Brain Trainer of the Year” by the American Society for Trainer of the Year” by the American Society for Training and Development.
1) Marilyn’s Memorial: featuring, Jeremy Tarcher, Peter Russell, Fredric Lerhman, Fred Alan Wolf, and Lynnea Bylund | Lynnea addresses the audience at 1:57:28 on this first clip sharing the story our their initial meeting, of Marilyn’s endorsement of Adi Da Samraj’s new release of Easy Death and Prasad received from Adidam Samrajasharam Fiji after her passing.
2) Marilyn Ferguson on Transcendental Activism
3) Marilyn Ferguson Group On Facebook
AlphaFibre LTD. – acquired by Enviroplast
A multi-national world leader-supplier of injection molded automotive components is currently conducting joint development trails with Alpha Fibre’ s ‘FIBEX’ to replace glass-filled plastic for automotive interior parts. Alpha Fibre is also close to finalizing a strategic alliance with a major polymer manufacturer and is negotiating terms with a Canadian syndicate for placement of 21 ½ million dollars of combined debt and equity for the company. “Alpha Fibre’s vision of sustainability is to have a positive-net impact on the environment and to provide plastics manufacturers with superior, cost effective, recyclable composites while generating wealth for employees, shareholders, and our strategic partners,” states Deborah C.Smith, president and founder.
Fredric Lerhman (1945)
Education & Distance-Learning.
Fredric has been exploring other techniques of conscious evolution and systems of biological energy since 1965, and has traveled world wide as a consultant and seminar leader on topics related to education, health, business psychology, and relationship dynamics. He became interested in new education in 1968, and visited many experimental schools and taught in a wide variety of classroom settings. Among these have been the Lewis Wadhams School in update New York; Simons Rock School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the Solebury School, Solebury Pennsylvania; the University of Florida in Gainesville, the School of the Arts in Halifax. Nova Scotia; Mannes college of Music, New York City; Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado; and Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. While working at these schools he formulated the principles that evolved in 1974 into Nomad University, an explorative learning environment designed around outstanding teachers and adventuress students. Beginning in the 1970’s, he was also engaged in many entrepreneurial projects. He was a director of Domain, Ltd. a real estate company in Pennsylvania; a partner in the Arnolfini Emprise, a development firm in upstate New York; a director of the Sky Self Education Foundation in San Diego, specializing in cultural trend analysis; a director of Granite Bay Institute, a pataphysical consulting firm based in New York City; and was active in venture capital funding for new technologies. As a consultant, his clients have included Celestial Seasonings Tea company, Ellen Burstin, the Vorpal Gallery, the Center for Soviet-American Dialogue, and Banana Republic clothing Stores. He was a Senior Trainer for LRT International, a relationships training network, from 1977 through 1989.
Affiliated Financial Professionals – rolled up into Springboard Capital Corporation
Affiliated Financial Professionals is an affiliate group of Private Money Managers, Investment Advisors, Tax and Estate planning Attorneys, Certified Public Accountants, Stock Brokers, and Analysts. Our multi-disciplinary team of professionals – including expertise in law, accounting, finance and economics – provides the most effective management of our clients’ valuable assets. Our firm was founded with the philosophy that in order to achieve the maximum effectiveness and efficiency with a client’s investment it is necessary to consider all of the factors that ultimately effect a clients return on an investment. Our team of professionals works together for our clients to determine how a portfolio should be structured and managed taking into account all pertinent factors. AFP’s team of professionals is registered with the appropriate regulatory agencies governing each individuals field of practice. Affiliated Financial Professionals manages millions of dollars in client assets for hundreds of individuals, firms, and families.
Elisabet Sahtouris Ph.D (1936-2024)
Science & Design Systems
Dr. Sahtouris, is an evolutionary biologist, futurist, author, speaker and corporate consultant on Living Systems Design. Her current focus is on evolution biology as a model for organizational change in the corporate world, on the Internet, and all “…business ecologies, including…globalization and community barter as alternative currency.” Travels as a speaker have taken her from Asia and Africa to Europe, North, Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand. She has made many television and radio appearances in addition to live speeches and workshops. Dr. Sahtouris is a citizen of the United States and of Greece, with a Canadian Ph.D. She did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, taught at the University of Massachusetts and MIT, and has been a United Nations consultant on indigenous peoples. As a futurist she is a member of Humanity 3000, and consults with corporations and government organizations in Australia, Brazil and the USA. Her books include: Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman: North Atlantic Books 1998; A Walk Through Time: From Sturdiest to Us: Wiley, NY 1998, and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution: Praeger Fall 1999 (formerly Gaia, Simon & Schuster 1989). Her article The Biology of Globalization appeared in Perspectives on Business and Global Change, September issue, 1997. The sustainable health and well being of humanity within the larger living systems of Earth and an intelligent self-organizing Cosmos are her context for addressing questions about the human future at local community and bioregional levels, as well as in our broadest context of global politics and economic sustainability.
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST, FUTURIST, SPEAKER, CONSULTANT
Books: EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
Biology Revisioned, w/ Willis Harman
A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us
www.sahtouris.com (professional)
Lynnea Bylund and Elisabet Sahtouris, Ouro Preto, Brazil
Location: Governor Brasilia, Brazil Mansion. Dinner and an evening of conversation. First left in jeans is Governor Cristovam Buraque, Emilia Queiroga Barros, Lynnea Bylund, Edgar Mitchell (6th man to walk on the moon and Noetic Sciences founder), Pete Bennett (entertainment promoter), Marilyn Ferguson (author of Aquarian Conspiracy), Elisabet Sahtouris and new Brazilian friend Sasha.
Elisabet Sahtouris, Emilia Queiroga Barros, and Lynnea Bylund
EduActive, Inc. – rolled into Pan Pacific Partners
A Catalyst House Joint Venture, an incubator of large number of seed stage companies including EduActive, a holding company in strategic alliance with a number of network specialized companies including infrastructure, head-end servers, client systems, e-commerce, web-casting, call centers, extranets, intranets, VPN, IP-Telephony, VOD, Web-training, Speech technologies, IVR, gateways, JAVA enabled systems, embedded appliances.
Electronic Media Communications – no longer operating
Electronic Media Communications is an Irvine, California-based Internet and Broadcast Public Relations production and distribution company. The company’s Internet Public Relations department produces and distributes Internet Press Releases, Internet Media Tours, Internet Press Kits, Online News Rooms, web casts and CD-ROMS. The Broadcast Public Relations department produces and distributes Video News Releases and B-Roll, Satellite and Radio Media Tours, Electronic Press Kits, Broadcast Press Junkets, Airline In-flight TV News Programs and Corporate Videos.
Bernard “Bubba” Meng III (1938 )
Politics and Lobbying
Mr. Bernard “Bubba” Meng – From 1989 until the present, Mr. Meng has been President of Meng & Associates, a public relations and consulting firm headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina. From 1962 until 1967, Mr. Meng served as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Olin Johnson, who represented the State of South Carolina in the United States Senate. From 1967 until 1989 when he retired from government service, Mr. Meng served as “Chief of Staff” for United States Senator and Telecommunications Sub-Committee Chair Ernest “Fritz” Hollings of South Carolina.
Photo | January 20, 1993 | Bubba Meng and Lynnea at the Clinton Inauguration Arkansas Ball
New Deal, Inc. – no longer operating
New Deal is a software and Internet services company founded to take advantage of the massive opportunity created by regular forced “obsolescence” of tens of millions of computers by the latest versions of Microsoft software. New deal software is the catalyst that will launch used PCs as a viable long-term market. The company provides an alternative software platform, and point-and-click Internet and productivity suites, able to run effectively on ANY PC, from a 286s to Pentiums. The code base represents well over $50 million and hundreds of man years in development. Currently there are tens of millions of “pre-Pentium” (i.e., 286/386/46) computers in warehouses and closets that are fully functional but cannot meet the bloated hardware requirements of the latest Microsoft system and application software. These “legacy” computers represent a huge untapped market niche and the company is entering into a wide range of partnering and licensing agreements both in the U.S. and internationally, with new and used hardware OEMs, online networks, software vendors, and Internet service providers.
