Bruce is currently President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of MooBella, Inc. Prior to that, in May 1999, Bruce transformed a food industry consulting and equipment trading hobby to an operating business entity. That business, New England Ice Cream Corporation, now has four operating divisions, services over 4,000 distribution points and employs 70 people on a full time basis. Bruce is the sole owner of the company which is run by a senior leadership team.

Bruce is a former Director of the Frozen Food Association of New England and the Massachusetts Food Association, a former President of the International Association of Ice Cream Vendors and a current Director and Hall of Fame inductee of the New England Convenience Store Association. Bruce also is a member of the group that founded and funded the successful start up of the Worcester Tornadoes professional baseball team.

In May 2009, Bruce was elected to the Board of Directors of Mac-Gray (NYSE listed as TUC). Bruce received his Bachelor of Science in 1980 and his M.B.A. in 1982 from Boston College.

Ed has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the high-technology industry. His teams have produced over $900 million in revenues averaging 200% annual growth. Ed has consulted and collaborated on the execution of sales and marketing models with ShipIQ (division of Repsol YPF), PCCW/HKT, SkyFish, WBT Systems, Cognex, Powerhouse Interactive, LiveSmart (division of GE) and others.

Ed has also been responsible for operationalizing and managing sales and marketing organizations for several fast-growth companies. As vice president of business development and managing director of client development operations for ZEFER, a leading Internet consulting company, Ed was responsible for growing revenues from $1 million to a run rate of $170 million within 18 months. At SYSTECH, a Web-based supply chain solutions company, he was vice president of sales and marketing and led the turnaround of the sales channel, resulting in a growth rate of 360%, and was able to position the company for acquisition. Prior to SYSTECH, Ed was sales director for ANSYS, a design process optimization solutions company, where he led the development and execution of the new sales model, resulting in growth from $8 million to over $65 million in 30 months. As a result, ANSYS was able to initiate an IPO nine months ahead of schedule.

David is managing partner of John T. Chipman & Company, LLP, a full service certified public accounting firm, with offices in Norwood and Franklin, Massachusetts. David is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, Inc.

His dedication to youth and the community has been demonstrated through David’s past and present membership on several boards of not for profit organizations. David co-founded X Ice Hockey, LLC, a summer youth hockey league and remains actively involved with his children’s youth sports and activities. David is a 1983 graduate of Assumption College with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Business Administration.

David resides in Wrentham with his wife Alison and their children Emily, Daniel, Julia, and Melanie. He enjoys playing golf and is a member at Franklin Country Club where he has previously served as an officer and on the board of directors for the club.

Penny manages all finance and administration functions of the firm; including financial reporting, tax reporting, compliance, human resources, facilities, and investor relations. She works closely with Investing Partners on all deal closings and tracking of investment performance. Penny brings more than 26 years of financial and entrepreneurial experience to Kodiak.

Prior to joining Kodiak, Penny served as a finance consultant at Globespan Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focusing on information technology investments, where she was responsible for working various high level accounting and tax projects, as well as, assisting with the development of dashboards for Investing Partners. Prior to her consulting work, Penny was CFO at Delta Global Trading with responsibilities for trading, hedging strategies, trading relationships, finance, operations, and compliance. Delta was a hedge fund specializing in global fixed income and derivative markets, and one of the many investing groups of Paloma Partners.

Penny grew up in an entrepreneurial family going back many generations and she fulfilled one of her life dreams of creating and owning her own couture boutique. Her target market was professional woman desiring one-stop shopping for professional, casual and evening attire. The business was successful during many market upheavals and the decrease in discretionary spending. Prior to owning her own business, Penny was with Millipore Corporation as a Manager of Finance, Talbots as in Internal Auditor and Internal Control Specialist, and started her career in Public Accounting.

Penny is an active member of the Bentley Executive Club, Women in Alternative Assets, and WAVE. Active in several local community and civic organizations, she has been instrumental in raising funds for community organizations. Penny has a B.S. in Accounting from Bentley University.

Anthony G. Marken is a principal at Capitol Counsel LLC. He brings to the firm over 10 years of political, legislative, and policy experience related to the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Act, defense-wide privatization initiatives, and energy renewable programs. His expertise includes the policies, processes, and issues related to this DOD legislation. Additional experience includes active base retention strategies, military housing and utilities privatization initiatives, and an array of other Pentagon-wide privatization efforts and public/private partnerships within the federal agencies.

Mr. Marken has extensive experience working on strategic planning at the local, state, and federal levels with entities responsible for the redevelopment of military installations associated with BRAC legislation. These initiatives include ongoing strategic planning and implementation for the complex real estate issues associated with former federal facilities which support defense-related initiatives. He also assists the private sector development teams in planning and acquisition strategies for these specific sites and other federal properties. This includes assisting development entities participating in the privatization of housing and utilities programs at active military installations. He represents a wide variety of clients associated with these programs.

Prior to joining Capitol Counsel, Mr. Marken was a Vice President at The Washington Group, a Washington, D.C. government relations firm. There he worked on numerous state and federal issues related to BRAC and Energy Renewable initiatives. His clients included national real estate development firms and real estate funds, states affected by BRAC decisions, environmental firms, and leading energy renewable companies.

Before working with The Washington Group, Mr. Marken was Vice President of the Military Installations section of ML Strategies LLC, a government relations firm at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Glovsky, and Popeo, P.C., in Boston. He managed various aspects of military installation issues related to retention, redevelopment, and privatization for his clients at numerous military installations which included Fort Ord in California, Charleston Shipyard in South Carolina, and South Weymouth Naval Air Station in Massachusetts. Mr. Marken received a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Babson College in 1980.

Leadership Title: Medical Director, Trauma Services, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Department: Surgery: Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Clinical Specialties: Surgery-Trauma and Burns, Surgery-Vascular and Endovascular
Medical School: Weill Medical College of Cornell University (1983)
Residencies: Beth Israel Hospital (1989) General Surgery, Beth Israel Hospital (1990) Cardiac Surgery
Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital (1991) Vascular Surgery
Certifications: General Surgery (1990), Surgical Critical Care (1993), Vascular Surgery (1995)
Clinical Interests: trauma and critical care, vascular injuries, vascular surgery

Mary earned her BA in Elementary Education from UMASS/Amherst in 1988. She taught middle school full time for 12 years and earned a Masters Degree in School Administration at Bridgewater State College with accompanying certifications for principal/assistant principal for grades K-9 in Massachusetts. She is currently an advanced phase doctoral student at Lesley University in Cambridge working toward a Ph.D in Educational Studies.

Mary has served 7 years as President of a non profit organization called, The Hull Academic Support Coalition (HASC,) in Hull, MA. HASC provides grants to teachers to design academic enrichment experiences for students. HASC has provided over $120,000 in grants to Hull students

Mary became involved in Need To Lead when her sons began playing hockey in the Northest Elite Hockey League. She values the developmental commitment of the league and the many volunteer opportunities that her boys have been fortunate to be part of with Need to Lead.