J. Bernard Rice
Hush Aerospace Chairman of Board
Mr. Rice is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in Information Technology. Mr. Rice has a wealth of enterprise business, experience and significant senior level relationships that are indispensable in developing many strategic partnerships. His Partner, General Wesley Clark and Mr. Rice are currently driving in a portfolio of companies with leadership capabilities in Financial Processing, Medical Cannabis, Green Energy, Accessibility, Education and Real estate.
Mr. Rice began his career with IBM in sales and held various sales leadership positions until 1983 when he entered IBM's finance fraternity. Mr. Rice's work in business case structure and portfolio analysis led him to a role as IBM's Finance Director for Application Software in 1985. He was promoted several times such that by 1989 he was appointed Director of Finance, Planning and Administration for IBM's Southern Area. In that role, Mr. Rice was responsible for the staff functions of a $3 billion business and he was instrumental in positioning IBM's Southeast Region as the leader in billable services.
Mr. Rice became Chief Financial Officer and General Partner for the IBM Venture Capital Group in 1993 and then Vice President of Business development for IBM's Consumer Division in 1998. There he managed projects like IBM's partnership with Berkshire Hathaway and Hallmark for the development of its breakthrough on-line research and learning platforms.
Mr. Rice also served as Chief Executive Officer of Edmark Inc., the IBM subsidiary that developed innovative educational software for children. In 2000 Mr. Rice orchestrated the spin-off of IBM's education content assets into Riverdeep Inc and was instrumental in Riverdeep becoming the fastest growing educational software company in the nation. Today, Riverdeep has educational products in some 45,000 schools in over 20 countries.
Mr. Rice holds a B.A in Economics. from St. Anselm College (Manchester, New Hampshire) and a Master’s in Business Administration in Marketing from Georgia State University. Mr. Rice also attended the IBM Presidents Program (a special Executive MBA program) at Harvard University.
GENERAL WESLEY K. CLARK, (ret.), KEY ADVISOR
Wesley K. Clark is a Retired four-star general, US Army, Former Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, (NATO) and a Former Democratic U.S. Presidential Candidate (2004 Primary).
Wesley K. Clark is a businessman, educator, writer and commentator. General Clark serves as Chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic consulting firm; Chairman and Founder of Enverra, Inc., a licensed investment bank; Chairman of Energy Security Partners, LLC; as well as numerous corporate boards including BNK Petroleum and Leagold Mining. He is active in energy, including oil and gas, biofuels, electric power and batteries, finance, and security. During his business career he has served as an advisory, consultant or board member of over ninety private and publicly traded companies. He has worked with companies in Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Mideast, and Asia, as well as in the US and Canada. In the not-for-profit space, he is a Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations, Director of the Atlantic Council, founder of Renew America Together and Founding Chair of City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock. He was a Commissioner on the President’s Commission on White House Fellows, 2008-2016, and a Centennial Fellow at Georgetown University 20018-2019. A best-selling author, General Clark has written four books, including his latest book on US national strategy, “Don’t Wait for the Next War,” prepared a well-received 24-lesson course in US military history for Great Courses, and is a frequent contributor on TV and to newspapers.
Clark retired as a four-star general after 38 years in the United States Army, having served in his last assignments as Commander of US Southern Command and then as Commander of US European Command/ Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. He graduated first in his class at West Point and completed degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University (B.A. and M.A.) as a Rhodes scholar. While serving in Vietnam, he commanded an infantry company in combat, where he was severely wounded and evacuated home on a stretcher. He later commanded at the battalion, brigade and division level, and served in a number of significant staff positions, including service as the Director, Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5). He was the principal author of both the US National Military Strategy and Joint Vision 2010, prescribing US waAmbassador Richard Holbrooke in the Dayton Peace Process, where he helped write and negotiate significant portions of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. In his final assignment as Supreme Allied Commander Europe he led NATO forces to victory in Operation Allied Force, a 78-day air campaign, backed by ground invasion planning and a diplomatic process, saving 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing.
His awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Defense Distinguished Service Medal (five awards), Silver star, bronze star, purple heart, honorary knighthoods from the British and Dutch governments, and numerous other awards from other governments, including award of Commander of the Legion of Honor (France). He has also been awarded the Department of State Distinguished Service Award and numerous honorary doctorates and civilian honors.
ALAN MORELL, KEY ADVISOR
Creative Management Partners LLC, has 30 years of global experience in the successful development and management of talent, literary, TV and film packaging, commercial rights, corporate consulting, media positioning,
Sponsorship of live events and intellectual property (IP) rights. Mr. Morell is one of the few in the sports, entertainment and the arts industry’s, who has represented and managed clients, that have won the prestigious awards: Grammy; Tony; Oscar; Emmy, ESPY and Victors.
Mr. Morell began his career with International Management Group (IMG), where he served in a variety of executive Offices including Corporate Vice President, (Executive of Talent, Commercial Rights, TV Packaging, Marquee Hospitality and Mergers & Acquisitions for Eastern and Western Hemispheres) serving corporate disciplines of global synergy within IMG diverse profit centers (International Management Inc.; International Merchandising Corp; Fashion Art Licensing; Trans World International).
Mr. Morell currently serves as Chairman and CEO of THE CREATIVE MANAGEMENT AGENCY, Creative Management Partners LLC, a full service agency. In addition to associations with virtually every major television broadcast news and programming networks in Corporate, Scripted and Unscripted (e.g. Disney ABC; Viacom CBS; Comcast NBC, Universal, Time-Warner, HBO, Showtime, News America FOX, ESPN, Bravo, NatGEO, A&E.
Throughout his career, Mr. Morell created and/or managed more than 2,500 campaigns for talent and events globally within the disciplines of Sports (including the management of the “Legends and Masters of Tennis”, which involved careers and campaigns of Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Bjorn Borg, John Newcombe, Illie Nastase, Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King; “Masters of Hockey” with Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr; “Stars on Ice” with Scott Hamilton; “World Series of Golf” with Arnold Palmer; Entertainment (including management of the campaigns of Liberace, Henny Youngman,
Mr. Morell served as the Executive Producer, hired by the Vatican DOB for the “Visit of Pope John Paul II to New York. Mr. Morell was engaged by Jay Coleman, for Commercial Representation of.
Served as Commercial Sponsorship Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and President Bill Clinton inaugurals. As Director and Chief Executive Officer of CatalystOne, Inc. (software company), was responsible for that company’s sale of software to the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) for the USVA sector.
In the corporate sector, Mr. Morell consulting corporate relationships (include advising start up small cap CEO’s and Board of Directors, incubation companies for exit to Fortune 500 companies via strategic partnerships, bid-out, mergers and buy out strategy) e.g. TREN, The 24 Hour Real Estate Network; NETCAST; Pfizer, Premier Model Management, D’Alessio Law Group, EB5 Studio, Premier Mission, ICBII; New Cells Sciences; ProGena Cell. Panther Biotech, PepsiCo, General Mills, NBC, and Google.
Mr. Morell supports the humanitarian efforts of Darfur; Clinton Foundation, Haiti Relief; Sconset Trust; MSPCA; serves on the Board of Leadership for Mass General Hospital and is a graduate of the University of Florida
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